"When I am lucky, I realize that so much of what informs the content that I am working with directly relates to what I surround myself with, and that can create a proactive net wherein all of the people and things around me get painted into the...
The Friedberger brother and sister duo that make-up the band The Fiery Furnaces has always kept listeners on their toes. From songs that change tempos and themes which change with the blink of an eye, Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger’s...
Sometimes it’s tough to review albums just based on the merit of their tracks alone. The mind often wanders to the live venue — to how much fun it was that time you saw that band play that one song live. Every subsequent time the song...
Unfortunately, El Boy Die’s 2010 release, Black Hawk Ladies And Tambourins, slipped any kind of major coverage on REDEFINE, but this video for “Dead Kings” will have to serve as a primer. A video collage of grainy archival war...
This collection of instrumental offerings from Western Vinyl musicians shows just how many emotions can be captured without the utterance of a word.
Just wanted to share this lovely acoustic performance of So-Cal duo Kisses, performing “Bermuda.” So into this band right now. Their actual MV’s aren’t super exciting, so this will have to do.
Two years ago, I took the train across the bay to Oakland to see José González perform the best acoustic set I’ve seen to date, while he was touring for In Our Nature. I didn’t know much about him really, except that his cover of The...
The folks at watchlistentell have put together a really nice green-hued acoustic HD video with CHIEF performing “Night And Day”. The scenery — near a derelict, spraypainted underpass — is a little bizarre, but it’s a...