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Song of the Day – Jon Crocker’s “Moved to Nebraska”
Don’t know much about Nebraska – drove through it once and spent the night at a small low rent chain motel on the outskirts of Lincoln. Saw lots of corn fields (from the side of the road), a truck with a personalized license plate with “Hunters” on it and endless 2 door coupes with “support…
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Strand of Oaks Live at The Nave (2009 performance)
Another live session from Strand of Oaks has hit the interwebs, and we all know this is a good thing. I have been a fan of SoO (or Tim Showalter) for some time (see previous interview and Live at the Nave 2008 HERE). When Tim let me know his February session is now available over…
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In The Post – Thomas Western, The Steals & Trevor Giuliani
What has been circling the submission circles here at the blog? Well a fair amount of stuff! You would think with the sheer amount of music bloggers these days that there aren’t enough artists to go around! ….sorry inside blogger joke, kinda. I thought I would feature 3 artists that all cover different sounds but…
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Huck Notari’s “Very Long Dream” is Very much NOT long enough!
When one visits a site like mine and listens to music, one gets and idea of the style of music you will often be subject to everytime you come back. While there is nothing wrong with blogs that cover multiple genres of music and even have a “media information” feel and cover movies, celebrity, cultural…
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Song of the Night – “Canadian Song” by Matt Pond PA
Kind of an slow day on the blog the last couple of days due to host issues and “overworked” servers lending to delays in service. I apologize for anyone who has tried to get here and was put off by the extremely slow loading times. In true Canadian fashion, I apologize to you for something…
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Entranced, but I don’t know why. Okay I do know why – The Singleman Affair
The post title says it all. The track I speak of is “Leaving a Mark”. It is a winding mellow hazy road of a track from the self proclaimed “psychedelic” Chicago resident that might also be known as Dan Schneider. Schneider’s “The Singleman Affair” has a new album called “Let’s Kill the Summer” – which…
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Doing the Hometown Proud – The Wailin’ Jennys
So I am not one to shy away from my “roots” (no pun intended). So it is time to represent with some old school tunes (that aren’t actually that old) – but the tracks are from one of my “hometown” bands, the Wailin’ Jennys. I am a previous resident of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (I’m a…
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Get Your Pre-Order on: Lightning Dust’s “Infinite Light”
Recommendations, recommendations. Bloggers have many. Most are pretty decent recommendations and for the most part we (hopefully) know what we are talking about. As I often talk out of my ass, take what I say with a grain of salt – I obsess on bands or albums or songs, so when I am listening –…
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Manchester Orchestra – MySpace Transmissions EP available for download!
Manchester Orchestra “Everything To Nothing” from MySpace Transmissions Catch the whole thing over at MySpace Transmissions for the videos, interviews and free 5 track EP. Admittedly I like “Right Away, Great Captain” (the solo more mellow version of Andy Hull) a bit more, but Manchester Orchestra have some chops and I always like Hull’s delivery.…
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New on the ‘Nets this week
~image stolen from here. It has been a while since I did a blog round up, so it is more than needed. There are soo many great blogs out there, so much great music, that I cannot keep up with it, so thank goodness for my blogroll peeps! Lets see what they have been discussing…
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Who said “Alt-Country” was dead? Song of the Day – “My Girl Baltimore” by Paul Masson
Sometimes I get in a mood. My mood is currently set clearly in the land of late night dusk across the plains of Maryland. Wait? Maryland? Yes, Maryland. Paul Masson delivered to myself (just yesterday) a fine example of why I could have been born in Texas in the 50’s. Great country (or Alt-Country for…
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Best New Music – Meursault’s “Nothing Broke” EP
So best new music. It is actually one of my categories and surprisingly gets selected on a pretty decent schedule. This is because I tend to cover music that I like (go figure). That being said, listen up people, BEST new music! Meursault comes to me from Song, By Toad blog owner/operator Matthew Young. In…