tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56947230991869538092024-03-06T22:33:45.780-05:00Dry Paint SignsFor the morning after... last night's show.Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.comBlogger561125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-90182347521906217932018-04-28T04:33:00.001-04:002018-05-04T20:44:24.976-04:00Minus the Bear Celebrate Ten Years of Planet of Ice at Irving Plaza<div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first song I ever heard by Minus the Bear was "Knights" in 2007, but I never saw them in concert. When I got the opportunity to catch their stop at Irving Plaza on the 10th anniversary tour for <i>Planet of Ice</i>, I was ecstatic. Outside of building a time machine and then using it for such a trivial reason, it was the closest I would get to seeing a show by the band when I'd first gotten into them.<br /><br />To be honest, I had no idea what they'd even look like, as their album artwork doesn't feature the members, so it was a little surprising to learn that frontman Jake Snider has</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> a graying Mark Hamill beard. But it's not about looks with MTB; it's about the music, as evident in their sparse stage setup of a few standing light rigs in front of </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">a backdrop of the cloudy snowscape of <i>Planet of Ice</i>'s cover. The band wasted no time in revisiting the record, revving up the opening cut </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">"Burying Luck" to start the show. </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">"You guys are fucking incredible. Thank you," said Snider, who couldn't seem to address the crowd without using the f-word. And that fucking crowd was full of diehards, singing to the rafters on "Ice Monster" and even along with the guitar part on "Knights." While it was annoying to have my favorite <i>POI</i> song blemished by the guy behind me doing just that, you almost couldn't blame him, as guitarist Dave Knudson posted himself at the front of the stage to rock out. As they progressed through the album's tracklisting, the entire band played with such </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">confidence and passion that it was apparent they weren't going to phone these numbers in, even if they were a decade-old. </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">I will admit that my ear can get a little fatigued listening to math rock, so Alex Rose's saxophone on "Part 2" and the extended noise jam in "Lotus" were welcome diversions. They followed the <i>Planet of Ice</i> portion by hopping around their discography, going as far back as 2002's <i>Highly Refined Pirates</i> and as recent as last year's <i>Voids</i>. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">The Coathangers, who had opened the show, introduced some red balloons (not 99, like 8) into the audience to toss around during a righteous "Secret Country." This kicked off a trio of the only tracks the band would play from 2010's </span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Omni</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">, culminating in the smooth synth lines of "Dayglow Vista Rd." to finish out the set.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">"We're officially classic rock,"
joked Jimi Haha, the eccentric frontman of Jimmie's Chicken Shack, who
celebrated their 25th anniversary last night at Rams Head Live in Baltimore. While <a href="http://www.drypaintsigns.com/2013/01/jimmies-chicken-shack-celebrates-20th.html">their 20th anniversary show</a> had purposefully highlighted the band's different eras,
the silver anniversary was a decidedly looser affair, with no setlist to guide
them through an evening of jams and personnel changes.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Former-WHFS disc jockey Rob Timm had the
honor of introducing them, encouraging the audience to "Please
welcome the fowlest band in the land, Jimmie's Chicken Shack!" As the
crowd cheered with acclamation, the guys (Haha on vocals/guitar, Christian Valiente
on bass, Jerome Maffeo on drums, and Dave "Double D" Dowling filling
in for the band's current lead guitarist Island Styles) got things rolling with
a pair of classics, "Sitting with the Dog" and
"Blood." "Dropping Anchor" was dedicated to a fan/friend
who'd flown in from San Diego to have his bachelor party at the show.
"Give it up for him. He's dropping anchor and getting married," Haha
said, offering him the first shot from a bottle of Patrón that would
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selection from <i>Bring Your Own Stereo</i>, and although Haha flubbed some of
the lyrics, he got a chance to redeem himself on his favorite track from
that album, "Fill in the Blank." Jimi called up guitarist
Matt Jones from the back of the venue to join them on a rowdy "School
Bus" detour back to their first album, before they swerved back into <i>BYOS</i>
territory with "Pure." That song's backing vocals were
impeccable, but Haha messed up his guitar part on the mellow "30
Days" that followed. No longer in possession of the Afro-puffed
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after they fuck up, Haha volunteered to wear a set of pink, light-up cat ears
that Double D dubbed "the ears of fear" during "Let's Get
Flat." Casey Hean accompanied them on the number. Hean was not present at
the 20th anniversary, so it was my first time seeing the wild guitarist. While
most members have always been willing to let Haha take the spotlight, Casey's
ebullience created an interesting dynamic onstage, as he competed for
attention.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Jimi eventually gave up on the tune,
claiming, "No one wants to hear any more of this fucking song. This song
is stupid," before wrapping it up with a noisy "big rock
ending." </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">During "Outhouse," the crowd
tossed a big-titted blow-up doll around like a beach ball.
She ultimately made her way to the stage, where Haha demonstrated on
her inflatable breasts how assholes in the '90s would grope crowdsurfing girls,
and maintained that he would stop songs when he saw this happening. Keep in mind,
this was decades before the Architects and Drake went viral for doing the same
thing last year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Mike Sipple, whose ":"
jersey still fit, took a seat at the drums for "Spiraling," which also featured
an all-too-brief sit-in from original bassist Ché Lemon, who was then traded
out for Derrick Dorsey on rarity "Slow Change." While it
may be Haha's favorite JCS tune, it had only been available on a mail-in EP, so
its scarcity resulted in fewer crowdmembers singing along and a consequential drop in
the room's energy level. Fortunately, a raging "When You Die
You're Dead" brought everybody back onto the same page.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">My
personal favorite, "Another Day" came next, with a surprise drop-in from Kelly
Bell on congas. I didn't take note of the time, as I never expected them to
jam on it so long, but several solos took it well over the ten-minute mark,
culminating in a swirling, almost psychedelic groove. For
a cool-down, Matt Jones returned for "Beautiful," the only
number performed from <i>Re.Present</i> and the only song of the
evening that Double D did not play on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">As the lineup switched yet again, Jimi
remarked, "We've got three songs left. We're supposed to be done at 1, but
fuck that. 'Cause George Clinton fucking went past 1." (P-Funk had played Rams
Head the previous night.) The first of the three was their 1999 charting
single, "Do Right." Jimi</span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">went the reggae route
towards the song's end, delving into Sublime's "Smoke Two
Joints" and teasing "No Woman, No Cry." "I've never played
a solo in that song since I wrote it," he revealed with a smirk after plucking
out a slinky improvised passage. Then they loaded the stage with all three lead
guitarists, both drummers, Ché, and Kelly Bell. "We're like the fucking
Allman Brothers," chuckled Haha before giving props to John Mayer for his
guitarwork in Dead & Company. He then proclaimed All Mighty Senators to be
the best Maryland band, spouting off a few lyrics from "No Clothes On" prior to "Milk." Every guitarist took a solo, with Haha holding up a wooden Maryland
flag with the word "Boo" emblazoned across the Calvert sections
during Double D's. Before his own solo, Jimi boasted that we were about to
witness the "best guitar licks you've ever seen," and lapped his tongue up and
down the fretboard of his six-string.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">"Eric
Clapton will never do that," confirmed the drunk guy next to me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As the show wound down, things got
emotional, with Double D disclosing that Kelly Bell had saved his life a few
years back, and a misty-eyed Haha referencing the lyrics to "Stop." "We
had a song where I said, 'I feel lucky I made it to 25.' Now the band is 25." He also made sure to clarify that we weren't supposed to be booing Dave's solo,
but that the sign was in tribute to Ramon "Boo" Valdez, Rams Head's
talent buyer that passed away in 2016. Of course, no JCS show would be complete
without their raucous first single, "High," so they made it their closer. "I
don't want to end this show or concert or whatever the fuck it was with
