Takeaway Show Friday - Vampire Weekend "Mansard Roof"

Sometimes take away shows drives in a van:

#80.1 - VAMPIRE WEEKEND - Mansard Roof
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Takeaway Show Friday - Andrew Bird "Spare-Ohs"

Maritime

Maritime: Jukebox at the top. I'm a big fan of these guys and their indie rock stylings. They are well worth opening the site and letting the jukebox play in the background. They have some really good driving rhythms, well placed background lead guitar and good clean lead vocals. They remind me of two bands put together but I can't think of names...it's in my head though. Maybe a modern day Lemonheads. If you can think of who they sound like, post a comment. Regardless let that jukebox roll. I think these guys are going to be big in the next couple of years in this indie scene.

The best part? Free downloads. Under the menu click on Downloads and there is 7 songs you can download, including the good sounds of "Guns of Navarone".

Videos:
(very good song) "Someone has to die"


"Guns of Navarone"


"Tearing Up the Oxygen"

Rivers Cuomo Needs Your Help

Apparently Rivers Cuomo needs your help to write a song.

Let's Write a Sawng (Steps 1 & 2: Song Name)


Let's Write a Sawng (Step 3: Chords)



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Bonus Video: "Lover in the Snow". This is a video for one of his latest songs from his latest album. Tis an odd video as he talks the first 30 seconds and then plays the song. But the video is of his love for soccer, and playing in a Mia Hamm soccer game. Anyways, it's a video and it's a song:

Lover In The Snow

Andrew Bird Album Review

Andrew Bird is one of my favorite artists so whenever he releases new music, even if it's an EP, I'm all about it. Pitchfork did a review of his latest EP Soldier On(which I have yet to pick up) and gave it a 7.7. "The Trees Were Mistaken" is a great song on the EP and well worth previewing. Excerpt from the review:

The most remarkable track on the EP is the one that kicks it off, though. "The Trees Were Mistaken" is something new for Bird, and really quite good. It takes the looping technique he's perfected over the years to a new level, throwing blankets of sound over a programmed beat, with dabs of pizzicato violin and splashes of electric guitar splattered across the surface. Bird joins the layers of texture with his voice, riding the song's swelling pulse into a thorny den of oscillating violins and eerie whistling. It's a track that makes this compilation more notable than your average side release-in fact, Soldier On is exceptionally good for a quick collection of rarities, a must-have for fans and a genuine expansion of his range.

If you missed Andrew Bird before this, go and pick up his album Armchair Apocrypha...truly a great album. Bird is a violin virtuoso and uses the instrument to lay down music you've never heard before. Pitchforks review of that album gives it a 7.7 but I think it deserves a 9.5.

Menomena Album Review

Pitchfork has a great review of Menomena's latest album: Friend and Foe. There is a free download of "Wet and Rusting" on the review page and a streaming version of the entire album here. Here is their closing arguments about the album (of which they gave an 8.5):

Once you've listened through a couple of times, it's stunning how many clever and exciting moments stick with you-- music this full of ideas, sections and material can come across as overstuffed, but this feels just right almost everywhere. Their previous two albums worked because of their stripped, immediate simplicity; Friend and Foe works just as well moving away from that approach and shows dimensions of the band-- especially in the vocal department-- that weren't apparent before. In fact, the biggest concern one might come away from Friend and Foe with is whether the band can top it next time.

Five Year Old Brawl

My Brother sent me this link yesterday. I couldn't help but post it: "How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take In a Fight?"

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Takeaway Show Friday - Gravenhurst "Black Holes in the Sand"