Wow. I didn't see this coming. My old favorite solo singer-songwriter, J. Tillman (also former drummer from Fleet Foxes) is really pushing the PR campaign with his new project, Father John Misty. The shimmy shimmy swagger on stage is a bit off-putting though.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Best Albums of 2012: version 1.0
Best Albums of 2012
Version 1.0 (January-March)
For previous years see
LPs
- Shearwater - Animal Joy
- Damien Jurado - Maraqopa
- Dr. Dog - Be the Void
- Andrew Bird - Break it Yourself
- Gift of Gab - The Next Logical Progression
- fun. - Some Nights
- John K. Samson - Provincial
- Father John Misty - Fear Fun
- Ben Kweller - Go Fly a Kite
- Rocky Votolato - Television of Saints
- Matt Pryor - May Day
- Matt Pryor - Still There's a Light
- Great Lake Swimmers - New Wild Everywhere
- Beach House - Bloom
- Craig Finn - Clear Heart Full Eyes
- For all the Girls (Drew Danburry) - For all the Girls
- Lyrics Born - Lyrics Born Variety Show: Season 5
- Galactic - Carnivale Electricos
- Fanfarlo - Rooms Filled with Light
EPs
- RA Scion - Beg, Borrow, Steal [Free EP]
- Damien Jurado - Maraqopa Sessions Blue/Red/Yellow 3x7" series
- Rocky Votolato - The Let Go EP
- Josh Ritter - Bringing in the Darlings
- Less than Jake - Seasons Greetings
Singles / 7 inches / Misc
- Jeremy Enigk - Last Rights [Damien Jurado cover] [Free Download from Seattle Times]
- Andrew Bird - The Crown Salesman [single] b/t So Much Wine
- Bon Iver - Towers [single] b/t Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow)
- Cold War Kids - Minimum Day [single]
Monday, March 26, 2012
New Sigur Ros Album + track
Valtari
Out May 28th
Listen to the first single, Ekki Mukk, below:
Sigur Rós - Ekki múkk from Sigur Rós on Vimeo.
Out May 28th
Listen to the first single, Ekki Mukk, below:
Sigur Rós - Ekki múkk from Sigur Rós on Vimeo.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Andrew Bird does Colbert
There are musicians, and then there are musicians. I am the former, Andrew Bird is the latter. I can play guitar, bass, banjo, ukulele and piano. Andrew Bird can PLAY all of those plus violin and a bunch others. My review of his new album "Break it Yourself" on rateyourmusic.com when like this:
Did I mention that he whistles too?
"Wow. It is as if Mr. Bird has no regard for the rest of our feelings!
I mean, come on! You make the rest of us look like a bunch of hack
amateurs struggling to bang out simple 3-chord songs. Mr. Bird, you
musical talent is tough to swallow. We get it. You are obscenely good
at what you do. Now please just stop beating us over the head with it!
Give us some time to go sulk in our rooms a bit, feel depressed about
how horrible our attempts at making music are just laughable.......and
sit wide-eyed listening to you new album a few hundred more times.
You songs are not always the catchiest. They might often be ones that are skipped when listening on shuffle. But when given proper undivided attention, they never fail to utterly amaze us. Like I said in the beginning. Wow."
You songs are not always the catchiest. They might often be ones that are skipped when listening on shuffle. But when given proper undivided attention, they never fail to utterly amaze us. Like I said in the beginning. Wow."
Did I mention that he whistles too?
Wonder what I'm talking about? Listen:
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
New Shearwater video - Breaking the Yearlings
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Father John Misty (J. Tillman) video - Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings
J. Tillman's (former Fleet Foxes drummer) new solo venture, Father John Misty has put out a video for the first single, Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings, starring your favorite malcontent from Parks & Rec, Aubrey Plaza.
The full-length, Fear Fun, will be out May 1 on Sub Pop
Father John Misty - Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings from thatgo on Vimeo.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
J. Tillman (of Fleet Foxes) signs to Sub Pop as Father John Misty
Fear Fun will be out May 1 on Sub Pop
For your email address, get a sneak peak with the surprisingly noisy "Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings."
For your email address, get a sneak peak with the surprisingly noisy "Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings."
Friday, January 27, 2012
They Might be Giants do Conan
Ah. Nostalgia. TMBG turns 30 years old!
Plus a surprisingly loud and dissonant version of Ana Ng. 1988 + a bit more noise.
Plus a surprisingly loud and dissonant version of Ana Ng. 1988 + a bit more noise.
My Vinyl Collection (January 2012 Update)
I started collecting vinyl in January of 2008.
Here is what I have amassed.
Here is what I have amassed.
