Today I realized that I’ve been spoiled this year. One of my favorite bands released 12 EPs, that’s four album’s worth of new material, and I barely batted an eye. Now Bishop Allen have posted new songs from their last EPs, “November and “December,” and have put the calendar to rest.
MP3: Bishop Allen – Tea [...]

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It’s New Year’s Eve, so I guess it’s time to trot out Picasso’s favorites of the year. First on the list is concerts — the life-changing, toe-curling experiences that left my jaw hanging and my pants slightly soiled. Check here for last year’s list, but let’s get on with the best concerts of 2006!
#20: De [...]

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Phosphorescent, the headliner of the night’s show, couldn’t make it. Their van broke down in Louisville, stranding them an hour away from their Lexington show. But when I broke the news to Cody Swanson of Noisy Crane, the intensity of his puppy dog saddness was matched only by the length of his smile when I [...]

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Page France’s new tour-only EP is hot off the presses! This makes the… third EP they’ve released this year. Their release schedule is craziness. And of course, that doesn’t include their third album or collab with Anathallo, both to be released in 2007.
MP3: Page France – Without a Diamond Ring
I wasn’t sure it was even [...]

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The saddest day of my life was when I had to miss Harry and the Potters in Lexington to see Of Montreal in Louisville. It wasn’t really much of a choice, but I would have liked to have seen them both. Dates below, via BV.
MP3: Harry and the Potters – Save Ginny Weasley
Harry and the [...]

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OK, so apparently I’ve been missing the boat on Sloan for quite some time. But when I picked up my copy of their new album, Never Hear the End of It, all that got put aside. Mark this as the 235th reason why 2007 is going to be a great year.
MP3: Sloan – Who Taught [...]

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Now seems like as good of a time as any to admit that I got into the Apples in Stereo through the Powerpuff Girls. But I can’t feel ashamed since it led me to one of indie rock’s finest.
MP3: Robert Schneider – Stephen, Stephen
Somehow amid appearing on the Colbert Report and starting to promote the [...]

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From CNN:
James Brown, the legendary R&B belter, a singer and songwriter who created a foundation for funk and provided the roots of rap, a man of many nicknames but a talent that can only be described as one of a kind, is dead.
Brown died early Monday at Atlanta’s Emory Crawford Long Hospital of congestive heart [...]

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