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On Talking Through Tin Cans, the band’s last proper album, The Morning Benders didn’t seem to have any grand aspirations. “Damnit Anna” was a modest acoustic romp; “Crosseyed” was a Shins-y foray into acoustic pop; “Chasing a Ghost” added some electric elements rock to the formula. But Big Echo is different. The band wants the album [...] March 10th, 2010 | Tags: Big Echo, excuses, Talking Through Tin Cans, The Morning Benders | Category: MP3, New Album, Review |
 Leave a comment | The Besnard Lakes are, in a way, everything, and their third album, Are the Roaring Night, is an illustration of this. The songs are dreamy and seem to expand outward, forever, carried by waves of atmospherics. Tracks are draped with falsetto vocals and snippets of distorted classic-rock guitar solos. Some songs build to reverb-drenched climaxes; [...] March 9th, 2010 | Tags: are the roaring night, Review, the besnard lakes | Category: MP3, Review |
Leave a comment | So guess what super-important awards show is on tonight? No, not the TVyNovelas awards, although that is super important. It’s the Oscars, silly! And this year is a really big one, because we all might have the opportunity to see The Blind Side win over, well, good movies in the Best Picture category. It’s thrilling [...] March 7th, 2010 | Tags: Week in Review | Category: Uncategorized, Week in Review |
Leave a comment | Don’t you just love when this happens? Back in, like, the dinosaur times (2008), Okkervil River released The Stand-Ins, and as a companion piece of sorts, had other bands cover the album’s songs. So they got Zykos for “On Tour with Zykos” and Ola Podrida for “Calling and Not Calling my Ex,” among others. Will [...] March 6th, 2010 | Tags: blue tulip, Bon Iver, Okkervil River, phenomenal video saturday, the stand-ins | Category: MP3, Special, Video |
Leave a comment | On 2008’s The Midnight Organ Fight, Frightened Rabbit was brash and blunt. Frontman Scott Hutchison Scottish-ed forth his lyrics (there’s no other way to say it, really), which themselves weren’t particularly rays of sunshine. And, above all else, the music never got too out of control. You had your guitars, keyboards, drums, and vocals, and [...] March 2nd, 2010 | Tags: Frightened Rabbit, nothing like you, Review, skip the youth, swim until you can't see land | Category: MP3, Review |
2 comments | Mumford & Sons, the totally not-American band who received #19 on our top albums of 2009 list, is totally coming to America for a string of dates in May and June. Personally, I find this exciting, even if the indie Illuminati don’t. To them I say — and excuse my French — please don’t come! Man. [...] March 1st, 2010 | Tags: little lion man, mumford and sons, Tour | Category: Concerts, MP3 |
One comment | Not only video game music, mind you, but Final Fantasy music. This song is called “To Zanarkand,” and it opens up Final Fantasy X. Before you laugh condescendingly and leave, give it a listen. Ever since I first played the game (and, by extension, heard the song) about 9 or so years ago, “To Zanarkand” [...] February 27th, 2010 | Tags: final fantasy x, phenomenal video saturday, to zanarkand | Category: MP3, Special, Video |
Leave a comment | Boy, does Joanna Newsom put herself into Have One On Me. The thing clocks in at over two full hours of music spread over three six-song albums, which is, like many things, a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that it’s over two hours of Joanna Newsom (my wife). The curse is that it’s [...] February 24th, 2010 | Tags: have one on me, joanna newsom, MP3, New Album, Review, ys | Category: MP3, New Album, Review |
4 comments | To be honest, at this point in their career, I’m not expecting anything particularly earth-shattering from Shearwater. Figuratively, that is. I don’t expect them to toy with their awesome, awesome formula too much, and on The Golden Archipelago, they deliver. Literally, I want Shearwater’s music to shatter earth, every sustained falsetto from Jonathan Meiburg and [...] February 23rd, 2010 | Tags: Black Eyes, castaway, Review, Shearwater, The Golden Archipelago | Category: MP3, Review |
Leave a comment | On this issue of Knox Road Radio, I was sadly left to my own devices when Jamie and Lee were unable to make the show. But it was OK! I got a pair of my non-blogger partners-in-crime (vandalism, mostly), Zach and Steven, to help me play some of this past week’s most awesome music. And [...] |
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