I started collecting vinyl in January of 2008.  Here is what I have amassed. (updated January 2012) AC/DC Back in Black American Football American Football Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha Band of Horses Everything All the Time Infinite Arms Battles Gloss Drop Mirrored The Beach Boys Endless Summer The Beatles 1962-1966 1967-1970 Abbey Road Hey Jude Let it Be Magical Mystery Tour Rubber Soul Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beck Modern Guilt Odelay The Bee Gees Best of Bee Gees Vol. 1 [pre-disco] Saturday Night Fever Ben Folds Five Ben Folds Five Blackalicious A2G [EP] Blazing Arrow The ...

(Echo Mountain/Shock) Band of Horses sideman returns to solo roots North Carolina’s Tyler Ramsey released his second album, A Long Dream About Swimming In The Sea, in 2008, just around the time it was announced that he would join Band Of Horses. Unheard by most of the world, A Long Dream… with its weary acoustic-picking folk was comfort for those unsure of whether he could fill the shoes of Mat Brooke after his departure to form The Grand Archives. Ramsey’s presence and smoky voice was felt on ...

Best Albums of 2011 To see the previous versions of the list as they came out throughout the year, click here:   Version 1.0 (January - April) Version 2.1 (January - May) Version 3.0 (January - August) LPs Blue Scholars - Cinemetropolis Foxes">Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues Bon Iver – Bon Iver Battles – Gloss Drop Radiohead - The King of Limbs Wilco - The Whole Love The Head and the Heart - The Head and the Heart TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light Noah and the Whale - Last Night on Earth   Death Cab for Cutie – Codes and Keys Saves the Day - Daybreak The Get ...

USF  The dance culture surrounding much electronic music is, as far as I am concerned, from another planet.  As I sat at a USF show in Seattle (part of City Arts Festival), watching a man move his body in awkward, disjointed gestures that he seemed to have learned from the Teletubbies, I couldn’t reconcile what I was witnessing with what the term ‘dance’ usually evokes in one’s mind.  A woman near the side of the stage had one foot suspended [...]

Indie-pop band Army Navy is excited to kick off their Fall US co-headlining tour. The tour will also feature Santah on all dates and begins tonight (Wednesday, October 5th) at Firebird in St. Louis, MO. Culminating in a performance at Subterranean in Chicago, IL, on Friday, October 28th, the upcoming tour will be followed by a number of dates on the West Coast with Grand Archives in mid November.

Wer von Euch zufällig mal einen Blick in die Blogkommentare geworfen hat, wird diesen Tipp dort schon gelesen haben - denn dort hat mich ein Mitglied der schwedischen Band Turn off your Television auf deren Musik hingewiesen und diese folgendermaßen beschrieben (ich bin heute mal faul und kopiere das einfach hier rein): Turn off your television is a three man band from Sweden with influences in the 60s, 70s and the 90s. Inspired by the likes of Sparklehorse, Grand archives, Luna and Belle and Sebastian many people describe their music as soft melodic pop folk with simple and memorable hooks. Was ...

I started collecting vinyl January of 2008. Here is what I have amassed. (updated Sept. 11) AC/DC Back in Black American Football American Football Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha Band of Horses Everything All the Time Infinite Arms Battles Gloss Drop Mirrored The Beach Boys Endless Summer The Beatles 1962-1966 1967-1970 Abbey Road Hey Jude Let it Be Magical Mystery Tour Rubber Soul Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beck Modern Guilt Odelay The Bee Gees Best of Bee Gees Vol. 1 [pre-disco] Saturday Night Fever Ben Folds Five Ben Folds Five Blackalicious A2G [EP] Blazing Arrow The Craft ...

Best Albums of 2011 Version 3.0 (Jan-Aug) List subject to extensive revision throughout the year. LPs Blue Scholars - Cinemetropolis Foxes">Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues Bon Iver – Bon Iver Battles – Gloss Drop R.E.M. - Collapse into Now Radiohead - The King of Limbs Death Cab for Cutie – Codes and Keys The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light Noah and the Whale - Last Night on Earth   The Head and the Heart - The Head and the Heart The Get Up Kids - There Are Rules Bright Eyes - The People's Key Explosions in the Sky – Take ...

Last year, the excellent Seattle indie sad-core outfit Carissa’s Wierd reunited for a one-off concert in their hometown to celebrate the release of a new retrospective compilation , They’ll Only Miss You When You Leave: Songs 1996-2003 , via Hardly Art. That release — complete with remastered cuts of “Die” and “The Color That Your Eyes Changed With the Color of Your Hair” — recruited a slew of new listeners while leaving longtime fans hungry for more material. Enter “Meredith & Iris,” a new Mat Brooke (Grand Archives, Band of Horses) and Jenn Ghetto-led track that would fit seamlessly among their venerable oeuvre ...

