The Pelican’s Perch

Since I feel sort of handicapped here in my hometown house, I figured I’d make myself useful and fill you in on the blogscene:

You Ain’t No Picasso

• New Okkervil River (thanks originally to Pitchfork, but I’ll give Matt the credit here)
• The Polyphonic Spree “Running Away” (The Fragile Army is excellent by the way)
• …and “Light to Follow” as well
• Of Montreal cover songs

Gorilla vs Bear

• Chris (and Matt above too) points us to Adult Swim’s newest free music offering Warm & Fuzzy: a 14 song comp featuring TV on the Radio, Les Savy Fav, and SOUND Team, and Broken Social Scene to name a few
• St. Vincent – Your Lips Are Red video…if you click one thing from this links list, make damn sure it’s this.  I still haven’t posted about the Vanderslice/St. Vincent concert, I swear I will, but Annie Clark simply blew me away.  Watch the video to get somewhat of an idea why.
• The new Animal Collective album is called Strawberry Jam.  There’s some live version of album tracks there as well.

An Aquarium Drunkard

• A whole lot of Ryan Adams rarities in anticipation of Easy Tiger
• Bonnie “Prince” Billy in Edinburgh, Scotland 2006
• More St. Vincent greatness: two songs from the album and a couple videos
• Justin also points us towards John Vanderslice’s new free offering: Pixel Revolt Analog Redux…which is Scott Solter remixing JV’s latest album analog style.  From what I’ve heard it sounds like JV mixed with Boards of Canada.  Read an interview about it here from Sixeyes.

Pitchfork: Best of the Forkcast

• The Books – Take Time video…the single greatest thing I’ve seen in a long time.  I’ve yet to see The Books live, but they play videos that go along with the song they’re playing, such as this one for Take Time, and all of them are now available on their new dvd.  I think I may just have to go pick that up.
• New Smashing Pumpkins – Taratula (thanks mainly to the ever great Spinner for this).  I honestly am really disappointed with this.  I’d say I’ll let it grow on me, but I don’t know how much I’m interested in hearing new Smashing Pumpkins.  I don’t want the old SP’s ruined. 
• Page France – The Ruby Ring Man
• Grizzly Bear attempt to sing some French lyrics and do quite well
• Architecture in Helsinki: “Heart It Races (Trizzy’s Rusty Tin Can Mix)”
• Ben Gibbard – Palmcorder Yajna
• …I could go on all day with the links.  While I slightly dislike the site for continuously bashing blogs for not being legitimate, then going an turning into a big blog themselves, you can’t deny the great stuff they continuously come up with.  I guess if I had little indie kids feeding me tips about videos and songs streaming online everyday my site would be pretty chock full of goodness as well.  But alas, no one feels honored to have given me a tip, so I receive very little, nor do I have a huge staff of writers, so the Perch will remain the little blog it is written by its modest writer and my loyal readers will come by every couple days like they always have.  Honestly, I couldn’t ask for more than the support I’ve received so far from everyone who stops by here and you know it means a lot to me because I never get all sappy here.  Heck, how else do you think I got featured by Best Week Ever?  Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that.  Best Week Ever featured my blog the day I took my last final and posted “Mr. Blue Sky” because I was so happy.  I’m pretty sure I had the best week ever that week for sure.  I set a record for most hits on my site, graduated from college, and was featured by Best Week Ever.  Yeah, it’s going to be hard to top that week.

I have no idea why I started rambling out of nowhere on that last bullet, but that’s my style I guess.  I just type until I stop.  Hope the above links point you to at least one thing you enjoy.  I know I said I probably wouldn’t post until Wednesday, but I also forgot that I’d just be sitting all day at home bored until my sister’s graduation, so I went and wrote this huge post.  Don’t forget to click the many blog links I’ve got on the sidebar as they’ve all got just as much great stuff as the ones I linked to above.  I just randomly chose those for today.  Alright, I’m out.

• The Pelican’s Perch featured on Best Week Ever’s blog for the second time