Jake plays ukulele. Very very well. Midnight Ukulele Disco features many video clips of Ukulele players and I was immensely impressed by Jake’s rendition of ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’. I didn’t know the two octave, four stringed ukulele could sound so full and bold.

Apparently, Jake has three CDs and two DVDs out, and his […]

I love Smog for so many reasons. Bill Callahan’s deep, dour voice. His terse, morbidly funny lyrics (”It’s our anniversary, and you’ve hidden my keys / this is one anniversary you’re spending with me”). The fact that he’s worked with two of my other favorite musicians, Jim O’Rourke and John McEntire. […]

Iron & Wine is like , as Aaron has said, “the vodka of indie music” - they mix well with everything. Their recent collaboration with Calexico could and should be the start of a long and fruitful Santana-like career in teaming up with other talented artists. We postulate that almost any cooperative team […]

This isn’t a review. It’s not even a heads-up since the album came out Tuesday. I just wanted to let you all know that it was out. And that some stores have a bonus 7″ that comes with the album.

The album is infectious and far too short. Every time it ends I am like “Man, […]

from Andrew Bird.Net Forget the violin. Forget the classical background. As troubadour Andrew Bird puts it, “At this point the violin just happens to be the instrument I have on hand to make the sounds that I hear. I like to abuse it and pull as many sounds out of it as I can.” Bird is […]

Most reviews settle for straight voicing of opinion, but this groundbreaking piece of criticism refuses to settle for anything that simple or cliche. Instead, David Rafaello simply tells us the facts, and leaves the ultimate decision up to us - does he seriously think that Make Believe “is a profound comment on our era,” […]