Music Blur

I’m not sure that Josh Ritter is the typical artist I go for, but I first heard a song of his on the (way awesome) NBC show “Parenthood”, and subsequently checked out his latest album (So Runs The World Away) to see how I liked it, and was actually very pleasantly surprised. That song by [...]

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Let’s just take a moment to reflect on why this song would be awesome, even if the music itself sucks (psst, it doesn’t suck!). This is a band called “Dead Man’s Bones”. They sing a song called “My Body’s a Zombie for You”. If that’s not reason enough to stop down and give them your [...]

All of this talk about Just Like Honey got me a bit nostalgic about that song, and how much I love it.
So imagine my surprise and delight when yesterday, while listening to NPR’s All Songs Considered podcast, they featured a band called Headless Heroes.  The host, Bob Boilen, said that the album was filled with [...]

This is one of those rare instances where a cover of a song winds up being better than the original. However, that is not to say that the original is a piece of trash. On the contrary, maybe this is an even *rarer* time where I still love the original, but maybe just slightly less [...]

Pure bliss and beauty.
Those words come to mind immediately as soon as this song starts.
There are so many things to love about this song and its accompanying video, and I won’t try to list them all. Two though that I’ll leave this short and sweet post with:

chorale in the round
stop-motion claymation

It’s been nearly a month [...]

The Magnetic Fields, out of Boston, have become something of an obsession of mine over the past month or two. I first heard of them by way of a cover of one of their songs by one of my all-time favorite bands, Arcade Fire (a song that I will most likely feature here very soon).
Stephen [...]