The Pelican’s Perch

When it comes to DIY albums, I’ll be the first to admit, I almost always don’t like them.  Being somewhat of an audiofile, I like my albums sounding polished and squeaky clean with production value up the wazoo.  Which is kind of ironic considering my future album, whenever that gets around to being recorded, will [...]

Long time readers should be more than excited to be reading this post.  My record label, which I started almost exactly a year ago with a friend, is one week from being officially up and running.  What took so long?  Well, a ton of stuff came up on our quest to get the label running [...]

I’ll admit right off the bat that if I found Owl City a few years ago, I’d be proclaiming it the best music I’d heard in a long time.  Of course, I’ve been past my Postal Service phase for a while now, and while Mae are still a guilty pleasure of mine, they’re not nearly [...]

I mentioned that Annuals will be release their follow up album, Such Fun, on October 7th in my Sunfold post, but now there’s an actual song to listen to from the new album.  It’s called “Confessor” and it’s a nice little string filled number that is more laid back than most their songs, but I [...]

I’ll make this short, but sweet.  Click the hype machine links to listen more to the bands I’ve had in heavy rotation lately.

Sunfold - Toy Tugboats
Owl City - Maybe I’m Dreaming
Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
Peter Bradley Adams - Leavetaking
Bombadil [...]

I recently swapped music with my friend Grant before he left town for good to live in Detroit.  He will be missed surely, but I figured I’d take advantage of one of the few people besides me here in town that had an even more extensive, organized music collection than me.  I think all but [...]

If you’re anything like me and love the band Annuals, then you should be more than excited to hear Sunfold, the music of Annuals’ lead guitarist Kenny Florence.  It’s hard to describe Florence’s sound as it sometimes sounds like vintage Annuals, while other time it sounds nothing at all like his main band.  Everyone that [...]

I’m almost positive they filmed this here in Springfield.  I recognize that neighborhood they’re playing in.  I could be wrong, but hey, any new SSLYBY news I’m posting.

If some big publication took a quote from my professional review of this movie, it’d probably be something like this.
“One of the most visually stunning, beautiful movies I’ve ever seen with a simple plot that centers around storytelling itself and taps into a childhood sense of imagination that is found in all of us.”