Reunited, and it feels so good.

We braved the spitting rain and cold temps to meet last night over at Jimmy and Jacquelyn's. It was nice to see folks again, and we heard some good stuff. We also discussed future parlours, and unanimously decided that in an effort to branch out our listening tastes, we'll start to theme some parlours. Next up - "No Alternative." Bring anything and everything you love, except alt/indie rock. Also, we're going to start a little cd mix swap activity. You bring a mix to each parlour, and you'll walk out with someone else's mix.

Anyway, I wanted to get this down before the paper from hell takes over my week, so here goes: 

Tallest Man on Earth – I Won’t Be Found (supporting Bon Iver currently)
Micah P. Hinson – You’re Only Lonely (courtesy of Jen, a soon to be member slaving away at law school)
Felice Brothers – Helen Fry

Magnetic Fields – Papa Was A Rodeo
T.I. - Whatever You Like
TV On The Radio – Family Tree

Silver Jews – Party Barge
Paul Pena – Venutian Lady (Sara's pick for best CD I've never heard of)
Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band – I Don’t Want to Die In A Hospital

The what the hell happened to this band part of the evening:

My Morning Jacket – The Bear
My Morning Jacket – Touch Me I’m Going To Scream Pt. 2

The Morning Benders – Waiting For a War
The Radar Bros – Auditorium (at 506 this Saturday, 12/6)
Wembley – Crumbs
Shearwater – Rooks

I'll try and get some links up to these songs soon. 

So next month - No Alt, cd swap. Break!

Walkmen

Hello from Boston where Hanna is breathing down our necks and it's humid as hell.

I notice that you have The Walkmen show posted on the blog as an upcoming event. Their new album is my favorite of the year so far (granted, internship has sapped my ability to listen to much new music). I've seen them play at least three times and every show has been outstanding. I hope you all can get together for the one in October, I plan on going to see them up here in a couple of weeks.

Some other favorites for me this year: King Khan and the Shrines ('The Supreme Genius Of...'), the new Silver Jews (going to see them tonight!!), Thomas Function ('Celebration').

Come and visit when you can. We have a guest bedroom.

Rob

Paste doing our job for us

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2008/08/the-best-of-whats-next.html
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2008/08/best-of-whats-next.html

Ahead of the curve on:
bon iver (exhibit 1)
the dodos (exhibit 2)
langhorne slim (exhibit 3)
the everybodyfields (ask jimmy and sara for reference)
alela diane (exhibit 4)


Seriously though, let's get together soon.

Ratatat

I just bought tickets to Ratatat 9/26 at Cat's Cradle and I'm also thinking about seeing Toubab Krewe on 9/17 which will mean that I need to do a little pre-partying. I should be out of my cave soon. In other news, I got my computer back and since XP was reinstalled, I can now view blogs with all of their boxes and frames which makes posting to the Music Parlour a whole lot easier. Peace

song in my head today: Please Read The Letter- Allison Krauss and Robert Plant

Scheduling Snafu

One year of residency down, head hurting from celebration, attention was then paid to the upcoming rotation this morning, noted that I'm scheduled for a peds-ED shift AND clinic tomorrow morning, after working until 1am tonight...hmmm... that beer right there looks tasty.

Searching for light in an already bleak schedule, I found these:

7/5 Big Fat Gap - The Cave
7/6 Fleet Foxes - Local 506
7/11 Langhorne Slim - Cat's Cradle
7/11 Joe Romeo & the Orange County Volunteers - The Cave
7/12 The Club is Open Festival (Roman Candle) - Cat's Cradle
7/25 The Strugglers - Local 506
7/27 Wolf Parade* - Disco Rodeo
8/6 Mike Gordon - Lincoln Theater
8/8 Wilco/Bon Iver - somewhere in Cary, USA
8/12 The Hold Steady - Cat's Cradle
8/16 Shooter Jennings - Lincoln Theater
9/11 Silver Jews* - Cat's Cradle, Tix on sale 6/28
9/12 Old Ceremony - Pour House
9/29 Stereolab - Cat's Cradle
10/5 Black Keys - Disco Rodeo
11/8 Black Crowes - Lincoln Theater

* CDs I'm hoping will be at CD Alley this morning, with alternates The Submarines and First in Funk

Also, diggin' this right now - James, Ward, & Oberst

Downhome Parlour

What a lovely evening we had at the farm. Music, food, a perfect sunset, and wide open space. I am content to leave well enough alone, so here is a list of what we heard:

silver jews
bowerbirds
hello kavita
death cab for cutie
bobby bare, jr
the waifs
frightened rabbit
gillian welch

And we also listened to Rob's finds, and poured one out for our homie.*

Feel free to elaborate via comments or new posts.

*Not true.