Now Now - St. Vincent St Vincents myspace. St. Vincent is the band of 25 year old Annie Clark: 'an avid tea drinker,{who} used to hair model, and feels uncomfortable when people use the term, "let's pull the trigger on this." ' You can read up on News and tour dates at her website, I Love St. Vincent. Right now, she is in Australia, but lets hope she makes it over to the U.S. soon!
Asher Roth.A 23 year old rapper from Pennsylvania, his first cd the greenhouse effect was released last June, with DJ Drama and Don Cannon. I'm intrigued.
We Are Gods! We Are Wolves! - Le Loup The indie alternative band is laden with beats and harmonies. Most of it reminds me of the feeling you get on a chilly day when a beam of sunlight shines into and subsequently warms a room. Still cold, but hopeful. The band was started by a man named Sam Simkoff, who built it up slowly but surely creating music, adding band mates and creating a name for himself/themselves. You can find out more about them on their site or their myspace, where sadly they seem to be friends with tila tequila, which I have to be slightly disappointed about, but to each his own.
Black Cab Sessions - Bon Iver from Aaron Landry on Vimeo. Well, your really in for it now. Thanks to unruly things I have discovered the black cab sessions. I'm obsessed, which means if you can't appreciate the vaguely faulty camera angles and occasional sound of wind against the low def. speakers, then I have probably (and oh so sadly) just lost some readers. But, please. One of a kind recording from musicians in a moving cab? Frankly, if you can't appreciate that, I don't know how you found yourself here in the first place.
What I really mean to say is I will be putting up waay too many black sessions from here on out. Its up to you to tell me when to stop. And trust me, I will appreciate it, the telling that is, as much as I may grumble about the wonderful uniqueness of a live recording.
But, back to this particular video, Bon Iver is an indie folk singer/songwriter from Eau Claire Wisconsin, soon to be on tour and NPR's World Cafe. You can check out his website for tour dates, or to listen to a few other song downloads. Its raining momentarily and it is very befitting of his particular sound. I have the urge to make tea and go marry a carpenter....
