Arcade Fire and The Boss

In case you guys haven't seen, the Arcade Fire joined Bruce Springsteen onstage for his encore the other night. They play State Trooper and Keep the Car Running. The videos are here: http://www.trendwhore.ca/?p=83 . Needless to say, they are awesome.

the two year old in all her girly glory

The model is wearing purple sunglasses from Hartsburg Cycle Depot, "Daddy is dear to my heart" shirt from Old Navy, pink "Posh" ballerina tutu, Mommy's brown heels, and Elmo panties. Isn't she FABULOUS?

i'm getting bad mouthed by the "author" of this site

"Aren't you gonna write anything? All your stuff is just youtube links!" Well, excuuuuuuuse me! I just want you all to know that I do have a little something to say...and that's this: don't listen to Sean. Just post whatever you want. I will take the brunt of the criticism for you cause I love you all. I will stick up for you and myself and take the hits and beatings that come with living with such an uber-nerd. Post away! Post whatever you want. Live and listen and read and...now it's starting to sound like some kind of Green Peace speech...you get it.
Gotta run, Lily's eating paper again.:)

no prelude necessary

I have loved them since I was a very little girl. If you don't get it, then that's just a dawgonne shame.

that's it, i'm playing for the other team now...

I know a Feist video was posted only days ago by Jed, but this one from Carson Daly's show is the CAT'S JAMMIES. I'm telling you all, she makes me want to go gay...well, maybe not. You all know me better than that...but isn't she grrrrrreat? Look at that Guitar...HELLO! CHUCK BERRY!

waited a looong time...

a one of my musical heroes is finally coming to town. On a nice fall afternoon next month, my fabulous wife Carlye and I will be on our way to see Mr. Adams at the Uptown! Since we've been in a youtube sharing mood, I found this really tight performance a few days ago. Tremendous song writing + surrounding yourself with great musicians = WIN

More Youtubey awesomeness

No it's not the buttered floor roommate or Leonard Nimoy singing about Bilbo Baggins, it's Feist from Letterman last night:



People in her awesome purple armband-clad choir include Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Carl Newman, Grizzly Bear, and The National.

Madeleine

At Sean's request, I will post a recent picture of Madeleine.

I wish I had a funny story (a la going to the store with two ENTIRELY different shoes on) but alas our life has been relatively quiet as of late.

So without further ado...here is Madeleine...

Youtube Gem

I wanted to test out putting youtube stuff up on the blog and somehow ran across this amazing video of Son House's "Death Letter". It's pretty safe to say that you're not listening to the stuff that started it all enough... I know I haven't for a while.

Pinback's back

I had no idea that one of my favorite group of white dudes was putting out another record! I just got "Autumn of the Seraphs" and will be giving it a full listening and share my impressions of it soon (I'm sure Kurt and Jed are waay ahead of me ;).

Good lord... that beard... amazing!

It's Alive!

Well friends, I have EVERY intention of reviving this great idea from last year. I'm going to be sure to add our female counterparts to the list of authors to this page (woot for Carlye, Amber, and Aimee, and ALLISON!).

Lets think outside the box for this thing... not just music stuff necessarily... although it's always been a common bond for us all. More posts by myself are on the way sooooo stay tuned!

Did I mention that Knight and ALLISON's wedding and seeing all of you friends and MADELINE!?

Elliott Smith and Jeff Buckley

I just finished reading Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing, a biography by Benjamin Nugent. Although the writing was unexceptional and the editing nearly nonexistent, I learned a lot about his life that I didn't know beforehand; it definitely adds another layer of appreciation to his music. Anyway, the book had several pictures in it and this was one of them, from 1996. Apparently this was the only time they met, but I thought it was cool so there you go.

Anybody want to see Tom Waits?

I have an extra ticket to Tom Waits at the Ryman in Nashville Saturday, August 5th, if anybody wants it!

RIP Billy Preston

Austin City Limits Fest

Anybody want to take a road trip in September to Austin? They've released the lineup here. The bands I'll probably see are, in no particular order: Stars, Feist, New Pornographers, The Shins, Wolf Parade, Gnarls Barkley, Van Morrison, Tom Petty, Flaming Lips, The Raconteurs, Nickel Creek, Iron & Wine, Aimee Mann, Sparklehorse, Ben Harper, Ted Leo, and Willie Nelson.

iPod Diary Part Deux

A pleasant idea Mr. Knight. Here is (are) mine:

1. I.O.U. - Metric. First song off Old World Underground. Not my favorite Metric song, but not bad. Metric is my favorite band to listen to whenever I get the urge to hear something really loud and rocking. Great live, too.

