Clap Your Hands Say Yeah on NPR
So yesterday NPR’s All Things Considered ran a great story on Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and their explosion via MP3 blogs and on doing things their own way, independent of a record label. Good stuff about a good band. If you are not familiar with CYHSY, head over to their website and download the (Read more…)
Big time big ten
Dirty Little Secret are a great new band out of L.A. The LA Weekly said “Dirty Little Secret’s thundering bass, prickly guitars, helicopter high-hats and colon-cleansing kick drum…set off a post-punk powder keg. [They] reminded me of U2 when they still wanted to be the Clash.” DLS also happens to be another band featuring ex-members (Read more…)
My 100th post
Can You See the Sunset From the Southside? (CYSTSFTS) is now 100 posts old. With no more than one post per day and oftentimes less, how about a big “hooray” for me. Oh, here’s another picture of my daughter. Canon EOS Digital Rebel, 15mm fisheye, 1/15sec at f/2.8 I recently heard the music of Maryland’s (Read more…)
Seven things
I was tagged by Kristi the Frontier Psychiatrist to complete this meme. I’m short on words today, so this will have to suffice. 7 things I plan to do before I die: 1. Drink beer in Belgium. 2. Run another marathon (or more). 3. Move the hell out of Chicago. 4. Be the “World’s Greatest (Read more…)
Buckets or barrels of hope
Stationary Odyssey has a new record out on The Great Vitamin Mystery as well as a free EP that you can download here. I don’t even know what to say about this music. It almost reminds me (at times) of Akron/Family or perhaps Fugazi dropped acid and began playing Devendra Banhart songs. Indie rock with (Read more…)
Turkey and trimmings
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Spend time with your families. Enjoy each others company. Tomorrow (officially) begins the holiday season and we should all take a minute or two out of our busy days and actually think about all we are thankful for. Enjoy the turkey, sweet potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, (s)mashed potatoes, and whatever (Read more…)
It’s that time of year again
Yes, the holiday season is upon us, but that is not what I’m talking about. Nope. I’m talking about the start of the NCAA basketball season. Yep. After the crazy ride that was last season, my University of Illinois Fighting Illini are gearing up for another run. They routed Texas Southern (no surprise there) tonight, (Read more…)
The night gives no applause
Too much too do in too little time. This is the story of my life. Enjoy some songs from Metric and Nudge. Metric features the lovely vocals of Emily Haines (Broken Social Scene) while Nudge features members of Fontanelle and also Honey Owens from Jackie-O Motherfucker. Nudge’s Cached is out on Kranky. Excellent stuff from (Read more…)
Four weeks old today
It is hard for me to believe that Hailey is four weeks old now. Where did that time go? The past four weeks have been (to say the least) a blur. Canon EOS Digital Rebel, 50mm fixed, 1/8sec at f/1.8 So while Amy and Grandma Peg were out doing some shopping this afternoon, Hailey and (Read more…)
