I’ve noticed that the great Andrew Bird is great at pulling out words I rarely hear, often aesthetic exuberant sounding words. Sometimes I wonder if he is more focused at the pleasantry of auditory pronouncements or if these words are chosen because of the song’s communicative value. Noble Beast is an intellectual treat of dictionary… Continue reading Andrew Bird expands your music vocabulary
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Mixtape: September is Splitting
Broken Social Scene – “Superconnected” A band I will have to put on my unwritten “bands I want to see live” list. I had the unfortune (very different from misfortune) of being too busy to see My Morning Jacket and Vampire Weekend perform in my town in the month of September. My Morning Jacket’s new… Continue reading Mixtape: September is Splitting
Mixtape: August On a Wing
Kim Taylor is a better candidate for incessantly repeated airplay than Sara Bareilles. I wrote about this song over a year ago stating that I had heard it a year before that. Unfortunately, the studio mp3s are no longer hosted on her site, but I was lucky enough to catch her demo version when it… Continue reading Mixtape: August On a Wing