The Pelican’s Perch

I’m back….kind of.  Still don’t have internet, but I’m tired of not posting so I treked through the damn cold to the library to post.  Today we focus on Podington Bear.
Whether or not he’s a real electronic music making bear as he claims is irrelevant.  What is important here is that not only is his music [...]

EDIT:  Still no internet, and I’m just posting while doing homework in the library.  Once I get back and am able to upload to my server again, I’ll be posting videos from Dosh live in concert at Randy Bacon’s, a post on Poddington Bear since he was nice enough to give me a personal email/I really like [...]

I’ve mentioned the blog La Blogotheque before, but a few weeks goes by and I always find myself watching another brilliant take away concert video.  I’ll keep the intro short and sweet, but below are the ones I found to be the best.  The rest are below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_sx9Fxva-Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2qximPa7co
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYI7k6p9kHQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcSvNPRjWqA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2pB0NAu9eM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjy2P0MSVlo
The rest of the take away shows…
P.S.  Did anyone [...]

Malajube are a fun little French band I came across the other day that I wanted to post about from the first song I heard of theirs, but quickly realized I had no idea how I would go about doing it.  These guys are all over the place.  Some songs sound like Phoenix, some like [...]

Bill O’Reilly on Colbert Report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmL-IJrTlZ8

Stephen Colbert on the O’Reilly Factor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvBd7sCSC78

I was planning on waiting until February when this album becomes available on their website to talk about it, but I just couldn’t do it.  This is THE best album of the year, and most likely will be the best of the year for me depending on how great Andrew Bird’s album is.  I love [...]

(recommended listening while reading this post - Rademacher’s “Ice Age” - streamable mp3 at bottom of post)
You may be wondering where I’ve been these past few days.  Well, if any of you caught CNN or any of the news channels lately, you probably saw Missouri getting hit hard by ice storm after ice storm.  What [...]

20. We Will Build - “I’m Feeling Very Unsatisfied”

19. Snowglobe - “Happy”

18. The Envy Corps - “Rhinemaide”

 
17. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - “Nashville Parthenon”

 
16. Voxtrot - “Soft and Warm”

 
15. Tuung - “The Wind-up Bird”

 
14. The Little Ones - “Oh, MJ! ”

 
13. Thom Yorke - “Harrowdown Hill”

-Harrowdown Hill was my favorite track off Eraser, but [...]

Stark Raving Calm - The White Morning of 2124
There are some local Springfield bands I don’t post about simply because I’ve heard them so much that I wouldn’t want to write about them unless something significant happens (ex. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin).  With Stark Raving Calm, I’ve never written about them for a [...]

Here at the Perch, I’m fond of starting weekly features, then never following through with them.  Kind of like I Guess I’m Floating’s Thursdays and Covers feature, only I usually never keep it up.  Case in point my Perch Mixes (which there’ll be a new one Friday I swear), which was meant to be a [...]