Stephin Merritt is one of today's greatest songwriters. Whether solo or with Magnetic Fields, The Gothic Archies, The 6ths or Future Bible Heroes, Merritt has given us hundreds of great songs over the years with a Broadway sensibility, deadpan delivery and a droll sense of humor. He's even released a soundtrack to the "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" books with none other than … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Andrew In Drag” by Magnetic Fields
Indie pop
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Feel It All Around” by Washed Out
The genre is known as "chillwave" which is a dreamy kind of lo-fi instrumental based music perfect for chilling out with. Ernest Greene, a Master Of Library Science holder from Georgia who could not find a job, is the recording artist known as Washed Out. The song, "Feel It All Around," was pulled from the 2010 EP "Life Of Leisure" and is also known as the theme to the Fred … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Feel It All Around” by Washed Out
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – "Unrequited Love" by Lykke Li
Song Of The Day - "Unrequited Love" by Lykke Li It's a little bit 1950s Doo Wop ballad...a little bit early '60s girl group...and a whole lot up-to-the-minute 2011 indie pop. Lykke Li hails from Sweden where she was born Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson in 1986. She released her debut album in 2008 but it wasn't until this year and the … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – "Unrequited Love" by Lykke Li
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “It’s Real” by Real Estate – Pitchfork Recap Day 3
Day three of the 2012 Pitchfork Music Festival was one for musical grazing – going from stage to stage to happen upon whomever is performing. If the music is good, you stay…if it isn’t; it’s on to the next stage. Since Union Park is rather smallish and the body count of 20,000 people per day is miniscule, particularly in comparison to Lollapalooza’s 90,000 per day, Pitchfork is … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “It’s Real” by Real Estate – Pitchfork Recap Day 3
Concert Review – tUnE-yArDs at Lincoln Hall
Experimental musician Merril Garbus and her band tUnE-yArDs (the spelling is on purpose) made another appearance in town, since their celebrated performance at Pitchfork this summer. Wednesday was an all-ages show and Thursday was for the big kids. Garbus' stock in trade is the use of drum and vocal loops while singing along, sometime playing ukelele and accompanied by … [Read more...] about Concert Review – tUnE-yArDs at Lincoln Hall