Sharon Van Etten Live on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

SO happy I'm seeing this in March, right by my apt., along with one of my favourite bands the War on Drugs opening, for only $15. I hope the National's Bryce Dessner (the male guitarist on Sharon's left) will be at the show:

Embedding disabled by the Audio Perv, so click the link to watch her performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon:

http://theaudioperv.com/2012/01/06/sharon-van-etten-serpents-15-fallon/

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“Primal Scream was my first experience with Some Velvet Morning - as a 14 year old boy, i sat in front of my tv one night at 3 am watching music videos and, when that track came on, it was then that I realised I wanted to be a space shuttle.”

- SpecialCookies
Posted 7/18/2011 8:35:45 AM

I don't care for Primal Scream, but hahaha.

The song "Some Velvet Morning," for reference:

"10 Years After the White Stripes 'Saved' It, Rock Is Again in Crisis"

Decent article from July ten years and two days after the release of the White Stripes' breakthrough third album White Blood Cells. Read the article at the Atlantic.com.

West Coast Is Best? Maybe Not To Ali Koehler.

Drummer Ali Koehler was kicked out of Best Coast for reasons allegedly unbeknownst even to her, last month. Super-lame. Line-up changes post-me-getting-into-the-band always suck, especially when I fucking love the band. Oh well. Ali's solo song "Unwell" is pretty good - not too far from early Best Coast and even sweeter with harmonica, trinky-dink Play-Skool-style xylophone and less fuzz. The guitar tone and naked strumming are pretty much the definition of cute bedroom pop.

Listen to "Unwell" and five other songs by Ali Koehler at her Band Camp page. (I should have posted this when the story first broke, and her songs were still available for free download).

Every Time I Read Something Related To World War II, I Have To Listen To Joy Division.

Specifically "Warsaw." But anything by them usually does the trick. They definitely make Mother Midnight by Kurt Vonnegut more enjoyable:

Underrated White Stripes Song: "Who's To Say?" (Blanche Cover)

Maybe it's "underrated" because not enough people seek out the White Stripes' B-sides, and probably even less people know who Dan Miller is.

"Who's To Say?," the flip-side of the White Stripes' I Just Don't Know What To Do with Myself single, was written by Detroit mainstay Dan Miller and performed as far back as at least 1998 by Jack's and Dan's short-lived band 2 Star Tabernacle. Since then, Dan has reworked the song as part of his current group Blanche's 2004 album If We Can't Trust the Doctors.

In un-White Stripes fashion, Jack and Meg don't put much of their own spin on "Who's To Say?" I still prefer the White Stripes' version, however, which is why I'm posting theirs. As much as I'd like to call some of the song's lyrics brilliant, I realize it may be a little grandiose of a compliment, so I'll just leave it at this: I fuckin' love them:

Who's to say this time I've wasted
Someday won't get used?
Maybe if you come around
I'll start to get enthused

...

Who's to say that I'm obsessed
With everything you do
Just because it seems my schedule
Seems to shadow you?
Who's to say that tired
"There's more fish in the sea"?
I don't mind treading water
'Cause you're the one for me

You say that by now
I should know you'll never love me
But who's to say that what has never
Been will never be?
What has been will never be?

Silver Dapple: Like Best Coast with 30% of the Charm

Silver Dapple - "Want To" by Jackson A. Ragg III

From the Montreal-via-Alberta-and-Chicoutimi group's 2011 album English Girlfriend. Check out Silver Dapple's Band Camp page for more tracks.