The Pelican’s Perch

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 [...]

I’m sure most of you have been wondering what happened to the old Perch, the one that had two or three updates a day and got you the new indie music news on a daily basis.  I often wondered that too myself.  Basically, a few months ago I lost my long time job.  So, for [...]

It took two tries and was a long time coming, but my interview with Detektivbyran, my current favorite instrumental band, is finally here.  I sent the questions, both your questions and mine, to the band right as they embarked on their tour for Wermland, and Anders was kind enough to sit down and answer the [...]

Sometimes the best medicine when you’ve been busy as ever, unorganized, and just plain stressed out is to simply leave civilization altogether. Go somewhere where computers don’t exist, your cell phone doesn’t work, and your wallet is completely useless. That place for me was Ponca, Arkansas, camping and floating on the Buffalo river [...]

Another day, another song. I don’t know why the songs are coming so easily all of a sudden for me. This one is a fun one I wrote after watching the end of Message in a Bottle upon waking up from my nap, and while the ending to that is terribly depressing, I still liked [...]

can see why heartbreak is the root of some of our best songs ever. I get just a taste of it and songs come flowing out. This song resulted from a recent conversation that was capped off with an “I love you, but I’m not in love with you”, and my reaction was exactly what [...]

Love sucks sometimes. Definitely one of my most personal songs to date. I’m sure most of you can relate to something in this song. Hope you like it. I sure do.
Heart

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Heart
by Kevin Ehlers (aka Honest Artist)
It’s that feeling that you get when you just know
What they came to say and [...]

Well, not exactly.  But I’m traveling tomorrow and seeing “No Country For Old Men” with my dad.  Then, we’ve got the big Holiday.  So, I’m wishing everyone a happy Turkey Day now since I won’t post probably until Friday.  Enjoy the random songs I found when searching for the word Turkey.
Bob Dylan – Turkey Chase

John [...]

The Acorn – Hold Your Breath

Yeasayer – Sunrise

Jesca Hoop – Summertime

The Mabuses – Mirth

Matt Pond PA – Wild Girl

Sunset Rubdown – Up on Your Leopard, Upon Your Feral Days

The Golden Republic – Hemel Dalingen

Enon – Pigeneration

Frida Hyvonen – The Modern

Regina Spektor – Chemo Limo

The Acorn – Lullabye (Mountain)

We made it! Three years of blogging [...]

“When i was in my early 20’s i used to look at someone like these 2 look at eachother, then it ends, another comes along, it ends, another comes along, it ends, until you find it hard to look at someone like that again. In my 30’s now so its good to look at how [...]