2 posts tagged “craig wedren”

I just read Ben's post about the New York by New York Of Montreal karaoke jam in NYC with special guests Craig Wedren, David Wain, Paul Rudd, and many more.  It's these kinds of events that make me miss living in NYC and seeing my talented friends.  Check out Craig rocking "Suffragette City" and all the videos on Stereogum.

The countdown to Feist's new record continues.  Could I possibly love her any more than I already do?  I've been anxiously awaiting this record since I talked to her about it in an interview two years ago.  Let these new videos transport you in the meantime:

Bonus:  Feist photos and video from a performance on 4/16/07, courtesy of jmcmanila!

And finally, this video from The Go! Team makes me giddy:

What albums are in heavy rotation for you right now?

These questions always stump me;  as soon as someone asks me this all the music knowledge just drains out of my head.  I'm going to think of 2 or 3 other albums this week that I should have included...

Here are three I can think of now:

I've written about Scanners and RATATAT already.  As Tall As Lions is kind of indie-emo-rock, but I like that the singer sounds a little bit like Craig Wedren except not nearly as genius, of course.

I feel a bit self-conscious that this is all new music, but I guess that's what I've been in the mood for lately.  When I was in LA, Jason was playing the latest Fair to Midland album, inter.funda.stifle, in his dressing room.  He described it as The Mars Volta (FTM's from Denton, TMV's from El Paso) but with stronger songwriting.  I loved what I heard:  it was lush, bombastic, dynamic (Laurie, they're opening for System of a Down) and all over the place in a way that made total sense, if you were willing to go with it.  (I tried to upload their album into my audio stream but Amazon doesn't have the album cover on file.  So I had to add it the old school way.)