Archive for the 'Music' Category

What’s With all the Whistling?

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

I don’t know…. but I like it!
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Home

The Drums - Let’s Go Surfing

The Middle East - Blood

Merry Christmas from New Granada!

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Welcome to New Granada Christmas!
New Granada is Eric Freeman and Jeff Hanson and we have a Holiday gift for you. We started playing together this year and a not one, but two(!) Christmas songs tumbled out.
There’s more music on our Reverbnation site too. We hope to see you around town as we start to take [...]

The Lucksmiths

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

The Lucksmiths played their final gig yesterday in Melbourne. I know that in this summer of the obit the last thing anyone needs is another bittersweet bag of memories. So rather than wax on about 15 some-odd years of great music and memories I’ll just leave you with a top ten list. (This was hard. [...]

My John Hughes

Friday, August 14th, 2009

As most of the world knows by now, John Hughes had a heart attack last Thursday and passed away at the age of 59. There are many tributes and obituaries all over the net so I will refrain from such an attempt. My EW came today with a very nice piece that is as [...]

Songs About Boys

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

I was struck by a song off Camera Obscura’s latest album My Maudlin Career . (I’ll take any excuse to talk about this record. It is my favorite so far of 2009 and worth picking up.) The song is simply entitled James. I didn’t realize at first why my ears pricked up, but then I [...]