The internet is full of new music. No doubt about it, websites like garageband.com, myspace.com, and numerous blogs have allowed completely independent musicians to put out their music to a wider audience (at least theoretically) and with much more ease than ever before. But honestly it’s overwhelming, and trying to sift through the thousands of bad songs, bands that don’t have it together, and blogs that hype mediocre bands with the same kind of urgency that made the world fear for the Y2K disaster…

Touring 9 cities partly in support of his new EP, Colin Meloy Sings Trad. Arr. Shirley Collins, partly out of restlessness, Colin Meloy performed marvelously Saturday night in Los Angeles. Any fan of the Decemberists’ song-writing should be buying tickets for his future performances, if they haven’t got them already.

Laura Veirs opened the show sounding […]

From Colin’s Solo performance last night in Seattle, mycarrion recorded this new song. Download it here. You can check out photos from the night’s performance on Flickr here. Also, at You Ain’t No Picasso, Matt’s hosting mp3s of Colin Meloy on KEXP yesterday as well, incase you missed it. Check that out here.

I’ll be seeing Colin […]

Whenever someone tells me they have good news and bad, I almost always opt for the bad to be delivered first. So in the interests of leaving this post on a high note, we’ll go for the bad news first (even though it’s a few days past fresh).

TW Walsh, of the band Pedro the Lion, […]

And I quote from the official secret email: “hi everybody- so we all survived 2005, except for those of us who didn’t. i somehow managed to drive about 50,000 miles and not get in any accidents, nor get any tickets. i suppose i am thankful for that. i wanted to say thanks to all of my […]

Studying for finals and finding it counter productive listening to music because you have to choose the next song? One of the many cool cats at the Secret Unicorns Forum will be running a streaming radio show tonight at 8 pm PST. Featuring The Unicorns, Islands, Beulah and many other great artists, he’s trying out […]