Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold Channels Breezier Version of Pearl Jam on ‘Fallon’
Plus, check out three songs we think we should cover on-stage.
Plus, check out three songs we think we should cover on-stage.
Check out Father John Misty’s cover of Do You Realize?? by the Flaming Lips.
Back in 2008, the Swedish sister duo of Johanna and Klara Söderberg, who perform and record as the First Aid Kit, became indie-rock viral video sensations when they posted a
We continue detailing our staff’s favorite albums with a look at #’s 10 – 6.
[Originally Published: April 14, 2011]
Back in 1989, when MTV was still living up to its Music Television title, the cable network debuted a show with a simple premise called Unplugged. Artists from a wide variety of genres would perform acoustic sets in front of a small audience. By 1992 the show had produced a #1 single (Mariah Carey’s I’ll Be There) and a #1 album (Eric Clapton’s Unplugged) and dozens of memorable performances.
MTV’s Unplugged is currently in its 21st season with Lykke Li, Train and Adam Lambert among the latest batch of underwhelming performers visiting the show. It’s been quite some time since an episode of Unplugged has generated lots of buzz and we’d like to see that change. For this week’s B List, I’ve put together a list of ten acts I think would kill on Unplugged…
10. Fleet Foxes
While appearing on Unplugged wouldn’t exactly take Fleet Foxes out of their comfort zone since frontman Robin Pecknold usually plays an acoustic, we would love the whole band eschew electricity for a set of pastoral folk-rock.
READ ON for nine more acts that would revitalize Unplugged…
With my turn in the Friday Mix Tape rotation serendipitously coinciding with me dropping my Top 6 Of The First 6 list yesterday, it seemed only appropriate that I use
With the first six months of 2011 beginning to feel like a distant memory, I figured it was time to continue a tradition by taking a look at my favorite six albums of the first half of the year for the Top 6 Of The First 6…
6) The Head And The Heart – The Head And The Heart
I’ll admit it, I had it in my mind that I wasn’t going to like The Head And The Heart’s self-titled debut, solely based on Bob Boilen of All Songs Considered fame not really being into it. It wasn’t until I caught the band’s exuberant performance of Lost In My Mind on Conan that I was finally ready to embrace the band’s brand of folk-pop, which doesn’t fall too far from the Blind Pilot tree. The Seattle-based act’s album is full of extremely likeable songs that immediately get stuck in your head, bouncy rhythms and lush three-part harmonies that are anchored by lead singer Josiah Johnson and beautifully accompanied by on the high end by Jonathan Russell and Charity Rose Thielen’s sultry, smoky vocals.
READ ON for the rest of Jeff’s Top 6 Of The First 6…
This summer jam-pop trio Dispatch will head out on their first extended tour together since 2002, which kicks off with a three-night run at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre from
Fleet Foxes and their openers The Cave Singers, two Seattle-based bands, played the city’s Moore Theatre for the second consecutive night last evening to a sold-out and enthusiastic hometown crowd. I live-tweeted from the show for @Hidden_Track and to get a sense of what it was like to attend I’ve complied my tweets and twitpics below.
Both bands had the audience’s strict attention all night. The Cave Singers, who drew enough fans to more than half fill the Moore for their set, warmed up the stage with their blend of psychedelic-folk rock lead by lead singer Pete Quirk’s raspy growls and charming stage presence. Fleet Foxes, on the day their sophomore album Helplessness Blues was released, commanded the stage and offered a blistering and genuine performance of new and old tunes.
READ ON for a look at Andy’s tweets from the Fleet Foxes gig…
Virtually as impenetrable as it is alluring on first listen, Fleet Foxes’ Helplessness Blues ultimately becomes one of those albums that reveals something new about the music and the band that made it on each successive hearing.