Monday, July 20, 2015
Friday, July 17, 2015
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Friday, April 10, 2015
Tuesday, April 07, 2015
Music and Faith and Life
Fantastic interview over at the Pitchfork with this man, Sufjan Stevens. The new record Carrie & Lowell is harrowing enough without the context, gorgeous and affecting as all of Stevens' music is, but knowing more about his life and growth and experiences and being able to disentangle it from the factfiction blend of what Stevens presents via his catalog of released music only makes the depths deeper and the highs higher.
Read the interview and, please, for God's sake, listen to the record.
Saturday, April 04, 2015
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Balmorhea
This is some of the most gorgeous music I've heard in some time. Since that new Winged Victory for the Sullen album Atomos, probably.
The new release from Balmorhea, out late last year, gets away from the urgency and rockisms of their previous release Stranger and back to the contemplative, space-filled acoustic compositions of their best early music.
This one will stay in the rotation for quite a while.
Sunday, February 01, 2015
Wednesday, January 07, 2015
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Slaying the Badger
What an awesome documentary. This is the best look I've had into this race, and into Lemond as a racer. Highly recommend it.
Wednesday, December 03, 2014
Pure Nostalgia, or Something More?
Is it just me, or is this new Pink Floyd record that everyone's snarking about actually pretty awesome to listen to?
Not much in the way of lyrics, but these days that's preferable to me. More and more I find myself listening to instrumental music, and getting this batch of Floyd sounds sans lyrics is kind of perfect. Built of outtakes and extras as it essentially is (culled from about 20 hours of music left from their 94 album The Division Bell, from what I gather), it's easy to agree that Pink Floyd is not breaking new ground here. But who cares?
This is totally enjoyable progressive rock music. It's a pretty lovely epitaph for Richard Wright, their original keyboard player who died last year and who's playing is integral to these songs.
It's familiar and bold without being ambitious or eager. It's not overly complicated. It's nice background music, to be perfectly truthful, but that's a compliment coming from me.
Friday, November 21, 2014
Wilco Rare Tracks Box Set: Happy Friday to Me!
Look what I got. This thing is absolutely beautiful. Very awesome.
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Snow Day!!!
We woke up Friday to over 6"of new snow. That meant a snow day for this lucky kid.
He spent most of the day out in the snow with his pal Josie, his mom, and his friend Jennings.
Quite a huge change from last weekend's mountain biking outing for Jennings' birthday party.
I drove to work through unplowed streets, while Theo got french toast and cartoons.
It was a pretty nice day at work, with most people staying home and a steady snowfall out my window all day.
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Monday, October 13, 2014
A Winged Victory for the Sullen
Drone and ambient fans, or anyone who gets into Stars of the Lid, have good reason to be excited lately. A Winged Victory for the Sullen, a project of Adam Wiltzie of SOTL, released their second full length record last week.
On the same day (!!), Wiltzie's partner in SOTL drone Brian McBride released a single with his project called Bell Gardens, ahead of a new LP out later this year.
Good stuff, both, if very very different both from each other and from SOTL--and, really, from any of their other many side projects.
Oh, and this whole flood of riches made me go back and watch this again and wonder what ever happened to that film...
Stars of the Lid . teaser 1 from ZF FILMS on Vimeo.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Thursday, August 07, 2014
They Want My Soul
Just got the new Spoon record. White vinyl. Man is it good. Thanks, wife! Happy Birthday to me!
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
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