Just a reminder of where we’ve been thus far:
10. The Hold Steady – “Stay Positive”
9. The Black Angels – “Directions To See A Ghost”
8. Sun Kil Moon – “April”
Well I guess I should confess that I am starting to get old.
All the latest music fads all passed me by and left me cold.
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A Free Man’s Top 10 of 2008: No. 7 – Frank Turner – “Love, Ire & Song” and MORE CONTESTS
A Free Man’s Top 10 of 2008: No. 8 – Sun Kil Moon – “April”
Just a reminder of where we’ve been thus far:
10. The Hold Steady – “Stay Positive”
9. The Black Angels – “Directions To See A Ghost”
I was really struggling to come up with a way to write about the latest LP from Mark Kozelek (aka Sun Kil Moon). I knew I loved it. I knew it was [...]
A Free Man’s Top 10 of 2008: No. 9 – The Black Angels – “Directions To See A Ghost”
It was Boy Z and Papa Party Day today which means that I am, as usual, brain dead. Lucky for me I already wrote a pretty thorough review of my choice for the ninth best album by an unsigned artist or an artist signed to a truly independent label. So, I’m going to take the [...]
The Black Angels - "Never/Ever" [8:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download The Black Angels - "The Return" [4:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSucking and blowing
Get your mind out of the gutter, you pederasts, this is about kids and Christmas and stuff. I had a vivid preview of my future as a parent (and no doubt decline into penury) this weekend. While wandering around Adelaide’s South Australian Museum, Boy Z found these plastic penguins (definitely penguins, Runs Deep) with which [...]
The Decemberists - "Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)" [3:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadA Free Man’s Top 10 of 2008: No. 10 – The Hold Steady “Stay Positive” and CONTEST.
Craig Finn is an Everyman’s rock hero. He’s living proof that you don’t have to look like Jon Bon Jovi or Michael Hutchence to be a rock star. Finn, who leads Brooklyn’s The Hold Steady, could pass as an engineering graduate student anywhere in the world but he leads one of the most blistering rock [...]
I told you so…
Do you see, peanut gallery, why I was hesitant to get all braggity about the Auburn game? Yes, a win’s a win, but for the second week in a row we’ve slipped away with a win after a last second defensive stand. It’s not good for A Free Man’s blood pressure.
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I’m not typically one to [...]
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The latest edition of Tangled Bank, another science blogging carnival, is up at Submitted to a Candid World. Science with a political
Nichole alerted me to a contest at Grosgrain in which you can win a water color portrait of your progeny. Bad luck for Nichole as I am totally going to win.
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WIN From Bubblegum To Sky
Well, not Mario Ishii Hernandez nor his bandmates, but a luscious prize pack including a beautifully designed t-shirt, a button, a signed poster, and CDs of From Bubblegum To Sky’s two previous releases “Me and Army” and “The Two French Boys and Nothing Sadder Than Lonely Queen”. In celebration of their latest release “A Soft Kill”, [...]
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“A bluejay hectors from the felled Catalpa tree.
Doctorate in science and a theologian’s dream
The dragonflies are trying to lecture me.
The seahorses as if we were in the sea.”
-R.E.M. – “Beat A Drum”
Time for the announcement of the winners in my Happy Blog-day contest. Dr. O’C has again drawn names from a hat (and again I have [...]
Free To A Good Home…
I’ve got an extra copy of the Mono in VCF album that I reviewed the other day on A Free Man. I’d like to give it away to a reader and thought we could play a little game of “Name That Tune”. Have a listen to the song I’ve posted below. If you can [...]
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