I liked this David Byrne and Brian Eno collaboration Everything That Happens Will Happen Today way more than I thought I would. I’m not sure why I thought that considering that I’m a fan of Byrne’s work in Talking Heads and Eno’s solo work as well as Roxy Music. The songs have been described by the duo as electronic Gospel music, but I think it sounds more like adult pop than anything else. It’s an adventurous album that is radically listenable, but would you expect anything less from these two?
MP3 | David Byrne & Brian Eno – Everything That Happens Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Joey Cape’s first solo album, Bridge, was released last fall by one of my favorite labels, Suburban Home. It is a solo acoustic album from the Lagwagon frontman that (oddly) features reworkings of almost all the songs from the Lagwagon EP that released only two months prior to it. Anyhow, this probably sounds just how you’d expect it to; Joey singing simple melodies while playing an acoustic guitar. It’s fine to listen to but won’t ever make it into constant rotation around here.
MP3 | Joey Cape – The Ramones Are Dead Bridge
I’ve seen Chicago’s own Sybris on at least two occasions and enjoyed their set both times and meant to listen to and review their sophomore album Into The Trees months ago, but only recently did. What you can expect on Into The Trees is thoroughly decent hard indie-rock that is lifted from the mire by vocalist/guitarist Angela Mullenhour’s wild vocals where there’s a little Karen O, a little Courtney Love, and a little Kim Deal jockeying for the top spot. Sybris are a band whose music benefits from the visceral energy playing live gives ‘em, but Into The Trees, ain’t bad either.
MP3 | Sybris – Oh Man! Into The Trees
I just missed seeing Dan Auerbach here in Chicago a few weeks ago and it’s a shame. Over the past few months I’ve really taken a liking to The Black Keys (the blues duo Auerbach fronts) and have given his recently released solo album, Keep It Hid, a few listens as well. To be perfectly honest, a good majority of the songs on Keep It Hid sound like songs that might be been intentionally left of any of The Black Keys albums; they sound like The Black Keys but just might not have fit within the album. Sure, there’s a little more variation on Keep It Hid that on a standard Black Keys release, and while that can be a good thing, why change?
MP3 | Dan Auerbach – The Prowl Keep It Hid
Gasoline Heart makes music you can drive to. The Florida quintet’s debut album, You Know Who You Are, is full of their down-home country-inflected brand of earnest rock ‘n’ roll. I’m not sure but I’d bet that these guys played in punk bands before discovering this sort of jangly Americana and haven’t been to Nashville. But seeing that the album is more Tom Petty than it is Lucero, I’d almost call this the sort of easy listening country that the punk rock kids might sing along to rather than turning it off.
MP3 | Gasoline Heart – Paralyze You Know Who You Are
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that gasoline heart record is called “you know who you are”. they have a new album coming out soon on P Is For Panda.