Archive for the ‘andrew bird’ tag

final fantasy – this lamb sells condos

in the next of a series of older songs that youve probably heard before, we will be featuring toronto native owen pallett, better known to the music world by his solo project name, final fantasy. i didnt really know much about final fantasy other than hearing a song hear or there but we saw him perform from a distance at this years pitchfork festival. hes got one of those great live shows where its just one guy on stage utilizing a few instruments and a loop pedal (a la andrew bird), but lemme tell ya those loop pedals are not easy to navigate. check out the video below of pallett performing during a big rainstorm despite the stage crew trying to get him to quit if you need any more proof that pallett is a heck of a performer. just wait til about 2:30 in when the violin kicks in. and then about :30 later when the rain really starts coming down. …read more and hear the song…

jack penate – tonights today

lets take things on a much lighter note today than yesterday. todays song is by british singer songwriter jack penate. theres a tilde over the n in his name, so its pronounced “pen-ya’-tee” i believe, but i dont know how to do that character and its really a lot of work to figure it out, so use your imagination on that one. his website features some kind of neat things when you move the mouse around, and right now theres a list of songs hes been listening too a bunch, the first of which is plasticities by andrew bird. and since thats one of my favorite andrew bird songs, jack penate must be at least a little bit cool. …read more and hear the song…

lollapalooza day 1 recap

after a phenomenal and relaxing 9 day vacation (which was really two vacations in one), im finally back to civilization and internet, so i figured id get some memories of what actually went down at lollapalooza down on paper before i forgot them all, so for the next three days ill be bringing you an in depth day by day recap of things i did and saw, complete with lots of pictures (all taken by me throughout the weekend, and mostly not very good/clear pictures) and music from the acts i saw each day. so really this is kind of like a super mega bonus week with a few songs each day throughout the recap rather than just the 1. …read more and hear the song…

my morning jacket > fake punk group

my morning jacket is one of those groups that sort of snuck up on me. id heard about them for a while but for some reason, i thought it was going to be some sort of mtv punk group that i hated, a la fallout boy. so imagine my surprise when i heard their album z for the first time. not even close to anything i thought it would be. then i discovered the rest of their catalog and was fortunate enough to see them at the state theater last fall, and that just sealed the deal for me. definitely a top show ever. we actually got really lucky that we even got to see them because just 3 days after our show, the group was performing another show in, i think, chicago? or somewhere around there, when singer jim james slipped and fell and had to cancel a bunch of shows in the next few weeks (i actually have no idea how many shows were cancelled). …read more and hear the song…