Hardcore Troubadours | Nifaliophobia | CD Baby
I made the cover of this record and it’s available for download.
Since not everyone understands Swedish — this is a design flaw of unmeasurable magnitudes — here’s another new Hardcore Troubadours song. This time an original called Sin City Serenade and in English.
Source: SoundCloud / HardcoreTroubadours
The friends to whom I drew that album cover a few weeks ago have now been in and recorded things. This is an Ebba Grön cover which is never a bad thing.
Source: SoundCloud / HardcoreTroubadours
Kate Bush - “Misty” (by antirecords)
Sadly the video is a short radio edit — which in this case means it’s about ten minutes shorter than on the album.
Source: youtube.com
Theoretical Girl doing a cover on The Fine Arts Showcase’s Heaven To Me. In a way it might have been a mistake to listen to this, in other ways it wasn’t.
Source: SoundCloud / Theoretical Girl
Laura Veirs — Where Gravity Is Dead
The problem with only eight gig of space in the mp3 player is that there’s this rotation. Everything I want can’t fit. This is also a strength as I’m forced to shuffle around and remove things in order to add new albums. There’s no room for anything I don’t want to listen to right now. Being a pre-cog is hard work though.
So due to the trip I’ve filled it with things that reminds me of autumn and winter. Laura Veirs is winter for me. Long scarves and the snow going crunch underneath the boots. Wind scratching the cheeks, the nose slightly numb. I don’t think there’s snow where I’m going but still… Winter’s still here.
Jed Whedon and the Willing — Tricks On Me.
Sometimes I think I hate the Whedon family. Mostly I like them, even when they’re awkward and do things that are a bit ill-thought out (ehrm, far too much of Dollhouse) but… You know. There’s too much talent in that family, leave some for the rest of us will ya?
The Mountain Goats – “This Year” (2005)
There will be feasting
And dancing
In Jerusalem next year.
I am going to make it
Through this year
If it kills me.
I might have missed this video. Very silly of me if that’s the case. The song I’ve heard of course, lots and lots of times.
Sandy Denny & Thea Gilmore — Glistening Bay.
While Sandy Denny never recorded these, the words are her’s and this collaboration of ten songs is damn pretty as well as very affecting. The music written by Thea Gilmore feels true to them both. There are musical hues from both Fairport Convention and Sandy’s solo works but at the same time the melodies unmistakably are those of Thea’s. You can hear it on the guitars — sometimes more, sometimes less. But it’s there.
Carbon/Silicon — It’s Not Over Yet.
It’s so easy to get bogged down with punk rock from the period when you first discovered it and lament that music like that isn’t there any more and scoff at everything older or newer. I’ve been guilty of this myself, just as much as I’ve been guilty of too much musical archaeology — digging further down in the soil and not looking up as much as I ought to.
This though, it’s both old and new. From… 2006 I think and Mick Jones can still beat everyone when it comes to melodies.
Tajik Falak and Tuvan Rock - Transitions Online
Tajik Falak and Tuvan Rock TOL podcast: Rock, folk, and world music artist Lu Edmonds on the music of Central Asia and his work to preserve and promote it.
Lu talks about folk music and a bit about his punk origins. Interesting and he’s too damn musically talented.
Kate Rusby — Let Them Fly
I was going to write something here but fuck it. Just listen instead. It’s better that way.
Anna Ternheim - Bow Your Head
Of course it’s a risky thing to go where your music takes you. Anna Ternheim went to record in Nashville and despite that it doesn’t sound like Nashville, I’ve read about people being dismayed. You know, the usual “Why did you turn your back on your loyal fans? Why?!” As if the fans are what decides what directions an artist is supposed to take.
Me, I like the new album. The previous one — Leaving on a Mayday — was better and excellent and I love that one to pieces. But to expect the same thing about the new one would have been silly. It’s a bit more like her first two in tone and texture.
Then again, I abandoned the preconceived notion that country must be bad years ago. Sometimes the songs on The Night Visitor have that same feeling as Greg Edmonson’s Firefly soundtrack. That’s not a bad thing. At all.
Cats Laughing — Black Knight’s Work.
They appeared as themselves in Excalibur #5 as well as the Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem as Kitty Pryde’s favourite band. Obviously mostly drawn without references, the singer Emma Bull is the one most recognisable. This song was written by the late great author John M Ford.
You Can Have It All - Yo La Tengo
And if you want my heart,
take it baby,
you can have it all.
Because how can I not reblog Yo La Tengo?
