and i’ll be your hero down to the weeds I am really, really crazy about Michael Rank’s new record, In The Weeds, and this video for “The Surrender” is just gorgeous on every level. The song is amazing, just gutwrenchingly lovely, and the light in the video is staggering. Michael and the band open for…
Category: rock and roll it
favorites: boys with guitars
There are things that always make me happy, and I have three things to share from three people who bring me great joy today. One: Josh Ritter’s genius double record Live At Iveaugh Gardens is free on NoiseTrade today. If this album fails to make you happy, please check your pulse. Two: Brian Fallon says…
song share: radiation city – fly me to the moon (astrud gilberto cover)
Radiation City’s dreamy retro girl group fuzz garage pop debut, The Hands That Take You, really flew under the radar when it came out in 2011, and that’s a shame, because it’s a fantastic soundscape of harmony and guitar feedback and thick Phil Spektor shivers. Everybody’s getting ready for SXSW (no, I’m not going; I’m…
show preview: dragonette @ cat’s cradle
Things I love: bands from Canada, electro-pop, ladies making kickass music. Here are some things that Dragonette is: a kick-ass female-fronted electro-pop band from Canada. They’re currently touring with Major Lazer, a sold-out show at the Cradle on Thursday, and I’m going to implore you to get there early enough to see Dragonette, because I…
what i did on my summer vacation: the ‘every everything’ trailer
What I did on my summer vacation: the first trailer for Every Everything, the Grant Hart documentary that I shot with last August. My first two thoughts were how cool is this and I miss those guys so much. Among the best five days of my life, that work.
luck, timing, and a quick trigger finger
Augustana plays an acoustic show at the 506 tonight; it’s sold out, so you’re probably out of luck in getting to see them, alas, just like me, but I can share this photo, which remains one of the best shots I’ve ever taken. The summer of 2010, the Counting Crows summer tour, my beloved now-dead…
song share: gratitude (for curt flood) – the baseball project
Today is the birthday of Curt Flood, whose refusal to be traded from the Cardinals to the Phillies and the subsequent legal battle (Flood v. Kuhn) defined free agency as we know it today. Flood sacrificed his career, which might have been a Hall of Fame one, for the rights of baseball players not to…
song share: cups (lulu & the lampshades)
If you’ve seen Pitch Perfect, this is the original version of the song that Anna Kendrick covers with the plastic cup at her audition; it’s by a London band called Lulu & the Lampshades that now goes by the name Landshades. You can buy the song here for a buck. This song makes me very,…
i’m really into wham covers this holiday season, apparently
I’m really into Wham covers this holiday season. First, the great one from the Fair and the Foul, available here. And then this one, from my beloved New Familiars, which is fantastic.
song share: santa is an asshole
I lucked out: I was supposed to be at work today, but our handsome and benevolent president closed all federal offices in thanks for our hard work, so I’m not at work; I’m listening to holiday music and drafting blog posts at home. You might be at work, though, and I am sorry that you…
brand new kind of photography 