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: Sing, scream, repeat.
Justin Vernon is one bad-ass dude. He grows beards, he pushes people around in the post, and he writes records that everyone loves and wants to buy. That’s a big three for three. This is from an album he did before the glory (but when he was still […]
Pictured: Daredevil is ready for some quality D&D. Hope you brought Cooler Ranch.
As you may or may not know, Kyle and I play in a band called Laarks. We recently went on a tour with the very incredible, “The Daredevil Christopher Wright”. I know it probably isn’t proper to put their […]
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. […]
It seems a little bit bandwagon to tout an album that has been in Paste, but I knew it first, so this is my call for cred. Doug’s Burr’s On Promenade was released last year by a small label in California, Velvet Blue Music. VBM is sort of my go to label. Because of gems […]
Pictured: Headlights must have reeeeally pissed off Oscar the grouch.
Headlights are a Champagne, Illinois that I could have sworn was British the first time I heard them. Maybe it’s my own prejudice, but when I hear a guy singing sweetly into a microphone while all sorts of cutesy bells and shit […]
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: The Small Cities are all cursed with varying degrees of bedroom eyes.
Hey all, it’s been a long while since I’ve posted on here. I really have no excuse other than the fact that I am a 100% lazy-ass, white bread boy. And the end of the semester was a […]
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, […]
Sometimes I try to put together pieces of video that I’ve shot. I do my best to make these projects visually appealing by applying filters or slowing them down or through the use of other cheap iMovie gimmicks. It’s a pretty enjoyable process. All in all though, the most satisfying part of the whole ordeal […]
During my first two years of high school, my best friend Paul and I used to sit in bean bag chairs and listen to Weezer records. This might be the coolest thing we ever did. We weren’t doing anything else. Since those days, I’ve had my mind bent by a ton of great records, but […]
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: 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 […]