Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard Engaged
That’s right. You heard it here probably dead last, but I figured I’d update everyone on this very indie engagement in case you hadn’t heard. Sorry Kellen, you’ll find your Zooey someday. It just won’t be of the Deschanel variety now it seems. Gibbard was dating one of my bosses at Sub Pop when I interned there in ‘06. I guess not anymore eh?
But the real reason I wrote this post was to update you all that my top 50 list is compiled down from an initial 97 albums (97!!). I spent all night last night watching all the Dexter episodes I’ve missed this season (amazing show that just keeps getting better), and finalizing my top 50 list. I’m as confident as I can be about the final list, so now it’s just on to the ever complicated and tedious task of writing the posts. I’ll try to get the first one done by Thursday. Friday at the latest. Until then, don’t cry too much all you Zooey fanboys out there. Your beautiful, girl next door that is in a lot of great movies and sings so well she collaborated with M. Ward, is out there I swear.
Merry Christmas from the Perch!
Merry Christmas everyone! I’m traveling home back to Kansas City for the holiday to hang out with the family and have a Home Alone style Christmas with my mom’s side of the family, which includes 9 aunts and uncles and 8 cousins. I’m sure I’ll be bored as ever sitting at home, so I’ll try to get some posts in while I’m home, but in case I don’t, here’s me wishing all of you the happiest of holidays and I hope you all get that super sweet gold plated happy happy hippo game set you always dreamed of under your tree. I’ll work dilligently over the holiday knocking out my top 50 list, so expect that list very soon. Until then, have fun over the holiday and I’ll see all of you back at the Perch very soon!
-Kevin
Pitchfork Reveals Its Top Albums of 2008
Ah, the infamous list. I saw the link on someone’s blog, gave a slight chuckle, then said what the heck, I’ll check it out. I’m working on my list at the moment, and I can say it’s drastically different from Pitchfork’s, but that could be based on a variety of factors. My life has been nothing but a whirlwind of business since we took LemonDrop Records live and took on more bands. That led to 12 hour days trying to juggle the label and my day job. Add to that the fact that there’s hanging out with the gang to do almost every night once I get home, and you get an A.D.D. music obsessed blogger forced to pick and choose the music I listen to much more than in years past. My 2008 folder is still close to 100 or so albums deep, but that’s nowhere near last year’s number, when I still had a lot more time on my hands. But one thing that did happen as a result is I got to “experience” more albums this year instead of just listening to the “it” albums I really enjoyed for a couple weeks and moving on, making sure to make a note somewhere that I enjoyed this album for a couple weeks and it should make my year end list. It’s safe to say my top 10 albums this year will truly be ones I couldn’t get enough of this year.
But, I’ll probably go into more of that detail later when I get to writing my list, but for now check out Pitchfork’s year end list and let me know what you think. I don’t know a lot of the albums on this list, because of me being so busy I’d say, but there’s some a completely agree with, and others I don’t at all. But isn’t that what year end lists are there for? I am happy for Fleet Foxes though, if only for the fact that they’re on Sub Pop, and I have a bias for Sub Pop bands now since I interned for the label. But yeah, enough rambling. Let me know which albums on the list you agree with and which you can’t believe even made the list. (the more opinionated the comments the better)
Mp3 of the Day: “I Am” by Novel ft. Ben Folds
I don’t know who Novel is, but apparantly he helped produce albums from Alicia Keys, India.Arie, and Joss Stone. None of which I listen to obviously, but I couldn’t ignore the email I got today saying his new EP was about to come out, with the first single called “I Am”, featuring none other than Mr. Ben Folds. Of course I was going to give that a listen, and in a hilariously unexpected move, it seems Novel has sampled Ben Folds’ song “Luckiest”, for his single. And it’s surprisingly good too. Folds makes a singing cameo in the chorus, I think he does at least, and they turn the tune from a heartfelt love song, into an upbeat, and very danceable hip-hop song. If future remixes of Ben Folds’ music sound like this, then I’ll be the first to throw out the idea of a Ben Folds hip hop remix album. Anyone with me?
Novel - I Am (ft. Ben Folds, Talib Kweli, and Spree Wilson)
Novel-I Am NEW Video f. f/ Ben Folds, Talib Kweli &Spree Wilson
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I'm Kevin and I write this blog. I'm a recent college graduate that's obsessed with music and making sure my friends hear it. Leave a comment if you want, I'm always willing to talk music. As for labels and bands, if you want me to hear your music (and most likely talk about it), contact me through the "about Kevin" page. I'm always open to hear anything new and support bands. Enjoy the music and if you need me to take a song down, just contact me and down it will come.
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