The Pelican’s Perch

I don’t know whether to be incredibly excited, nervous, or just relieved, but the last two weeks of work are about to pay off. Tonight our LemonDrop benefit show is finally here and I can’t wait. I’m learning how to run a record label every step of the way, and this was a [...]

That’s right.  I recently talked to a few of the guys from Detektivbyran, aka my favorite instrumental band of the moment, and they were more than excited to participate in an interview.  The only problem was I didn’t really have any questions to ask them at the time.  So, just like we did with the [...]

Ben Lee – American Television

Caribou – After Hours

LCD Soundsystem – North American Scum

Yeah Yeah Yeah’s – Down Boy

Black Before Red – Finding Peace in the City

Lost in the Trees – If You’re Afraid of the Dark

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova – Sleeping

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova – The Swell Season

Stars – Personal

Another week, another Perch [...]

Honestly, I’m blown away by the two poster designs my friends made for our upcoming show.  I wanted a variety of poster designs for this first show, so I talked to two of my graphic design friends and boy did they ever come through with some great designs.  You’ve already seen Jeremy’s vintage design.  Those [...]

I look like Edward Norton when I have short hair. It’s really funny when four people tell me throughout this last week that I look and sound like the guy. He’s one of my favorite actors, so I’ll take it as a compliment, but it has been a bit odd at the frequency [...]

I’ve been super busy all week with LemonDrop stuff and I couldn’t be happier to finally be saying that.  My good friend back in KC designed that tasty promo poster for our upcoming LemonDrop Showcase show next Thursday.  I’ve also got a new friend of mine Casey working on another poster design I think we’ll [...]

Youtube has the world premier of Animal Collective’s first single “Peacebone”.  I’ve been listening to their album Strawberry Jam obsessively these past few months.  Their most accessible album yet and my favorite so far.  Love it.  Crank it up to 11 and tell me it’s not one heck of a dance song.
Peacebone
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P.S.  The comments [...]

First off…Pandora.com.  Go there, register, and listen to the best internet radio has to offer.  Well, maybe not the best, but it’s great.  Just type in someone like Ben Folds and it plays Ben Folds and all kinds of other bands that are eerily accurate in comparison to Folds.  I can’t get enough of it.

I’ve [...]

So two days ago I went to a free kegger that also doubled as an indie dance party. After seeing Springfield favorites Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (whose new songs were amazing by the way), we headed over to this so-called dance party which I knew no one and was curious to see [...]

I’m going on a float trip this weekend, so I just planned on leaving the Perch Mix up all weekend and calling it a day so you could fully soak the mix in, but I got an email about Rilo Kiley streaming their album and figured I’d let you all know in case you didn’t.  [...]