applause. I want to end it with a 'Boo,' requested Jimi. As he held up the the
flag artwork again, the crowd booed their approval, grateful to have had this
band in their lives for 25 years, not to mention twenty minutes after curfew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sitting with the Dog / Blood / Dropping Anchor / Lazy Boy Dash / Fill in the Blank / Waiting / School Bus / Pure / 30 Days / Let's Get Flat / Outhouse / Spiraling / Slow Change / When You Die You're Dead / Another Day (feat. Kelly Bell) / Beautiful / Do Right > Smoke Two Joints > No Woman, No Cry (tease) > Do Right / No Clothes On (tease) / Milk </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(feat. Kelly Bell) / High</span></span>Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-90472845065887265302018-02-08T00:56:00.000-05:002018-02-08T00:56:37.711-05:00J. Roddy Walston & the Business Brooklyn Steel Setlist<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Review to come.</span><div>
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Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com258tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-3081453190397978322017-12-03T02:43:00.001-05:002017-12-05T22:11:43.288-05:00Deer Tick Shows Two Sides at Brooklyn Steel<div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"This show has two sets: one quiet, one loud. The drunker you get, the louder we get," Ian O'Neil informed the Saturday night audience at Brooklyn Steel. I first got word of Deer Tick's "Twice is Nice" tour in June by way of an email containing a pre-sale code. The band would be playing an acoustic set and an electric set, representative of their upcoming albums <i>Vol. 1 & 2</i>, and a stand-up comedian would be opening the show. I bought my tickets immediately, and anxiously waited for December like a kid who's been good all year. After a long walk from the subway and an even longer security process, I made my way into the showroom at Brooklyn Steel to find the comic already onstage. It turned out to be my pal, Nore Davis, who once headlined my comedy show, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/freeradjokez/">Free Rad Jokez</a>. Wearing a red bandana, Nore made the packed house laugh at his desire to open a 24-hour farmers market to compete with fast-food chains. Not even ten minutes past nine, he welcomed Deer Tick to the stage.<br /><br />While normally content to wear white t-shirts or nothing at all, the band dressed up for the occasion, looking quite dapper in various combinations of crimson and black. They greeted the crowd and began with "Sea of Clouds," the first track on <i>Vol. 1</i>. They followed promptly with the tango intro to "Card House," the record's second song and coincidentally my personal favorite of the two-disc collection. "Do an oldie," McCauley declared, leading the band on "Art Isn't Real (City of Sin)" and alleviating worries that a) the albums would be performed in sequence, and b) they'd only be playing songs from <i>Vol. 1 & 2</i>. Highlights included "Me & My Man," which made way more sense to me after Dennis Ryan revealed it to be about his dog, and "The Dream's in the Ditch," my most-played Tick tune. "Mange" capped off the unplugged portion with an energetic finish, McCauley and O'Neil embellishing their guitar strums into a choreographed routine à</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> la ZZ Top.<br /><br />During the break, stagehands traded the red backdrop for a yellow one, keeping with the ketchup and mustard theme of the albums' artwork. Nore emerged once again to introduce the band, this time donning a yellow bandana. I suddenly understood why he'd worn a red one earlier, and sure enough, Deer Tick also returned with an ochre wardrobe change. Taking a cue from the first set's structure, the boys led with the first two songs from <i>Vol. 2</i>. They broke the order with "Clownin Around," Dennis Ryan's ode to John Wayne... Gacy. Ian O'Neil informed the crowd that the show had sold out during set break, and the band appeared to relish the news, kicking off "The Bump" with an extended jam. While I'd enjoyed the first set, it was apparent that they were having more fun in the second frame, even dipping into Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" mid-"These Old Shoes." Ryan sang "Wants/Needs" from behind his Plexiglas drum fortress before careening into Chris Montez's "Let's Dance," McCauley strapping on a harmonica for the ride. Covers of the Pogues' "White City" and Tommy Keene's "Places That Are Gone" injected some '80s guitar tones into the mix. Following the latter, the band departed stage left, with the exception of John, who moved to the keyboard. Although he admitted he was a bit under the weather, he persevered on a spirited take of "Christ Jesus," his bandmates rejoining him after the second refrain. Deer Tick wrapped up the set with a trio from <i>Vol. 2</i>, "It's a Whale," "Look How Clean I Am," and "Mr. Nothing Gets Worse," and left the stage.<br /><br />Would they come back and play more songs? Would they be acoustic or electric? A minute later, John returned, took a seat at the keyboard, and said, "Alright, we'll do a few more." While the lyrics to "Goodbye, Dear Friend" made it a good encore choice, it's a bit of a downer to end on, so the band fired off a joyful "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, & Understanding?" with John windmilling through the closing power chords. They kept the party going with a pair of their most beloved tunes, "Baltimore Blues No. 1" and "Ashamed," the crowd offering ample vocal assistance. McCauley wanted to ensure that his appreciation for the fans didn't go unnoticed, remarking, "Some people think this is bullshit, but it isn't," as he segued into Joe Cocker's "You Are So Beautiful." After the ketchup and mustard of the first two sets, the encore was gravy.</span></div>
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Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-39756489723800955732017-11-30T10:28:00.001-05:002017-11-30T10:28:24.331-05:00The Next Round - Episode 54: Elizabeth & the Catapult<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Usually I buy the drinks on <i>The Next Round</i>, but when the coffee shop we were supposed to go to was unexpectedly closed, Elizabeth Ziman improvised (She <i>is</i> a musician.) and invited me into her apartment for tea. We had a great talk, starting with her childhood in the Village and ending with the release of her fantastic fourth record,<i> Keepsake</i>, an album so good, you'd never guess it was the result of mashing up old journal entries with NyQuil-influenced fever dreams.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Stream below, <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thenextround/TheNextRound_Ep054_20171130.mp3">download directly</a>, or <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-54-elizabeth-the-catapult/id702813886?i=1000395456809">subscribe on iTunes</a> (and rate it 5 stars).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Elizabeth is on tour now. <a href="https://elizabethandthecatapult.com/shows">Check here for dates</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.drypaintsigns.com/2017/10/elizabeth-catapult-le-poisson-rouge.html">Read my review</a> of her release show.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Buy <i>Keepsake</i> on <a href="https://store.compassrecords.com/products/keepsake">vinyl/CD/digital</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Listen to "Ambrosia" and a song from every guest on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/theonlydustin/playlist/3PxQbYGhwoHdko2C9L1A7Y" target="_blank">The Next Round Companion Playlist</a>.</span>Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-88985615900660078702017-11-22T08:58:00.004-05:002017-11-22T08:58:45.506-05:00The Next Round - Episode 53: Matthew Logan Vasquez<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's that time again, when rock critics start posting their best-of-the-year picks. While I still like to give December its fair shot, my album of the year (so far, and since April) is Matthew Logan Vasquez's second LP, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/does-what-he-wants/1196051929"><i>Does What He Wants</i></a>. I got the opportunity to interview MLV back in April for the podcast. It was a great talk, but his tour ended before I was able to schedule the episode. Now that he's about to go on the road again, it's finally time to hear what Delta Spirit's frontman has to say about fatherhood, stage presence, and the sound of discovery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.matthewloganvasquez.com/tour-2">Click here</a> for MLV tour dates.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.matthewloganvasquez.com/product/does-what-he-wants-vinyl">Order</a> <i>Does What He Wants</i> on vinyl. </span>Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-27371551573812792552017-11-17T02:57:00.002-05:002017-11-17T02:57:54.278-05:00Alex Lahey Music Hall of Williamsburg Setlist<div>
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Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-91353603637354467602017-11-11T00:06:00.002-05:002017-11-11T00:06:43.449-05:00White Reaper Le Poisson Rouge Setlist<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Review to come.</span><div>
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Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-43979315187261556522017-10-19T01:42:00.001-04:002017-10-21T12:17:08.337-04:00Elizabeth & the Catapult Shares Her Keepsakes at Le Poisson Rouge<div>
