The Nocturne

We've started a blog for WSND-FM's Nocturne program. Setlists, DJ reviews, rants and raves and so on. A link is posted to the right on this page. Check out the blog!

Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest - Most frustrating album of the year??

I still can't figure this album out. Make no mistake, some of the tracks on this album are flat out the best songs released this year. Particularly stellar are 'Two Weeks', the best pop song you'll hear this year, 'Cheerleader', 'Foreground', and the haunting 'Ready, Able'.

The problem is at least three or four of the tracks on this album are really not good at all. This has been my problem with Grizzly Bear in the past. Both Yellow House and Horn Of Plenty had some absolutely amazing tracks amongst garbage.

This album is going to make a lot of year end top albums lists. Hell, it might even make it into my year end top ten; but it will be due to the strength of a few songs, not the entire album.

The Flaming Lips at Pitchfork Music Festival 2009

Talk about amazing. The always fantastic Flaming Lips put on an amazing set at PFork 2009 at Union Park in wonderful Chicago, IL this past week. Other highlights included The Jesus Lizard, Ponytail, The National, DOOM, Grizzly Bear, Japandroids, M83 and Michael Columbia.

I had the pleasure of interviewing the members of Ponytail and Kickball Katy of the Vivian Girls. I will post the audio of these shortly. As for now, here are pics of the Flaming Lips. More pics are posted on my Facebook page.

I will being posting CD reviews and useless rants no one will read starting again this week.

NV

Wow.

It has been a long damn time since i've posted a blog thought here, but I consider myself refreshed and ready to post. My thoughts on the great Pitchfork Music Festival, including artist reviews and pictures to follow in the next few days.