Crystal Stilts - Music for the dead drunk

After having lost ourselves into the dark psych rock cave of The Black Angels we discovered some more bands in the surroundings, The Wooden Shjips, Dead Meadow and The Brian Jonestown Massacre to name a few. Behind a big boulder we also found a band playing a fuzzy, melancholic sound, perfect for a late rainy night, feeling dead drunk and awful, The Crystal Stilts. The singer Brad Hargett can't even hold a tone, but it doesn't matter because it sounds just the way it should on a night like that. So, have a couple of beer, than another couple, then some more beer, maby drink some bad vodka, then turn the volume up really loud and play this song:



Continue with this next one, and tell us you are not ready to puke.

Crystal Stilts - crippled croon by bicycle-edition

Salary friday beard tune - Strand of Oaks

You have probably never heard of Tim Showalter a.k.a. Strand of Oaks, but we prodly introduce him, playing our salary friday tune "Little Wishes" from the album "Folk Music For What Lies Ahead", enjoy!

Strand of Oaks: "Little Wishes" by Yer Bird Records

The Black Angels on Debaser Slussen

Black Angels Stockholm show, snapshot by Mårten

The other night we took a stroll down to Debaser Slussen here in Stockholm to see The Black Angels. In case you are not familiar with the Austin band, their psychedelic rock is a bit heavier than the Lo-Fi music we usually talk about here. But the singer Alex Maas does wear a fine beard and Phosphene Dream was definitely one of my favourite albums last year. However, listening to an album is often quite another thing than hearing it live, so our expectations were pretty low. Happily for us this evening The Black Angels really blew us away with their extremely loud, hypnotic sound. In fact, they must be one of the best live acts out there right now. If you have the chance to see them, just go.


The Black Angels performing You on the Run in France (2010).

This is a link to open The Black Angels on Spotify >>

New album from Austin Lucas coming up!

The amazing bluegrass/country/folk-singer Austin Lucas is releasing his new album, A new home in the old world, the 4th of April. I'm really looking forward to hearing the full album, which seem to be a bit different from his earlier with a full band and rumors on "genre-changing". The album is up for pre-orders here, and you can hear two tracks from the new album at Ninebullets.net.

For those of you who haven't heard Austin Lucas previously, I urge you to hear him out - now!

Austin Lucas on MySpace
Austin Lucas on Spotify
Austin Lucas official homepage

Dan Auerbach got a little inspired?

Ever since I heard Mean Monsoon with Dan Auerbach (of The Black Keys) for the first time I've been sure that he had used a melody from another song and just added new lyrics. Though, I couldn't recollect which song it was and even though I googled it for hours (well...) there was nothing to find on the subject.
Today it got to me. Listen to this and tell me I'm not mad:

Mean Monsoon with Dan Auerbach


All I can do is cry with Mike Ness (cover - original artist Wayne Walker)

Kurt Vile - Great new beardless album

You may have read between the lines here, we haven't been overwhelmed about the music released this year so far. But finally good new music has reached us. Sadly for our case it comes from one very talented but awfully beardless guy, Kurt Vile of Philadelphia. The new album "Smoke Ring For My Halo" will be out march 8, but you can already hear it over at, well, you know where. If you've listened to his earlier albums you won't get lost here, the sound is very much the same, dreamlike and melancholic, building on Vile's great voice and guitar play. The album scores four tall indie beards and one small moustache out of five possible beards, not bad for a beardless guy. One can't stop wondering how good he would be sporting a beard.

Below Beach on the Moon from the album God Is Saying This To You.


Kurt Vile - I Wanted Everything from Square Shells

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