Fiona Apple

We here at MDW have always loved Fiona Apple, but now with this performance, at a benefit concert for Standing Rock, we love her that much more.

Be sure to watch to the very end.

The Junky's Christmas

Goodbye Darlin'

Allo Darlin in the final minutes of their final performance last night at Scala in London, appropriately playing My Heart Is a Drummer, as shot from the back of the room.  You can find other videos of this performance on YouTube (check the thumbnails at the end of the video), some with better views but most with lower sound quality.

We'll miss you, friends.

Allo Darlin

Allo Darlin at 529, October 2014

Allo Darlin' released what they say is their last record, a single appropriately titled Hymn On The 45. It's good enough to make us mourn their departure all the more.

They play their last shows this weekend in London, a December 10 set at the.Moth Club followed by a show at Scala on the 11th, and then that's it, folks.

Here's the B-side, Wanderlust:

The Avalanches

Pure fantasy to help us forgot, at least temporarily, the bitter disappointments in the real world.

Car Seat Headrest

If you're like me and your post-election anxiety and Trumpian depression are expressing themselves as insomnia, you may have stayed up late enough last night to watch Will Toledo re-invent the already terrific song Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales with The Roots on Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show.

It's worth rewatching.