Ska is not dead!

I'm in a ska mood today.  I feel like it was just yesterday but it's been a good ten, fifteen going on twenty years since my ska loving days. 

 

 

Let's start off with some awesomeness that is Big D and the Kids Table, Shining On.  I made this song a ringtone at a time when I actually let my phone ring.  Now I have been conditioned just like Pavlov's dogs and whenever I hear this song, I look for my phone. 

 

 

 

Less than Jake - All My Best Friends Are Metalheads.  I can honestly say the most fun I've ever had a show.  I've seen them twice and they are a blast.  Ska music in general just makes for a great show.  It's fun music.  Chris is soooo hilarious too! 

 

 

Here's a little Save Ferris - I'm not crying for you.  They're probably best known for their cover of Come On Eileen, The World is New is a another fabulous song but I needed a female empowerment song, hear me roar. 

 

 

Rancid - Time Bomb, The video version the lips don't match the music and that makes me crazy so here we go. 

 

 

I'll finish up with Streetlight Manifesto - The Receiving End of It All.  Just pure fabulousness with lots of horns, great tempo.  All righty then, who's ready for fourth wave? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Five for Friday

I'm sharing five of my favorite songs.  Today I'm leaning towards folk/roots/Americana.  I hate trying to classify music.  I never feel like I quite get it right.  I like to classify music as music I love and not so much, two simple categories. 

 

 

 

 

First up Delta Spirit, People C'mon.  The first Delta Spirit song I heard and still my favorite.  I love the lyrics, the piano.  So I missed them at HOB and I'm going to miss them at the FW Music Festival but this is on my list of bands to see. 

 

 



 

This is Amazing Eyes by Good Old War.  I could listen to this song one hundred times in a row and not get tired of it.  Favorite lyric "I'm a little bit broken, you're a little bit broken but when we get togther my or my"  or maybe just the theme of  "I know I never meant no harm to anyone, I know I never meant no harm at all". 

 

 

Brandi Carlile - That Wasn't Me with Kris Kristopherson in the video.  I don't know if he had anything to do with her song or if he was only in the video.  Bear Creek was one of my favorite albums of 2012. 

 

 

The Head and the Heart - Lost in My Mind.  An amazing band out of Seattle.  I dig them. 

 

 

Last one, Emmy Lou by First Aid Kit some Swedish, female awesomeness. 

Awesome Acoustic

I read an article on NPR about why unplugged recordings last and wanted to share some of my favorites acoustic songs. 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh how I love me some Avett Brothers.  They are one of my favorite bands and definitely in my top five greatest concerts.  I'm looking foreward to seeing them again at KXT summer cut.  

 

 

Alice in Chains Down in a Hole from Unplugged which was 17 years ago.  Life will pass you by.  I can't listen to AIC without being sad for Layne. 

 

 

Guster is my favorite band.  Mainly because at a time when I was incredibly sad, their music made me happy.  This isn't one of their most upbeat songs but it hits a certain place.  Check out their new acoustic album, cleverly titled, Live Acoustic.  I saw them at the Myerson Symphony Center with the Dallas Symphony in January.  I wish I could have followed them to Austin for their acoustic show there.  They're coming back in June with Barenaked Ladies and I forget who else, Ben Folds maybe.  

 

 

 

Love Tift Merritt and Sweet Spot is one of my favorite songs by her.  I missed her at the Kessler but I really would love to catch her show. 

 

Time to share.  Someday I'm going to ask a question and someone will shock me and comment.  It's going to be amazing.  lol.  So the question is what is your favorite acoustic version of a song? 

 

 

Local Love - Left Arm Tan

 

 

 

 

Left Arm Tan is a local Fort Worth Texas Country/Americana band.  They have a new album out which you can check out on Spotify.  Even better they are going to be at the Magnolia Motor Lounge on Friday, March 29 for a CD release.  This song isn't from the current album but is the best video I could find on Youtube.   I haven't quite determined my favorite song from their new album, Alticana.  Right now it's between Bittersweet and 69 Reasons.  So hey wouldn't it be great to hear this band on the Ranch or KXT?  Let's show a local band some love. 

 

Oh and just because I'm shallow I will mention that their singer is quite kissable. He is a handsome, handsome man.  It's those dimples. Who can resist dimples? 

Untapped Fort Worth

So this is a show that I want to go see but have yet to line up a friend to join me or buy tickets for that matter.   Still I thought I would give them a shout out on my blog that I don't know if anyone is reading.  I'm just going to pretend that someone in the vast interwebs is reading my blog and will be oh so happy to have heard about Untapped.  Untapped Fort Worth at the Panther Island Pavillion on April 20.  Indie Beer and Indie music sounds like a good combo to me.  You can get tickets for the show and samples of twelve beers for $30. 

My number one draw at this show is Justin Townes Earle.  I totally dig his music. 

 

 

 

Deer Tick is pretty sweet too. 

 



 

Also there will be Tennis.  Sarah Jaffe a fabulous artist from Denton.  The Orbans that I love and have yet to catch live, a granola crunchy, folky Fort Worth band.  Skeleton Coast another Fort Worth band will be there and they have a unique sound.  I'd like to see them too.  I just might have to make this happen. 

 

My concert bucket list

So take two, I started this accidentally deleted it once.  So annoying.  I'm trying to find a balance between seeing favorite performers and new bands.  Still there are some that I've missed that I've decided have to go on my concert bucket list.  They are priority performances.  I mean what if they die in a plane crash and I miss them.  That would be a double tragedy.  Not only would they be dead, I would never get the chance to see them again. 

Jack White is my number one.  I need to see this man live and he had better not leave early at my show like he did at Radio City Music Hall.  I have been at a show where I felt that the lights coming on was a personal betrayal.  That's the worst. 

 

Beck I love his music and his little alien heart.  So two possible albums from him in 2013 and hopefully a tour to support that. 

 

 

Ah, the Shins were at the HOB Dallas and I was doing this crazy thing where I was trying to be fiscally responsible and leave my money in savings alone.  I tell myself that I will get tickets when i have a little extra in my paycheck and what happens?  They sell out.  Such a bummer.  So I feel doubly disappointed in missing them and will absolutely go see them next time they are town even if I have to sell plasma for tickets. lol

 

Okay I'm going to leave it with my top three.  I do have to say that whenever I hear someone say "you have to see them live" I totally want to see them live.  What was the best concert you've seen?   

PSA - Earworm Be Gone!

Just an article that I thought I would share about how to get earworms, songs that get stuck in your head, out of your head.  The answer to this problem, anagrams?  Who does anagrams?  I guess maybe I should start especially when it's Ke$ha or "we are never ever ever getting back together" stuck in my head.  They also say reading but I say distracting yourself or listening to another more awesome song works good for me.  So what songs get stuck in your head?  The article lists Lady Gaga, Katy Perry California Girls and Train Soul Sister are listed in the article.   

Get that song out of my head!!!