Good Old War is a scruffy folk trio from Philadelphia, formed in 2007 by lead singer Keith Goodwin with drummer/accordionist Tim Arnold (his former bandmate in Days Away, who recorded a single album for the Fueled By Ramen label in 2005) and guitarist Dan Schwartz. Citing influences like Simon & Garfunkel and Crosby, Stills, and Nash, the trio create songs that feel sweetly intimate with meticulously blended three part harmonies. Check out this amazing live performance of the song “My Own Sinking Ship” from their self-titled sophomore album released this past summer. If you like it, click here to get a free download of it.
Category: New Music
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Awesome Song Alert: Yeasayer “Madder Red”
The third single from Brooklyn-based indie-pop group Yeasayer‘s sophomore album Odd Blood is a song about failing the one you love the most, sung from the point of view of the failure (the failure, presumably, being a professional musician who’s always away from home and who may crave the adoration of a crowd more than the peace and quiet of domestic life). The self-loathing inherent in the song (heightened by recurring, wordless falsetto chants) is on full view in the song’s video where the singer is depicted as a repulsive little blob of subhumanity which has nevertheless won the love and devotion of a hot California blonde. Unlike the band’s previous videos which have the look of 70s and 80s vintage sci-fi, the video for “Madder Red” could be the latest Katherine Heigl vehicle. The song is, to my mind, the strongest track on Odd Blood, and it’s been near the top of my personal playlists all summer. But I’m not entirely sure this is the best way to hear it. The video’s great, but I realized I wasn’t listening to the music at all while I was watching it. -
Video – Kanye West’s Good Music Cypher
I’m only to assume that this was shown at the BET Awards earlier tonight since I didn’t actually see it. But take Kanye West, Common, Pusha T, Big Sean, and CYHI Da Prynce and what you have is Good Music.
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