The Friday Five: February 4, 2011
On the sixth day of every week, Michael Parr shuffles through his library to bring you five random tracks.
The Friday Five: January 22, 2010
On the sixth day of every week, Michael Parr shuffles through his library to bring you five random tracks.
Discovering Discovery
As side-projects go, the pairing of Rostam Batmanglij (keyboardist for Vampire Weekend) and Wes Miles (vocalist for Ra Ra Riot) makes perfect sense. The results however, are as far as you can imagine from the twee indie pop of the…
Video Break: Ra Ra Riot, “Can You Tell”
Somehow I missed Ra Ra Riot‘s sticky sweet video for “Can You Tell” but I’m fixing that now. Seriously how can you not love it for all it’s twee goodness? Buy The Rhumb Line
The Year in (Ick)Music – Michael’s List
Like Pete I spend a good bit of time finding ‘new’ artists that are not exactly new so parsing out the records that are truly from this year takes a bit of doing. But using iTunes and last.fm I was…
Ickmusic’s Friday Five: November 14, 2008
Ah Friday it’s time to relax and you know what that means a glass of wine, your favorite easy chair and of course the Friday Five shuffling on your home stereo. So go on indulge yourself, that’s right, kick off…