After years and years of band sabbatical, Seattle’s Carissa’s Weird are playing a reunion show Friday, July 9th (aka tomorrow) at the Showbox and will be releasing Only Miss You When You Leave: Songs 1996-2003, a much needed retrospective compilation from the sorely missed Seattle band whose members went on to record as Band of Horses, Grand Archives, S, and Sera Cahoone.

A Letter from Dr. Dre to (then) girfriend Nicole Threatt via The Grand Archives

Requested by alice railstone • Compiled by Liam 01. Belle & Sebastian - "Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying" (If You're Feeling Sinister) 02. Tegan & Sara - "Falling Asleep" (Yellow Demo Tape) 03. The National - "Fake Empire" (Boxer) 04. Fire">Arcade Fire - "No Cars Go" (The Fire">Arcade Fire EP) 05. Andrew Bird - "Don't Be Scared" (Weather Systems) 06. Seapony - "Dreaming" (Dreaming) 07. Modest Mouse - "Sleepwalkin'" (Interstate 8 EP) 08. Joseph Arthur - "In The Sun" (Come To Where I'm From) 09. Mason Jennings - "Birds Flying Away" (Birds Flying Away) 10. Grand Archives - "Sleepdriving" (The Grand Archives) 11. Carissa's ...

BattleCry Melody, Varnish, Fit For Hounds @ Showbox SoDo | 7/9 | $8 (Get Tickets) | 8 pm | 21+ Rap-rock group BattleCry Melody mash out like nu-metal never died. The Seattle band, lead by perpetually backward hat-wearing vocalist Ahmad “Talksick” Daher, lay down self-described “rugged rhythms” for Daher’s flows. Like P.O.D., Papa Roach, and [...]

Grand Archives, The Redwood Plan, and Royal Eyes @ Neumos | 7/9 | Get Tickets | 21+ Grand Archives are digging deep to bring their local audience some carefully tucked away mellow sounds. Fans who wish to reminisce on days gone by will enjoy this folky grunge with a bit of twang. Singer/guitarist Mat Brooke [...]

In our never-ending quest to dig up great bands whose tickets cost less than a corned beef sandwich at Katz’s, we bring you another round of Blips. Blips highlights some great bands that are largely still in their larvae stage, but will soon morph into beautiful butterflies. In this edition, we have some really cool new music, so take a sec, poke around the bands’ various websites and see what you think of these four under the radar acts… Ivan & Alyosha Website / MySpace Sure Seattle’s Ivan & Alyosha take their name from two characters in Dostoevsky’s definitive novel Brothers Karamazov, but if you’re expecting a band that plays some form of twee, hyper-literate music that’s full of arcane polysyllabic words – then you’re likely to be a bit disappointed. Simply stated, the band plays a dreamy brand of folk-pop that’s highlighted by their  beautiful, soulful harmonies. Once you dig in a bit deeper, it’s the confessional songwriting of Tim Wilson that truly pulls you in. Earlier this year Ivan & Alyosha released their sophomore EP Fathers Be Kind , and have garnered a heap of praise from NPR’s  All Songs Considered who recently invited the band to perform a Tiny Desk Concert . The band will be out on the road for the next two months holding down opening slots for Aimee Mann, John Vanderslice and Brandi Carlile. Recommended If You Like: Blind Pilot, Grand Archives, Foxes">Fleet Foxes - Jeffrey Greenblatt READ ON for intros to Sushi Grade Panda, Henry Wolfe & Allo Darlin’… Sushi Grade Panda Website / Facebook Stamford-based act Sushi Grade Panda blends elements of jam, prog and metal into a hearty rock stew that showcases the skills of guitarist/vocalist Tim Fallon, drummer Jordan Marion and bassist Stephen Dow. Most of the band’s originals find Fallon laying down one intricate, distorted riff after another while the rhythm section holds down the fort. Fallon’s vocals remind us of Layne Staley, Dow’s got the Jack Bruce thing goin’ on and Marion adds a bit of funky, “in-the-pocket” charm to his rock drumming. SGP shows follow the jam formula of mixing a few covers with their originals and you never know what songs Sushi Grade Panda will whip out at one of their gigs. At the group’s New York City debut back in February they worked a shred-heavy, hard-edged version of Tom Petty’s You Got Lucky into one of their signature originals, PB&J;, and later dropped spot-on covers of First Tube by Phish & Men At Work’s Overkill. While most of the ...