Angeles/Coming Up Roses - Elliott Smith (live @Gibson’s, Tempe, AZ, 1996)

I’ve seen basically every Elliott Smith video out there, and until tonight, I’d never seen this one.  As far as I can tell, it’s the first time it’s ever been online.

This would have been right around the time he was recording Either/Or.  Before Good Will Hunting came along and made him somebody people really knew about.

The Promise Ring perform “Become One Anything One Time” on Late Night with Conan O’Brien in 2002.  It was their first (and only) performance on network television.

Bowerbirds stop by the NPR studios to play a tiny desktop concert!  (Click here to watch it.)

olivehearts:

Our visit to the desk of Bob Boilen at NPR during our summer tour is finally online!

It captures a unique, one tour only, group of players: Beth and Phil, plus Mark Paulson and Brad Cook on violin, upright bass and that big bass drum.

It was fun, and a bunch of NPR staff stood around and watched us play, so it was like a real show.


EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY

(Central Park, New York June 30, 2009)
Intro
Yasmin the Light
The Birth and Death of the Day
A Song for Our Fathers
Your Hand in Mine
Greet Death
Snow and Lights
A Poor Man’s Memory
Catastrophe and the Cure
The Only Moment We Were Alone

Lille - Lisa Hannigan (live)

There is never a bad time to hear this song.  Or to hear Lisa sing.

mp3: Lille - Lisa Hannigan

Early in the Morning - Peter Paul and Mary


SATURDAY IS FOR McCOVERS

To Sing for You (Donovan cover) - Ben Gibbard
Harvest (Neil Young cover) - Blitzen Trapper
To Love Somebody (Bee Gees cover) - Ray LaMontagne and Damien Rice
These Days (Jackson Browne/Nico cover) - St. Vincent
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Good Man - Josh Ritter

We’ve both had dry spells, hard times in bad lands. I’m a good man for you.  I’m a good man.

Josh Ritter always sounds good, but especially so on Fridays.  I love this song all out of proportion.  I like the idea of chords shaking hands, and being the good guys.  I like the idea that there are good people in the world (and I have no problem believing that Josh Ritter is, in fact, one of them).  I love simple songs that carry you along.  I want to be a good man, too.

mp3: “Good Man” - Josh Ritter

If You Knew - Nina Simone (live)

Ola Podrida’s second record, Belly of the Lion, came out yesterday and it’s something you should get your hands on as soon as possible.  David Wingo (in the interest of full transparency, a long-time friend of mine) has crafted another record full of captivating songs - a bit louder this time around, but every bit as wonderful as the songs that graced his first record a couple of years back.
“It’s a guitar record for sure,” Wingo enthuses. “I’ve been having some fun plugging in effects pedals again.”
And, it gives me a good reason to get back in touch with him.  Who knows, maybe I can talk him into an interview at some point as well.  He’s a busy guy, though: he also just did the score for the film Gentlemen Broncos (you know, the one with Jermaine from Flight of the Conchords in it), which is currently in theaters everywhere.  So, in some way or another, go out and support David Wingo this week.  He deserves it.

mp3: Your Father’s Basement - Ola Podrida
mp3: Roomful of Sparrows - Ola Podrida

Ola Podrida’s second record, Belly of the Lion, came out yesterday and it’s something you should get your hands on as soon as possible.  David Wingo (in the interest of full transparency, a long-time friend of mine) has crafted another record full of captivating songs - a bit louder this time around, but every bit as wonderful as the songs that graced his first record a couple of years back.

“It’s a guitar record for sure,” Wingo enthuses. “I’ve been having some fun plugging in effects pedals again.”

And, it gives me a good reason to get back in touch with him.  Who knows, maybe I can talk him into an interview at some point as well.  He’s a busy guy, though: he also just did the score for the film Gentlemen Broncos (you know, the one with Jermaine from Flight of the Conchords in it), which is currently in theaters everywhere.  So, in some way or another, go out and support David Wingo this week.  He deserves it.

mp3: Your Father’s Basement - Ola Podrida

mp3: Roomful of Sparrows - Ola Podrida



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