The Pelican’s Perch

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 [...]

I can not wait for October 27th to arrive, the date when Glen and Marketa’s new album Strict Joy is finally released.  The Once soundtrack made my top album of the year, and the movie remains one of my all time favorites.  In anticipation for their upcoming album, I did a little digging for new [...]

Sufjan’s been off the radar for some time.  It’s been four years since Illinoise was released, and one of my favorite all-time singer/songwriters simply just dropped off the face of the Earth.  Was I surprised?  Not in the least.  Sufjan’s always shyed away from the spotlight, as proven by him dropping that 50 states/50 albums [...]

My favorite couple in the world, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, are back with a new album following their Once success, entitled Strict Joy.  I don’t know a lot of details, but it’ll be released on October 27th and you can bet it’ll be somewhere in my top 20.  I did put the Once soundtrack [...]