The Ecstatic Music Festival: The Mountain Goats And Anonymous 4 : NPR.
an unexpected (and marvelous) pairing.
the entire concert is streaming at link above.
go listen now – I don’t know how long it’ll be available.
Category Archives: music
NC&NC
NC and NC!NC!NC! cover The Zombies She’s not There
its NC to the NC power
makes you wanna shout
most beautiful tune I’ve heard in a long long time
Power In A Union from JD on Vimeo.
from John Darnielle’s vimeo page:
Everybody knows I don’t generally do the acoustic guitar guy rocking political jams deal but as a former member of SEIU 660 & the California Association of Psychiatric Technicians & a kid who benefitted from great teachers I wanted to spend tonight saying WE ARE ON YOUR SIDE xo jd
Money And Run (feat. Nick Cave) by UNKLE on SoundCloud
too much NC!NC!NC! is barely enough.
Charlie Louvin, RIP
We lost Charlie Louvin to pancreatic cancer.
The harmonies are now much richer on the other side.
July 7, 1927 – January 26, 2011 R.I.P.
link below goes to a performance of Knoxville Girl by Charlie Louvin and Will Oldham
Christmas music – A Christmas Cornucopia
an exquisite, astonishing album. best of the year
A Christmas Cornucopia
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
oh, boo. I can’t link TypePad music files here anymore. many thanks to teh LK for figuring out what I was doing wrong.
(you can still) go listen at mah TypePad blog
She & Him & Conan
can’t embed, darn it.
click on the link below for a sweet and twee cover of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Shilpa Ray opens for Grinderman
Shilpa Ray
Shilpa Ray and her harmonium
Shilpa Ray
Grinderman’s opening act in the North American tour, Armin Ra, broke his theremin at the New York show. while the theremin was repaired, Shilpa Ray was personally requested by Grinderman to be the opener in the DC, Atlanta, Nashville, and Memphis shows.
she was fantastic, a girl singing and screaming with only her harmonium for accompaniment. Shilpa’s voice goes from wounded to growling in the same verse; mesmerizing.
later in the set she got the crowd to clapping and OOOooooOOoooo along – and closed by informing us in the audience that “Grinderman was fucking awesome and she was going to get wasted and watch them with us”.
a girl after my own heart
check out a couple of songs from her upcoming album with her band, The Happy Hookers, Teenage and Torture
“Heaven In Stereo”
“Venus Shaver”
more pics of Shilpa Ray and of Grinderman at flickr
at the Nick at Nite show
me an’ Sailor Babo getting ready for the Nick at Nite show
me an' Sailor Babo at Grinderman
tomorrow!
update: I just found out the opener is Armen Ra, a theremin player
a theremin!
it’s gonna be epic. epic!
Grinderman this past Monday on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon”
[insert curses. lots of curses]
ff to minute 35 to watch Grinderman
here’s a pic from the taping: 
