These dudes are becoming one of my absolute favorite bands. Their show I saw on Saturday was without a doubt the best live show I’ve seen in years, and this video is SO good!
- Artist: La Dispute
- Track: The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
- Album: Wildlife
- Year: 2011
Headed to Camarillo to see these dudes tonight!
Other Lives at Café De La Danse, Paris - Filmed and edited by Valerie Toumayan val3rie.com
- Artist: Sharon Van Etten
- Track: Serpents
- Album: Tramp
- Year: 2012
I can’t get enough of this track or album. Sharon Van Etten has such a distinct, dark, and brooding tone and attitude throughout the record, and the vocal harmonies… so good.
So I had Russian River’s Pliny the Younger Triple IPA this past weekend—twice!
I’m realizing that I haven’t posted nearly enough Graveyard. These Swedish dudes are fucking incredible and their aggressive, bluesy brand of rock makes their 2011 release, Hisingen Blues, my top album of last year by far. If you like anything from Black Sabbath to Led Zeppelin to Deep Purple to Janis Joplin to AC/DC to Hendrix, I really just don’t see how you couldn’t like it. I’m biased, but I feel like this album has everything (flawless riffs, flawless percussion, extremely unique and badass rock vocals, beyond memorable songwriting, lyrics about Lucifer) that makes a classic album. I guarantee I’ll be 65 and still headbanging to these guys.
If you haven’t heard them before, I’d highly recommend checking out the entire album. If that’s too much work, at least check out the track above (“Rss”) and this one, “The Siren,” which I posted an awesome live video of last year and is my absolute favorite track of 2011.
- Me: ”What should we do tonight?”
- The Lady: ”Want to go for a beer?”
- Me: ”YES.”
- The Lady: ”Where should we go? Eureka Burger?”
- Me: ”YESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!”
I can’t get enough of this place. Had a Heretic Worry (brand new chardonnay barrel-aged Belgian-style strong ale from one of my absolute favorite breweries), a Firestone Walker Double Jack, and a North Coast Old Rasputin Imperial Stout on nitro. SO GOOD.
Buffalo Trace @ Eureka Burger SLO. Moments before, I had (on tap) a North Coast Old Rasputin NITRO, a Stone Ruination IPA, and a Grand Teton Pursuit of Hoppiness. Awesome place… and they’re debuting the new Heretic chardonnay barrel-aged beer on Thursday!
Holy. Shit. An endless stream of chills just flowed through my body. [via hermitologist]
- Artist: First Aid Kid
- Track: To A Poet
- Album: The Lion’s Roar
- Year: 2012
First Aid Kid is so mindblowingly f’awesome. These vocal harmonies just haunt me.
- Artist: Cheyenne Marie Mize
- Track: Back Around
- Album: We Don’t Need EP
- Year: 2012
Here’s another song I just can’t get enough of. It’s a riffy, dark, kinda heavy post-rock song that reminds me of UpCDownC, Evpatoria Report, and Sweek—AKA some my favorite post-rock bands—and that has a really sweet violin section in the middle too… all of which is pretty surprising considering the first Cheyenne Marie Mize song (Wishing Well) I heard reminded me of older Regina Spektor and Tune-Yards. Actually, the whole We Don’t Need EP covers a lot of ground genre(s)-wise, and it’s all done really well. Definitely worth checking out.
Kern River Just Outstanding IPA is awesome. I mean outstanding. Nice pine and tropical fruit aroma, intensely bitter hop taste with a sweet malt backbone, and medium carbonation with a surprisingly creamy mouthfeel. Really solid stuff. Will be drinking more….. tonight.
- Artist: Father John Misty
- Song: Only Son of the Ladies’ Man
- Album: Fear Fun
- Year: 2012
Father John Misty (J. Tillman) is the ex-drummer of Saxon Shore and Fleet Foxes, and makes some most excellent folk-rock jams. (I swear I listen to genres other than folk.) On my drive into work this morning, I decided that this track is my favorite of the year so far. So check it out.
RIYL Fleet Foxes, S. Carey, Chris Bathgate, Bon Iver, Cave Singers, Iron & Wine.
Other notable tracks on the record: ”This Is Sally Hatchet,” “Hollywood Forever Cemetary Sings”
Just for shits: my Murder By Death record collection!
