welch79

http://consequenceof...ong-the-leaves/

"For lack of a more coherent assessment, not knowing how I feel about it actually IS how I feel about it."

http://stereogum.com/1045732/album-of-the-week-sun-kil-moon-among-the-leaves/top-stories/lead-story/

It was a great show indeed. Got to meet her afterwards as well.. Very nice person.

 

And I'll second that

jealous!

http://www.pitchfork.com/features/interviews/8845-mark-kozelek/

interesting read re: the thoughts behind an interesting album.

great show at the bijou in knoxville last night. fourth row. she is captivating...in so many ways.

definitely worth a listen...i view them as sort of a "dvd extra/commentary" on yhf meaning that it's a neat "backstory" to where the songs came from (and could have been). also, essential to the whole commentary/backstory to the album is the documentary by sam jones that if you've not seen, see it!

..not expecting much, but I enjoyed it so much I played it again. Very surprising, because I usually find her stuff a real snoozefest. I highly recommend giving it a try, even if you don't think you'll like it.

my sentiment exactly! glad to hear some of you are giving it a shot and liking it. i'm wearing it out.

portlandia is great. really, really like it.

never listened to sleater-kinney but tried the wild flag album. maybe i'll give it another shot.

i'll have to follow her on twitter.

came here to post the atlantic story. crow beat me to it!

good read. spinning yhf presently.

ah meth...if there ever is to be a zombiepocalypse, this, my friends, this will be the cause.

sarah, my wife works as a social worker for the state just a county or so north of you (monroe), and she has to remove kids all. the. time. because of this abomination that causes desolation (as mentioned...the rewiring of the brain).

and, high heat...i've backpacked the at from springer to just north of the nolichucky river in east tn/western nc. the zero day i took in hot springs, nc was eye opening. i honestly thought i was in a george a. romero movie. i wanted to go to a pawn shop and get a ball bat and a sawed-off shotgun so i could rest easy. it was me and three buddies walking the trail, and we got a room in a little motel right by the river. all of the doors looked like they had been broken into. my suspicions were exacerbated by the fact that the first room we were given smelled like cat piss (a hallmark of meth production)...at dinner at the paddler's pub, we were cased by a duo we affectionately called "itchy and scratchy" for obvious reasons. when we realized what was going on, two of us raced back to our room to check. i think our actions spooked them, but that didn't prevent me from barricading the door with the dresser that night.

one evening, we drove down to a sister small city to eat at this little hibachi place that is tasty. at the main intersection in town at a dairy queen, there was a mobile meth lab bust where a really intelligent couple had decided to produce meth in the trunk of their car.

oh, and speaking of mobile meth labs and the at, there was another spot on the at in nc south of the smokies where we walked into a gap with a highway. the scene looked like one from a movie: cop cars, fire trucks, folk on fenced handcuffed...all because of a mobile meth lab.

so, it's bad here in east tn/western nc, the appalachians, and i've heard it's even worse further north in ky and especially wv. my guess is that it is due to not being educated coupled with being poor and needing the money, and probably comes from moonshine culture. for a while, i think that pot supplanted the stills, but this meth, jeez...terrible, scary stuff.

this book sounds fascinating, and there is something fascinating about why people choose to destroy themselves. what little i've read about it astounds me. one thing i remember is that after six months of casual use, you have to use meth to climax sexually, just because that's the portion of the brain it stimulates, the dopamine producing area, and, after a year, you can no longer attain sexual climax...these may be scare tactic statistics, but that's enough for me!

so...i fully expect to have stones thrown at me for this post, but i've been streaming this from NPR for the past few days, and i can't get enough of it. i think it is really good, and it definitely doesn't sound like the typical norah jones i've ever heard (not that there is anything wrong with that sound, necessarily).

it has a definite "indie" sound to it, and i'll be interested to see how the general public take to it because of this. out this tues (streaming now), if anyone is interested.

