Free Live Shows (MP3) From NPR & KEXP via iTunes Store
There are a ton of free live shows available through the iTunes store.
Check out these links:
KEXP: Includes shows from Thurston Moore, Twilight Sad, Battles, Beirut, Watson Twins, Stars, Grizzly Bear, Wrens, Magic Numbers, Okkervil River, etc.
Owl and Bear’s Top 20 Albums of 2007
Owl and Bear writers’ favorite albums of 2007.
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Pitchfork Music Festival 2007 (II)
Note: Photos in this essay depict re-enactments of actual events, not the events themselves.
Thursday, July 12
McCaskill picked me up at my folks’ house at 9PM. We weren’t planning to leave Jackson until about 1 or 2AM, but we’d decided to hang out a while and say goodbyes because, naturally, we may never come back.
Instead of going to the bar, for obvious reasons, we opted for dinner. Regardless, as with alcohol, we are both bottomless pits for food. The meal was uneventful, save for the fact that our waitress had apparently served McCaskill once before, and had taken offense to a conversation about foreskins. Despite this, the food was palatable and (hopefully) spit-free.
Pitchfork Music Festival 2007 (I)
Let’s get this out of the way: fuck the Chicago Tribune. They messed up a lot of indie fans this past weekend by printing completely wrong directions to the Pitchfork Music Festival. Despite having lived in the Chicago area for nearly eight years and being with two people who attended the festival last year, I still managed to take the Green Line L train all the way to the end of the line (as per the directions), nearly five miles south of Union Park. A long string of expletives and one forty minute bus ride later, we had missed nearly all of Slint, the first act of the first night. It’s a shame, too, as they sounded pretty damn good.
The Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
2007, Fat Cat
The Twilight Sad’s latest album, Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters, is less sad than cathartic.
Their name is somewhat deceiving; those expecting funereal, ethereal, twilit soundscapes need not even give the band a second glance. If, however, you think that My Bloody Valentine sorely needs an accordion and a thicker accent, well, then this is the album for you.