(updated January 2012)
AC/DC
Back in Black
American Football
American Football
Andrew Bird
Armchair Apocrypha
Band of Horses
Everything All the Time
Infinite Arms
Battles
Gloss Drop
Mirrored
The Beach Boys
Endless Summer
The Beatles
1962-1966
1967-1970
Abbey Road
Hey Jude
Let it Be
Magical Mystery Tour
Rubber Soul
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beck
Modern Guilt
Odelay
The Bee Gees
Best of Bee Gees Vol. 1
[pre-disco]Saturday Night Fever
Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five
Blackalicious
A2G
[EP]Blazing Arrow
The Craft
Deception
[12" single]Its Going Down (Sit Back)
Nia
Bon Iver
Bon Iver
Brendan Benson
Alternative to Love
Bright Eyes
Four Winds
[12" EP]I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Built to Spill
Don't Try / The Source
[7" single]The City on Film
In Formal Introduction
[marble gray vinyl]Cake
Motorcade of Generosity
The Clash
London Calling
Colin Meloy
Colin Meloy Sings Live
[autographed]Common Market
Connect For
[12" EP]Tobacco Road
Counterfit
Super Amusement Machine for Your Exciting Heart
[red vinyl]Creedence Clearwater Revival
Chronicle
Damien Jurado
Caught in the Trees
.Hoquiam
I Break Chairs
Motorbike [7" single]
On My Way To Absence
Saint Bartlett
Trampoline [7" single]
Dear and the Headlights
Drunk Like Bible Times
[Ale colored vinyl – 10" double LP] Small Steps, Heavy Hooves
[translucent gold colored vinyl]Death Cab for Cutie
I will Possess your Heart
[7" single] Narrow Stairs
The Decemberists
Castaways and Cutouts
Colin Meloy Sings Live
[autographed]The Crane Wife
The Hazards of Love
Her Majesty
Picaresque
+ Picaresquities The Tain
+ 5 Songs
Dent May
The Feel Good Music of Dent May and his Magnificent Ukulele
Dr. Dog
Shame Shame
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
Sun Giant EP
The Format
Dog Problems
The Fruit Bats
Spelled in Bones
G. Love & Special Sauce
Baby's Got Sauce / Cold Beverage 10"
The Get Up Kids
Four Minute Mile
[translucent gold vinyl]Guilt Show
[red vinyl] A Newfound Interest in Massachusetts / Off the Wagon
[7"]On a Wire
Red Letter Day
[10" EP]Simple Science
[12" EP] Something to Write Home About
[lavender vinyl]The Gloria Record
A Lull in Traffic
[12" EP] [Marble white vinyl]Grand Archives
Grand Archives
[signed by the band]Grand Archives – Sleep Driving / George Kaminski alt. versions
[7"]Great Lake Swimmers
Lost Channels
Hey Mercedes
Every Night Fireworks
[SIGNED by the band]The Hold Steady
Heaven is Whenever
Stay Positive
Iron & Wine
The Creek Drank the Cradle
In the Reins
Our Endless Numbered Days
Woman King
J. Tillman
A Year in the Kingdom
Minor Works [French Import]
Wild Honey Never Stolen / Borne Away On A Black Barge
7"Jack Johnson
Brushfire Fairytales
On and On
Sleep Through the Static
Jimmy Eat World
Clarity
[2009 reissue]Pain/Shame
[7" clear green]Josh Ritter
So Runs The World Away
The Animal Years
Joshua James
Build me This
The Sun is Always Brighter
Winter Storm / Lovers Without Love [7"]
Led Zeppelin
IV (Zoso)
Lifesavas
Gutterfly: The Original Soundtrack
Spirit in Stone
Local Natives
Gorilla Manor
The Long Winters
Putting the Days to Bed
The Mamas & the Papas
If you Can Believe your Eyes and Ears
Maritime
Glass Floor
Heresy and the Hotel Choir
[clear vinyl] [hand numbered limited pressing]We, the Vehicles
[hand numbered clear blue vinyl]Witches and Snowmen / Boy From School [limited edition 7" white vinyl]
Marvin Gaye
Every Great Motown Hit
Midnight Love
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Take a Break
Michael Jackson
Bad
Thriller
Mike Doughty
Haughty Melodic
Minus the Bear
Highly Refined Pirates
[blue swirly vinyl]Omni
They Make Beer Commercials Like This
EP [fruity pebbles colored vinyl]The Mountain Goats
Get Lonely
Heretic Pride
The Mr. T Experience
Love is Dead
Mumford & Sons
Sigh No More
The National
High Violet
The New Amsterdams
At the Foot of my Rival
Nick Drake
Five Leaves Left
Okkervil River
Black Sheep Boy
The Standins
Onelinedrawing
Visitor
[clear transparent vinyl]Owen
At Home with Owen
No Good for No One Now
Panic at the Disco
Nine in the Afternoon
[7" single]Paul Simon
Graceland
Greatest hits, Etc
Pele
Enemies
Phantom Planet
Raise the Dead
[marble blue vinyl]Phoenix
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Pinback
Autumn of Seraphs
The Postal Service
Give Up
The Promise Ring
Wood/Water
[double 10"]Radiohead
In Rainbows
King of Limbs
OK Computer
The Bends
Ratatat
Ratatat
Reggie and the Full Effect
Inside the Dust Sleeve
(under the tray) R.E.M.
Accelerate
Automatic for the People
Dead Letter Office
Document
Fables of the Reconstruction
Green
Life's Rich Pageant
Monster
New Adventures in Hi Fi
Reckoning
Wendell Gee
[12" single]Rogue Wave
Descended Like Vultures
Rocky Votolato
A Brief History
[10" on opaque yellow vinyl] Rocky Votolato s/t LP [yellow & orange vinyl]
Rocky Votolato & Seth Warren
[7" on white vinyl]Suicide Medicine
[marble white vinyl] [autographed + set list]Rush
2112
Saves the Day
Stay What you Are
Shearwater
The Golden Archipelago
Sigur Ros
( )
Ágætis Byrjun
Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
Takk
Simon and Garfunkel
Bookends
Bridge over Troubled Waters
The Graduate
Greatest Hits
Parsley, Sage Rosemary and Thyme
Sounds of Silence
Wednesday Morning, 3 AM
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Pershing
SSLYBY / Puzzle split
[7" split - lavender marble vinyl]The Thrills
So Much for the City
The Weakerthans
Left and Leaving
Live at the Burton Cummings Theatre
Reconstruction Site
They Might Be Giants
Don't Lets Start
[12" Single]Flood
Lincoln
They Might be Giants
They'll Need a Crane
[12" single]TV on the Radio
Nine Types of Light
Weezer
Weezer
[The Blue Album]Wilco
Being There
The Wooden Birds
Magnolia
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