new music...sort of

here's a demo from margot & the nuclear so & so's...it's making it's way around the web quite quickly so don't assume we know someone who knows someone because we don't...yet.

click here to hear i am a lightning rod.

no news on tour or album release or anything substantial like that...

the new trend...

...is not being dead; which i'm not either. i have nothing to write about really. but, to humor you all i'll write about a mix just made by yours truly. i suppose i can't even say that though. it was made by stephen chbosky, the author of the perks of being a wallflower. i just downloaded and stuck the songs on my itunes. here's the second side of "one winter":

asleep - the smiths

vapour trail - ride

scarborough fair - simon & garfunkel

a whiter shade of pale - procol harum

time of no reply - nick drake

dear prudence - the beatles (substitued by the version from across the universe due to not being able to find anything else)

gypsy - suzanne vega

nights in white satin - moody blues

daydream - smashing pumpkins

dusk - genesis

mlk - u2

blackbird - the beatles

landslide - fleetwood mac

asleep - the smiths

to begin with: i didn't put asleep on there twice by accident. that's what it's like in the book. which is not a bad thing. asleep is a very calming, beautiful song. my favorite of the whole playlist is daydream by the smashing pumpkins and gypsy by suzanne vega. incidentally, this has no point. i just really enjoy good mixes.

oh, and in reply to sami p.'s last post: dear & the headlights are better live. :]

i'm not dead :]

So, since I have been listening to Dear and the Headlights like a crazy person and not to mention the fact that Chad apparently thinks we are dead, I decided to be a good little blogger and review it up. Basically they are great, excellent, fabulous, fantastic, terrific, etc. etc. You choose. But in all seriousness their sound is like no one I have heard before. The vocals are incredible. The music is incredible. There is not one bad song on their album; Small Steps, Heavy Hooves. You should just give them a listen to see what I'm talking about. If you don't enjoy it then you are obviously insane. Oh! I almost forgot..word on the street is that they are even better live. Which is perfect, yeah?
P&L

cafe christmas party

well it didn't last long, but we found a few minutes to share dinner and have us an officious (everything is illuminated anyone?) cafe christmas party. lawrence is in the heartland with family, but asher was in town so that made up for his absence.

flight of the conchords anyone? hey thanks for a great 2007! we'll have great shows in 2008 and we hope you come hang out with us. even if you don't, we'll still have fun!

dreamy dreamerton

apparently i'm the only one of our six writers that is still alive so i'm racking my brain trying to come up with articles...

so here's a band that i just discovered, even though they've been around all year. the band is coconut records and yes, jason schwartzman from films like rushmore, i ♥ huckabees, darjeeling limited and shopgirl is the lead singer. and yes, he's as talented at music as he is at acting (and still SO dreamy).

i have to stop right here and say that i usually hate when hollywood interferes with music and it usually ends up as bad as you'd expect (see 30 seconds to mars, see dogstar). but with an avant-garde artist like schwartzman, we've learned to expect quality and nighttiming certainly delivers. each song off nighttiming is it's own piece of work and each one could and likely will be featured in an indie movie sometime in the next few years. the album still works as a whole, even though each song is starkly different from the others.

so there you go: coconut records.

there will be a funeral for the other four writers of this blog as i'm sure they're dead. and when they give me grief for writing this, just go back and look at our posts and you'll soon realize that they have no ground to stand on. whenever we get the funeral scheduled, i'll surely let you know. we'll do a benefit concert as well to help pay for the funeral expenses too.

questions for our readers

since no one's writing much these days and most of the releases are out for the holiday shopping season and there aren't a whole lot of shows left to cover, here's some questions for our readers to answer (in comment form please):

1. what were your favorite shows of 2007? if you spend any time at the cafe, what cafe show was your favorite?

2. what concerts are you looking forward to in 2008?

3. what cd releases are you excited about for 2008?

4. what band should quit and stop making "music" in 2008?

if we get enough asnwers, we'll tally them and post them later this week. also, we'll answer our own questions too, but we want to hear from you first.

"i hope you're ready to never be good enough..."

usually the business of discovering new music (especially female singers) is tim's job. he's had a full plate lately though and i couldn't let this one go without a nod from the ship. fans of imogen heap and feist should give stacy clark five minutes of their time. or better yet, go straight to her myspace or itunes and just buy apples and oranges. i rarely tell readers to just go buy something, but that's just how compelling and instantly likeable stacy clark's music is.

stacy began in buffalo, new york, but according to her on her website, she now lives in cali (thus the title of her new cd). stacy's music can best be described as a blend of imogen's soulful and catchy songs, psapp's unique background beats/noises and feist's crystal clear vocals.

we'll try to get her into the cafe, but who knows. based on the rumor mill, sounds like she's shopping for a label right now so she might just be playing showcases in l.a. seems like everyone's a big deal these days...

ragardless, go buy her apples and oranges before it gets snatched up by some label that wants to re-release it and pretend like they made a good album.