The Pelican’s Perch

That’s right.  You heard it here probably dead last, but I figured I’d update everyone on this very indie engagement in case you hadn’t heard.  Sorry Kellen, you’ll find your Zooey someday.  It just won’t be of the Deschanel variety now it seems.  Gibbard was dating one of my bosses at Sub Pop when I [...]

Merry Christmas everyone!  I’m traveling home back to Kansas City for the holiday to hang out with the family and have a Home Alone style Christmas with my mom’s side of the family, which includes 9 aunts and uncles and 8 cousins.  I’m sure I’ll be bored as ever sitting at home, so I’ll try [...]

Ah, the infamous list.  I saw the link on someone’s blog, gave a slight chuckle, then said what the heck, I’ll check it out.  I’m working on my list at the moment, and I can say it’s drastically different from Pitchfork’s, but that could be based on a variety of factors.  My life has been [...]

I don’t know who Novel is, but apparantly he helped produce albums from Alicia Keys, India.Arie, and Joss Stone.  None of which I listen to obviously, but I couldn’t ignore the email I got today saying his new EP was about to come out, with the first single called “I Am”, featuring none other than [...]

Locust Toybox is the musical stylings of one David Firth.  He’s an animator who is most known for creating the super weird Salad Fingers cartoon shorts.  I was familiar with his cartoons, but had no idea he made music as well.  If you could imagine what kind of music would come from an animator that [...]

Honey Claws is a four-man experimental hip hop troop that I have one heck of a time describing.  I’m looking at their one sheet and I’m seeing all kinds of phrases like “experimental hip-hop psychedelia”, “robotic trippiness”, “sexed up beats”, “Panda Bear meets Madlib”, “Playful, wild-eyed, stream of consciousness energy”, and so on and so [...]

This is the time of year that I scour the blogs finding all kinds of music I missed on people’s end of the year lists.  Getting gifts at Christmas is fine sure, but the year end lists are the real reason I love the end of the year.  Here’s all but the top 10 songs [...]

Wow, so many apologies for my week long absence.  My days basically go from 8am to midnight or so every weekday, with work during the day, Lemondrop for 2 or 3 hours, then I get home and people are usually hanging out, or we go downtown.  Then, by the time we get back, it’s super [...]