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Last night at Le Poisson Rouge, </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Elizabeth & the Catapult (Elizabeth Ziman) performed an intimate album release show f</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">or her fourth LP, <i>Keepsake</i>. The collection of songs is aptly named. It's a sophisticated pop record that travels effortlessly through styles while still packing a melodic punch. I've already listened to it multiple times, and it hasn't even come out yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The subterranean space was arranged in a way I hadn't seen there before, with the stage in the center, surrounded by a flotilla of tables. My view of the stage was bisected by a column, but I was able to see Elizabeth take a seat at the piano in the right half. She began with LCD Soundsystem's sombre "New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down" before brightening things up by segueing into her own "Mea Culpa." With an intrusive squeal, the noisy air conditioner above the stage kicked on right after the song's final lyric, "More bad mistakes for us to make before we fuck it all up," which was actually kind of endearing in that moment. Elizabeth thanked the audience and promised, "I'm just gonna give you everything I've got tonight until until I burst into a million pieces, and then I just have to lie down." A five-piece band materialized onstage to back her on the chorus of </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Magic Chaser." After a pair of tunes from her previous LP, Ziman got on her feet and moved </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">to keyboard to her right for a breakneck "Less Than You Think." Despite a technical issue with the keyboard that required Elizabeth to switch to the piano during "Method Acting," the song was one of the evening's best performances, culminating in a beautiful vocal harmony that included Secret Someones' Hannah Winkler. Ziman conceded the keyboard to Winkler and took a handheld mic to the center of the stage. The band proceeded with <i>Keepsake</i>'s first single/track, "We Can Pretend," with its lush, Polynesian sounds evoking imagery of Technicolor musicals. They followed it with the album's peppy second single/track "Underwater" and then the band scattered, leaving Elizabeth alone. She</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> performed a solo vocal rendition of Greg Laswell's </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Embrace Me" and then shared </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">acoustic guitar duties with </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jonno Linden on "Let's Make a Mess of Our Love," a number new enough to not even be on the record.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"So the experiment continues," Ziman said, returning to the keyboard. "</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I had a children's choir sing on this song on my album, but I couldn't get them in here 'cause they're children." "We'll sing! We'll sing!" offered an eager crowdmember. "Will you be my children?" Elizabeth asked with a laugh. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Looping her breath as percussion, she pressed on with </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Ambrosia." </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">While it may have been a lot to ask the audience to sing along on a song that they'd never heard before, i</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ts </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">hopeful lyrics over a plucky, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">staccato refrain just beg for audience participation, and </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have no doubt that over time</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> this will become an Elizabeth & the Catapult concert staple. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At its denouement, Ziman held up a paper to read a list of thank yous, as well as a political speech in which she encouraged the crowd to "keep spreading love however you know how."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Elizabeth welcomed a mustachioed Jeff Taylor to the stage for his clapper "Kadoka," which was followed by a quick round of "Happy Birthday to You" for Wiman's mom and a "Better Days" bouncier than its studio version. "I just threw the setlist out the window," Ziman announced as she invited Emily Mure and Jeff Taylor to help close out the set with "Where Were You the Night," her reaction to last year's surprising election results. The elegy crescendoed into a chaotic jam, the vocalists' haunting wails intertwining to suggest a</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> ghostly choir of past presidents spinning in their graves.</span></div>
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Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-68960425764959541652017-08-28T10:31:00.000-04:002017-08-28T10:32:02.291-04:00Afropunk 2017 Sunday Setlists<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Review to come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Intro > 100 Yard Dash > Heart Attack > Be Here > Will It Go Round in Circles / Movin' Down the Line > Good Man > Get Involved > I Chase You* > Dance Tonight > Don't Mess with My Man / Let's Get Down > Still Ray > Blind Man / Oph > Charlie Ray / You're the One That I Like > Never Give You Up > Just One Kiss / (Lay Your Head on My) Pillow > Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip Hop) > Anniversary / Kissin' You > It Never Rains (in Southern California) / Soul Sista (feat. Bilal) / Ask of You / Lady > Just Me & You > Cranes in the Sky > Skyy, Can You Feel Me > Outro</span>Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-34717666922668549812017-05-19T11:23:00.001-04:002017-05-19T11:23:14.954-04:00Nicky Francis Pete's Candy Store Setlist<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Review to come.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">NICKY FRANCIS - 05.18.17 - PETE'S CANDY STORE (35 minutes, 30 seconds)</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Stream below, <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thenextround/TheNextRound_Ep052_20170518.mp3">download directly</a>, or <a href="https://itun.es/i67Q3BL">subscribe on iTunes</a> like a decent human being. <br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" height="45" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" nbsp="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5367789/height/45/width/450/theme/standard/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="450"></iframe><br /><br />Read a review of <a href="http://www.drypaintsigns.com/2017/04/caleb-caudle-rockwood-music-hall-setlist.html">his Rockwood concert</a>. <br />Listen to "Tuscaloosa" and more on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/theonlydustin/playlist/3PxQbYGhwoHdko2C9L1A7Y">The Next Round Companion Playlist</a>. <br />Go see Caleb <a href="http://calebcaudle.com/shows">on tour now</a>!</span>Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-81036707260345578922017-04-30T03:35:00.000-04:002017-04-30T03:35:21.389-04:00Matthew Logan Vasquez Rough Trade NYC Setlist<div>
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Old Ways / Personal > Same / Fires Down in Mexico / Red Fish / Maria / Halfcolt / Crippler King > Ace of Spades (tease) > On the Road Again > Crippler King / Spanish Moss > Bushwick Blues / The Old Revolution / From Behind the Glass / Blue Eyes / Theater / Stand Up > Everything I Do is Out > Shit Luck > Little Star of Bethlehem (tease) > Everything I Do is Out</span>Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-89074783287679259172017-04-21T08:16:00.003-04:002017-04-21T08:16:35.903-04:00The Next Round - Episode 51: Tall Tall Trees<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With a shaggy brown beard that extends down his torso, Mike Savino looks like a wizard. And as Tall Tall Trees, he gets to become one, summoning a multitude of sounds both shambolic and ethereal from his "Banjotron 5000." We had a beer before his "<a href="http://www.drypaintsigns.com/2017/02/tall-tall-trees-rockwood-music-hall.html">greasy dance party</a>" at Rockwood Music Hall. Check it out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pick up a copy of <i><a href="https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/products/freedays">Freedays</a></i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Go see Mike <a href="http://talltalltrees.com/tours/">live</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hear "A Place to Call Your Own" on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/theonlydustin/playlist/3PxQbYGhwoHdko2C9L1A7Y">The Next Round Companion Playlist</a>.</span>Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-62961414191475396962017-04-15T13:07:00.000-04:002017-05-18T11:33:42.738-04:00Caleb Caudle Gets Intimate at Rockwood Music Hall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"New
York City. Friday night. There's a lot of things going on. Thanks for
choosing this thing," Caleb Caudle addressed his audience in the
subterranean Stage 3 of Rockwood Music Hall. Armed only with an acoustic
guitar and his twangy mid-range, Caudle began his set by stripping down
"Piedmont Sky" and "Tuscaloosa" from last year's <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/carolina-ghost/id1082586671"><i>Carolina Ghost</i></a>.
