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Day 2: Can’t Get It Right Today by Joe Purdy
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I’m posting one song (more or less) per day. Unoriginal? Yeah. Good? Definitely. This one is for you mom…
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I have a confession to make; I was looking for an “advanced copy” of Death Cab’s forthcoming album using bittorrent. I know, I’m ashamed but I need my fix. Well to my ecstatic surprise I found what I thought was a leak of Narrow Stairs, but after further investigation (ie reading other people’s comments) I found that some bush league blogger had put another band’s music up and called it Death Cab’s new release. That other band was Velveteen, funny how the internet works sometimes…

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When I hear about solo acts what usually runs through my mind is dull acoustic chords being played in repetition for three minute segments followed by one uninspired song after the other. Thankfully SoundSuck has found hope in one JB Barnett, a relative newcomer to the scene but definitely an artist who is here to stay. I got the chance to ask JB some questions and pick at the mind of one of our favorite upcoming musicians…

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The Rosewood Thieves, one of the most intuitive folk rock bands around are coming to Austin on May 3rd. What makes this show that much more irresistible is the fact that the New York natives will be accompanied by Frank Smith.

Unfortunately I’m not gonna be able to make it but if you go try to get some pictures of the show we can post up later.

Date: May 3rd, 8:00
Location: The Mohawk, Austin, TX
Tickets will be sold at the door.

Map available here.

The Rosewood Thieve’s MySpace

Frank Smith’s MySpace

Music today often feels like it’s all about image; the look of a band or how “professional” the album sounds have become dominating priorities when recording and marketing an artist. To hear someone like Olin and the Moon, whose music and lyrics are grounded in earnestly, is a stimulating change of sonic scenery…

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Album: Black Sheep Boy

With Okkervil River’s latest release, The Stage Names, the band has received a fair amount of deserving publicity but I feel their greatest album was the one before this. Black Sheep Boy was a concept album revolving around the song of the same name by folk singer Tim Hardin. Front man Will Sheff wrote what is in my mind one of the greatest concept albums of all time. From start to finish Black Sheep Boy poetically describes the tension we we all live in between unchecked passion and depressing discontent. Like a disenchanted dream the album holds an ethereal weight that only grows as the album continues…

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