2. Dead and Lovely - Tom Waits. Amber likes this song, she won't listen to any Tom Waits unless it's ballad-ish. There's a massive box set coming out this fall called Orphans that's all obscure b-sides, I can't wait.

3. The Music Lovers - Destroyer. Destroyer is my new favorite band besides Broken Social Scene. This album (Your Blues) was my first introduction to them (other than his New Pornographers stuff), but it's completely unlike any of his other stuff, it's all synthesizers and weirdness. And it's way, way awesome. Destroyer's Rubies, the new album, is easily my album of the year so far.

4. The Spiderbite Song - Flaming Lips. This cd was in my car once on this song when Amber's grandparents were in town. They borrowed my car to go somewhere and said they had to turn the music off because it was too weird, something about spiders biting people. Sad to say I can't get into the new album as much as the last two. They're going to be at ACL this year though.

5. Let's Get Out of Here - Broken Social Scene. My iPod consists of roughly 1/4 BSS stuff. This is a song they did from an acoustic radio show in Paris a few years ago and is really, really good. Almost as good as their most recent b-side Death Cock.

Ipod Diary

A new feature on our bloggage is an Ipod Diary. I will be taking the maiden voyage. The point is to promote free debate throughout the world on the merits of music, and other various forms of media contained on our Ipods.
"The Shuffle" will be this week's installment. I am asking the contributors to take out your Ipod, hit shuffle, write down the first five songs, and give us a few sentences, (how you heard of the band, if you even like this particular song, if it's on the "outs") Be honest. it's more fun if the songs suck anyway.

Here goes,
Song - Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid) Album - Greetings from Michigan Artist - Sufjan Stevens
Who doesn't love Sufjan? Very slow song, which are not my favorites of his stuff, but very morose and lyrically superior to a lot of crap out there. Saw them live, very nice show

Song - Rebellion (Lies) Album - Funeral Artist - The Arcade Fire
Great freaking album. Chris Martin of Coldplay said this was the album of 2004. This isn't even close to one of the best songs on the album, and it's still awesome. I believe Jed saw them, and he must be disembowled for seeing them and not personally inviting me with a paid for plane ticket.

Song - Post-Paint Boy Album - Face the Truth Artist - Stephen Malkamus
Nice feel to this album, nice and cool. I feel cooler when I listen to this song. I have a confession though, I have barely listened to Pavement, and what I've heard I don't even like that much. I heard their first album, and it's alright, but it's a little too lo-fi for me. I like the clean sound.

Song - The Engine Driver Album - Picaresque Artist - Decemberists
I'm not too high on them anymore. They have a couple songs I still like, but I can't listen to it too much anymore. It's a skipper.

Song - Red Light Album - First Impressions of Earth Artist - The Strokes
I downloaded this album, and I really liked it for about a week. This stuff is terrible to me now. I always skip this now. I really don't like much about anything they've done at this point. It just sounds like crap to me.


New Downloads
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam pretty good

I tried to buy Radiohead tickets. They are touring with Black Keys this summer, for a warmup tour, only 4 or 5 U.S. cities, at smaller venues. Tix sold out in about 5 minutes. I don't know anyone with tix. I looked on Ebay immediately after the show sold out, tix were going $250 each, or higher. Wild. New video of one of their new songs at greenplastic.com Check it.

Untitled (How Does It Feel)

Has anybody read any of the 33 1/3 books yet? I've finished In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Harvest, and Endtroducing..., and I can wholeheartedly recommend all three, especially Aeroplane. I also have but haven't yet read The Village Green Preservation Society and Elvis Costello's Armed Forces. They have a bunch of good ones coming out later this year too, including Doolittle and Songs in the Key of Life. For some reason though, D'Angelo's Voodoo isn't among them...

The Whole Point

The authors of this page are just a group of guys who grew up together in Kansas City MO and always had many things in common. But the most common iterest was, and still is, the love of music. The content here is mostly for our own enjoyment, but we hope that readers will stumble upon our site and discover some new album, artist/band, or even a new genre entirely. There'd be nothing more exciting to us. I mean who here doesn't remember the FIRST time they heard Revolver or Talking Book? Oh, you haven't yet?! Well if you head to the record store today this could turn out to be a VERY good day for you. And that'd be the whole point.

~Sean