The Pelican’s Perch

The Books’ new album The Way Out is released on Temporary Residence in July, and I absolutely can’t wait.  I may be strange to have a band like the Books as one of your all time favorites, but they definitely are for me.  The fact that everyone the band knows claims it to be [...]

Two new songs from two very highly anticipated albums.  I think Band of Horses has the edge as far as my excitement to hear it, but The National’s new album should be just as good.  Can’t wait.

Infinite Arms comes out May 18th.

The National – Afraid of Everyone [mp3]

High Violet comes out May 10th on 4AD.

Stars are finally releasing a new album called Five Ghosts on June 22, 2010 and I couldn’t be more excited.  The first track is “Fixed” and has Stars’ classic sound written all over it.  Enjoy the song and the behind the scenes doc and I’ll post more info on the album as I find it.
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Dave Matthews Band
Kings of Leon
Stevie Wonder
Jay-Z
Tenacious D
Weezer
The Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs perform “Dark Side of the Moon”
The Dead Weather
Damian Marley and Nas
Phoenix
Norah Jones
Michael Franti and Spearhead
John Fogerty
Regina Spektor
Jimmy Cliff
LCD Soundsystem
The Avett Brothers
Thievery Corporation
Rise Against
Tori Amos
The National
Zac Brown Band
Les Claypool
John Prine
The Black Keys
Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers
Jeff Beck
Dropkick Murphys
She & Him
Against [...]

I love Manchester Orchestra, and have just now started getting into Kevin Devine’s music.  His tunes are proving to be great as well, but I found a cover project over at Spinner randomly today that had them cover each others’ songs.  Both covers are great, and whenever something strikes my fancy, you know I’ll be [...]

Mark your calendars for January 19th folks.  That’s the release date for RJD2’s first album since 2007’s The Third Hand, called The Colossus.  Depending on your take on Vampire Weekend, whose new album Contra comes out Tuesday, you may be more excited for RJD2’s new one over Vampire Weekend’s.  I’m probably equally excited about both, but [...]

Jack and the gang from Steel Train have a new EP coming out called Steel Train is Here and they’re giving away the song “You and I Undercover” for free if you sign up for their mailing list.  Listen to the stream below, but I think that’s a pretty fair trade considering how good the [...]

I loved this little 5 minute mini-doc about Karen O and Spike Jonze working together to make the soundtrack.

Look at this!  Seems like yours truly might be using imeem’s embeddable feature a lot more if it means you can stream whole albums.  If you haven’t listened to the album, by all means give the stream [...]

I’m going to start mixing in smaller posts like this with my regular posts to get more content to you guys.  My inbox is swimming in a million “listen to this band!” emails and I want to get most of it out of my inbox and into your headphones.  So, here we go.  This is [...]

Here’s the first single from Vampire Weekend’s upcoming album Contra, which comes out January 12th, 2010.  You may have heard it already, but I’m sure some of you haven’t yet.

And I’ll stream this new Minus the Bear track, as I don’t know if it’s truly been released yet, but it’s really good, like all their [...]