Pictured: A Match made in heaven.
Why is British pop music so much better than American pop music? From Amy Winehouse to Lilly Allen, it seems like our neighbors across the pond are willing to take bigger and better risks with what they listen to. Consequently, their music is smarter, catchier, and has much more […]
Pictured: The Whitest Boy Alive rock serenely, and only in soft lighting.
I realize that I’m breaking a cardinal indie rock review rule right now. As I type this, this cd has been available for exactly 1 year, and 1 week. Even if we figure in the fact that this cd was released in Europe (WBA […]
Pictured: Ryan Adams looks like you look in your dreams about yourself.
I currently reside in Osseo, WI, in a house on 14 acres of land. I own a yellow lab that chases after cars and I drive a big black beater of a Jeep. I play the banjo. Sometimes I play it on the porch. Horses […]
Pictured: Arks. No funny caption, just the 2nd best shirt ever.
Arks are a Chicago band that according to it’s website are catagorized as “punk” first and “rock” second. I’m not sure that’s a completely accurate assessment, but it’s a good starting point. Like most punk, these guys use distortion, after that it gets a bit […]
Pictured: The White Stripes, made out of string? Getting Fat?
Who would’ve thought that for the next White Stripes album it’d sound like a political rally run by the guys who invented Guitar Hero? Ok, yeah, we all did. Who would’ve thought that Jack White would be walking around in the first video in a sort-of-gay […]
Pictured: Editors, obviously not for Cat Fancy.
Editors is one of those brooding British bands where they dress like they are spies in some Eastern bloc country. They have fast drums, fast guitars, fast bass, and not so fast vocals. They have music that skinny, white kids love to dance to. They probably smoke. A lot.
On their sophomore […]
Pictured: Patty Griffin probably shops at Pier 1 Imports… for cranberry potpourri.
Patty Griffin is my least likely find in the past week. Not because she’s so far out of the main stream, but because she seems like she’s smack dab in the middle of it. Griffin has been playing country-folk-pop for the better part of […]
Pictured: Franco Battiato is ready for the old, angry, Italian man barbeque.
Franco Battiato kind of looks like your dad. He has been alive since 1945. He’s from Italy. He has a song on the Children of Men Soundtrack. According to wikipedia,
”His collaborations (from 1994 onward) with the nihilistic-cynical philosopher Manlio Sgalambro have added further depth to […]
Anyone that has ever talked ‘favorite artists’ with me knows what a shill I am for David Bazan. I don’t want to say “can do no wrong,” but I’m thinking it. That said, this video, courtesy of blogotheque, is really great. It features Dave on the streets of San Fransisco playing the song ‘Cold Beer […]
Head on over to auralfitness.com to see what they had to say about a few of the bands here in our hometown.
Highlights include an attempt to describe our general alcoholism, “I know for fact that Eau Claire has a bar that on Thursday Nights (all night-long) you can roll a pair of dice and pay whatever comes […]
There have maybe been hundreds, probably thousands of songs written about growing up. The pains and excitement of high school, awkward first dates, getting picked last for the kickball team in the second grade even though I was way better than Ashley and she got picked before me. I mean, yeah, I was small, I […]
In the best way possible, Wheat should get some considerable airplay on college radio programs throughout America with their new release. Not like on the horrible stations either, for the most part I mean the “good” ones.
“Everyday I Said a Prayer for Kathy and Made a One Inch Square,” is sort of like […]