Boss_Tweedy

You guys are in for a treat. I've got a ticket to see them next Friday with Hiss Golden Messenger in New Orleans.

After two listens I don't hate it but I'm also not really loving it either. Nothing is really standing out so far.

New Pornographers' forthcoming "Whitehouse Conditions," now streaming at NPR Music: http://www.npr.org/2017/04/03/522193333/first-listen-the-new-pornographers-whiteout-conditions

I'm a little late with these, but I was a BBQ team member on this year's Hogs for the Cause in New Orleans. I managed to catch the Seratones on Friday night and Fruit Bats, the Marcus King Band and Shovels & Rope yesterday. A great weekend of music, food and sunshine. By the way, I searched the forum and only found one six-year-old thread about Fruit Bats. They're very good. I'm going back through their catalog now, as I was only familiar with their newest release. Check them out!

Unfortunately I didn't make it to the show. My dad was hospitalized yesterday, so I ate the ticket and stayed with him for a few hours last night. If you go let me know how the show is.

Recorded & live music (obviously), baseball (I want to take in a ballgame at every major league ballpark), reading, traveling, Southern history/culture/foodways, national parks/outdoors, history, civil war battlefields, photography (though my camera is prehistoric and I haven't made much time for it in recent years) and sleeping.

Brian Wilson

Elvis

Bobby Rush

I'm happy to advise it's not just a rumor: http://www.stereogum.com/1930949/the-war-on-drugs-releasing-new-single-thinking-of-a-place-on-record-store-day/news/

Elvis's versions of "Too Much Monkey Business" & "Promised Land" are both good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYW0YVQ_b_4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HR_-hsAIRA

He had apparently finished a new album dedicated to his wife that's still scheduled for release later this year. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/chuck-berrys-family-move-forward-with-planned-chuck-lp-w472845

That one's my favorite as well.

Big Thief

It hasn't even been two full months, yet it feels like an eternity since he was inaugurated. It's exhausting. He's exhausting.

Such a huge loss for the music world. Godspeed.

Nice!

I've listened to it a couple of times and think it's solid (as is every album they make). I actually feel that the title song is the weakest track. I do miss the heavy guitars that are less prominent in this release, but for a band to be as consistently good as they are while at the same time evolving over time is pretty incredible.