Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Guster: Easy Wonderful
When one of my favorite bands, Guster, decided to take four years between their last release 'Ganging Up on the Sun' and their newly announced 'Easy Wonderful', (Out October 6) I was slightly annoyed. The announcement came from the band on Tuesday after "technical difficulties" barred them from releasing the information on Monday through their twitter/facebook/website. After becoming frustrated whilst recording in "the dungeon", a basement recording studio with no windows, the band retreated to multi-instramentalist Joe Pisapia's new Middletree Studios in Nashville. The band describes this experience as completely opposite from New York and they felt free and the recording process moved along swimmingly. The result is much anticipated and us fans got a teaser with brand new single Bad, Bad World. The free download was released via the band's website and email list. Let's just say I'm excited and pleased with the news song. That would be an understatement but let's just go with that.
GUSTER ‘EASY WONDERFUL’ TRACKLIST
1. Architects and Engineers
2. Do You Love Me?
3. On The Ocean
4. This Could All Be Yours
5. Stay With Me Jesus
6. Bad Bad World
7. This Is How It Feels To Have A Broken Heart
8. What You Call Love
9. That’s No Way To Get To Heaven
10. Jesus & Mary
11. Hercules
12. Do What You Want
Guster Online:
http://www.guster.com/
http://www.facebook.com/Gustermusic
http://www.twitter.com/guster
http://www.myspace.com/guster
http://www.youtube.com/guster
GUSTER ‘EASY WONDERFUL’ TRACKLIST
1. Architects and Engineers
2. Do You Love Me?
3. On The Ocean
4. This Could All Be Yours
5. Stay With Me Jesus
6. Bad Bad World
7. This Is How It Feels To Have A Broken Heart
8. What You Call Love
9. That’s No Way To Get To Heaven
10. Jesus & Mary
11. Hercules
12. Do What You Want
Guster Online:
http://www.guster.com/
http://www.facebook.com/Gustermusic
http://www.twitter.com/guster
http://www.myspace.com/guster
http://www.youtube.com/guster
Thursday, July 1, 2010
New Bands and Stuff.
Sorry for the almost one year hiatus. Well, if anyone read this that's what I would say. As it is now, I'll just get right into the bands I've gotten into since I last posted. I struggle to make the music I am describing interesting for some reason, so I'll just list a bunch of bands and their overall style in general.
Local Natives-Great indie/pop/rock. These guys have really catchy tunes.
Surfer Blood-A little edgier rock than what I normally like, but this band is really good.
The Mynabirds-A really great band called Georgie James broke up and out of that project comes this one from the girl that was in Georgie James. Really good mellow rock and roll. She has an amazing voice as well.
The Thermals-Great straight ahead rock and roll.
Fanfarlo-Really cool orchestration, folk/rock feel, and a really cool sounding lead singer make this band really good. Check them out.
That's it for now. I'll try to stay more on top of this blog, and hopefully improve it so I can have links to listen to songs from some of these bands either on my playlist at the right, or, hopefully, on each seperate blog so after you read my one or two sentence description of the band you can just click on the button and listen to the song for yourself. If anyone is reading this that knows how to make this happen on this here blogspot page send me an email or leave a comment.
Local Natives-Great indie/pop/rock. These guys have really catchy tunes.
Surfer Blood-A little edgier rock than what I normally like, but this band is really good.
The Mynabirds-A really great band called Georgie James broke up and out of that project comes this one from the girl that was in Georgie James. Really good mellow rock and roll. She has an amazing voice as well.
The Thermals-Great straight ahead rock and roll.
Fanfarlo-Really cool orchestration, folk/rock feel, and a really cool sounding lead singer make this band really good. Check them out.
That's it for now. I'll try to stay more on top of this blog, and hopefully improve it so I can have links to listen to songs from some of these bands either on my playlist at the right, or, hopefully, on each seperate blog so after you read my one or two sentence description of the band you can just click on the button and listen to the song for yourself. If anyone is reading this that knows how to make this happen on this here blogspot page send me an email or leave a comment.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
fun.
