Still going to chicken out of playing my favorite song off their debut album, but this is also pretty good.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn4l0fgVJ3U
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Loading... Oh look it's The National playing the Grateful Dead.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4paT-FtAHzU
(5 votes, average: 7.20 out of 10)Loading... So I guess it's my Guest DJ week again. OH LOOK IT'S DAN BOECKNER
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PdY3BXbE14
If everything goes as scheduled I'll probably play some other band Dan Boeckner is in by the end of this week, so keep your fingers crossed.
(5 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10)Loading... Here's the new collaboration between Matt Berninger (of the National) and Brent Knopf (of Ramona Falls), doing the title track from their record on Conan. Also, their touring drummer has been Andy Stack of Wye Oak.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cJabOt6zIM
I can't play my favorite track off this album, since this is a family website, so instead, here's a stripped-down version of the closing track, "Careless".
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hRlt7xEx9c
I hope we're not all supposed to be putting our 2015 lists in these, cause...mine's not totally ready yet.
(6 votes, average: 8.17 out of 10)Loading... Dan Boeckner has a new band? Dan Boeckner has a new band!! (From their EP1; supposedly they'll release a full debut album early in 2015.)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPyf9YO9yu4
Thanks for letting me spin you all some of my favorite 2014 tunes!
(3 votes, average: 7.67 out of 10)Loading... These guys released an album earlier this year under the band name NO (which is kind of a terrible name because it's impossible to search for) before changing their name to Black English (which is kind of a terrible name because it's kind of a terrible name). So hopefully they keep working the name thing out, but in the meantime, they sound pretty good.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq4_g8_QY9k
Dude kind of sounds like a Kiwi Matt Berninger to me.
(3 votes, average: 7.67 out of 10)Loading... I realize I've put up a lot of KEXP videos this week. Not really by design, but they're a good outfit that features a lot of artists I like, so it's natural.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcn-KtL2VSg
(4 votes, average: 8.50 out of 10)Loading... "Beer commercial lead-guitar sh*t" - Mark Kozelek
(Spoiler alert: Although it will be somewhere near the top of my 2014 list, I don't think I'm going to get to anything off of Benji this week. That's Koz's punishment for being such a grumpy old dick.)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOfIN7XBl-4
(6 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10)Loading... I think this album (Trouble) came out back in January. That seems as if it should feel like a long time ago, but it doesn't. Or maybe it's cause I still like the album a lot.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x9kilZeagg
(6 votes, average: 8.33 out of 10)Loading... httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y3lDcnLA8o
Seems like most of these guys' songs are about doing the dirty. Except for this next one, which might be about being the father of Godzilla or something like that.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG5t7XXhCPA
(5 votes, average: 7.40 out of 10)Loading...