New Music Videos: Cursive, Department Of Eagles, Fleet Foxes
Cursive: “From The Hips” (download) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgJfr-195xk[/youtube] “From the Hips” is one of the tracks that most echoes the band’s earliest sentiments on their excellent new album, Mama, I’m Swollen. Opening slow and somber, front man Tim Kasher wearily sings, “I’m at my best when I’m at my worst,” used as a line on a date...
Fleet Foxes @ Bowery Ballroom, Wednesday, July 9th
When the Fleet Foxes performed at Bowery Ballroom last week, frontman Robin Pecknold had a cold. But unlike a downtrodden, silent Frank Sinatra, the audience might have never known it if no one had told us (either the Dutchess or the Duke – the openers – mentioned it in their stage banter, as did Pecknold...
Europe By The Numbers & Contiki Reviewed
Days spent travelling/in Europe: 28 Nations visited: 7 (Italy, Vatican City, France, Monaco, Spain, Greece, Turkey) Greek Islands visited: 5 (Crete, Rhodes, Patmos, Mykonos, Santorini) Digital pictures taken: 1,236 Rolls of film taken: 10.5 People on the Med Highlights Reverse tour: 34 (not inc. me) People on the Golden Fleece tour: 21 (not inc. me)...
A Few More Notes.
Don’t worry, friends and readers, this is going to return to its previous MP3 blog status. But part of the reason that I am extending the Europe blogging a bit longer is because being gone for a month sort of skews what you know about music that’s out right now. So while I finish up...
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