It's been a while since I updated this. I'll just quickly plug a really good band I've been getting into lately.
fun.-That's right fun. with a lower case f and a period at the end. This is Nate Reuss from The Format's new project after the demise of The Format. It was a sad day when I heard that The Format was breaking up. They were an amazing, amazing band. My brother's friend Clint commented about Nate when we saw them for their last festival show in SLC. He said that he looks so skinny and frail. The conversation went somewhere to the effect of it might be too much boozin' and drug action (which may or may not be true). Clint then said something like come on hold out for at least one more album. Sadly that wasn't the case for The Format, but Nate has returned with fun.! And what a great band they are. They came to SLC a few months ago and are coming back hot on the heels of their new release Aim and Ignite this Tuesday. The album is streaming on their myspace.com/fun site now. Check it out; it's really good. Great pop with horns, strings, and great guitar work. If you liked The Format, you'll love fun., and if you haven't heard of The Format either, there ya go, two bands for you to check out.
fun.-That's right fun. with a lower case f and a period at the end. This is Nate Reuss from The Format's new project after the demise of The Format. It was a sad day when I heard that The Format was breaking up. They were an amazing, amazing band. My brother's friend Clint commented about Nate when we saw them for their last festival show in SLC. He said that he looks so skinny and frail. The conversation went somewhere to the effect of it might be too much boozin' and drug action (which may or may not be true). Clint then said something like come on hold out for at least one more album. Sadly that wasn't the case for The Format, but Nate has returned with fun.! And what a great band they are. They came to SLC a few months ago and are coming back hot on the heels of their new release Aim and Ignite this Tuesday. The album is streaming on their myspace.com/fun site now. Check it out; it's really good. Great pop with horns, strings, and great guitar work. If you liked The Format, you'll love fun., and if you haven't heard of The Format either, there ya go, two bands for you to check out.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
I've been getting into tons of new music lately so I'm just gonna list like 10 or so bands for y'all to check out. If anyone actually reads this blog, that is. Here goes:
Frightened Rabbit
White Rabbits
Rhett Miller
Grizzly Bear
Fanfarlo
St. Vincent
The Annuals
Throw Me The Statue
Camera Obscura
Wild Light
The Low Anthem
There you have them. I'm still discovering all these bands myself; apart from Rhett Miller (singer of Old 97's) I've been a big fan of him for quite a while. Anywho, explore these bands with me, won't you? You won't? Fine. Loser.
Frightened Rabbit
White Rabbits
Rhett Miller
Grizzly Bear
Fanfarlo
St. Vincent
The Annuals
Throw Me The Statue
Camera Obscura
Wild Light
The Low Anthem
There you have them. I'm still discovering all these bands myself; apart from Rhett Miller (singer of Old 97's) I've been a big fan of him for quite a while. Anywho, explore these bands with me, won't you? You won't? Fine. Loser.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Newton's Folley
Today I'm gonna plug my band. I figure noone reads this but perhaps my wife so it's not a shameless plug. More like a journal for me and my posterity to find and remember/discover good music. Anyway, my band is called Newton's Folley and we are a folk/rock/pop band trying to get gigs in Utah. We started playing together just 3 weeks ago or so, and things are looking promising. We have a ton of original songs Travis (the singer/guitarist) and I have already written and recorded; we just need to get arrangements of those songs, plus work on my new guitar stuff i've been writing, as well as Travis' solo stuff he's written; also, we need to practice a few songs our guitarist Jordan has written. Hopefully that sentance wasn't too convoluted. The point is this band is gonna be good. We'll be playing at The Wine Cellar in downtown south Ogden soon. Stay tuned for more details on that and other shows coming this summer. Other than that I'll try to post some music of Newton's Folley's previous 2002 release "Struggling..." soon. Until then keep on listening to good music. Bye!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Say Hi
This band used to be called Say Hi to Your Mom, but now it's just Say Hi. I personally like the old name better. I just got their new album "Oohs and Aahs," and it's incredible. Best album of the year I think. Great indie rock with lots of piano, and your standard guitar, bass, drum, keyboard. It's nothing spectacularly innovative, but if it aint broke don't fix it I suppose. We don't need a world full of Radiohead Kid A albums all over do we? Anywho, check out this band; they are fantabulous.
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