Review: El Perro Del Mar – From The Valley To The Stars
Is this shit considered twee? Can anyone out there actually explain to me what that twee even means? Well, since no one answered I had to look it up. Evidently “twee” is a chiefly British word used to describe that which is “affectedly or excessively dainty, delicate, cute, or quaint.” So is the latest album (Read more…)
R U Ready?
We just put the Christmas tree up and Hailey can’t stop singing songs from The Polar Express. Thanksgiving has come and gone and Christmas will be here soon, so what does that actually mean? Well, it’s almost time (or already so depending on who you are) for the 2008 crop of year end best of (Read more…)
Can You See Santa From The Southside? (Christmas Songs #2)
Yep. Thanksgiving has passed so the Christmas/Holiday season has officially begun. We’ll be putting up our Christmas tree and decorations in the next few days since I don’t think its really proper to put ‘em up before Thanksgiving. Stay tuned for more songs of the season in the next few days/weeks. MP3 | The Huntingtons (Read more…)
Review: Minus The Bear – Acoustics EP
Even though when I’m asked who my favorite bands are I don’t usually name Minus The Bear, I probably should. I’ve come to realize that I actually listen to them quite a bit. Now Minus The Bear is a band that sounds like no other. Their smooth and slinky mathy indie/prog rock is instantly recognizable (Read more…)
It came from the nineties (Vol. 45)
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hopefully you’ll get enough to eat and watch as much football as you want to. And in case you missed it before, here are a ton of Thanksgiving songs for your holiday festivities today. Just like always, if you are looking for more, you can always just find “1990’s” in the drop (Read more…)
Can You See Santa From The Southside? (Punk Christmas Songs)
No I’m not kidding. Thanksgiving is here and, dammit, I’m in the holiday spirit already. Plus I just really like Christmas songs… especially punk Christmas songs. I need to plug in the turntable and rip MP3’s of the Smoking Popes Egg Nog 7” and the Squirtgun White Christmas 7” as well. Until then, however, these (Read more…)
Review: Cloudland Canyon – Lie In Light
Cloudland Canyon is the unlikely partnership of Kip Ulhorn and Simon Wojan who met while Ulhorn’s former band (Panthers) was touring Europe and their latest full-length Lie In Light is full of shape-shifting psychedelic shoegaze that would be the perfect soundtrack to the morning after a long night spent doing whatever. These are fuzzy songs (Read more…)
Review: William Fitzsimmons – The Sparrow And The Crow
So if you like beards I can almost guarantee that you’ll like William Fitzsimmons as he seems to be a beard master. Seriously though, I realize it is a pretty blunt comparison, but if you like the hushed folk music Sufjan Steven’s Seven Swans I can almost guarantee that you’ll like the latest album from (Read more…)
Recently ’round here
Yeah, the holiday season is just about here so I thought I’d give you a rundown of what we’ve been up to lately. In addition to writing about music and here, I’ve also been writing at ParentSphere, a site I write with my wife that is aimed a little more at, well… parenting than this (Read more…)
