Broken Bells

There are a few bands that I am fanatical about. A quick look at my last.fm charts shows these bands to be Iron & Wine, Eels, Simon & Garfunkel, The Shins, and Ben Folds. When it comes to these musicians I will buy every track they put out, I will see them in concert, I [...]

Music Review
Every December I take a look back at the music I have enjoyed throughout the year and make a best of list. (For previous years you can visit: 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004). This year I think I consumed more music than ever before and hopefully this list reflects a “deeper” selection than normal. [...]

James Mercer, The Shins
For my money, there isn’t a better sound in the world than James Mercer and The Shins. Their music resonates with me unlike any other band and I am always on the lookout for bands that make music that will become a part of me the way The Shins have. Have you [...]

The end of the year means lots of “best of 08″ lists. I wanted to get my music list up a little early this year in case you need some ideas for stocking stuffers for the music lover on your list. You can’t go wrong with these albums. (All links take you to Amazon, by [...]

The world doesn’t need another blogger raving about his iPhone, but I just can’t resist any longer. I finally got my iPhone a few weeks ago and it has lived up to the extremely high hopes that I had for it. I put my old Sony Walkman phone to bed permanently and I have to [...]

I haven’t made a music post in a while and being that is is about the middle of 2008 I thought I would give you some tracks from my favorite albums of the year so far. Here is a 12 track mix tape that is pretty darn good, if I don’t say so myself…
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Even with our huge 100+ gigabyte hard drives, space eventually becomes an issue. Anything you can do to save space is helpful. As your music collection grows it becomes more and more important to control your music library. For the most part iTunes does a great job. If you have iTunes set to automatically manage [...]

Just a quick post before the weekend is over. This one is probably only funny to fans of Kermit the Frog, Elliott Smith, and Royal Tenenbaums. To the other two people in the world that share those interests, here is a video for you:

By the way, Sad Kermit has his own MySpace page. Enjoy.

I keep coming across a bunch of live recordings from Iron and Wine and I wanted to share some of them with you in case you are as big of a Sam Beam fan as I am. Here are some live Iron and Wine mp3s for your listenting enjoyment:
House by the Sea
Live at Paradiso, [...]

The end of the year means it is time for the annual “Best Of” lists. It was a good year in music with some of my favorite bands releasing new albums (The Shins, Iron and Wine, Rogue Wave), some new groups (Maps, St Vincent, Patrick Watson, Yeasayer), and some bands that are just new to [...]