He followed with "Trade All the Lights," a fan favorite in which Caudle
claims he'd trade all of NYC's luminance to be in New Orleans with a
loved one. "No offense," he assured the crowd of New Yorkers at its
conclusion. After all, the song was written in a different time in
Caleb's life about a woman he's no longer with. He'd explained to me in a
podcast interview before the show that even if he doesn't have the same
connection to its lyrics as he once did, he realizes that his listeners might, so he has to give it his all for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The excellent acoustics of Rockwood's basement made it possible to hear every little nuance of the performance, </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with Caleb demonstrating a soul singer's keen awareness of his spatial relationship to the microphone.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>In
the small room, remarks from the crowd were also amplified, promoting
conversation between Caudle and his fans and fostering the kind of
intimacy that the venue is famous for. </span>Following "Uphill Battle,"
Caleb admitted that he'd only just noticed that he'd sung the first
five songs with a cough drop in his mouth. He was supposedly battling
springtime allergies, but you wouldn't have known it from his
impassioned cover of Springsteen's "Atlantic City" that had an Asbury
Park-native in the
front row swooning like a young Courteney Cox. Caudle also unveiled </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Stack of Tomorrows" and "Madeleine," </span>two numbers
from his upcoming record, <i>Crushed Coins</i>. If they're any
indication of what's on the way, it's gonna be a doozy. The latter ranks
among his best songs and was captivating enough that <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the
waitress didn't dare interrupt to take orders for a second round. Caleb
finished off the show with a toe-tapping "Borrowed Smiles," not a
person in the room second-guessing their Friday night plans.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>CALEB CAUDLE - 04.14.17 - ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL (51 minutes)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Piedmont Sky / Tuscaloosa / Trade All the Lights / Broken Hallelujah / Uphill Battle / Stack of Tomorrows / Anne Marie / White Dove's Wing / Atlantic City / Madeleine / Carolina Ghost / Come on October / Borrowed Smiles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-36331465461922679492017-03-30T10:17:00.000-04:002017-03-30T10:20:20.179-04:00The Next Round - Episode 50: Reformed Whores<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fifty episodes! For this wondrous occasion, I grabbed cocktails with Katy Frame and Marie Cecile Anderson of the country comedy duo, Reformed Whores, who're about to embark on a <a href="http://www.reformedwhores.com/events-1/" target="_blank">month-long U.S. tour</a>. With their songs about dicks, cunnilingus, and pooping (and empowerment if you're listening close enough), the libidinous ladies have been able to follow their dreams, from opening for "Weird Al" Yankovic to recording an album in Nashville's legendary RCA Studio A. So have a listen to find out what Howdy Doody says when the cameras are off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Stream below, <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thenextround/TheNextRound_Ep050_20170330.mp3" target="_blank">download directly</a>, or <a href="https://itun.es/i67t2LM" target="_blank">subscribe on iTunes</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Check out "Willy for a Day" on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/theonlydustin/playlist/3PxQbYGhwoHdko2C9L1A7Y" target="_blank">The Next Round Companion Playlist</a>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Visit the <a href="http://www.reformedwhores.com/" target="_blank">Whores online</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Buy their <a href="http://www.reformedwhores.com/shop/" target="_blank">albums</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mike Savino has been growing a beard for five or six years. By now, the tangled nest of brown curls extends down to the middle of his chest. It's the first thing most people notice, but if you'd seen him on Saturday night, it would've been his toothy grin as the capacity crowd at Rockwood Music Hall sang back to him: "I was a seagull / You were an eagle."<br /><br />Just three songs prior, a good portion of this choir had never heard of Tall Tall Trees, the name Savino performs under. While it's a delight to see a musician enjoying himself so much, one of my favorite things to do at a Tall Tall Trees show is to watch people's awed expressions as they first experience the spectacle of what Savino is able to do with a banjo. I should mention that Mike doesn't play an ordinary banjo. His "Banjotron 5000" is a custom-rigged Swiss Army knife of an instrument that he fingerpicks, bows, pounds with a mallet, sings through, etc., effectively transforming Mike into one-man band. In an upcoming podcast interview that we taped before the show, he explained that many of the instrument's features come as a result of him breaking it and re-breaking it. Its latest casualty was its trademark ring of flashing lights, inexplicably stuck on red. "I think it's out of anger," quipped Mike. "It's gonna stay red for a few years, and then we'll have to get the Banjotron back to blue... hashtag."<br /><br />Although he normally performs solo (<a href="http://www.drypaintsigns.com/2013/09/kishi-bashi-irving-plaza-setlist.html" target="_blank">when not improvisationally sparring onstage with Kishi Bashi</a>), Savino was joined by Ashevillean Micah Thomas on drums. "After four years, I got tired of driving alone," Savino admitted. He introduced "Say Something Real!" as Micah's favorite, the bombastic march of its refrain allowing for Thomas to pound away joyously. The duo had been playing together for less than a week, and it was exciting to watch Mike keep Micah on his toes. During the aforementioned "Seagullxeagle," an interspecies romance that Savino described as "<i>Romeo & Juliet</i> for the David Attenborough set," Thomas stood up at his drum kit, spread his own wingspan, and cawed like a bird. <br /><br />The singalong helped the crowd to loosen up a little in the sauna-like conditions of the small room. "Are you guys ready to have a greasy dance party?" Mike polled the sweaty audience before plunging into the bhangra-informed "Waiting on the Day." Mike's foot missed a pedal during the intro to "Being There," and he decided to restart the number, owning up to it with an "I effed up, bro." The mistake was quickly forgotten as the duo veered the song into a spacey jam, with Savino utilizing a toy megaphone and a laser gun to interact with the Banjotron's electronics. The jam segued into final number "Highwire," Savino again enlisting the crowd for accompaniment on a few takes of its falsetto chorus before Mike and Micah brought it all home with a circusy dirge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Picture Picture / Backroads / Say Something Real! / Seagullxeagle / Waiting on the Day / Being There > Jam > Highwire</span>Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-70491580893155058472017-02-07T14:33:00.000-05:002017-02-07T14:34:04.371-05:00Monthly Mix #24: January 2017<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">January 2017:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">January is a month to <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">further investigate the previous year's releases<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">,<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> while <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">simultaneously</span> looking forward to this year's crop.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. Vitamin String Quartet - "As the World Falls Down"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>When I posted this on Spotify last month (<a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/theonlydustin" target="_blank">Follow theonly</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/theonlydustin" target="_blank">dustin</a> to get these <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">mixes</span> the moment I finalize them.)</span>, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">it</span> was a tongue-in-che<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ek way to address Bow<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ie's deathiversary and the<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> new administra<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tion</span>. Now that we actually seem<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> to be teetering on the br<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ink of WWIII, it <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">doesn't feel quite the same<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. Blitzen Trapper - "All Across This Land"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>I<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> wasn't <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the biggest fan</span> of B<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">litzen Trapper's eighth album when I first heard it, bu<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">t <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the </span></span></span></span>title track deserves a spot </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>in the<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ir greatest h<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">its.</span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - "Nuclear Fusion"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Australia's most prolific psych-rock ambassadors are back with </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>another <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">offering</span> of groovy weirdness.</span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. Kris Kristofferson - "Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>While I'll always know Kristofferson as Mace Montana, the ringmaster in</i> B<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ig Top Pee-Wee<i>, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I hear he's also</span> a pretty good songwriter.</i></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5. Vindata feat. Anderson Paak - "Own Life"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">V<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">indata provides <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the</span> c<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">haotic, bombasti<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">c production<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> for Paak<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> to</span> do his t<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">hing</span>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6. St. Paul & the Broken Bones - "Flow with It (You Got Me Feeling Like)"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Dig the old<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-</span>school soul vibe. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">7. Robert Ellis - "California"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>This <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">powerful tune nearly made it onto the Top 40 Songs of 2016<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">8. Morgan Heritage - "Strictly Roots"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>When the weather gets cold, I like to<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> listen to</span> reggae </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>in an attempt to trick myself into thinking it's warmer outside than i</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>t i</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>s. H<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ere's <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a</span> new <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">banger</span> from Denroy Morgan's children, Morgan Her<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">itage.</span></span></i></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">9. Day Wave - "Stuck"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This was <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">another<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> leftover from last year's list.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Jackson Phillips (Da<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">y Wave) <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">wil<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">l be releasing his debut full-length in May <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">as well</span>, so keep your ears open.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">10. The Flaming Lips - "Nigdy Nie (Never No)" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Gotta love that <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">fuzzy bass squelch.