The Jayhawks have a new album out, Mockingbird Time, and it’s probably great. But to me, it can’t get any better than 1995′s Tomorrow the Green Grass.
20Nov, 2011
Technically, I guess it’s more Sunday Afternoon Music. This week, Zach Condon’s eclectic, Santa Fe-based band, Beirut. Enjoy!
13Nov, 2011
Dolorean is a Portland band fronted by Al James, the brother of a friend of mine. You can’t go wrong with any of their albums, but I recommend The Unfazed and Violence in Snowy Fields as a place to start. Here’s a sampling.
06Nov, 2011
Today’s Sunday Morning Music is “Shake It Out”, the first single off Florence + the Machine’s new album, Ceremonials. It’s a big, loud track, and I’ve been listening to it incessantly all week.
30Oct, 2011
(Oops! I had this scheduled for this morning, but I forgot to click something, so it didn’t happen.) Don is off on some super awesome adventure right now, so he asked me to fill in on Sunday Morning Music. Menomena is a band from Portland, Oregon. And I mean really from Portland, since they all grew up there. The Blue Like Jazz movie was scored by their drummer, Danny Seim, so it features many of their songs. If you’ve seen the film’s trailer, you’re already familiar with “Muscle ‘n’ Flo”. They are also, for my money, the best band in America right now. I realize maybe they’re not for everyone, but they should be, doggone it. Here’s “Rotten Hell” and “Tithe” off Menomena’s last two albums.
