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Friday music blogging: Josh Ritter A perfectly wrought love song for an Autumn weekend	David Roberts	05 Oct 2007	Gristmill
It's been a great year for music. In addition to fantastic new albums from Cloud Cult, Modest Mouse, Okkervil River, and Band of Horses, there's the latest from everyone's favorite "new Dylan," Josh Ritter. Ritter's talent for marrying hooky melodies with knotty, literate lyrics has won him some passionate fans -- more than one Gristie is nursing a crush (or ma ...
Topics: music (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: Band of Horses A new track from the presumptive album of the year	David Roberts	28 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Listen Play "Is There a Ghost," by Band of Horses: I'm not sure I've ever witnessed an album embraced so unreservedly and immediately by so many indie fans as Everything All the Time, the 2006 Sub Pop debut from Band of Horses. Three of the founding members -- Ben Bridwell, Matt Brooke, and Creighton Barrett -- were in the "quiet core" band Carissa's Wierd, but nothing about that whispery, mildly div ...
Topics: music (all these topics)

Friday night sights Tune in to the Live Earth Concert Special tonight	Sarah van Schagen	28 Sep 2007	Gristmill
A CliffsNotes version of the summer's 24-hour eco-music event will air tonight on MyNetworkTV. The two-hour "Live Earth -- The Concert Special" promises clips of the hottest performances from the seven-continent concert for a climate in crisis -- as well as tips for making eco-changes in your daily life. Check MyNetworkTV for local airtimes and channels.
Topics: climate, music, TV (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: John Vanderslice A sad, paranoid tune to haunt you over the weekend	David Roberts	21 Sep 2007	Gristmill
John Vanderslice is a Bay Area singer-songwriter, once with the band mk Ultra but now a solo artist. He also occasionally helps produce albums in the much-acclaimed recording studio he founded, Tiny Telephone. The studio uses only analog instruments and recording, but Vanderslice dirties the sound up with tons of distortion and effects. He calls it "dirty hi-f ...
Topics: music (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: Stephen Fretwell Because Dylanesque never goes out of style	David Roberts	14 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Listen Play 'Coney,' by Stephen Fretwell: I know next to nothing about Stephen Fretwell aside from his amusingly-appropriate-for-a-guitarist name. I stumbled across his album a couple weeks back and it's been growing on me. He's your basic Dylanesque singer-songwriter -- the nearest analogue that I can think of on the current scene is Josh Ritter. If you like pleasant acoustic tunes, check out Fretwell's new album Man On the Ro ...
Topics: music (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: The Apples in Stereo A new theme song for Gristmill	David Roberts	07 Sep 2007	Gristmill
I've found a theme song for Gristmill! The Apples in Stereo are 15-year veterans of the Elephant Six collective down in Georgia -- chipper lo-fi psych pop stuff. This is from their new album New Magnetic Wonder. I've never been a huge follower of that scene, but I like this new album well enough, and this song just seems apt.
Topics: music (all these topics)

Bumblingshoot Trash bins overflow with plastic bottles at the 'green' Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival	JMG	04 Sep 2007	Gristmill
They won't hear the message over the sound of your actions.
Topics: consumerism, green living, music, recycling (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: Rilo Kiley	David Roberts	24 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Listen Play 'Moneymaker,' by Rilo Kiley: Rilo Kiley is at the center of the Hip Indie universe, which predisposes some people to dislike them and others to love them uncritically. (Happily, your music blogger falls in neither camp.) Singer Jenny Lewis (like fellow RK fronter Blake Sennett, a former child TV star) is not only a fashion icon, not only cute as a button, but is a friend and collaborator to virtually every litera ...
Topics: music (all these topics)

You won't find a better review of the Yamaha CP300 anywhere!	David Roberts	24 Aug 2007	Gristmill
If you happen to be perusing the newest issue of Jazz Times -- available on newsstands! -- flip on over to the Gearhead section and check out the ace review of the Yamaha CP300 Stage Piano. It's written by a young piano prodigy who's tearing up the D.C. jazz scene. You can hear some of his music here, and buy some of it here, though note that a new album is in the works and will likely be released around the end of the year.
Topics: music (all these topics)

