Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Sea Wolf = Good.
I'm high on this album. This doesn't happen all the time. It's worth a listen I promise.
Also, as an added bonus, Sea Wolf is touring right now. So, for instance, if you live in Seattle, you can go watch them play at Neumos with The Album Leaf on Sat Feb 6th. I'll be there. You should come too.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Rainy Day Music: Ghosts of the Great Highway
"Ghosts of the Great Highway" by Sun Kil Moon sounds particularly good on this rainy Seattle morning. This is an album that doesn't beat you over the head with pop simplicity, but instead quietly slips in the side door of your brain with its poignant, haunting, well crafted bits of musical complexity. Definitely one of my favorites of the last year or so. Josh Jeter, thanks once again for showing me the musical light.
Buy it on iTunes
p.s. Also a great album for studying/reading. It's hard to find these after all.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Once, Again
The first time I watched Once, I saw it twice. It's true; I liked it that much. I went to see it with some friends, came out, bought a piece of pizza cause I was hungry, went back in (this time alone) and watch it a second time.
In case you haven't heard, Once is a low budget, musically driven independent film that took Indie Film Land by storm about a year ago. I saw it twice in one sitting, someone I know cried through the whole second half. And not the cry because they can't wait to leave, but the cry because it woke something up in them. The reason they could cry through the whole second half and not get yelled at by the person in front of them is because Once is about 75% music. Because of this, some people have called it a musical. I think this is misleading because it conjures up images of people doing coreographed dancing while singing tunes that are later made into Broadway musicals. (or maybe it's the other way around) In this case, first came movie, now comes concert tour....well actually first came the band, then came the movie starring people from the band who fell in love while making said movie, and now comes their lovebird tour of songs from the movie.
The bottom line is GO SEE THE MOVIE and then GO SEE THEM LIVE! They tour under the name The Swell Season. And the crazy thing is that a great, great band named Iron & Wine is opening for them! Two stellar bands, one moderately expensive price- but a great value nonetheless.
The catch is they're only playing in 5 places in the US and then they go back over to Europe. I happen to live in one of those places(Yay! This is big new for Tucson btw). However, I'll be in Seattle when they're in town (Boo, Hisss. I didn't think I'd ever say that about me being in Seattle).
So all you droves of people in Tucson that follow this blog: Please go for me. You won't regret it.
And if you happen to live in
Austin, Dallas, Albequerque, San Diego or LA,
then count yourself lucky and get to it!
Tour dates and some song samples (start with Falling Slowly for a first taste).
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Lastly, on another note, The Manhattan Film Festival is verified to be great, not only in theory but also in practice! A fun night was had by all.
If you live within an hour of a venue, seriously go to the film fest. It's worth it. (I'm talking to you Jeter)
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