By Marvin Marks on Mar 31, 2010 in Features | 5 Comments
“Dear God” is probably my favorite song from the Monsters of Folk self titled debut album. It’s got this “70s soul” style chorus with some lovely harmonies that really kick my beans in. The verses are pretty cool too and M. Ward, Conor Oberst, and Yim Yames each take a turn singing a verse (very [...]
By Marvin Marks on Jan 11, 2010 in Features | 2 Comments
Some of the bands listed here released their debut album in 2009 so it’s no surprise that I’ve only recently “discovered” their music. On the other hand, some of them have been around for good long while and I’ve only recently gave them a good listen. What’s the point of this list? The idea is [...]
By Marvin Marks on Dec 14, 2009 in Song Reviews | 5 Comments
For awhile I’ve been meaning to pick up the debut self titled CD by Monsters of Folk for awhile as I’m a pretty decent sized fan of the solo work of some of the members of this indie rock supergroup, particularly M. Ward (the band also features Conor Oberst and Mike Mognis from Bright Eyes [...]
By Marvin Marks on Nov 30, 2009 in Features | 0 Comments
Amazon is having some more of those “lightning deals” in celebration of “Cyber Monday” (similar to the deals they had on “Black Friday.”) These are the upcoming deals on CDs that you may want to check out (the prices are ridiculously low but the quantities are also low, so you have to act quickly.) The [...]
By Long Bong on Oct 29, 2009 in Music Trivia | 3 Comments
The soundtrack for the new Twilight movie is at #1 this week in it’s first full week of release (it was #2 last week despite being released on a Friday instead of the usual Tuesday.) I must admit that I bought this soundtrack even though I rarely buy movie soundtracks and even though I think [...]
By Marvin Marks on Oct 22, 2009 in Music Trivia | 0 Comments
I was thinking: “I wonder how many of the 200 albums on the Billboard 200 are by artists I dig?” This may seem like a rather thin concept for a blog post, but compared to a lot of the crap I post here, this is brilliant! #002 Twilight Soundtrack No, I’m not a fan of [...]
By TheRoboticMushroom on Oct 15, 2009 in Music Trivia | 0 Comments
Despite Michael Buble’s new album (Crazy Love) coming out on Friday (rather than Tuesday) he was still able to get the #1 spot on the new Billboard album charts. He beat out Kiss (which debuted at #2 with Sonic Boom) and Toby Keith (who debuted at #3 with American Ride.) Yes, there are people who [...]