Don't go to BP Amoco! And don't piss off Pearl Jam	Sarah van Schagen	21 Aug 2007	Gristmill
BP's sludge dumpage into Lake Michigan has a whole mess of people pissed off. Including green-leaning band Pearl Jam, who performed an angry li'l ditty at this year's Lollapalooza festival. The lyrics are pretty simple; sing it with me: "Don't go to BP Amoco!"
Topics: business, energy, music, oil, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: Jens Lekman Classic pop for a summer weekend	David Roberts	17 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Listen Play 'The Opposite of Hallelujah,' by Jens Lekman: Today we bring you a Swedish singer-songwriter named Jens Lekman. On the surface, Lekman's music is a bit of a throwback: mannered, melodic, occasionally orchestral pop, delivered with a precise baritone. It wouldn't be out of place alongside Frank Sinatra. But listen a little closer and you hear a deadpan wit, a post-ironic self-effacement that feels quite of-the-moment ...
Topics: music (all these topics)

Let it all out Complaints Choir looking for members	Kate Sheppard	16 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Got good chords? Got stuff to bitch about? The first official U.S.-based Complaints Choir is forming in Chicago, and they'll be debuting on Nov. 3. The Complaints Choir is performance art -- people send in their complaints about life, the world, the environment, whatever's pissing them off, and then everyone gets together and makes a song out of them. Think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for cynics, or at least people who are fed up with all the crap. A lot of the comp ...
Topics: green living, music (all these topics)

The Ditty Bops A green band that's really green	Adam Browning	13 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Last week, headed to the Lanesplitter for a Tune-Up, quite by accident I ended up seeing the Ditty Bops at the Freight and Salvage.I'm glad I did. The music was sweet and smart and catchy. But music aside, the show was eye-opening. Bono, step aside: Here's the new standard for what it means for musicians to engage in activism. At Vote Solar, we are periodically invited to table at shows where big name acts have decided to incorporate an activism component to ...
Topics: green living, music (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: Gonzales A quiet, soothing tune for the end of a long week	David Roberts	10 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Listen Play 'The Tourist,' by Gonzales: Wow, I sure am glad it's Friday. I'm exhausted. Not the kind of exhausted where you want music that will re-energize you, but the kind of exhausted where you want something nice and soothing to help you turn off and unload the week's worries. Solo Piano, an album by an artist known cryptically as Gonzales, is that kind of music. (It's also, incidentally, my go-to early morning ease-in ...
Topics: music (all these topics)

Grist on Last.fm (with a poll!) One more Grist layer on that fatty internet sandwich	Daniel Bachhuber	06 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Like the title says, Grist is now on the social music network Last.fm! We haven't gotten into releasing our own music (yet ... ) but our two most recent weekly podcasts are up there. More importantly, if you're a fan of Last.fm you should definitely scrobble the Grist podcast every time you listen to it. We want to see those listening metrics soar! Have questions about Last.fm and Grist? Put them in the comment thread and we'll get back to you. And be sure to vot ...
Topics: music, shameless self-promotion, websites (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: Explosions in the Sky Big, wide-open tune to start your weekend	David Roberts	27 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Listen Play 'Catastrophe and the Cure,' by Explosions in the Sky: You thought I forgot! This week's song is from a fantastic band out of Austin, Texas called Explosions in the Sky. They play in a style that has somewhat unfortunately been dubbed "post rock," though the band, like most bands stuck with the label, hates it. The prefer plain old "rock." What sets the genre apart is that it's instrumental (no v ...
Topics: music (all these topics)

Black-eyed Peas: Live Earth edition Their eco-song doesn't suck. Too much	Sarah van Schagen	27 Jul 2007	Gristmill
I have been remiss in my music-related reportage, and I apologize. I had heard prior to Live Earth (which was three weeks ago) that, like Madonna, the Black-eyed Peas would be writing a song specifically for the spectacle. But I never updated you as to how that worked out. Then, today, thanks to my "media hound" colleague, I found out that unlike Madonna's song, this one does not suck. As much. Check out the video for "SOS" here.
Topics: climate, green living, music (all these topics)