I think the new record is pretty bad ass. Anybody else heard it yet?

this is my feeling exactly: bad ass. like, listening to this album makes me feel like one. great riffs, song structure is all over the place but well done.

i read a really long article about jack white in the NYT a couple weeks ago, and my take-away from it was that he is a pretentious twat (i'll borrow that description, thankyouverymuch), so i don't really know why i even gave this a chance. i mean, i've never spent any real time with any of his previous efforts. anyway, i'm glad i gave this a shot because now i can't stop listening to it!

I glanced at this on RSD, and determined that for the $40, I didn't need it partially because several of the tracks they released on Vol. III were available somewhere because I had several of them on a playlist called "Outta Print/Outta Mind." I agree that the PF review said very little in its rather wordy (par for the course) review. I was actually a bit surprised by their 8.1...not that I don't like the sessions, but that I just didn't see them giving such a high score to it.

CD longboxes

good riddance...those things were SO hard to steal.

(totally kidding btw. i didn't steal music until napster ...which could, at this point, have it's own entry in "the nostalgia thread.")

have you watched "i am trying to break your heart?" for some reason, i guess due to the scene with the strings towards the end where they are trying to decide how it should sound, i've always associated this song lyrically with YHF the album, like jeff is singing it to the album that almost wasn't.

i think it's a perfect end to a perfect album, outro and all.

Had this same experience. My two year old girl loves it as well, especially "Hold On". I asked her this morning if she wanted to watch Barney, Elmo or Alabama Shakes (from Conan) and she resoundingly said "Bama Shakes!!". I can't wait to see them and Gary Clark Jr. at Newport. From your earlier comments on Plant/Zeppelin, check out this cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbDJW2oK7zw

that's cool! thanks for sharing that. it is the early zeppelin that i heard in them, so this makes sense to me for them to cover this.

i know we use this term a lot around here, but on the first and second spin, this album was just sort of there, after that, it stuck with me, like an ear worm, and i had to play it more and more. yesterday for instance i listened to the whole thing top to bottom four times.

all that to say: it was a grower for me.

and, i think the sequencing/track order speaks in and of itself. this is a solid, cohesive set of songs.

so...when i went last week to grab m. ward's new album, beside it in the new releases was "boys and girls" by alabama shakes. i've seen them mentioned as a pretty good live act, sorta grungy (but not seattle/plaid grunge), but never listened to the ep out last year nor any of the posted videos of them. but, their album was cheap so i grabbed it, what the hell, right? long story short, this is a fantastic album that i think deserves its own thread.

i know some of you have seen them live because of comments, but i'm interested to hear how this album's sound stacks up to their live show?

another comment that i had read on here (forgot the thread) that really grabbed my attention was that someone said robert plant left some show 30 mins early to go see alabama shakes, which, now, strikes me as interesting because there are several parts on this album where i can hear led zepp's influence (but i don't find it derivative).

check this album out.

can't wait for the vinyl!

i think i read somewhere that a few tracks were penned on the spot. one in particular i remember was criminals. seems like jay wrote it just minutes before recording it? anybody recall reading anything like that?

re: sandusky...when my best friend got married a few years back, i edited his wedding video, and for the menu, playing in the background was sandusky. i think it just sounds hopeful, and "in progress" all at the same time.

in trying to familiarize myself with this dude, i came across this ted talk that he did couple febs ago. it's a 20 min clip, but it's pretty neat for fans or folk trying to learn who this guy is.

http://www.ted.com/t...magination.html

this was my first andrew bird album, and i dig it. may try to catch his ryman show next week.

i lost interest with wincing. the two songs on snl didn't grab me, either. still might check it out, though.

several have already been listed, but i'll add:

the avett bros.

sun kil moon

cool. thanks for sharing!

Tickets are only $15, so I wouldn't be out much.

you're on track with that line of thinking.

his snl songs were very well done (beth/rest really shines live, as does holocene).

also, it was neat seeing him win the grammy. at first, he was all, "i'm not going to the grammys...that's not what it's about." but, i guess he had a change of heart, went, and was really appreciative. i enjoyed his acceptance speech as well, giving a shout out to the multitudes of acts that are better than 97% of what the public sees on the grammy award show.