check it.

take a look at this totally sweet blog called "Local Nectar"

http://digthisorganicwisdom.blogspot.com

it's legit.

year two

I have officially completed my second year as a teacher, and that's just crazy.

Yes Feels

Probably one of the coolest bands to arrive in a while is Golden Holy. They hail from Boston but now inhabit parts of the Pacific Northwest. Their album (self-titled) blends beautiful, carefully orchestrated sounds with whispers that build into fabulous vocal parts. The nine songs included on the album are haunting and gorgeous, and no matter how many times I play the record, I always want to listen once more.

New Recordings From The State of Oaxaca

Cinema is the new scene.  

And if you haven't gotten out to the movies this season, well, that's lame.

So, go see...

Slumdog Millionaire

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Frost / Nixon

Revolutionary Road

Milk

The Reader

Doubt

Because I said so and I have a degree in communications.

Some new music also in circulation...

Glasvegas (s/t); Beirut (March of the Zapotec...); The Boxer Rebellion; Andrew Bird (Noble Beast); Antony & The Johnsons (The Crying Light); Blitzen Trapper; Bruce Springsteen; Animal Collective (Merriweather Post Pavillion); Heartless Bastards (The Mountain); and, Bon Iver (Blood Bank).

hearth core.

The best way to characterize 'hearth core' is:  Music for an evening at home, by the fire, with frosted window panes, snow-blazed trees, night sky and white for miles.

Fleet Foxes

Bon Iver

My Morning Jacket

The Walkmen

Seawolf

Hammock

Sounds even better in Vermont.

copyright 2008 e.a.m.

skinny love

hands in the air

I had the pleasure of seeing the now very infamous Girl Talk in Providence tonight.  It was a sold out show so naturally there were a lot of people, many clad in leotards, head bands and neon wayfarers, an homage to Greg Gillis.  The poser factor was off the charts, but this music is so good, I am willing to overlook the silly teenagers that think they look totally awesome at these shows.   

This was a full body contact event...lots of pushing and shoving.  The crowd was super pumped.  Once Girl Talk finally did start, about 200 kids got up on stage and danced, leaving literally enough space for Gillis to manuever his laptops and mix some beats from the floor.  The crowd pulsed around him for the entire hour plus that he performed.  We got caught in a powerful crowd surge that almost knocked us over, so we gave up on the floor and headed to the balcony, where we could watch the mayhem from a safe distance.  No one ever stopped dancing, even when fans fell on the laptops, fell on Gillis, or messed up panels, or got tossed by security.  Easily, this was the craziest show I've ever seen.