The Pelican’s Perch

Ah, I love it.  I got a simple, unassuming email today with the header, “An Open Letter to Pitchfork from Airborne Toxic Event”.  I smiled immediately knowing exactly what the email would contain; another ridiculously harsch review and a very well thought out, subtlely sarcastic response back from the band.  SOUND Team went the more [...]

Crazy, crazy times lately over on my end.  Sorry for the lack of posts, but I ended up traveling to Kansas City for work from last Friday until this past Tuesday.  And while there I hung out with my family, saw the most God awful Chiefs game imaginable (getting drunk by 10am because of tailgating [...]

Ah, my birthday.  The only day of the year all my friends on facebook actually talk to me with all their clever happy birthday messages.  Hey, it’s this person and this person I haven’t talked to in forever saying happy birthday to me.  That’s nice.  Wait, who’s this person.  And so on.  It’s fun though.  [...]

Not too long ago, Stereogum had a few new songs from Final Fantasy featured exclusive to his blog.  If you know me at all, you know my love for Owen Pallett’s music.  Sure, it’s strange at times, and it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but I love it.  So, any new Final Fantasy stuff is [...]

Last year, Manchester Orchestra overtook Brand New as my new favorite melodic indie hard rock band.  That category probably doesn’t make sense, but they were my #3 album of the year last year and I’m still listening to the great I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child.  Well, I just got news that they’re in [...]

I rarely write about politics on here, because let’s be honest, you’re either for one side or the other, and most people get very angry when someone from one side talks bad about their candidate.  Heck, I even sat painfully through Guliani’s speech last night and got through most of Palin’s speech as well.  I’ll [...]

I don’t about you, but there’s been exciting time over at my end.  We finally released our label’s online store, which is getting slow, but steady traffic.  No one’s downloaded the albums for free yet, with the lowest being a couple bucks, so, while we’re still at the super beginning stages, I’m still more than [...]

Yeah!  That’s what comes to my mind every time I see the name Ra Ra Riot.  Sure, there’s Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, but I think Ra Ra Riot Yeah! sounds way better.  But enough about their name, this album is incredible.  You heard it right.  Increíble!  That’s Spanish for ya holmes.

At 5pm (Central Time).  It’ll be officially up and running.  Be there.  Let me know what you think.

www.lemondroprecords.com

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 [...]