January 2012
1 post
My buddy Jesse Ray sings this. It’s been in...
December 2011
1 post
2011 Top Ten
Before i forget…in no particular order.
We Were Promised Jetpacks - In the Pit Of The Stomach
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing
Radical Face - The Family Tree: The Roots
Jessica Lea Mayfield - Tell Me
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Death Cab for Cutie - Codes and Keys
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
m83 - Hurry Up We’re Dreaming
Antlers - Burst Apart
The Crane Wives - Safe Ship,...
Top Ten
Meursault - All Creatures Will Make Merry
This really was my favorite find of the past few years. Having falling madly, deeply, obsessively in love with Frightened Rabbit…I just needed more of that brogue in my life. These dudes opened up for FR on a tour…one that I didn’t catch, unfortunately. Anyway, I’ve already said pretty much everything there is to say about this...
August 2010
1 post
Prediction - final standings of the EPL after the...
1. Arsenal
2. Chelsea
3. Manchester United
4. Manchester City
5. Tottenham
6. Liverpool
7. Everton
8. Aston Villa
9. West Ham United
10. Sunderland
11. Fulham
12. Wigan Athletic
13. Stoke City
14. Blackburn Rovers
15. Wolverhampton Wanderers
16. Bolton Wanderers
17. Newcastle United
18. Birmingham
19. West Bromwich Albion
20. Blackpool
June 2010
2 posts
May 2010
3 posts
Joel Stob's top 5 indie brushes with fame...
Some may say that this is self-indulgent, braggy and at points downright misleading. To this I would say…you’re just jealous of how lucky and cool I am.
5. OMG Tornadoes with Daniel Smith
This story begins as so many other did in this list…I was working a show at Calvin. This show happened to be Danielson during their ships tour…(aka post tree, post documentary)....
The Past 5 Years at Calvin (in reverse...
The Album Leaf
Sea Wolf
The Welcome Wagon
Joanna Newsom
The Dutchess & the Duke
Half-Handed Cloud
The Mountain Goats
Final Fantasy
The Prayers & Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers
Great Lake Swimmers
Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers
The Books
Mucca Pazza
Lupe Fiasco
David Bazan, Baby Dee & Vic Chesnutt
The Hold Steady
Titus Andronicus
Los Campesinos!
...
Meursault - All Creatures Will Make Merry
Christmas came for this author on Cinco de Mayo this year. For it was on this day that I received a brown paper wrapped package from the United Kingdom. It contained one standard post-card on which were pictures of what I could only ascertain were located in the former Soviet Union (one picture was a Monument to Lenin at Lenin Square). On the back of said postcard was a hand written note...
April 2010
1 post
March 2010
1 post
October 2009
1 post
August 2009
1 post
Watchit’s kinda gross hearing feist gush about her boyfriends talent…could be that i’m a touch jealous though
July 2009
12 posts
The Top 6 Kick Ass Things About John Vanderslice...
1. Bill Gates Must Die Back when his first solo album, Mass Suicide Occult Figurines (nice Neutral Milk reference), was coming out he and a couple buddies convinced the indie world that Microsoft/Gates had sent him a cease and desist letter for writing a song of the aforementioned title. He also let on that people from the Seattle area were jamming his phone lines or sending him mad faxes or...
Album: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Artist:...
one hit one-ders
so i’ve been noticing lately that a lot of times I will like only the first song on a specific cd. I think this could possibly stem from the fact that I am introduced to the song independently, and don’t give the rest of an album a chance, maybe it’s partially a mistake on the part of the band to put their best song first so that the rest of the album is downhil from there. ...
Mountain Goats - The Best Ever Death Metal Band In...
Why I Love John Darnielle →
First, click on the title and read the crap out of it…How can you not at least appreciate Darnielle’s attention to detail when it comes to the stories he writes? My favorite is the so called Alpha series in which Darnielle follows the same couple through years of their troubled marriage. The album Tallahassee is all about the couple (and the production is good, so it won’t...
Dug this up from the old xanga…wow…just wow
Team Post - aka Medical Reasons
Festive packages lovingly placed on the front porch constitutes a lugubrious game, in fact the most lugubrious of games. Melting sculptures of Jesus inpired phantasmagorical capers in a dutch oven harkening forth a menacing brew. A brine so sickly sweet that even the ruddiest of dock workers cannot stomach...
Bully by Roland Eldridge
Found this on the...
I just figured out that these guys http://bit.ly/EIsDr played a show at pub 43 two days ago…zomg.
The laws of hipster nerddom require that I participate in some semblance of consistent blogging, so we’ll see how long this lasts.
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