“The Dodos are relatively new to the placement game. Their song ‘Fools’, from the 2008 album Visiter, was placed in an ad campaign for Miller Chill, a lime chelada beer, that started in May this year. Miller approached the band during the past winter. After the band accepted, ‘they came back with the commercial mock-up [...]
Unfortunately, events have conspired to disallow my driving 2.4 hours southeast to see Of Montreal in Picasso-land (Newport, KY). The next-best thing, I figured, was to watch, on a lazy Saturday morning, a live set from a few years back. The next-next best thing, I surmised, would be to share the opening track [...]
I had a record number of replies for Volume II of the Cover Mix Contest, but only one got every track properly identified, with song titles and both artists. It’s also totally unfair, because the winner is Brian Ibbott, the proprietor of The Cover Song Podcast at Coverville.com. Now, to be fair, I didn’t issue [...]
Here are the last two:
marathonpacks year-end mix, vol. 3 (128k mp3, 68.4MB) (expired)
1. Black & White Town–Doves
2. A Little Bit More–Jamie Lidell
3. Gone (f. Cam’ron & Consequence)–Kanye West
4. Trouble With Dreams–Eels
5. All We Are–Fischerspooner
6. Gideon–My Morning Jacket
7. Like A Honeycomb–British Sea Power
8. There Goes the Sun–The Pernice Brothers
9. I Was A Teenage Rainphase–Stereolab
10. So Begins [...]
The first video today is from Spoon, who, while releasing some of the most challenging and entertaining music of the past few years, have suffered the same video fate as their early influences The Pixies and Pavement–they make bad videos. You get the feeling that Spoon just don’t care, though, similar to the sentiment offered [...]
I’m posting this list in the interest of providing visitors an idea of what I’d consider my “canon”–for the last five years, at least. Any music aficionado would agree that a list like this actually goes together pretty quickly, by sorting one’s iTunes by year and taking a glance at the CD rack. My main [...]
After a week-long respite in the Florida sun, I’m back, with a list inspired by my pal Irving of the 10 best singles so far this year. As I compiled it, I noticed that my ideal top ten is replete with up-tempo, danceable numbers–my ideal, parallel-universe Billboard chart.
1. The Decemberists “16 Military Wives“–At a typically [...]
At the halfway point (or a little after), I thought I’d issue my halftime top ten (then I saw the stalwart largeheartedboy’s own version–I swear I had this almost done last week). Anyhoo, here goes:
Spoon Gimme Fiction–A remarkable work from the most iconoclastic songwriter around today. A longer piece on this album will come [...]