Sunday on Stage: Me at TTs
Posted on January 15, 2004 at 12:02 pm | No Comments
Pardon me while I indulge in some brief personal pimping …
Assuming that Boston is not some kind of frozen, deserted wasteland by the weekend, your host (that would be me) will be sitting behind the drums on Sunday night, along with three-fourths of the very fine band Mistle Thrush. Valerie, Matt, & Scott have graciously (carelessly?) invited me join them in opening up for April March at TT the Bears in Cambridge.
We’re not playing any Mistle Thrush songs, but the first person there to figure out exactly what we are playing wins, um, our respect? Or maybe a beer. That’s probably worth a little more to ya.
So, yeah, Sunday the 18th. TT the Bears. A quarter to ten. Don’t laugh.
Post-Parlo Perfection: Gibbard vs. Kenny
Posted on January 14, 2004 at 1:32 pm | No Comments
Is it too late to add something to my best cds of 2003 list? No? Good.
Home Volume V – Benjamin Gibbard & Andrew Kenny
Whoa. How exactly did I miss this one? This summer 2003 release from the Post-Parlo label somehow slipped through the cracks… didn’t even know it existed ’til last week, when I immediately ordered it. It showed up fast and I dived right in.
Post-Parlo’s Home EP series splits each disc between two artists, in this case Ben Gibbard from Death Cab for Cutie and American Analog Set‘s Andrew Kenny. Each gentleman offers up four acoustic tracks, including a cover of a song by their co-conspirator’s main outfit. Kenny tackle’s “Line of Best Fit” (originally on Death Cab’s debut disc) and Gibbard has his way with American Analog Set’s “Choir Vandals” from Know By Heart. Seeing these two bands play together last fall seemed so right, and hearing these two frontmen share a cd and swap a cover shows just why.
I’ve been slacking in my “Mp3 of the Week” duties, so I’ll offer up a couple if you make me a promise: Send Post-Parlo some cash. Order something up so they can keep putting out these stellar EPs (the series also includes Eric Metronome, Britt Daniel from Spoon, & Bright Eyes), along with stuff like exclusive John Vanderslice vinyl.
So, is it a deal? Excellent. For your listening pleasure: American Analog Set’s original Choir Vandals, and Ben Gibbard’s cover of it, from Home V. This is just a little taste of the EP, so get over to Post-Parlo and make with the buyin’.