The Pelican’s Perch

Citizen King – Under the Influence

 I Am Robot and Proud – The Work

Windmill – Plastic Pre-flight Seats

Hawksley Workman – Smoke Baby

Badly Drawn Boy – River, Sea, Ocean

Tegan and Sara – Like O, Like H

Josh Ritter – Wolves

Sondre Lerche – Track You Down

Radiohead – 15 Step (live)

Laura Veirs – Pink Light

Headlights – Your Old Street

Jens Lekman – The Opposite of Hallelujah

Bear Colony – Hospital Rooms Aren’t For Lovers

Dntel – Roll On (ft. Jenny Lewis)

Josh Ritter – The Temptation of Adam

The Bowerbirds – My Oldest Memory

Jose Gonzalez – Killing for Love

The Deadly Syndrome – Animals Wearing Clothes

Today’s my birthday! Fun times. Finally I’m 23 so I can do all kinds of new things like….um….don’t you get to legally have a pet rhino at 23? Or is that you now can legally wear neon 90’s hats sideways in public, ’cause I’ve been doing that for years! So many [...]

Oh what a crazy last four days I’ve had. I hopped in the car with Chris, Lacoma, and Jayme and we drove to Kansas City to meet up with Tyler and Kellen at Trevor’s house. As with Wisconsin, I didn’t know the person we came to stay with, but they ended up being [...]

Ben Lee – American Television

Caribou – After Hours

LCD Soundsystem – North American Scum

Yeah Yeah Yeah’s – Down Boy

Black Before Red – Finding Peace in the City

Lost in the Trees – If You’re Afraid of the Dark

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova – Sleeping

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova – The Swell Season

Stars – Personal

Another week, another Perch [...]

Windmill – Tokyo Moon

Kristoffer Ragnstam – Breakfast By the Mattress

Bloc Party – Hero

The Petites – Best Tasting Wool in the Whole World

Jesca Hoop – Enemy

Paul Michel – An Old Piano

Will Stratton – I’d Hate to Leave You

M. Ward – When I Get to the Border (ft. Zooey Dechanel)

I finally gave Windmill’s Puddle City Racing Lights [...]

Where to begin? Chris had called me wondering if I wanted to fill the fourth seat in the car for their trip to Wisconsin and after all but a minute of thinking, I agreed to go. I’d yet to really get to know Chris and his roommate, so I didn’t know exactly how [...]

Seth Lakeman – Lady of the Sea (Hear Her Calling)

David & the Citizens – Let’s Not Fall Apart
 
John Vanderslice – Karma Police
 
The Lodger – My Advice is on Loan
 
Iron and Wine – Boy With a Coin (middle of post)
 
Pinback – From Nothing to Nowhere (how is “Good to Sea” not the first single!?)
 
Via Audio – Presents

David Bazan’s [...]

Mancino – Hetchie, Hutchie, Footchie

Ben Lee – Begin
 
Interference – Gold (from the Once soundtrack)
 
The Ladybirds – The Brown and Red Divide

Feist – 1, 2, 3, 4 (Vanshe Technologic Remix)

The Postmarks – Goodbye

Basia Bulat – Snakes & Ladders
 
Flunk – Sit Down
 
Josh Ritter – Come and Find Me

Jeff Buckley – Mojo Pin

Mancino – Five Blades

Highlights include Mancino, whose [...]

It was sort of weird this year with Bonnaroo.  Most of my friends went last year and caught Radiohead (sigh) while I was in Seattle doing the Sub Pop thing, so I couldn’t make it last year and swore I’d make it this year.  Then, the day they released the artist list for this summer’s festival, almost [...]