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• books, documentary, film, music

  July 6, 2011

  07.06.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Enjoyments as of late include: + Pygmy Lush - Old Friends. This album is a perfect mixture of the genre’s I’m interested in listening to lately.  Atmospheric downtempo folk-tinged music.  I think my musical tastes are starting to mellow out as I get older.  Pianos recently had the opportunity to play with these guys in Virginia [...]

• music, video

  Cara Beth Satalino

  03.19.11 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Thank you Heavy Boots for letting me know these videos exist.  I’ve probably listened to her EP more often than any other album on tour.  So good.  She’s in a rock band called Witches now.  They played the Fest last year but that’s the last I’ve heard from them. + Shimmering Thing + Good Ones [...]

• music, video

  The Avett Brothers – Head full of doubt/Road full of promise

  02.09.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Let’s take a second to appreciate how much time and effort were put in to making this video.  2600 paintings compiled in to one music video. First watch the video. There’s a darkness upon me that’s flooded in light In the fine print they tell me what’s wrong and what’s right And it comes in [...]

• music, Tour, video

  Koji – Minute Eight

  12.05.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Bringing a video camera along on tour is bittersweet.  You’re torn between capturing the performance on tape or experiencing it without a viewfinder in front of your face.  Making that decision is difficult to do some times. Koji covered Wagon Wheel by Bob Dylan/Old Crow Medicine Show at a venue in South Carolina and had [...]

• music, video

  Daniel Romano – On the Banks of Trillium

  11.15.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Daniel Romano Attack in Black

• music

  The Tallest Man on Earth – Sometimes the Blues is Just a Passing Bird

  09.12.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Tallest Man on Earth is back with a new 5 song ep entitled Sometimes the Blues is Just a Passing Bird.  If you’ve heard any of his previous albums this should be familiar territory – pretty finger picked acoustic guitar passages with distinctive Swedish accented singing that reminds me of a young nasally Bob Dylan. I love the [...]

• music

  Dawn by Mount Eerie & other stuff

  07.29.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  + Mount Eerie – Dawn Download: Mount Eerie – Dawn This is one of those albums that I have to be in a particular mood to listen to.  Somber may be the right word.  Not particularly unhappy but just kind of meh.  This is an album that focuses on the overall mood of the record instead of [...]

• music

  Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me

  02.20.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Disregard my initial criticism of this album because I haven’t taken the time to sit down and give it a good in-depth listen (which is one of my old man gripes below). I should be more excited about Have One on Me considering how incredible Joanna Newsom’s last album Ys was but I can not [...]

• music

  A.A. Bondy – When the Devil’s Loose

  11.18.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Lucky me; I wasn’t aware that A.A. Bondy’s new album When the Devil’s Loose was released yet but apparently it is – and it’s getting great reviews. “Like few singer-songwriters before him, A. A. Bondy captures that unease, that deep, pitch-black loneliness (there are people around, sure, but they don’t know you) that Dylan explored on [...]

• music

  Andrew Jackson Jihad – Operation Stackola, Photobomb

  11.02.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  + Andrew Jackson Jihad – Operation Stackola Look at that album cover and try to convince yourself you don’t want to listen to what these dudes have to say. Andrew Jackson Jihad are a duo from Arizona who play a polarizing form of folk-punk acoustic jams.  Some people can’t get into the vocals – and [...]