I like the new Shins album. I finally got around to reading Seattle Weekly’s feature from January about The Shins and how they have helped Sub Pop move out of the grunge era. The article even credits The Shins with attracting quite a few other bands to the label. One snippet I found amusing:
The record the Shins [...]
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I love the White Album, but I really need to burn myself a special version of Disc 2 without Revolution #9. Don’t you think John and Yoko could have spared us their 9 minutes of weird studio noodling?
A few weeks ago, I was listening to the radio, and I heard the most amazing thing: Jenny Lewis, covering “Handle With Care” by the Traveling Wilburys, along with her friends Ben Gibbard, M. Ward, and Conor Oberst.
I spent a few moments wondering if Jenny et al had concocted that cover and arrangement just [...]
At long last, KW has posted the recordings from his band’s Cinco de Mayo gig (see my writeup here). Get ‘em while they’re hot!
And while you’re at it, if you come up with any good band names, be sure to let us know.
Brian, Mike, Kenny, and Aaron are in a band. The band has been through several name changes, and none of them have really felt right yet, but right now they go by “Driftwood” (after the Travis song?) Last week they played a Cinco de Mayo gig at Rob Light’s Queen Anne pad, and were [...]
I was at the gym last night, rocking out to Come Out Clean (which turns out to be a really good gym song, especially if you turn it up loud enough), and something occurred to me: I don’t think I’ve used the new blog to complain about Jump, Little Children never coming to the West [...]
