Browsing the archives for the headphone love category
It’s hard to pick my favorite song off the new Vampire Weekend album (debuting at #1?!) but this one is definitely rocking my socks now. Sounds like it got left off Graceland accidentally.
White Sky – Vampire Weekend
Ah hell, this one too…
Run – Vampire Weekend
Speaking of Graceland…
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her S…
Alela Diane. Love LOVE [...]
Just like the season itself in Minnesota this year, this mix is coming better late than never. I swear we headed straight from summer to winter around here, with the warm September, and then snow and the cold piling on us the first couple weeks of October. Today I went outside for a walk and [...]
I thought it would be fun to throw out a couple songs I had wanted to use on the King of Summertime mix but in the end didn’t make the cut.
The first is “Summer in the City,” a beautiful song by Regina Spektor. The warmth and richness of this song belies its simplicity: this is [...]
It’s like Twitter, but better because it has music. This is me: blip.fm/ScreechyKid. You can also listen to the songs I play on the sidebar over there. It’s like I’ve been waiting my whole life for this! —>
This poem is one I always think of when Spring comes around…I’d say it’s one of my top-three favorite poems, and on springy days like this it’s definitely number one. The following poem is one that always sneaks up on the first one in my mind and rides piggyback through my imagination, or the two [...]
Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields.
Passin’ trains that have no names,
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.
Good morning [...]
Anyone who tells you song lyrics are not poetry has been fooled, and badly, at some point in their life. The simple fact is that modern poetry, which today we primarily read on the page, began as an oral art a way of telling stories out loud – that is, in song. Even the most [...]
Long before there was the iPod nano commercial, there was Feist. This Canadian gal, this Feist, made an incredible record called The Reminder with a spunky single called 1, 2, 3, 4 that someone over at Apple must’ve loved something fierce, because soon enough you couldn’t possibly avoid the song or its video in all [...]
Now that the romance with the bubbly indie hit “Young Folks” has subsided, it’s time to look at the phenomenal album Writer’s Block again with fresh ears. This record took the indie (last time I use the word, really) world by storm last year, buoyed by the charming, whistling, duet-erific “Young Folks” with former Concretes [...]
Mark Kozelek has a knack for redefinition. One of the mainstays of his career is the cover song, in which a singer puts his/her own spin on another’s tune. We’ve seen about a billion of these – Rock and jazz were practically built on song thievery – but no one has really done it quite [...]