NASA's Hansen on Live Earth, Gore, and coal It's all about coal	Joseph Romm	25 Jul 2007	Gristmill
More from James Hansen's email: I was invited to go on stage at "Live Earth" at the Meadowlands, between Jon Bon Jovi and Smashing Pumpkins performances. I agreed to this, on the condition that I could bring my grandchildren, Sophie and Connor. I assumed it would be like last year when I appeared with Al Gore before a young audience, with a rather impromptu discussion of global warming. Bad assumption. When I asked "Where's Al?", I was told th ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, coal, energy, green living, James Hansen, music (all these topics)

Yes, Virgin, there is a green festival Virgin Festival 'near-zero waste' for first time	Sarah van Schagen	25 Jul 2007	Gristmill
The two-day Virgin music festival next weekend at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore will feature performances by The Police, The Smashing Pumpkins, and the Beastie Boys, as well as some bettin' on the ponies (!) -- but organizers are also gambling on concert-goers to "green it like they mean it" as they plan for a "near-zero waste" event.Certainly, the festival is not treading in virgin territory -- the green music thing has been done. And perhap ...
Topics: carbon offsets, climate, green living, music, recycling (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: Wilco From the Wilco demographic	David Roberts	20 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Listen Play 'Walken,' by Wilco: A coworker who shall remain nameless is fond of mocking me for my love of Wilco. Her theory is that Wilco's fan base is overwhelmingly dominated by "whiny white guys in their early 30s." I'm afraid I fall squarely in that demographic, and though Wilco does have broad appeal ... the theory is not entirely fanciful. So anyway, this one's for my peeps. Whiny early-30s whities in the house ...
Topics: music (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: Coconut Records Happy weekend tunes	David Roberts	13 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Listen Play 'West Coast,' by Coconut Records: I've missed a few Fridays, what with vacation, but don't worry, our long national nightmare is over: FMB is back. Today comes a song that was stuck in my head the entire time I was gone: "West Coast," by Coconut Records. Coconut Records is Jason Schwartzman, who's an actor (Rushmore; I Heart Huckabees) and used to be the drummer for a band called Phantom Planet. It's a s ...
Topics: music (all these topics)

Tell Us What You Flaunt, What You Really Really Flaunt Spice Girls reunion tour will be -- gasp -- carbon-intensive		12 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Tell Us What You Flaunt, What You Really Really Flaunt Spice Girls reunion tour will be -- gasp -- carbon-intensive We've been looking for an excuse to mention the Spice Girls reunion since it was announced two weeks ago, and we've finally got one. It seems that -- brace yourself -- the group's world tour will not be eco-friendly. In fact, each Girl will get a private Lear j ...
Topics: celebrity, climate, climate change impacts, green living, music, news, travel (all these topics)

Should we call them Green 5 now? Pop band Maroon 5 launches 'carbon neutral' tour	Sarah van Schagen	12 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Grammy-winning pop quintet Maroon 5 have teamed up with Global Cool to green their upcoming arena tour in support of their sophomore album It Won't Be Soon Before Long.From the press release:Global Cool will work closely with Maroon 5's production team, management, and the boys themselves to reduce the carbon emissions produced by the world tour before offsetting the remaining emissions that cannot be reduced. For its part, Maroon 5 will donate $1.00 for each ticke ...
Topics: carbon offsets, climate, green living, music (all these topics)

Global warming: That's a rap! Young rappers say 'peace out' to skeptics	Sarah van Schagen	11 Jul 2007	Gristmill
'Glaciers melting, waters rising, sky is storming, global warming!' That's how a rap written by a group of Vermont teens begins. And they hope it ends with local lawmakers taking action on climate change. The students, who call themselves X-10, first drew attention this spring with their rap, '802,' which described life in Vermont. Their video has been viewed more than 123,000 times on YouTube. Instead of 802, they're now rapping about CO2 -- carbon diox ...
Topics: climate, green living, music, politics, video (all these topics)

Here's a green Ditty for ya More green musicians	Kate Sheppard	11 Jul 2007	Gristmill
We've gotten tons of emails from people who are all like 'Why didn't my fav band make your '15 Green Musicians and Bands' list, yo?' Most of them are just sorta self-righteous and annoying. But today we got one from the good folks over on Spinner.com that pointed to their own list on the subject, which had some overlap with ours, as well as a few cool additions. Their No. 1 gets extra cool points: The Ditty Bops. As they describe them: To promote their 2006 album ' ...
Topics: bikes, green living, music, placemaking (all these topics)

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