The Pelican’s Perch

Windmill - Tokyo Moon

Kristoffer Ragnstam - Breakfast By the Mattress

Bloc Party - Hero

The Petites - Best Tasting Wool in the Whole World

Jesca Hoop - Enemy

Paul Michel - An Old Piano

Will Stratton - I’d Hate to Leave You

M. Ward - When I Get to the Border (ft. Zooey Dechanel)

I finally gave Windmill’s Puddle City Racing Lights [...]

What a surprising little charming album this turned out to be.  I’m admittedly behind in the Brunettes game, but I most likely will be digging a little deeper into their back catalogue after hearing Structure & Cosmetics.  The Brunettes are Johnathan Bree and Heather Mansfield, and their music recalls romantic songs of old.  While [...]

No time for a post today.  Super busy.  But, I did rework my latest song and added a little outro part and changed the singing a bit.  I think it turned out way better because of the new outro.  The end.
I’ve got post-it notes lining my computer screen with bands to talk about, so expect [...]

I’ve always been a fan of Hot Hot Heat since Make Up the Breakdown invaded my collection with it’s catchy pop goodness.  But not being able to reproduce this sound resulted in a lot of hostility for the band among the media and then losing a key member of the band that helped give them [...]

This summer’s been insane and kept me super busy, so writing songs wasn’t exactly on the top of my list of things to do, but now that I’ve got more time to myself again, I decided it was a good time to start up again. I originally wrote this song to be a part [...]

Thanks to B.J. for the heads up on SPIN posting a new Rogue Wave track. It’s growing on me I have to say. Didn’t do much for me at first, but Rogue Wave’s also one of my favorite bands so I always have super high expectations. And it’s kind of fitting I [...]

Wendel Patrick is the alias piano player Kevin Gift performs under. Right before I left for Wisconsin, I had the chance to talk a bit to Wendel and he couldn’t be a nicer guy. I’m going to just strike the phrase “it’s not my usual style” when describing music on here that’s slightly [...]

Where to begin? Chris had called me wondering if I wanted to fill the fourth seat in the car for their trip to Wisconsin and after all but a minute of thinking, I agreed to go. I’d yet to really get to know Chris and his roommate, so I didn’t know exactly how [...]

It’d be an understatement saying I had a blast this past week in Wisconsin.  It was all I could ask for and more.  Post re-capping the week tomorrow with mp3’s, pictures, and stories galore!  See you tomorrow!

I haven’t said much about this, but I’m heading to Wisconsin with a few friends on a whim since I really haven’t done anything all summer up to this point.  They called me a few days ago asking if I wanted to go, so I thought what the heck, and said yes.  So, unless I [...]