Consider us excited. Earlier this year we were elated to find out that Hurray For the Riff Raff was opening for Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy while we were in New Orleans. The show was fantastic. We returned home to Wisconsin with a copy of Hurray For the Riff Raff’s brilliant new album, Young Blood Blues on [ ... ] ...
The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger – a collaboration of Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl – release their debut album, Acoustic Sessions in October of this year. I haven’t heard anything from the forthcoming release, but did pick up a Jardin du Luxembourg, a two-song collection that showcases their affinity for pop music [ ... ] ...
The great Charlie Parr snuck an album out last month that I totally missed. It’s called When The Devil Goes Blind, and is currently available on his website. If this is your first introduction to Charlie Parr, prepare to be amazed. It was just over a year ago that I was introduced to Parr’s excellence [ ... ] ...
It’s been too long since we’ve talked about Blair here at MoB. If you’re unfamiliar with her album, Die Young, you’re missing out on one of the year’s best. Check out the video of “Rampage” from “a bar/flower shop in Brooklyn” via Van Lou Media. Great stuff Buy: Blair – Die Young ...
By Tyler Fassnacht The last time the New Pornographers came to town was about two years ago, supporting their album Challengers. This time around, with their solid new album Together, the band yet again came to the Orpheum Theatre, but the shows were actually quite different: this time they were much better. Opening the evening [ ... ] ...
By Jon Stone @jwstone If 2007 hadn’t been so gigantic musically, Band of Horses’ Cease to Begin could have easily been the best album of the year. Nearly every song on the band’s sophomore release is memorable and remains one of my most revisited records. Cease to Begin succeeds because it kept the band’s now-trademark sunny [ ... ] ...
It’s hard to believe two years have passed since we first shared Mumford & Sons with you. Since that time their popularity has soared behind a fantastic new album, Sigh No More. We regrettably missed their recent show at Lincoln Hall with The Middle East, but hope to have the good fortune of catching them [ ... ] ...
Most will recognize/remember Sam Quinn as one half of the now defunct band, the everybodyfields. We were big fans. Sometimes a band break up isn’t the end of the world. In the case of the everybodyfields, its dissolve has resulted in equally great solo outputs from Jill Andrews and Sam Quinn this year. Quinn’s album, [ ... ] ...
What can we say about the National that hasn’t already been said? I honestly think that the New York Times Magazine was a perfect summary of my feelings on the album. This is a band whose growth in music, lyrics and subject matter runs parallel to my own aging. As with all their last two [ ... ] ...