Happy New Year from Knox Road! I know I speak for all of us (Me, Jamie, Abby, Jesse, and Tom) when I say we’re thankful for your support this year and we plan on bringing great things in 2011. We’re always talking about ways we can improve the blog (not just at the turn of… Continue reading Happy New Year
Month: December 2010
The Peasant Dramatic
The Peasant Dramatic is one of those folk pop collectives we seem to love around here. Nine members, trombone, cello – the works. They live in Vermont, saying they’re “stuffed like a mute in a bell into the northeastern tip of the American States.” Hey, come on, Vermont’s got a lot going for it! Skiing!… Continue reading The Peasant Dramatic
Rökkurró
Rökkurró is an Icelandic (how’d you guess??) quintet that sounds exactly like what you’d expect from the band name and the album art above. Which is a good thing. Their music is charming, graceful, and exquisite. The compositions buoy themselves to soaring levels, with the prettiest female vocals that side of the Atlantic (…it’s just… Continue reading Rökkurró
[MP3] Ori: “Milka’s Dream”
Ori Alboher is a unique musician from Jerusalem, Israel, who creates abstract soundscapes within a traditional Jewish Hasidic context (which should make the music all but traditional). His deep-seated Hasidism doesn’t exactly shine through in the recorded music as he might have hoped for, though I’m sure it’d be fairly obvious on stage with the… Continue reading [MP3] Ori: “Milka’s Dream”
[MP3 + Video] Hear Hums: “Woo”
[Bear with me for this oddly structured post.] What the hell is going on in this song? Hear Hums – “Woo” [MP3] I don’t know. But I like it. Accompanying video below (first half of the video is Hear Hums’ song “Cerebellum”, second half is “Woo”). Knox Road goes psych-o this Monday. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/17473778[/vimeo] Hear Hums, out… Continue reading [MP3 + Video] Hear Hums: “Woo”
[Hype Hype Hooray] Indie Musicians Honor the Sanctity of Christmas
Every [two weeks?] Jamie Hale takes a long, hard look at the music industry and the blog scene that feeds it. Here, he releases those findings and makes snarky, sarcastic remarks. Admittedly, both Jamie and Knox Road are a part of this scene. So sue us. Every December, there is a war waged within the… Continue reading [Hype Hype Hooray] Indie Musicians Honor the Sanctity of Christmas
Blisses B
Every once in a while a band comes around with a sound that’s impossible to define. It’s rock, it’s pop, it’s frantic, it’s not. Blisses B, a quartet out of San Fransisco, ensure that they won’t be lumped into any generic category with their sophomore LP, Thirty Days, Sixty Years. The music is all over… Continue reading Blisses B
The Farewell Circuit drop free Xmas EP
Okay, seriously, we receive tons of holiday-related songs around this time of year, but that doesn’t prevent us from listening to and enjoying most (…some) of them. There can never be too much Christmas music (yeah, there can), especially from The Farewell Circuit (finally – a truth!). The Farewell fellas have posted a free four song… Continue reading The Farewell Circuit drop free Xmas EP
[The Past Presents] Badly Drawn Boy – “The Hour of Bewilderbeast”
The Past Presents revisits revered albums from the past 20-25 years to ask the question, “Is this album still a classic, or has it lost its edge over the years?”. Was it a great record for that particular time and place, or is it something we’ll be passing on to our kids? It also looks… Continue reading [The Past Presents] Badly Drawn Boy – “The Hour of Bewilderbeast”
Little Light
Little Light was recommended by good friend Brendan Losch, he of Bullets in Madison and, um, Brendan Losch. Considering how much Brendan knows about music and how it essentially takes over every facet of his life, I never take his suggestions lightly. Which continues to be the right decision. Little Light recently released their debut… Continue reading Little Light