Andrew Bird – Gezelligheid 2013 – Historical Lagniappe
There is a thing that Andrew Bird does, and it is a thing that Andrew Bird has done for a long time, and that thing is covering songs that in their original form might sound strange to our ears. While it’s the kind of thing I could (and have) rambled on about until the fun’s […]
Hooray for Covers! Scott Bradlee & The Postmodern Jukebox Band, “Thrift Shop”
For new faces around here, or those just checking in for the first time in a while, let me remind you about my love of quirky covers – ones that give a new spin to the original, where the covering artist takes it and makes it his/her own. Â New York singer-songwriter Scott Bradlee has been […]
Wow, That’s a Good Song: Ben Taylor, “Oh Brother”
Ben Taylor is an artist who I’ve kept tabs on over the years, albeit casually, so I missed the fact that he’d released a new album, Listening, in mid-2012.  I picked up a copy when I was traipsing about the Electric Fetus in Minneapolis (one of the best music stores I’ve been to in ages) and […]
Wow, That’s A Good Song: Luke Winslow-King, “Moving On”
So this blog has been on a bit of a hiatus — real life took over for me in a big way and I just haven’t had the time to devote to the site. Â I’m hoping to give it a kick in the pants at the new year, so keep an eye out for that. […]
Wow That’s a Good Song: Whitehorse, “Achilles’ Desire”
The blog’s been quiet lately — sometimes life gets like that, you know — but I’d be remiss in not popping back up to share with you a new song from Whitehorse, the combined husband-wife duo of Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland. I don’t have much, but I am a rich man. Like all of […]
Wow, That’s a Good Song: Bear Bones, “Oil & Lacquer”
My “To Be Sorted” folder on my computer is massive, full of music I’ve acquired through various PR people, free MP3s, label samplers, give-us-your-email-and-get-a-song, on and on. Â It is a huge, hulking list of stuff that has a lot of things I’m lukewarm about, some stuff I delete before I get to the thirty-second mark, […]