Joyeux Mardi Gras mes amis! Laissez les bon temps rouler!
What better way to celebrate this last day before the start of Lent than with some good food, good beer, and rocking Cajun/Acadian music?
NPR's All Songs Considered just loaded up a Tiny Desk Concert of Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys. You should defintiely check it out.
Party hard everyone. Have a safe and happy Mardi Gras and a good Lenten Season.
Showing posts with label NPR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NPR. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Stream Telekinesis' 12 Desperate Straight Lines over at NPR
On February 15, Telekinesis will drop its sophomore effort, 12 Desperate Straight Lines.
You can preview these dozen immediately catchy, power popped rock songs at NPR's First Listen, a place quickly becoming the go to site for indies to stream their new releases. While there, check out Bright Eyes new album too.
And when you finish listening to 12 Desperate Straight Lines, go to Merge Records and preorder it (and also pick up the mp3 Car Crash to tide you over for a week). They might still have some Telekinesis pencils left.
You can preview these dozen immediately catchy, power popped rock songs at NPR's First Listen, a place quickly becoming the go to site for indies to stream their new releases. While there, check out Bright Eyes new album too.
And when you finish listening to 12 Desperate Straight Lines, go to Merge Records and preorder it (and also pick up the mp3 Car Crash to tide you over for a week). They might still have some Telekinesis pencils left.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Chris Walla and J. Robbins Make Sweet Sweet Music
Oh Bob Boillen. You smooth voiced little music imp of NPR. Your podcasts are so delightfully weird, that there are days that I love them, and days when I want to reach my hands in through the speakers and strangle your throat.
And today, I catch this little amusement you've done on NPR, like some sort of hipster, liberal arts college derived reality TV show for the radio conceit: take two well known musicians (Chris Walla and J. Robbins) and force them to make a song in two days based on a picture they select.
Seriously, I'd simply say WTF and peace out. Unless you were giving out The Women of NPR cheesecake calendars. Sylvia Poggioli and Meshell Norris....rawr...
And yet, what came out was fairly good. I mean, it's Death Cab derivative, but it's remarkably pleasant. I was expecting something else. More folky. I don't know why.
And yet, there's no way for me to purchase the song. Or even an embed code. What do you want, some sort of pledge? You and those fucking pledge drives.
Oooh, a Steve Inskeep beer coozie for a gift of $65!
Check Out Mercury by Chris Wall and J Robbins here
And today, I catch this little amusement you've done on NPR, like some sort of hipster, liberal arts college derived reality TV show for the radio conceit: take two well known musicians (Chris Walla and J. Robbins) and force them to make a song in two days based on a picture they select.
Seriously, I'd simply say WTF and peace out. Unless you were giving out The Women of NPR cheesecake calendars. Sylvia Poggioli and Meshell Norris....rawr...
And yet, what came out was fairly good. I mean, it's Death Cab derivative, but it's remarkably pleasant. I was expecting something else. More folky. I don't know why.
And yet, there's no way for me to purchase the song. Or even an embed code. What do you want, some sort of pledge? You and those fucking pledge drives.
Oooh, a Steve Inskeep beer coozie for a gift of $65!
Check Out Mercury by Chris Wall and J Robbins here
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