This past weekend I was flown in to New Orleans by their tourism department so that I could have the opportunity to cover the Voodoo Music Festival. While the city was still reasonably wet from the rains earlier in the week, they had the festival grounds mostly dry for the start of our Friday festivities. [...]

[Read more →]

Ahhh. It feels good to be home again. To celebrate, here’s one of my favorite indie-rock Halloween tunes. Marbles, aka Robert Schneider of the Apples in Stereo, teaches us a whole new Dracula story. MP3: Marbles – Dracula I don’t exactly know why, but I love the idea of Dracula as the cocaine-snorting frontman to [...]

[Read more →]

I feel like this is a good “yeah” song to end on. I’m coming back from New Orleans today hopefully in time for a nice long nap and lots of photo uploading. MP3: The Magnetic Fields – Yeah! Oh, Yeah! This song, like much of Stephin Merritt’s work, absolutely kills me. He has a balance [...]

[Read more →]

What’s a trip to New Orleans without hailing its greatest son? M4A: Louis Armstrong – I Still Get Jealous

[Read more →]

The winner for most yeahs in a song title? Probably. MP3: Flaming Lips – The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song Keeping up the trend of songs that are better live than on record, here’s the Flaming Lips’ contribution to the pile. I won’t lie, I didn’t like this song at first. It’s a nice pop song, [...]

[Read more →]

At Voodoo Festival I almost forgot to put this song on here. That could possibly have been a bigger mistake than any I’ve ever made in my life (including the time I stuck my fingers into a bear trap when I was like 12). MP3: Matt & Kim – Yea Yeah The explosion of pure, [...]

[Read more →]

I decided that this time around, instead of posting cover songs while I’m at the festival, I’ll do a few posts of my favorite songs with “yeah” in the title. Maybe I’ll toss in a few cover songs too, depending on how the night goes, but I’ll at least do a few of these. What [...]

[Read more →]

I can’t think of a better way to say that I’m leaving for the Voodoo Music Festival than by letting Sunday’s headliners say it. If Wilco doesn’t play this song, they’re missing a big opportunity. This song is off Billy Bragg and Wilco’s Mermaid Avenue, which has them paired up to tackle some unrecorded Woody [...]

[Read more →]

I’m just now getting to soak in Saturday Looks Good to Me’s new record. I haven’t heard Fred Thomas’ solo record from earlier this year, but I hear it’s quite the bee’s knees as well. MP3: Saturday Looks Good to Me – Make A Plan I got to see SLGTM in the spring of this [...]

[Read more →]