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I’m always interested in hearing a cover - some can be bad (i.e. Celine Dion’s covering AC/DC), some can be strange (Of Montreal covering “Know Your Onion” by the Shins), and some can sound as good or better than the original (Elliot Smith’s divine cover of the Kinks’s “Waterloo Sunset”).
You can listen to what I [...]
Well, well. I’m well behind on my travel blogging, but I’ve decided to skip ahead and report some of the details of my recent adventure to the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Arts which I experienced for the first time during the past week.
Glasto has the reputation for being a muddy and patience-trying experience. Luckily [...]
The evil evil Pitchfork have released their top 50 albums of 2007. Of the ones on the list that I think deserve a place.
30 Caribou - Andorra.
11. Jens Lekman - Night falls over Kortedala
4. Radiohead - In Rainbows
The albums I would like to listen to.
41. Life Without Buildings - Live at the Annandale [...]
“Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end”
You know how freakin’ hard it is to find albums that you enjoy in entirety? Pretty damn hard, at least for someone with as fastidious taste as mine (I was about to say refined taste, but then again I’m a big fan of Phil Collins). Well, [...]
In answering this post’s title question, I’m not exactly sure. What I am sure of is that the Shins write some pretty damn good songs. James Mercer, the lead singer and songwriter writes lyrics that make me feel severely inadequate by comparison. While I’m not going to write any lengthy essay on “why I like [...]
The feeling you get when your ears catch hold of the opening bars of a great song is one of immense pleasure. In fact, this happened to me today. Seconds after I inserted the new released debut Cloud Control self-tilted EP into my laptop’s compact disc drive a new chapter of my life opened up. [...]
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