The Pelican’s Perch

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I’m in Missouri, so it’s central time.  Don’t forget to factor that in.  Who knows what I’ll play tomorrow.  I sure don’t, haven’t even made the playlist, but either way it should be good if it’s going to be my best songs of the moment.  Hope [...]

I was reading Shots Ring Out the other day and noticed they posted the new Metric video for their song “Empty” which features a house slowly reverting from being torn apart to everything popping back on shelves and the like until the house is back together by the end. This trend of backwards videos, most [...]

Unless you’re new to my site or have been living under a rock these past three years and simply didn’t read every 10th post, you know that I am also somewhat of a musician. It started out small just messing around teaching myself guitar, then turned to writing a few songs every couple months or [...]

I’m not one to complain too much about things, but I’m honestly sick of school. I’ve as of late realized kind of what I want to do with my life the next year or so and really want to go after it with a full head of steam, but at the moment I have two [...]

I love Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. I’ve talked about them time and time again here at the Perch because, besides the fact they make great music, they’re also from right here in Springfield, MO and are good friends. But the big problem I always had with their album Broom was the fact that [...]

Planet Terror 8/10
Death Proof 9/10
Where to begin with this monster of a movie. Grindhouse, simply put, is an event in and of itself. You will go to the movie theatre not necessarily to see the two movies contained in this epic showing, but more for the fun, excitement, and pure unforgivable enjoyment you’ll undoubtedly experience. [...]

I’ve fallen behind in the whole “helping bands and labels out” aspect of the blog I set out to accomplish in the first place and this week I aim to fix that. I’m going to sift through the mountains of emails I’ve received and pull out the best of the bunch. Up first is Loch [...]

05/08/2007 - Hannover, DE venue TBD
05/10/2007 - Innsbruck, AUT at Weekander
05/11/2007 - V�amarkt, AUT at Premysl
05/12/2007 - Linz, AUT at Posthof
05/13/2007 - Wien, AUT at B72
05/16/2007 - Berlin, DE at Radio Eins
05/17/2007 - Stuttgart, DE at Kellerclub
05/18/2007 - Mannheim, DE at Alte Feuerwache
05/21/2007 - K� DE at Geb�e9
05/22/2007 - M�, DE at Amp
05/23/2007 - Neubrandenburg, [...]

Apr 12 2007
8:00P

Richards On Richards
Vancouver, British Columbia

Apr 13 2007
8:00P

Neumos
Seattle, Washington

Apr 14 2007
8:00P

Crystal Ballroom
Portland, Oregon

Apr 16 2007
7:30P

The Independent
San Francisco, California

Apr 26 2007
8:00P

ExPlx (Downstairs at the Echo)
Los Angeles, California

May 8 2007
8:00P

The Club @ Water Street Music
Rochester, New York

May 9 2007
8:00P

Lee’s Palace
Toronto, Ontario

May 10 2007
7:00P

Town Ballroom
Buffalo, New York

May 13 2007
7:00P

Recher Theatre
Towson, Maryland

May 14 2007
7:30P

The Trocadero
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

May 15 2007
8:00P

Webster [...]

May 9 2007
8:00P

Halfenclan Exil
Hamburg

May 10 2007
8:00P

Maria
Berlin

May 11 2007
8:00P

JZ Kamp
Bielefeld

May 12 2007
8:00P

Studio 672
Koln

May 14 2007
8:00P

Paradiso (room 2)
Amsterdam

May 15 2007
8:00P

AB
Brussels

May 16 2007
8:00P

Scala (+ Clark)
London

May 17 2007
8:00P

The Corporation (+ Clark)
Sheffield

May 18 2007
8:00P

The Cooler
Bristol

May 19 2007
8:00P

ATP Festival
minehead

May 20 2007
8:00P

Stylus Uni (+ Clark & Beans)
Leeds

May 22 2007
8:00P

Academy 2
Manchester

May 23 2007
8:00P

ABC 2
Glasgrow

May 24 2007
8:00P

The Barfly
Birmingham

May 25 2007
8:00P

Birmingham
Dublin

May 26 2007
8:00P

Maroquinerie
Paris

May 27 2007
8:00P

Le [...]