Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Home For Christmas
Herohill wishes you a very Hall & Oates Christmas
AmazonThis is probably going to be it for the holidays, so I’ll leave it with a salute to the folks at Herohill, who’ve fulfilled a Christmas wish I didn’t know I had by assembling a tribute album to Hall & Oates featuring a slew of independent Canadian artists including Rae Spoon, Milks & Rectangles, Ox and more. A lot of the names might not be familiar but there’s talent in that there lineup and the material is tops, and there’s more to come – another batch of Can-con covers is coming sometime in January.
Yeah, I grew up listening to Hall & Oates and, as this collection and the Bird & The Bee tribute album Interpreting The Masters from earlier this year have proven, I still do. On my annual Boxing Day record store trawl this weekend, I will be crate digging for a copy of Private Eyes and/or H2O, yes I will.
Switch Mode talks community with Ohbijou’s Ryan Carley.
Conor Oberst goes over some of the science fiction influences on The People’s Key, the next album from Bright Eyes, with Spinner. The album is out February 15 and they play The Sound Academy on March 13.
MP3: Bright Eyes – “Shell Games”
There’s now a video trailer for R.E.M.’s new record Collapse Into Now, due March 8, and while the formula of veteran acts and special guests usually equals artistic calamity, the advance word on this record continues to be very good. Here’s hoping.
Trailer: R.E.M. / Collapse Into Now
Daytrotter have served up a session with Old 97’s, who should be making up their cancelled Miller/Hammond show in October with a full-band show at The Horseshoe sometime in the Spring. Keep an ear open. And in the meantime, read these interviews with Murry Hammond at American Songwriter and Rhett Miller at CNN.
NYC Taper has followed up last week’s post of The National at Maxwell’s in New Jersey with another set of recordings from the same show – for the whats and the whys, read the post and grab the tracks.
NPR has got a World Cafe session with Sharon Van Etten and another one with Janelle Monáe.
And that should do it. See you sometime next week. Safe holidays. Seacrest out.
Tags: Bright Eyes, Hall & Oates, Janelle Monae, National, Ohbijou, Old 97s, R.E.M., Sharon Van Etten
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12/23/10 11:01 am
Geez – H2O was one of the first albums I bought, ever. Coolness is finally swinging back in my direction!