Hola Amigos,
I used to send out monthly music updates, but have decided to move my recommendations to this forum instead. Also, you can check out the right side of this page for my "Download These Songs Now" section. I'll change these out every month or so. All of these songs can be found in my GF if you want to try them out. If you don't have access to my GF shoot me an e-mail.
Without further delay here are my latest finds...
1. Okkervil River - "Plus Ones"
This song's lyrics are clever as it references other songs, but then adds 1, hence the title. For example they talk about the 100th luftballoon, the 4th time you were a lady, lighting the 17th candle, 51st way to leave your lover etc... If you like this tune then check out the others in my GF.
2. Lightspeed Champion - "Everyone I know is Listening to Crunk"
Kind of a Bright Eyes feel with a less whiny voice. Awesome album cover too! His other songs are similar and worth grabbing.
3. Dr. Dog - "Heart It Races"
I got this one off of a Paste Sampler and it has an infectious drive to it. For my money Paste Magazine is the best music mag. out there right now.
4. Matt Costa - "Mr. Pitiful"
His new disc just came out and I don't have it yet, but this tune is a great start. His EP's and SWS are in my GF and worth checking out. He is on Jack Johnson's label, but has a different style. By the way the new Jack Johnson comes out next Tuesday, and somehow hasn't leaked yet.
5. Quincy Coleman - "Baby Don't You Cry"
This is from the Waitress soundtrack and is on Amy's top tunes list. Well if she had a top tunes list it would be. Good little indy flick and the writer/director was murdered shortly after filming and her little girl appears at the end of the film. Worth renting.
6. Zero 7 - "Futures"
This has that 70's spacey air-like quality to it. Kind of like Pink Floyd meets Steely Dan with some Alan Parsons mixed in.
7. Josh Ritter - "The Temptation of Adam"
Josh boldly wears the singer-songwriter tag, and this song is one of his best from his last record.
8. Kate Nash - "Foundations"
Brit pop, with a cockney accent and cheeky lyrics. Look for her to start blowing up as Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse start to fade.
9. Bettye LaVette - "The Last Time"
Tina Turner is that you? Smokey, bluesy, old soul appeal. Bring it Bettye!
10. Animal Liberation Orchestra (ALO) - "Lady Loop"
Jam band pick of the month. I don't think I've actually heard an ALO song that I didn't like, and this is no exception.
By the way if you missed my top 10 albums of 2007:
1. Spoon - GA GA GA GA GA (Top Track: The Underdog)
2. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger (Top Track: Two)
3. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead (Top Track: Missed the Boat)
4. White Stripes - Icky Thump (Top Track: Icky Thump)
5. The National - Boxer (Top Track: Fake Empire)
6. Bright Eyes - Cassadaga (Top Track: Classic Cars)
7. John Butler Trio - Grand National (Top Track: Used to Get High)
8. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky (Top Track: Hate it Here)
9. The Fratellis - Costello Music (Top Track: Chelsea Dagger)
10. Brandi Carlile - The Story (Top Track: The Story)
Honorable Mentions: Xavier Rudd - White Moth and Ben Harper - Lifeline
4 comments:
Jenny Owens Youngs - Fuck I Was, great tune.
Canadian chick singer: Hayley Sales
Yael Naim - New Soul (song from Mac Mini commercial)
Pete Droge - Going Whichever Way The Wind Blows (Toyota Sequoia commercial)
Kate Nash - Dickhead (song about me)
Joe Purdy - San Jose (from new disc - Take My Blanket and Go)
New rock:
The Whigs
Black Mountain
Vampire Weekend
Suicide Tunes:
Fionn Regan (Damien Rice without the need to immediately shoot yourself - just don't over do it)
And if you don't have Sky Blue Sky by Wilco, then go grab it
Bettye LaVette is incredible now, but she has more than one voice. People are just discovering her fierce '60s to '80s voice. Look, Bettye as a young girl toured with the likes of Otis Redding and The Godfather of Soul, James Brown.
Brown's audiences are some of the roughest in the world. LaVette had to go on right before Mr. Brown and she upset HIS audiences! See if you can find her "What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You" and "He's A Man of Words - I'm A Woman of Action." LaVette revisited her ferocious '70s voice on the VANTHOLOGY tribute to Van Morrison, singing his "Real Real Gone."
Just think, Beyonce, Ashanti and Mary J. Blige will be on the stage at the Grammys "performing" while Bettye LaVette sits in the audience. They've got this sh*t backwards!
Where's the Rush? LOL
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