</span></i> </span>Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-32682914882836565982017-01-10T18:28:00.000-05:002017-01-10T23:46:39.270-05:00Top 40 Songs of 2016<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So here we are, one year after David Bowie<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'s <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">passin<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">g</span></span></span> a<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">nd </span>ten days awa<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">y from Donal<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">d Trump's inauguration.</span> It's easy to view 2016 as <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a tot<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">al wrec<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">k<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, the country <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">d<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ivided<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">coupled with <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> seemingly endless flow of</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">influent<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ial <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">art<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ists'<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> d<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eaths.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And I'</span>ll</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> admit that 2016 was the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">r</span>oughest year of my life <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">personally as well</span>. But to discount 2016 as simply<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> "</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Year the Music Died" <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">beli<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">es</span> that <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">fact<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> that a lot of <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">excellent</span> music came out. I've made it a habit to create a playlist<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> of my <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">top 40 <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">songs </span>each year, and <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'m not going to stop just because it feels like the world is falling apart.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>Now that we<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'re ten days into 2017, hopefully we can look back on 2016 and say<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, "Well, at least there were some good tunes."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now you may be asking, "</span>S</span>peaking o<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">f Bowie, wh<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">y isn't he on this list</span></span></span>?" Well, I have very strict rules <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">for eligibility. </span>While <i>Blackstar</i> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">re<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">mains</span></span> an important album and one that I enjoy, it<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">s</span> best tracks were all released prior to 2016.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> "</span>Killing a Little Time" from the <i>Lazarus</i> recordings almost made <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">it</span>, however.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Anyway, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">don<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'t let that stop you from </span></span></span>opening u<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">p </span>Spotify<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>and enj<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">oying 2.5 hour<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">s of 2016 jams.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">40. A Giant Dog - "Sleep When Dead"</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This snagged the opening s<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">po</span>t in the final week of <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">December<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> while I was <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">returning to NY v<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ia </span></span>the</span></span> Lincoln Tunn<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">el on a Chinatown bus. <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The ag<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">gression of the music mixed with the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">determination in the lyrics<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> makes it the </span></span></span></span></span></span>perfect soundtrack <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to </span>kick those New Year's resolutions into gear. </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">9</span>. Animal Lib<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eration Orchestra - "Summer Dream (We Got the Time)"</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I wasn't <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">aware ALO had released this su<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">n<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">kissed</span></span> single<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Summer-Dream-We-Got-Time/dp/B01FUWLSZS" target="_blank">exclusively through Amazon</a> until I saw them <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">play it <a href="http://www.drypaintsigns.com/2016/08/alo-brooklyn-bowl-setlist.html" target="_blank">li</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.drypaintsigns.com/2016/08/alo-brooklyn-bowl-setlist.html" target="_blank">ve a</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.drypaintsigns.com/2016/08/alo-brooklyn-bowl-setlist.html" target="_blank">t Brooklyn Bowl</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.drypaintsigns.com/2016/08/alo-brooklyn-bowl-setlist.html" target="_blank"> in August</a>.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> It's not on Spotify, so you can check out <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">an</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">acoustic version<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> performed by Zach and Stev<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e below.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">38. Frightened Rabbit - "Get Out"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>I think most of us can relate to th</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>is <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">shimmery ro<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ck number</span></span>, wh<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">erein lead singer Scott Hut<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">chison compares his love interest to an "unc<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ut drug<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">" that <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">he <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">can't quit and doesn't want to.</span></span></span></span></span></span></i> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">7</span>. A Tribe Called Quest - "Movin Backwards"</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Phife Dawg<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'s <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">death</span> was<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">n'</span></span>t a complete surprise<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> to anyone familia<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">r with his <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">battle</span> with diabetes, but wha<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">t was unexpected </span></span></span>was the release of a new Tribe album <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eight months later. This song<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> addresses <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">police brutality and the </span></span>confusions and frustrati<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ons of being black in a society whe<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">re racism </span></span></span>has returned to the forefront.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> It also </span>features Anderson Paak, who we'll hear from later<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> on down</span> the list.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6</span>. Daniel Romano - "Maybe Remember Me"</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rom<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ano expands upon <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">his country sound with this </span>poppy folk <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ditty</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">stuffed with </span></span>vivid imagery <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">like the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">or<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ange bir<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">d that rests up<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">on his shoulder</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. As if that weren't<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> enough of a stylisti<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">c jump</span>, the song's conclusion<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> segues into what <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">feels like an </span></span></span></span>early Red Hot Chili Peppers demo.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5</span>. Billie Marten - "Teeth"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Speaking</span> of birds, you'll hear them chirping in the background<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> of this beautiful per<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">formance by Billie Marten. It's <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">so raw, you can hear the</span></span></span> clunks of the piano's foot pedal<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">s.</span></i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4</span>. The Invisible - "Save You"</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I hate to resort to a TV on the Radio comparison, but it's the best TVOTR song they never wrote.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3</span>. Tokyo Police Club - "Not My Girl"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>After going solo with last year's</i> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All Signs Point to Yes</span><i> (<a href="http://www.drypaintsigns.com/2015/07/the-next-round-episode-37-dave-monks.html" target="_blank">and talking to me about it</a> on </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Next Round<i>)</i></span><i>, Dave Monks returns with another excellent power<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-</span>pop number from the first of two 2016 EPs<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> by</span> Tokyo Police Club.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2</span>. My Morning Jacket - "Magic Bullet"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">MMJ<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> released this funky plea for peace <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the Sunday after a part<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">icularly brutal </span></span>week <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">of</span> gun violence<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> in July.</span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1</span>. Busman's Holiday - "What We Need We Know"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>The </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Rogers brothers</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> hired a 21-piece orchestra to flesh out their DIY acoustic sound</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">on their sophomore record, </span></i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Popular Cycles</span><i>. T<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">he result is powerful an<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">d organic.