Music that I love and want everyone else to love too. I appreciate so many genre's but Indie, folk roots, alt country, Americana, Texas Country and singer songwriter are my favorites.
I absolutely love year end best of lists. I always discover some awesome songs that I somehow missed over the year. I don't do a best of but a favorite list. This will be more indie flavored favorites. I've already started favorite 2013 Americana, Texas Country and love song lists. I think I'm also going to do a favorite lyric list too. How many days until the end of the year? They will be coming soon. I'm also trying to pick songs that I haven't previously shared but I'm sure there will be a little bit of overlapping.
Paris by Magic Man - catchy awesomeness!!!
Crazy by Au Revoir Simone - Oh how I love a Brooklyn girly band!
Dance all Night by Free Energy - a more nostalgic feel than you would expect from a song titled dance all night
Do It Again by Scottish band Camera Obscura
"Hurricane" Ms Mr - This song is way too cool to have a Always commercial at the intro. Ugh advertising, I guess that's the cost of a mostly free internet.
"Afraid" by the Neighbourhood of Sweater Weather fame. I like this song better but it does drop an f bomb. Shocking! lol
Another fabulous new artist Laura Mvula. This woman has a voice!!!
My lovely California dreaming band Best Coast singing This Lonely Morning. They just make me happy.
Urgh, I could not get League's Walking Backward to load from Youtube so I 'm taking that as a sign that I've added enough songs on here. I hope you like one or two or all of them.
Such an incredibly, awesome show. I'm so glad I got to be there. Their opening was the best opening I've seen this year. Little Green Cars is a band from Dublin, Ireland. They're described as Americana because they have a bit of a folk influenced sound. I guess we could go with indie alt description too.
This was the song that they played for the open. The curtains open to an empty stage. No screaming "Hello Fort Worth, We're Little Green Cars". Just an empty stage. The band members come out and stand at the front of the stage without their instruments and sing this beautiful song a capella. Such beautiful harmonies. It really was an awesome opening. They then go straight into the second song and though I love their music I was afraid they were going to be one of those bands that takes themselves too seriously. You know the bands that think they artistes and perform without comment or enthusiasm. Luckily as the night progressed I realized that I was so wrong about that. I had to laugh at the bass player who came out wearing a jacket and with his hair combed back then he had his pretty woman rock and roll makeover moment and lost the jacket and started rocking out with the hair in his face. The guitarist lost his bow tie as the night went on too which was funny but not as impressive.
They have some very moving, quiet songs but they also have some very upbeat, danceable songs too. One of my favorites follows, Big Red Dragon.
I think the most moving song was The Kitchen Floor. Faye is a powerful, powerful vocalist.
The penultimate song was their biggest song and the first song I heard by this band, The John Wayne.
For the John Wayne they invited the audience members onstage with them. How much fun was that and something that's never happened at another show. Then for their encore they joined the audience off the stage in the middle of the venue and sang "The Consequences of Not Sleeping". They were literally right beside me. Such a great show and a great reason why you need to go see live music. It is so much more of an experience to see a live performance than to listen to the music at home. You get to see them, their enthusiasm, hear them talk and tell stories about the songs. I always come away with a new appreciation of the music after seeing the band live.
The following is my best attempt at a set list. I didn't actually keep it at the show but tried to remember the next day which is never as good but it will have to do. I know I'm missing some songs on here.
Red
Angel Owl
Harper Lee
Big Red Dragon
The Kitchen Floor
My Love Took Me Down to the River (to Silence Me)
The John Wayne
The Consequences of Not Sleeping
I also wanted to add that the opening band The Days out of Denton did a good job. They have a unique, retro sound. I really enjoyed their show and hope they continue to grow. Also a note that I love the venue of the Live Oak in Fort Worth. I love to see a band in a small venue and it's even better when they get a decent turn out. This was their first performance in Fort Worth and I hope they come back. If you get a chance to see them, absolutely do it.
Why oh why did I not get to go see them when they were in Dallas just a few short weeks ago? I need to get over my fear of driving in Dallas. Even so I don't think I'll ever get over my reluctance to go to a show solo. This is the problem when you like different music, your fabulous friends don't always want to acompany you to shows. Why can't they just take my word for it that a band is amazing? This is exaclty why I started this blog. I hear something that I love and get so excited to share it and I have no one to share it with. I need someone who will immediately say yes that song is incredible, amazing, wonderful, fabulous, changed my life and thank you ever so for sharing it with me. Be noted if anyone is reading these posts on the vast interwebs, that is exactly the type of comment you should post on my blog.
So thank you to KXT for introducing me to this band. They are Seattle based and just a wonderful folk-pop indie band. Their band name is from Brothers Karamazov by Dostyesky. You have to love a literarate band.
Does the world need another music blog? I don't know. I just love my music so much and want to share it with the world. I love all kinds of music and not just the mainstream I heard it on the radio music. There are some great songs played on the radio but so much fabulous music that never gets airplay. That's what makes the internet so fabulous. You can discover wonderful songs and artists that you would never hear on the radio and might never have heard at all preinternet.
I hear an amazing song and I want everyone to love it with me. I am not a musician but an avid appreciator of all things musical. I find music to be the greatest mood changing substance in the world. It can give you hope when you're feeling hopeless. It can make you run one more lap. It can even make cleaning the house bearable when you are singing along with your favorite songs. And there's no hangover after listening to your favorite song. There are no calories in a fabulous playlist. Music doesn't hurt you or anyone else.
I don't claim to be some knowedgeable critc. I just like what I like and want to share it and hopefully find some like minded people along the way. My music is indie, alternative, folk roots, texas country, classic country, motown, singer songwriter, guitar rock, happy songs. My favorite bands are Guster, The Avett Brothers, BRMC, The Shins, Kopecky Family Band, Noah and the Whale, Good Old War, The Head and the Heart and Fleet Foxes. I love Beck, Jack White, Jason Mraz, Xavier Rudd, Michael Franti. I need to represent some females; Neko Case, Tift Merritt, Kathleen Edwards, Brandi Carlisle and Ingrid Michaelson are all favorites. Okay there are dozens more but I will be sharing them all here.
