Master thespian Ben Gibbard brought his Jack Kerouac-celebrating collaboration with Jay Farrar to Los Angeles on a busy Friday which had the pair (along with Death Cab resident beard Nick Harmer) record a session for KCRW before headlining a show... CONTINUE READING BEN GIBBARD & JAY FARRAR @ THE EL REY THEATRE & KCRW STUDIO, LOS ANGELES 10/23/09»
Posted on October 26, 2009 in , (7 comments)
Tags: Ben Gibbard | Darker My Love | Death Cab For Cutie | Jack Kerouac | Jay Farrar | John Roderick | Son Volt | The Long Winters
NAME: The Long Winters PROGRESS REPORT: Recording their fourth full-length album at Electrokitty Recording, Bog Roll Studio, and Two Sticks Audio in Seattle. "It's been a pretty hilarious process," say Long Winters main guy John Roderick of their transient recording... CONTINUE READING PROGRESS REPORT: THE LONG WINTERS»
Posted on May 8, 2009 in , (5 comments)
Tags: The Long Winters
Nowadays ex-Desaparecidos guitarist/Statistics frontman Denver Dalley's recording electro-acoustic music under the Intramural moniker. He and co-producer Sam Shacklock's longtime-in-the-making debut This Is A Landslide includes 10 tracks, each with a different vocalist, including Greg Dulli, Judah Nagler of the Velvet... CONTINUE READING NEW INTRAMURAL - "IMPAIRMENT BEGINS WITH THE FIRST DRINK" (W/ TEETER SPERBER FROM LADYBIRDS)»
Posted on October 18, 2007 in (5 comments)
Tags: Intramural | LadybiRdS | The Long Winters
Won't be 'til next year, but brace yourself for a project being billed as a joke gone, well, right: Are You Still With Me?!, a tribute to Huey Lewis. Conceived over laughs in '04, the project's coming to fruition in... CONTINUE READING OH NO! OH MY! COVER HUEY LEWIS»
Posted on July 23, 2007 in (17 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Apostle Of Hustle | Bound Stems | Catfish Haven | Grizzly Bear | Huey Lewis | My Brightest Diamond | Oh No! Oh My! | Panda Bear | The Long Winters | The National
In what should be the last of the scraps of our trek to Manchester, TN this past weekend, we were psyched to share with ya a clip of what we (and a lot of you) thought was one of the... CONTINUE READING 'ROO REMAINDERS: THE HOLD STEADY ROCK "STUCK BETWEEN STATIONS," JOHN RODERICK DEEMS THEM STUCK BETWEEN E STREET BAND, BAD COMPANY, FOREIGNER AND STYX»
Posted on June 20, 2007 in (55 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | The Hold Steady | The Long Winters
It seems that, even in this enlightened age, music jocks and music nerds just can't get along. From Seattle Weekly (via Glenn):"In the music community, it's perceived as being a very negative thing," says [Sunset Tavern owner Max] Genereaux of... CONTINUE READING REVENGE OF THE (MUSIC) NERDS»
Posted on March 28, 2007 (20 comments)
Tags: Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400) | The Long Winters
Pitchfork was underwhelmed with the Chicago Bookeaters concert:Ben Gibbard closed out the night, but not before comedian/musician Fred Armisen made a surprise appearance as the Death Cab for Cutie frontman himself. Armisen's intentional false starts included lines like, "This song... CONTINUE READING DEATH CAB FANS OVERWEIGHT AND SHITTY?!»
Posted on August 25, 2006 (9 comments)
Tags: Death Cab For Cutie | The Long Winters
Another vid from last night's Revenge Of The Bookeaters. Johnny charmed with amusing anecdotes (he cut his own hair earlier in the day!) and stripped down three lovely Long Winters songs. Here's one. Enjoy: ... CONTINUE READING JOHN RODERICK PERFORMS "PUSHOVER" @ BEACON THEATER, NY 8/23/06»
Posted on August 24, 2006 (12 comments)
Tags: The Long Winters
If we donated $5,000, Bookeaters host John Hodgman promised the sold out Beacon crowd, Sufjan Stevens and David Byrne would perform together at the end of the night! Together for the first time! Break out your wallets! Twenty dollars bought... CONTINUE READING SUFJAN STEVENS, DAVID BYRNE DUET FOR $5,000»
Posted on August 23, 2006 (33 comments)
Tags: David Byrne | Sufjan Stevens | The Long Winters
We already told you how much we love John Roderick and the new Long Winters album Putting The Days To Bed. Especially the shimmery pop-rock "Fire Island, AK." When we found out our friend Bex Schwartz was directing the video,... CONTINUE READING NEW LONG WINTERS VIDEO - "FIRE ISLAND, AK"»
Posted on August 8, 2006 in (9 comments)
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And nine other summer CDs you might be curious about. Courtesy of those wusses at AOL. Tom Petty - Highway Companion Mew - Mew and the Glass Handed Kites Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther New York Dolls -... CONTINUE READING STREAM THE NEW TOM PETTY»
Posted on July 24, 2006 (7 comments)
Tags: Mew | The Long Winters | Tom Petty
Must ... get ... tickets ... Revenge Of The Book Eaters Beacon Theater, NYC 8/23 Sufjan Stevens David Byrne Jon Stewart John Roderick Dave Eggers Sarah Vowell John Hodgman + Special Guests It's the first in a six concert series... CONTINUE READING SUFJAN STEVENS, DAVID BYRNE, JON STEWART ROCK FOR LITERACY»
Posted on July 12, 2006 (15 comments)
Tags: David Byrne | Death Cab For Cutie | Jenny Lewis | Patton Oswalt | Sufjan Stevens | The Long Winters | The Mountain Goats
"John Roderick writes songs that make you feel like you’ve been talking to someone really interesting in an airport for the last hour and, although you know you’ll never see them again, you just told them your whole life story... CONTINUE READING NEW LONG WINTERS - "FIRE ISLAND, AK"»
Posted on July 5, 2006 in (11 comments)
Tags: The Long Winters
Lately DJ Sarah has been spinning Harvey Danger's "Flagpole Sitta," which is cool 'cause '90s nostalgia's so hott, and I've realized I still love that song. Perhaps some of you, like Sarah, didn't realize Danger men John Roderick and Sean... CONTINUE READING NEW LONG WINTERS - "ULTIMATUM"»
Posted on September 6, 2005 (17 comments)
Tags: The Long Winters
I've never seen an episode of The O.C.. Jessica says I'm crazy, but now that the show's not opposite West Wing maybe I'll start watching. I'm aware it has cool soundtrack music. Is it too early for Christmas songs? The... CONTINUE READING CHRISMUKKAH WITH THE LONG WINTERS»
Posted on October 21, 2004 (42 comments)
Tags: Jimmy Eat World | The Long Winters | The O.C. | Wham!