</span></span></i> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">0</span>. Leonard Cohen - "You Want It Darker"</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another legend gone. Crazily enough, I actually didn't start listening to Cohen until the beginning of 2016<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> While I prefer his early folk material<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">,<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> the organ<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and choir make this song absolut<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ely </span>c</span></span></span></span></span>hilling. </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">29</span>. Sturgill Simpson - "Brace for Impact (Live a Little)"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A Sailor's Guide to Earth<i>, Simpson<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'s 2016 major label debut, was c</span>onceived as an instruction manual for his son<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. H<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ere, he encourages his son to "live a little<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">" <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">before <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">his</span> impending death.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> The ch<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ugging </span>groove prevents it from be<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ing</span> too morbid.</span></span></span></span></span></i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">8</span>. The Heavy - "Not the One"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Th</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>ere</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>'s some <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">nice</span>, funky guitarwo</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>rk here, remin</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>iscent of</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> John Frusciante. I</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> guess </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>it's obvious I was extremely let down by</i> The Ge<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">taway<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <i>and had to get my jollies elsewhere.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">7</span>. Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals - "Shine"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>If I were to call Ben Harper's 13th studio album<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">,</span> and first with the Inn</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>ocent Criminals since 2007's </i>Lifeline<i>,</i></span></span><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>what it is<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, I'd call it a disappointm<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ent.</span></span> "Shine<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"</span> is a def<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">inite kee<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">per though.</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6</span>. Matthew Logan Vasquez - "Personal"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Delta Spirit's frontman may have <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"struck out on his own<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">," but fortunately<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, </span>he didn't strike out, as evidenced by this energetic rocker.</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5</span>. Beyoncé - "All Night"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So </span>much of </i>Lemonad<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e</span><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> is about vengeance</span>, but it's on "All Night" that Beyoncé forgives her husband for his infidelities<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, choosing to salvage<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>their marriage instead of ending i<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">t.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> As a result, it's the most fearless song on the record. Obviously not on Spotify.</span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4</span>. Radiohead - "Identikit"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>I don't consider<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> "</span>True Love Waits" eligible for 2016 consideration. While it would easily be included in the top ten if I did, I <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">feel that</span> having a live version officially released as far back as 2001 disqualifies it.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> I say this <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">knowing full well</span> that "Identikit" was performed live<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> in </span>2012<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, </span>albeit <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">un</span>released.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Ed O'Brien<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'s fren<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">etic guitar solo</span></span></span></span></span> is a welcome return to what was sorely <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">missing</span> from </i>The King of Limbs<i>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3</span>. White Denim - "Holda You (I'm Psycho)"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>The Austin band went through so</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>me lineup changes</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> for </i>Stiff<i>,<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> reigniting</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">that</span> </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>freewheeling energy that seem</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>ed in shorter supply on</i> Corsicana Lemon<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ade<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <i>for this balls-out rocker.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2</span>. D.D Dumbo - "Walrus"</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It took<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> me up </span>until th<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">final week of December </span></span>to decide between four of the tracks on </span></i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>D.D</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> Dumbo's debut </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>LP,</i> </span></span>Utopia Defeated<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, </span></i></span><i>which song should be represented here. I <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">went with the persistent open<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">er</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">that ex<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">emplifies Oliver Hugh Perry's multilayered production.</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1</span>. The Stray Birds - "Third Day in a Row"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>I<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> saw</span> more sunrises <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">last year</span> than any year in my life. Honestly, I probably saw the majority of th<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e </span>366<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, so this one speaks to me.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">0</span>. Caleb Caudle - "Tuscaloosa"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>One of my good friends used to work with this guy at a pizz<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eria</span> in North Carolina<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, which is funny because you'd never a expect <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">pizza guy<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> to be capable o<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">f w<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">riting a l<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ine as moving as</span></span></span> "</span></span></span>Well, I'm not lookin' to be fixed<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> / Just understand that parts are broken."</span></span></i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">19</span>. Aloha - "Faraway Eyes"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>I'd heard of Aloha be</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>for</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>e 2016, but th</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>ey didn</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>'t really <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">demand my attention </span>until</i> </span></span></span></span>Little Windows Cut Right Through<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, which</span> would <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">surely</span> be on<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">my albums of the year list <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">if I made one. It was hard selecting just one track, but the lyric "I know you're <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">scare<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">d / I'm sc<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ared too" resonated with me<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, even if it was mainly due to a Rory Scovel joke.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">8</span>. Bruno Mars - "24K Magic"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>While not as infectious as his Mark Ronson collaboration "Uptown Funk," Mr. Mars has returned with another slice of retro R&B to get your ass (and you<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">r ugly-ass friends) </span>on the danc<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e floor.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">7</span>. Kevin Morby - "I Have Been to the Mountain"</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My favorite guitar solo of the year<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6</span>. Bear Hands - "Marathon Man"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>I actually discovered this song on Spotify.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> It</span> was the first Bear Hands<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> tune</span> I heard, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and i<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">t inspired <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">me to</span></span> promptly <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">order the<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ir</span></span></span></span> back catalo</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>g on vinyl</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>. Their latest effort, </i>You'll Pay <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">for This<i>, was a bit underwhelming, so my rabid fandom <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">has </span>tapered off<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, but I still enjoy i<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">t.</span></span></i></span></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5</span>. Dawes - "Roll with the Punches"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Its</span> t</span>heme of persistence is characterized by the galvanic organ. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4</span>. Will Joseph Cook - "Girls Like Me"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>You can definitely hear the Talking Heads influence, but at only 18, Cook </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>has <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">plenty of time to grow.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> If <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">he's writ<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ing s<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ongs this catchy now, just wait until he gets some pat<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ina on him.