Pictured: Hospital Ships’ Jordan Geiger with big-head cheat code on.
Songwriter Jordan Geiger is (un)known for his writing and singing in Minus Story, and recently for his trumpeting in the band Shearwater. With his new project, Hospital Ships, Geiger steps into his own even more.
The creativity that flows through Oh, Ramona is similar to that heard […]
Pictured: The band was doing just fine until Steve Nash showed up on keys(far right), wearing his favorite collared shirt and that damned howling wolf tank top again.
Let’s be honest, I’m a sucker for songs with lots of bells, and Deleted Scenes carves itself around them on the song Ithaca. I know what you’re thinking, but […]
Pictured: Murdocks only travel one-by-one, in a straight line. Buddy-system style.
I want to drink beer with this band, and I want to be as loud and reckless as they are when I do it. I want to be sloppy drunk while we parade around town and spit in the face of the whole damn thing. […]
Pictured: Carl Spidla. Reinforcing every indie-kid stereotype in one photo. If only it were a polaroid.
My least favorite part about writing for Peer Validated is that more often than not I have to find music on other blogs before I can post it. Basically, I have to steal from other sites, and I feel really […]
Pictured: Someone yearns to be loved.
This is a badass playground. Kids chanting and dancing around a burning barrel and bashing it with sticks, one of the bandies fluting and the rest demanding attention and rejecting uneven distributions of power and gender roles. Some principal somewhere made some seriously bad decisions to get to this point […]
Pictured: Lau Nau. Recording the first ever musical how-to album for DIY luring enthusiasts everywhere.
Laura Naukkarinen passes 5-minute long songs by like short whispers. Her Finnish words don’t quite register, but I can tell she means well. She probably means to give small secrets about the simplicity of her life. She definitely means to suggest […]
Pictured: Now, Now Every Children. All pastels and droopy eyes. The way Easter should be.
There are two things we’re head over heals for at PV: really good music and local bands. So, oh my garsh if we can post about local bands making really good music! We like to think of our Minnesotan neighbors locally, […]
Pictured: Craig Finn, soon to take over color commentary for the Minnesota Twins.
Usually I wouldn’t call out our readers’ comments, but the last time we wrote about The Hold Steady it only got one. One big, fat negative comment. “Aaaaaaaannnnndy! Don’t write about the Hold Steady! Nobody likes the Hold Steady. Hold Steady. Betty.” Wrong […]
Pictured: Credit to HowWasTheShow.com for this picture that I stole. Credit to the lighting crew at the Varsity Theater for being absolutely rediculous.
The story of Picking a Lock at the Speed of Light goes something like this, I gather:
a) boy likes girl,
b) boy also likes outer space, a lot,
c) boy takes girl to outer space […]
Pictured: Wye Oak. The kind of kids who acted like dinosaurs for the whole third grade.
“You know your secret’s safe with me,” promises Wye Oak’s Jenn and Andy. “If you feel young.” Their new album, If Children, feels like a Sunday morning of frolicking between bed sheets and letting just little bits of light in […]
Pictured: Okay, yes, I do hate that I have to post this stupid picture. It’s the only one I could find on the entire internet!
Somehow this band is confident in epic proportions, unquestioned and walking stomping through uncharted lands that had only ever been feared from afar, and they’re completely nervous and unsure of it […]
Pictured: Off to a good start(top left).
“Our child will never be right with the down crowd.” This is a conversation between parents about their son. He’s lanky and uncoordinated, severely nearsighted and struggling to fit in. He is unfamiliar and awkward in the presence of girls his own age and isn’t the type likely to […]