Wednesday, December 24, 2014

New Videos from Animal Collective's Panda Bear



Two trippy videos and two great new songs from the forthcoming and eagerly anticipated Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper.   



The music in both of these songs are like puzzles where it's not completely obvious at first how all the parts are supposed to fit together or if they even do, and it's not until the time the songs end that you realize that you had it figured out.

Monday, December 22, 2014

Alvvays & The Decemberists


Good stuff just keeps getting better: The Decemberists drop another song from their new album and meanwhile it's been announced that the Toronto band Alvvays will be opening on both nights of The Decemberists' two-night stand at The Tabernacle in Atlanta.

Alvvays opening for Yuck at The Earl, February 2014
The Decemberists' new What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World came out a little late this year to make most critics Best Of lists, but Alvvays' Archie, Marry Me is on a lot of Top 20 lists for 2014.

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Musicians Are Cowards


"Sisters and brothers, we have surely lost our way
In strip malls full of cancer and a pathetic rain."

 - The Triumph of Our Tired Eyes from Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upwards (2001)

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Just Another Band From Montreal

The Barr Brothers at Bumbershoot 2012
If I had to choose a city to live in based only on the bands that come from that city, the pick might go to Portland, but on the other hand, I'd have no problem picking Montreal to live in the city of Godspeed, Silver Mt. Zion, Suuns, and the Barr Brothers.

Somebody needs to get these guys to Atlanta.

Friday, December 19, 2014

Your Shadow Under My Feet


Promo video for Tu Sombra Bajo Mis Pies, featuring a short excerpt from Tho You Are Gone I Still Often Walk With You from Silver Mt. Zion's Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward (2001)

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Spark & Whisper


Here's a new song from Marin County's Spark & Whisper