</span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3</span>. Catfish &<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>the Bottlemen - "Soundcheck"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You could teach a songwriting class <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with this <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">one, which merges <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">its</span> big pop chorus with<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>esot<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eric verses, even going as far as to use the term "fag break."<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> The detai<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ls paint a<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">fuller picture<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, allowing the listener to relate<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2</span>. Pop Etc - "Please, Don't Forget Me"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Chris Chu didn't forget the '80s when he crafted th</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>e lively lead-off track to </i>Souvenir<i>. <a href="http://www.drypaintsigns.com/2016/07/the-next-round-episode-46-pop-etc.html" target="_blank">Hear him discuss how the band whittled down</a> literally hundreds of ideas<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>to the album's ten tunes on </i>The Next <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Round. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1</span>. Honne feat. Izzy Bizu - "Someone That Loves You"</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Bri<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tish songbird Izzy Bizu<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">assists </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e</span>lectr</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>onic soul d</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>u</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>o Honne</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> to create the most danceable number</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> on </i>Warm on a Cold Night.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">0</span>. Nico Yaryan - "Witch Love"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yaryan</span> wrote</i> What <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a Tease <i>wh<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ile working a<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">t a <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">can<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">nabis</span></span> farm in Humboldt County an<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">d spending time with a <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">romantic interest in Amsterdam<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. </span>Th<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e laid-back influence of the weed can be heard in the m<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">usic<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></i></span><i>It's not groundbreaking by any means, but it's refreshing to hear someone crooning <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">so genuinely</span>.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">9</span>. Emily King - "Focus"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>In July, Emily King released a deluxe edition of last year's</i> The Switch<i>, adding this among the bonus tracks<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and</span> proving <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">it </span>worth <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the u</span>pgrade. <a href="http://www.drypaintsigns.com/2016/11/the-next-round-episode-48-emily-king.html" target="_blank">She discussed the </a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.drypaintsigns.com/2016/11/the-next-round-episode-48-emily-king.html" target="_blank">album's expan</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.drypaintsigns.com/2016/11/the-next-round-episode-48-emily-king.html" target="_blank">sion</a> on my podcast.</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">8</span>. Bon Iver - "33 God"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Electronic artists and lo-fi balladeers have been experimenting with sound quality for years</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>, so it wasn't <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">exactly a new</span> idea <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">when</span> Justin Vernon did it</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> on</i> 22, A Million<i>. In fact, it's ofte<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">n </span></i></span><i>f</i></span><i>rustrating to have the songs obscured as such.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Be that as it may, it forced the studious l<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">istener to question its purpose. Could it be</span> part of some</span> puzzle to unlock, or is it all just pretentious hipsterism<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">? </span> If it weren't so damn melodic, I'd strongly consider it the latter.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">7</span>. Eric Krasno - "Waiting on Your Love"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Soulive's guitarist steps solidly into the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">spotlight on this bluesy funk cut<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">E<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">smé<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'s hiccups and howls</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">coalesced into</span> my </span></span>favorite individual vocal performance of the year.</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5</span>. Cris Jacobs - "Jack the Whistle & the Hammer"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you can lis<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ten to this without bobb<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">in<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">g your head or tapping your foot, stay the fuc<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">k away from me. </span></span></span></span>If you'd like to hear more about the gen<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">esis of the titular characters, check out <a href="http://www.drypaintsigns.com/2016/11/the-next-round-episode-49-cris-jacobs.html" target="_blank">my podcast interview with Cris</a>.</span></span></span></i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4</span>. Kishi Bashi - "Honeybody"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>K. Ishibashi was </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>having quite the </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>slump when he sat down to write </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>for </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>record #3</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>, </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>feeling like he was going through the motions while </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>s<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">imultaneously </span>watching his marriage suffer, so it's amazing that such a joyous nugget came out of</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> it.</i> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>I'm not sure why this is no longer available on Spotify, but it was<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> in constant rotation on</span> my iPod in the early months of the year<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, providing <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a 4-minute<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>s</span></span>erotonin boost</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> whenever I needed.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>For this song, Fran<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">cis invented a special audio codec<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, dubbed the Prismizer.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> The result <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">is simi<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">lar to Auto-Tune, yet it retains the brightness of the human voice<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. </span></span></span></span></span></span>It's especiall<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">y effective <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">when <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">combined</span> with</span></span> a call for friendship in these rough, di<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">visive</span> times<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.</span></i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. Anderson Paak - "Come Down"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>We may have lost a lot of legends </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>this past year, but<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">hip-hop/R&B artist Anderson P<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">aak has b<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">een staking <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">his claim as a star of the future. I could've <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">picked several of the songs from Paak's</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> fantastic</i> </span>Malibu <i>album to include in this list, but m</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>y </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>limit is one per a</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>ct. I decided <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to go with</span> "Come Down<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> because it's supremely funky and <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">fun <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">despite the complexity of its synco<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">pation and production.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> He's n</span>ominat<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ed for two Grammy<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">s, including <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Best New Artist,<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> so you'd do well to hop</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> in the Paak seat now.</span></span></span></span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div>
Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-16096724821994628202016-12-31T13:49:00.000-05:002016-12-31T13:49:05.090-05:00Phish MSG Night Two Setlist<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Review to come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">SET I (1 hour, 18 minutes) -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sweet Adeline / Peaches en Regalia > Mike's Song > Secret Smile > Weekapaug Groove / Roses Are Free / Poor Heart / 46 Days / Brian & Robert / Beauty of a Broken Heart / Theme from the Bottom > Split Open & Melt</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">SET II (1 hour, 14 minutes) -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Down with Disease > What's the Use? > Fuego > Meatstick / Twenty Years Later > Kung > Twenty Years Later > Makisupa Policeman / Harry Hood</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ENCORE (8 minutes) -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Julius</span>Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-9262091320020902032016-12-29T11:17:00.000-05:002016-12-29T11:17:28.511-05:00Phish MSG Night One Setlist<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Review to come.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>PHISH - 12.28.16 - MADISON SQUARE GARDEN</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">SET I (1 hour, 20 minutes) -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Star-Spangled Banner / Stealing Time from the Faulty Plan / Lonesome Cowboy Bill > Free / Train Song / Prince Caspian / Roggae / Funky Bitch / Halfway to the Moon / Corinna / Stash / Cavern</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">SET II (1 hour, 19 minutes) -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wolfman's Brother / Golden Age > Simple > Chalk Dust Torture / Martian Monster > Tweezer Reprise > Martian Monster / Wingsuit / Possum</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ENCORE (7 minutes) -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Good Times Bad Times</span></div>
Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-84534512717597540312016-12-08T18:12:00.001-05:002016-12-08T18:12:17.878-05:00The Majorleans Return to Mercury Lounge<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mercury Lounge's most iconic feature had to have been its wall sconces. The dim incandescent bulbs entrenched in decorative wire cages looked like giant firefly abdomens, just barely illuminating the showroom's brick walls to give it a feel that was somehow simultaneously dingy and classy. They were even used in the lounge's website design for years until the Bowery Presents overhauled the page to include their other venues. So imagine my shock last night when I stepped into the room to find them replaced with new fixtures that appear as if someone sliced a scalloped pitcher in half, stuck it over a LED light, and glued it to an elongated octagon made of reflective material streaked with blue wisps. They look like shit and I don't know what they were thinking. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Almost exactly a year ago, when the original sconces remained, the Majorleans played the Mercury Lounge, unveiling a selection of new tunes that Nicky Francis and Chris Buckle had been workshopping for their next album, <i>Carouser's End</i>. Last night, the band played </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">all seven songs from the upcoming record.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The set got off to a shaky start, as inconsistent monitor levels had the members struggling to hear each other, with Buckle having difficulty harmonizing during "Mr. Magic." After some adjustments, the band rallied behind "Give It All to Me," having lived in the <i>Carouser's</i> tunes long enough now that they've become staples. The older <i>Black Belt</i> numbers benefitted from being reworked as well. "</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Imaginary Plane" has always been my least favorite Majorleans song, but for this go-round, they slowed it down, allowing me to hear just how deep the pocket of rhythm section Bongers & Brooks goes. By the time they'd reached the end of </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"What I Mean" five songs in, the confidence was visible, Nicky shaking his narrow hips as the crowd clapped for more. "Once the pendulum starts swinging, it doesn't stop," Francis acknowledged. "Not in those jeans!" came a teasing rebuttal from a crowdmember. Trading out his Rickenbacker electric for a Gibson acoustic, Nicky led the band on a duo of <i>Carouser's</i> ditties, "</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Under the Spell" and "Sunrise Mary," the latter of which was greeted with knowing cheers from the audience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Almost as big of a surprise as the new lighting on the walls, but entirely more welcome, was the </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">second live performance ever of "Lonesome Seaside Driving School." Written while driving along the southern coast of France, the introspective and atmospheric ballad stood proudly amid the band's rockers. Having pulled it off without a hitch, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nicky warned the people, "It's all biscuits in your mouth from here on out, so be ready." He held onto the Gibson for a terrific "Under Ma Wheels" before returning to the Rick on "Tattoo." Chris sustained the</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> song's final note to give Francis enough leeway to slap on a capo for their frequent closer and time-tested crowd-pleaser "Never Had Enough." While it definitely sucks about the sconces, fortunately the Mercury Lounge will always be about the music, first and foremost.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>THE MAJORLEANS - 12.07.16 - MERCURY LOUNGE (53 minutes)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mr. Magic / Give It All to Me / Imaginary Plane / Set to Receive / What I Mean / Under the Spell / Sunrise Mary / Lonesome Seaside Driving School / Under Ma Wheels / Tattoo > Never Had Enough</span></div>
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Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-50492294912554167812016-12-05T15:56:00.003-05:002016-12-05T16:22:20.460-05:00Monthly Mix #23: December 2016 (Secular)<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">December 2016 (Secular):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm not solely listening to Christmas carols right now, so neither should you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. Bruno Mars - "24K Magic"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>While not the instantly likable "Uptown Funk," I think I was hooked after three listens.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. Sing Street - "Drive It Like You Stole It"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>I was charmed by John Carney's coming-of-age film when I saw it over Thanksgiving break. I'd recommend the movie (currently streaming on Netflix) and this Hall & Oates-inspired ditty. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. The Game feat. Too $hort, Problem, AV, & Eric Bellinger - "Or Nah"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Sorry if it's a little crass, but it's got that beat. Eric Bellinger's hook is smooth AF too.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. John Legend feat. Brittany Howard - "Darkness & Light"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Legend enlists Alabama Shakes' frontwoman for the sultry title track of his fifth studio album (sixth if you count his collaboration with the Roots).</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5. Neil Young - "Here for You"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Back in September, this was the father-daughter dance at my friend's wedding. I really liked the choice, and Neil's catalog is finally available on Spotify.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6. Johnny Marr - "Easy Money"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Propulsion epitomized.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">7. Jim James - "Same Old Lie"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>While it may feel like our current political climate is drastically different than what we've come to expect, Jim reminds us that in fact, "it's the same old lie."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">8. Syreeta - "I Love Every Little Thing About You"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Syreeta recorded this cover of Stevie Wonder's song in the midst of their divorce, one-upping the original and adding a whole new layer of depth.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">9. Jack Garratt feat. Anderson Paak - "Worry"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>I'm not a big Jack Garratt fan, but Paak throws down one of his top verses here.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">10. Mike Doughty - "I Can't Believe I Found You in That Town"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>This was on my <a href="http://www.drypaintsigns.com/2015/12/top-40-songs-of-2015.html" target="_blank">Top 40 of 2015</a> list when it was merely a demo on Mike's Drip.fm feed. While I still prefer the stripped-down original over the DJ Good Goose production that you'll hear here, the effective lyrics remain unchanged.</i></span>Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-62649794123690162182016-12-05T14:46:00.001-05:002016-12-05T14:46:12.457-05:00Monthly Mix #22 - December 2016 (Holiday)<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">December 2016 (Holiday):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The holidays are approaching.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. The Staple Singers - "The Last Month of the Year"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>It's the last month of the year.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. Mariah Carey - "All I Want for Christmas is You"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Like it or not, this is now a bonafide Christmas classic.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3. David Bazan - "Happy Xmas (War is Over)"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Bazan puts his lo-fi spin on Lennon as part of his new Christmas record,</i> Dark Sacred Night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4. Kacey Musgraves feat. Leon Bridges - "Present Without a Bow"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Cute seasonal number featuring two of music's shiniest new stars.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">5. Grace Potter - "Naughty, Naughty Children (Better Start Actin' Nice)"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Potter looks at the bright side of getting coal for Christmas.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">6. Andy Williams - "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>The other day, I put this on and pretended I was living in a musical. So fun. I'm not ashamed to admit that, so try it for yourself.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">7. Wham! - "Last Christmas"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>No comment.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">8. Jeremy Messersmith - "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Starts off like a bedroom demo until the strings sneak in and open the door. Remember when <a href="http://www.drypaintsigns.com/2014/06/the-next-round-episode-21-jeremy.html" target="_blank">Jeremy was on the podcast</a>?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">9. Stevie Wonder - "Merry Christmas/Happy Kwanzaa"</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Taken from an UK promotional single, this</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> interesting little piece mas</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">hes up "Jingle Bells" with Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely."</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">10. David Bowie & Bing Crosby - "Peace on Earth/The Little Drummer Boy"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>This has always been my Uncle Mike's favorite holiday song, and it's even more poignant with Bowie's passing this year.</i></span>Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694723099186953809.post-53552975736640266712016-11-22T15:42:00.001-05:002016-11-22T15:44:39.042-05:00Monthly Mix #21: November 2016<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">November 2016:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The end might be near. At least we have music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. Leonard Cohen - "You Want It Darker"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Another legend gone. Fortunately, he took Bowie's cue and released one dark-ass final record right before he passed.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. Mayer Hawthorne - "Time for Love"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Mayer Hawthorne returns to form on this track off his </i>Party of One <i>EP.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. The Panics - "Passenger Side"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>This Australian band has been around since 2002, but this is my first time hearing them. I've got some homework to do.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. Honus Honus - "Heavy Jesus"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Man Man's frontman goes solo.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5. A Tribe Called Quest - "Movin Backwards"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>A lot of people have been singing the praises of the new Tribe album. I dig it, but I'm not blown away. Three guesses who's featured on this track, hehe.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6. Busman's Holiday - "What We Need We Know"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>For their sophomore album, the Rogers brothers did something very non-sophomoric: they added a 21-piece orchestra. This is the powerful result.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">7. D.D Dumbo - "Cortisol"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>It was hard to narrow it down to one song from</i> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Utopia Defeated<i>, Oliver Perry's first full-length, because I </i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>really love the instrumentation and production, but this frenetic track won out.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">8. Hayley Kiyoko - "One Bad Night"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Yes, this is a pop song, and yes, I like it.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">9. Dawes - "Roll with the Punches"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>That organ though.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">10. Harry Belafonte - "Jump in the Line"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>It's been a shitty month, a shitty year even. There's a reason this song is at the end of </i>Beetlejuice<i>. It's too hard not to dance and sing along. Stay positive. Never lose hope.</i></span>Dustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573375086274605644noreply@blogger.com0