Bobby Bare Jr. is looking for “creative consultants” for his new album. Donate money and be mentioned by name. You’ll be send 7-8 demo songs and can give feedback and make suggestions. I got the limited vinyl (there are various packages).
the Sounds & Sights of Radical Face // Current TV
I couldn’t find this video for a while and now stumbled across it once more. It’s a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of Ben Cooper’s (aka Radical Face) recording of his debut album Ghosts (his new one Family Tree was just released). Check it out and get hooked:)
Blind Pilot - We Are The Tide Preorder
Their new album is coming soon! Anyone who preorders will enter a prize draw for a private concert:)
Circle Into Square just put up the entire new/free CIS label compilation on Soundcloud for your listening pleasure!
Circle Into Square Label Compilation Vol. 2 by Circle Into Square
Reblogged from cars & trains
A student of mine suggested I have a look at / listen to the new Destroyer album. This is their video. I am not a hundred percent sure what to make of the song, but the video is brilliant:) Have fun!
brand new free circle into square compilation! a bunch of new stuff, including a new instrumental cars & trains track! download and share with friends!
Reblogged from cars & trains
I know I have been mainly absent in the last couple of weeks (months?). However, I left London, came back to Germany, started a new job at a different university, and MARRIED!!!
And here’s the song we danced to :) Hope you like it!
My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. ‘Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?’ they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, ‘Look at me… I’m tall, and I’m straight, and I’m handsome. Look at you… you’re all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.’ And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, ‘Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.’ So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.
Reblogged from Essay 2.0
Zooey Deschanel Marries Boyfriend, Singer Ben Gibbard (via CelebTV)
This completely happened under my radar. Two of my favorite artists of all time got married more than a year ago and I didn’t know (nor was I invited :p)
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American Analog Set - The Postman
I really love the song and the album it’s on. However, really, really wanting to love the band I got all their old albums recently and also the one from Andrew Kenny’s new project The Wooden Birds and unfortunately they don’t do much for me.
Reblogged from on the hearth of the birth of happiness
The new Decemberists is coming soon :)
