The Pelican’s Perch

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 [...]

So, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) has teamed up with the guys in the band Collections of Colonies of Bees to form a new band called Volcano Choir.  It’s a project they began almost three years ago and a release date for the collaborative album has been set.  September 22nd is that date and it’ll be [...]

Frankel, aka Michael Orendy, is releasing a new album on September 1st entitled Anonymity is the New Fame and from what I’ve read so far, it’s looking to be one of the year’s best releases.  Once I get my hands on the album, I’ll do a more thorough review, but for now, I wanted to [...]

Michelle, my beautiful girlfriend, finally moved on to bigger and better things today, leaving for Annapolis, Maryland pursuing that next step in her career that I stood behind 100%.  It’s an understatement saying it was hard to let her go, since she’d been my best friend for the last nine months, but we both had [...]

Quick update for you Why? fans out there.  Their new song “The Blackest Purse” from their upcoming album Eskimo Snow premiered over at Pitchfork on Tuesday and a friend tipped me off and sent me the link.  “[The songs] feel like song-songs with– I don’t want to say a typical verse-chorus structure, but they’re song-songs,” [...]

I’ll come right out of the gate and admit I had no idea Dodos’ new album was even finished being recorded.  An email yesterday alerted me that not only was their new album all done, but it had leaked onto the interwebs.  In response, Dodos set up a website to counteract the leak and let [...]

Hot from the presses today…
“Brand New Announce New Studio Full-Length Release – Daisy –
Out September 22nd 2009 on Procrastinate Music Traitors/DGC/Interscope and Reveal Details for a Homecoming Event Headlining Nassau Coliseum on November 27th and Featuring a Slew of Special Guest Artists Hand-Picked by the Band Themselves.
The band also excitedly reveals the details for a [...]

Bowerbirds have always been a band I kept around for occasions exactly like today.  Lazy, summer days when I’m just relaxing around the house doing nothing.  It’s perfect music for times when you just want something to accompany you as you read your next favorite book, lounge around the pool, or drift off to sleep.  [...]