Alright, let's get back to what we're here for. Here's Deerhunter performing this song from their 2010 album Halcyon Digest on Conan.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsmSIyUDQeM
(and more...)
Continue reading Deerhunter – Helicopter
Alright, let's get back to what we're here for. Here's Deerhunter performing this song from their 2010 album Halcyon Digest on Conan.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsmSIyUDQeM
(and more...)
Continue reading Deerhunter – Helicopter
I figured I'd do a Friday post using last week's Stuff I Listened to in High School theme, with the band Guster. Their big gimmick used to be that they used only percussion played by hands - no sticks - but they don't do that exclusively any more since hand percussion is pretty hard on your hands after a while. I think I first heard of them opening for Barenaked Ladies at a show I went to in high school; yeah, when the other dudes I knew were listening to your post-grunge, your pop-punk, and your nü-metal, I was pretty solidly in what seems to me now like the adult-alternative arena. Anyway, they were pretty funny and I still like some of their harmonies. Ryan Miller sings the lead on the verses in this one, at Bonnaroo in 2004.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjJF3SYe57M
(There's another one down here...)
Continue reading Guster – Fa Fa
Here's one of my favorite songs from my favorite album of 2010, High Violet, on Letterman in May of that year. They only have one lead singer, so this is all you get today.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5C2WVCruPM
Some time last year, I asked Bootsy and everyone else to give me some direction on where to go with expanding my knowledge of Sonic Youth. He responded with a music post packed with several fine videos, which is now lost to the aether of the internets (the post, not the videos, I'm sure there'll all still up on the Tube, and one of them, I think, will be here by the end of this post.) In order to prove I learned something from his tutelage, and to show I do listen to something from before 2000, here's several more videos. (Although this first one isn't pre-2000, it's from their 2004 album Sonic Nurse - probably my favorite post-2000 SY album. Except for maybe Murray Street.)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XszqgxBt5WE
Continue reading Sonic Youth – Unmade Bed
Here's the Canadian group performing a song from their 2010 album Expo 86 on the CBC's Q TV show in November, 2010.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYp2GrPceWU
(But wait, there's more!)
Continue reading Wolf Parade – Ghost Pressure
To fulfill the promise I made many months ago to program a week full of MOR indie guitar rock, I kick off my term at the helm with the Portland-based band Menomena.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWRfv3boX3U
Consisting until recently of Justin Harris, Brent Knopf, and Danny Seim (as well as additional guitarist Joe Haege in these videos), Menomena recorded their 2010 album Mines by reportedly emailing each other recorded bits and pieces that they then pieced together and sent back to each other, never actually recording anything in each others' presence because they hate each other so much or something. The above song, sung by Harris, was performed at KEXP radio in Seattle on 7/28/10. Please head beyond the jump for more.
Continue reading Menomena – TAOS
Twins record: 59-87
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Hey, the Rays won again and swept the Red Sox today. That puts them...three and a half games back with seventeen to play. Wild card race fever: catch it!!!!1
Hitter of the Week: Mrs. Dinkelman
Pitcher of the Week: Mrs. Parmelee
Twins record: 58-81
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I give Kevin Slowey a solid 7-star rating for today's game. However, I give the offense (non-Mauer division) an absolutely-serious, whopping 1-star rating. No, I did not listen dispassionately before I rated.
Hitter of the Week: Trevor Plouffe
Pitcher of the Week: Kevin Slowey
Twins record: 56-77
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Oh hey, the Twins won a game.
Hitter of the Week: Luke Hughes
Pitcher of the Week: Matt Capps
Twins record: 55-71
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Hitter of the Week: Jim Thome
Pitcher of the Week: Anthony Swarzak