Ed Harcourt on the Tonight Show…tonight
Posted on 06. Jun, 2008 by spencer in Music
I can’t believe he hasn’t played on American Television before. UK heartthrob Ed Harcourt will be on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show this evening to promote his new album (well, that is to say his 2006 album that never got released in the States) The Beautiful Lie, which came out on Dovecote Records last Tuesday. Listening to The Beautiful Lie (and his back catalogue as well) it baffles me why he isn’t as huge in North America as he is in Europe. Last March during SXSW I ended up tagging along [...]
Synthesis Band You’ve Never Heard Of Band Of The Day: The Meltdowns
Posted on 27. May, 2008 by spencer in Band of the Day, Music
I can kinda feel The Meltdowns on several levels. The first track that came up, “Tonight We Dine,” reminds me of what Michael Jackson would put out if he were raised on the Papa Roach cover of his own “Smooth Criminal,” but then decided about a year and a half later that he was “too indie” for Papa Roach anymore, sold off his Ibanez 7-string and downloaded every Gang of Four track he could find on SoulSeek. Unfortunately, he still ended up with a shipwrecked career all because he fondled [...]
Grizzly Bear on Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson Tonight
Posted on 06. Mar, 2008 by spencer in Music
Following last Wednesday’s excellent KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic session, Brooklyn hepcats Grizzly Bear will be featured on tonight’s Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson. They will be performing “Knife” from their latest Warp Records release Yellow House. Sometimes I forget how much I like this band’s plaintive beauty. It helps to remind myself by visitn’ their space. Yeah, thats the ticket.
The band will also be working with legendary musician Paul Simon, who is basically the Shins of your parents’ generation and wrote the songs that they conceived you to. [...]
