AC June: Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest

On virtually every music blog (including, now, this one), Grizzly Bear’s new album is mentioned in conjunction to Animal Colective’s Merriwhether Post Pavilion.  But the two albums are nothing alike.  The reason, then, that these albums are mentioned together is that there has arisen a feud between different factions within indie-rock community; the defining difference [...]

Dark Days / Light Years: Analysis

Dark Days/Light Years is a very interesting album for me, in that I sincerely like the music, yet don’t ever really feel inclined to listen too it.  I guess that is what they made iPod playlists for.
First of all.  In his introductory post for DD/LY, Peter talked a little about how it was the cover [...]

Dark Mean

It seems as though my music genre of choice this years is folk.  I recently bough Devendra Banhart’s breakout album, Rejoining in the Hands, I’m loving Bon Iver, and I’m really looking forward to Rock Plaza Central’s new album.
And just recently I’ve come across a great new band: Dark Mean.  They may not be folk [...]

Dear Science: Analysis

For the first two months of the Album Club, I have absolutely loved the featured albums.  And when I read on Peter’s blog that although he liked the albums, he didn’t love them, I was always a little disappointed.  I wonder if Peter will feel the same way when he reads this review.
So yeah, in case [...]

AC April: TV on the Radio – Dear Science

[The following was taken from our Album Club's sister blog, P is for Peter]
TV on the Radio’s website bio begins with a quotation from band member David Sitek, “A lot of bands have something to say, we have something to ask.” Well, I have something to ask, too! How did TVOTR’s album Dear [...]

Album Club is Now Streaming for Free

I hope that many of you are considering participating in  our growing album club.  One reason why you may not, though, is that you may not have or wish to spend the money to buy an album a month.  Well, I have now taken this excuse away from you.  Theresa came up with a great [...]

Flora and Fauna

The stars and planets must have all aligned last night, casting a spell on Charlottesville that made everyone here think that good music is bad and horrible music is good.  You see, Theresa and I spent the evening at our town’s newest music venue, is venue, for the eagerly-awaited (by me anyways) Plants and Animals concert.  But [...]

Album Club

I hate my book club.  Its just a bunch of pretentious law students sitting around complaining that the featured author is too pretentious and making up a bunch of gibberish about the deeper meaning of a book the majority of us did not enjoy.  For example, our latest book (The Sea, by John Banville – I don’t recommend it) featured an [...]

Don’t Be Frightened

Last night, Chuck and I were able to see my #10 favourite band of 2008, Frightened Rabbit, Live in concert.  First, I loved the venue – especially for its location, which is here in Charlottesville!  Not having to drive an hour or two to see a show just makes the night so much better.  The [...]

Favourite, Not Favorite

You may have thought that there was a spelling mistake in the title of last year’s most popular post, Our Favourite Albums of 2008, but I assure you that it was not.  Favourite is how you spell the word in Canada, and in this case, as in many other instances, Theresa and I decided that [...]