Live

Here are some great new live releases...

Lambchop - Live at XX Merge
A great set from one of my favorite bands. This set is a good introduction to Lambchop if you've never listened to them.

Check it.

last.fm tags: alt-country, indie, americana, alternative, singer-songwriter

Disappears - Live Over the Rainbo
I saw these guys in a little while ago in Chicago and was blown away. This set was recorded in the drummers apartment above the Chicago bar The Rainbo Club. "Fuzzed out stoned rock that's heavy on the reverb."

Check it.

last.fm tags: shoegaze, indie, indie rock, garage

know wha'um sayin

this is a lambchop post. they're known as "Nashville's most fucked-up country band". Kurt Wagner is able to put images in your head as well as, if not better than, any songwriter out right now. start with OH and work your way backward.

OH (Ohio)

Check it.

Damaged

Check it.


Aw, C'mon/No, You C'mon

Check Aw, C'mon.

Check No, You C'mon.


Is a Woman

Check it.


Nixon

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What Another Man Spills

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Thriller

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How I Quit Smoking

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I Hope You're Sitting Down/Jack's Tulip

Check Part 1

Check Part 2


Pet Sounds Sucks (Live Great American Music Hall, SF - Tour Only)

Check it.


Boo Fucking Who? (Live, Brussels - Tour Only)

Check Part 1

Check Part 2



Rainer on My Parade (Tour Only)

Check it.


Hank

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The Queens Royal Trimma (Live Royal Festival Hall, London – Tour Only)

Check it.


Treasure Chest of the Enemy (Tour Only)

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Nashville Does Dallas

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Christmas Time is Here (Single)

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Kurt Wagner - Kurt (solo acoustic)

Check it.

last.fm tags: alt-country, indie, americana, alternative, singer-songwriter

My favorite albums of 2008

If the download links don't work, the addresses are in the comments too.

New year, new blahg.  So for my first post I figured I'd post a couple of my favorite albums from last year.  I probably won't have a solid list of my favorites until around June or July but, for now, these are my top two....

Lambchop - OH (Ohio)

This was, easily, the best thing I discovered in 2008, other than the ShamWOW.  Kurt Wagner really has a way with words.  This album is chock full clever lyrical turns and interesting musical arrangements.  It's unique and new but its also very familiar, you could swear you've heard it before.  There's never a time when I don't want to listen to this album.  Check it.

last.fm tags:  alt-country, indie, americana, alternative, singer-songwriter

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - s/t

I just found this album about a week ago and was obsessed with it as soon as I heard the first notes of the albums opening track "Buriedfed".  I've heard Robinson described as "Brooklyn's biggest drunk", usually too drunk to even play a coherent show.  This just makes me like him even more.  I've also heard him compared to Bob Dylan which (seriously?!?) is a little bit early to say.  I don't hear it in his writing.  Robinson seems to use his music and writing as a therapeutic exercise to tackle his own demons where Dylan never really got that personal with his writing, at least in all of the Dylan I've heard.  Anyway, this is a really well done album from beginning to end and it is worthy of repeated listens.  Check it.

last.fm tags:  freak folk, experimental folk, folk-rock, folk, modern folk

If you like it, go buy it, see 'em live, buy a shirt, or whatever...just support the band!