Music Update
Every morning before my day starts I go and collect my "listenings". I always check the
largeheartedboy site and
donewaiting first and they usually send me off on a 15 minute tear looking for new tunes.
This morning I found some stuff worth sharing and it also spawned me to write about some stuff I have been listening to in addition to what I found this morning.
My journey started
here (you can find the next 5 artist available for DL there) -
M. Ward - This is a really earthy song that makes me want to investigate his album. They call it a concept album but that never really resonates with me because the concept always escapes me. Shit, OK Computer still escapes me. Anyway it's good in the same vain like Nick Drake was singing with Sam from Iron and Wine (is I+W a band...ot just one dude...one dude I think).
Joli Holland - This is just what everyone needs at some point. You can use this when you are cooking pasta or walking around in your socks wanting to be some sort of Latin woman. It's really back door perfection as if it were being test driven for a smoky jazz bar after hours.
Sam Phillips - This is the wife of the famed producer T Bone Burnett (best known for executive producing the soundtracks that make it ok to buy soundtracks such as Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou...he also did Elvis Costello, played guitar with Dylan and...to me personally his most prized and acclaimed peice of work...Producing August and Everything After) Although being a huge Jesus freak, both him and his wife, whom I have really neglected to mention, have churned out what sounds like Cheryl Crow (sp?) at age 50. Don't sleep on old Ms Crow. You'll be wishing you knew her better in 20 years same as our parents wished they knew Patti Smith better.
Johnny Vanderslice - Yeah you've heard his name getting kicked around for about 2 years. This guy is the owner of tiny telephone...you'll see him in the liner notes of DCFC and Sun Kill Moon...It's a little annoying because you'll think your speakers are blown but it's gotta a great voice beat to it. Downbeats and syllables are in chime and it makes things much more bareable than they should be. I'll probably give this album go my next trip to the cd store based solely that this is so good even though it tries to be horrible that the pop tunes laying in the album are probably just amazing.
Circulatory System - This is friendly and easy to you. Polyphonic Spree meets Guided by Voices. It's not really anything to stumble over but if you could imagine the beatles playing country rock that was low-level produced that would be close to this. It's pretty sweet...like corn sweet.
Mountain Goats - I've been hearing about this band for months. The mp3's I have are rather annoying but the lyrics are so fucked up that I like it. The song on the link above is rather pop friendly for them. It reminds me of the band that should open a Hedwig and the Angry Inch show. It's worth the download...you can make your own decision after that.
This site also has a
Iron and Wine dl. But I won't write about it..if you don't already have 30 songs DL'd and the latest LP you should be killed. Wait no...scarred. Wait...maybe killed...definitly have a limb broken.
Drag the River - It's the country Soledad Brothers. It's good. They have dl's on the website. You should grab some.
Death in Vegas - If they had good PR here you would know them. But alas be the first kids on your subbruban East coast block to have a Death in Vegas Mp3. You won't be dissapointed. It's like Radiohead had a set of cojones again.
