Posts tagged with “folk”

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Posted 2 months ago

“Emmylou”- First Aid Kit

The duo’s harmonies are just great. Why doesn’t country music care about First Aid Kit yet?

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Posted 3 months ago

“Blackberry Stone”- Laura Marling

Its so hard to believe she’s only a year older than I am.

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Posted 6 months ago

“Houghson Boys”- Y La Bamba

“I cant save my own life if I could. I can only save my dreams.” 

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Posted 7 months ago

“I and Love and You”- The Avett Brothers

For me, for her, and for the Sunday mornings spent in Brooklyn during that rare arc of the early hours. The point after we recovered our hearing sensation from the blaring music of the local nightlife, and before the rest of the city would wake in a haze and begin to collect itself once again for the work week.

The fried eggs and french toast over conversations about our dreams, the future, and our lives, and our intense hope for these three streets to intersect, someday.

We tried making things work, but we couldn’t bear with the changes in the seasons of our lives. I’m glad I can still call you a friend and even though we’ve moved on to distant area codes, I miss our conversations and I miss you. We’ve grown apart and we’ve grown up since then, but I cant honestly say that I don’t miss those mornings. 

Let’s try fighting over the bill after dawn again, sometime soon.

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Posted 8 months ago

“Olive Hearts(a cover of The Browerbirds)” and “Flume”- Bon Iver

La Blogotheque has some of the best live videos of indie bands.

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Posted 9 months ago

“St. Petersburg”- The Wilderness of Manitoba

Good morning. Listen while the sun rises and the streets are still empty. Good morning indeed.

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Posted 10 months ago

Kopecky Family Band’s Tiny Desk Concert from NPR Music 

If you have 20 minutes to spare, then by all means, listen in. If not, check in at 3:28 for “Birds,” 7:45 for my favorite, “Disaster,” or at 13:20 “Red Devil.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“The Shrine/ An Argument/ Blue Spotted Tail”- Fleet Foxes

“Sunlight over me NO MATTER WHAT I DO…”

Today, in music to wake up to. From the BBC’s live Maida Vale Studio sessions. No need to wax poetic here; just hit play. Just watch out for that bass clarinet freakout near the end of “The Argument,” if you’re listening with headphones.

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Posted 1 year ago

“Time Spent in Los Angeles”- Dawes

“Its about being gone all the time.” I feel as if everyone I know could relate to this these last few weeks this year. I myself first found the song on Pandora in the middle of a Detroit terminal, while waiting for my connection, earlier this year. Bumped into it once again on the road trip back home from New Jersey, last week.

I feel as if nearly everyone I know has been a little distant, (not just in the geographic sense) this year, but that’s okay because everyone’s got a destination right? Hopefully, we can all find home in a few weeks, once again.

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Posted 1 year ago

Streaming at NPR: Fleet Foxes' new album

There are few bands/artists that I would openly geek out over, when the time for new releases came. The Fleet Foxes have managed to consistently remain within that handful, and with their newest album, “Helplessness Blues,” you cant tell me its not justified.

Favorites: “The Plains/ Bitter Dancer,” “Blue Spotted Tail,” “The Shrine/ The Argument,” “Someone You’d Admire,” “The Cascades,” and “Bedouin Dress”

Even with the bands that I consistently hold in my favorite list, I rarely ever like more than 3 tracks from a new album release, which should tell you: THIS= SIGNIFICANT.

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Posted 1 year ago

“Goin’ Home”- Dan Auerbach

Blues-folk for an insane Thursday; simple and clean. Far different from what Dan Auerbach makes for The Black Keys.