Jenny Lewis’ second album, titled Acid Tongue, is due to drop from Warner Bros. on September 20th, and NPR is streaming the title track: click here and scroll down a little. Pitchfork also has the track listing and some tour dates in a post from a month ago, which I missed due to not having internet at the time.
I’m not sure I’m a huge fan of all the guest performers due to show up on the album (this song has Johnathan Rice and The Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson on it, and honestly I find them more distracting than useful, but maybe on subsequent listens I’ll change my mind), but I’m pretty much just ecstatic to have something new from Jenny, whether it’s with Rilo Kiley or not. Let’s hope she can navigate the big label tendency toward over-production a little better than the band did with Under the Blacklight.
Where were the kids TV shows that booked indie bands (like Jenny Lewis, above) when I was a kid? I might have discovered the good stuff when I was, like, seven instead of seventeen! I don’t know anything about this Pancake Mountain show other than that they have good bands on, but that’s enough. They have a bunch of other spots on their YouTube channel, but apparently they’re putting out a DVD, which apparently means I can’t watch the Metric clip online anymore. Wah.
Here’s for the inaugural Music Monday post! (And yes, it is still Monday.) Yet another thing for me to start and then fail to keep up. But let’s not start fatalistic, shall we?
EDIT – the “Wires and Waves” file has been fixed – thanks Mark! I thought I checked them all, but I guess I…didn’t.
Today I have two songs that I snagged from a new mp3blog that I found this week called Fabulist! I seriously went down the front page and loved every song on it. That’s rare for me, so Fabulist! immediately went in my bookmarks and in my blogroll.
I’ve never heard of Lavendar Diamond before, but this song is so infectiously peppy, I don’t think I could listen to it without smiling.
Gary Lightbody is the lead singer for Snow Patrol; in addition to the occasional duet and solo song, he also does side projects with the band The Reindeer Section. Anything he does is worth listening to for me.
And here are two songs off the Rilo Kiley album Take-Offs & Landings, which I bought in Austin about four months ago and have had very near my CD player ever since. It’s not a new album by any means, but I was far too late in coming to the Rilo Kiley-love. Incidently, “Wires and Waves” is perfect walking tempo music–I put it on repeat when pretending to exercise and it works great!
Imagine my delight when I found that Rilo Kiley’s frontwoman Jenny Lewis has her own CD out! Well, I broke my “must be $10 or less” CD-buying rule, that’s how delighted I was. I just love her voice so much.
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Jenny Lewis’ second album, titled Acid Tongue, is due to drop from Warner Bros. on September 20th, and NPR is streaming the title track: click here and scroll down a little. Pitchfork also has the track listing and some tour dates in a post from a month ago, which I missed due to not having internet at the time.
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