Flying Colors
In 1996, I had quit my job as a media consultant, moved back to my hometown of Saint Louis, and was pretty much just hanging out. During the day I waited tables at Blueberry Hill and at night I was…
Blackest of Mountains
I have the tendency to find out about awesome albums years after they first come out, which happily isn't always my fault. I wasn't alive when Oar came out, I don't think I had any money when Marquee Moon was…
Islands in the Stream
This is likely a band that needs little help, as Pitchfuck and their ilk will be jumping all over this if they haven’t already, but Islands’ debut album Return to the Sea is wedged so far into my earhole that I have to share. So for today’s Hear-n-Share we’ll ride to the Islands together, ah-ah, making love to each other, ah… um… er…
Okay, so Islands. Yeah. The offspring of the now extinct Unicorns [Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?], and sometimes erroneously described as a “side project” (unlike Th’ Corn Gangg), Islands on stage is Nicholas Thorburn (aka Nick Diamonds of the Unicorns), Jamie Thompson (aka J’aime Tambeur), Patrice Agbokou, Jim Guthrie (Royal City), Alex and Sebastian Chow, and Patrick Gregoire. On the album and in the studio, which is sometimes Jamie’s bedroom, Islands are joined by members of The Arcade Fire, as well as Subtitle and Busdriver.
Things that go Boompa in the night
God bless the Canadians. I don't know much about our Northern neighbors (except that they may actually be neighbours, and they are comedic geniuses, and they love donuts and tooks and Scottish people) but I revere them, if you'll allow…
Leeroy Stagger
How queer is it that the day before I was planning to post a couple of tracks from Leeroy Stagger, the ABC show Grey's Anatomy plays his song Just in Case over the closing minutes of the show? This show…