First Aid Kit, “The Lion’s Roar”
Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg return with their second full-length album, a collection of simple indie-folk songs which feature their well-matched vocals above all else. Beyond the lyrics and the songwriting — none of the lyrics are particularly groundbreaking — their voices are the real draw on this album. They’ve been previously compared to […]
Hooray for Covers! Walk off the Earth, “Somebody That I Used To Know”
Stop! Do not pass go! Watch this! That is five people, on one guitar, playing Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know”. I’ll be right back; I’m busy feeling inadequate with the handful of chords that I know. Walk Off The Earth is a Canadian group which plays their own original music, but who are […]
Wow, That’s a Good Song: Quiet Company, “Fear and Fallacy, Sitting in a Tree”
I was introduced to Austin, TX-based Quiet Company by fellow blogger and curmudgeon Steve, of Baby, You Got a Stew Goin’! and was sufficiently impressed.  Their new album, We Are All Where We Belong, could easily be one of my favorites of 2011, if I was bothering to keep track of those sorts of things this […]
Earl Scruggs Is A Funny Man
High on the list of things I never thought I’d see: Earl Scruggs in a Funny or Die video. Bluegrass Diva with Steve Martin, Ed Helms and Noam Pikelny from Steve Martin And yet I am surprised and delighted. Also present: Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, Bela Fleck, Gabe Witcher, Ed Helms, Steve Martin, and Noam […]
Wow, That’s a Good Song: Brown Bird, “Bilgewater”
Brown Bird is David Lamb and MorganEve Swain, based out of Providence, RI, although by the sounds of them, you would expect them to hail from some creaky barn, surrounded by rusty machinery and maybe a farm animal or two, somewhere in the rural south.  Their latest album, Salt for Salt, was recorded live to tape, […]
How I Spent My Blogging Vacation
By Mel on October 14, 2011
August 5, I quit my job. August 9 and August 10, I saw Andrew Bird in Colorado with friends. On August 11, I picked up my father from the Denver airport. By then my apartment was 90% packed. Since he’d had a long flight and I had additional packing to do, I introduced him to […]
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