It’s pretty rare for a lower 48 musician to release an album and immediately be playing a show in Alaska. In fact, I bet this is a first, but that’s exactly what happened this week with the full length debut from Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside. On Tuesday, they released Dirty Radio with lots [...]
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Unexpected: Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside
Posted: May 27, 2011 in musicTags: album review, anchorage, live music, sallie ford
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2010 was a great year for music. While seven of these ten albums were previously featured in my Everyday Album series, I wanted to do an official top 10 list. These are my ten favorite albums from 2010. I created an 8tracks mix of 10 songs from the 10 albums, so go ahead and press [...]
Everyday Albums of 2010, Kasey Anderson, Nowhere Nights
Posted: December 10, 2010 in 2010, albums, everyday album, musicEveryday Albums is a series of album reviews wherein the album could be listened to everyday. This series will examine the best of those from 2010. I hadn’t heard of Kasey Anderson until I was in Portland to see Matthew Ryan play in February of 2010. He was opening for Matthew Ryan. Earlier in the [...]
Matthew Ryan’s City Life in Portland, OR
Posted: March 3, 2010 in live performance review, matthew ryan, music, Uncategorized, vacationWhen the topic of favorite music comes up and I mention Matthew Ryan, most people ask who he is. Sometimes I just explain politely that he’s an independent artist, other times I tell an anecdote about how my friend Riche found him on World Cafe or Mountain Stage or something like that years ago and [...]
The Everyday Albums of the Decade Currently Referred to as the 2000s
Posted: January 2, 2010 in albums, Decade, musicThe past decade has been an interesting one for the music industry. We rolled into the decade with both artists and record companies fearing the internet and electronic distribution. Now buying music that is digitally delivered to your computer has become the norm. In my previous life as a blogger, I had a series called [...]
Josh Ritter and Dawn Landes in Anchorage
Posted: February 3, 2009 in anchorage, dawn landes, josh ritter, live performance review, musicI spent the week leading up to 1/31 trying to convince everyone I know to show up at UAA’s Wendy Williamson Auditorium on Saturday night for Josh Ritter’s show (mostly through Twitter). This was the third time I’ve seen Josh Ritter live. Once in a solo capacity like Saturday’s show and once with his band; [...]
Rather than including some diatribe about why this place went silent in July or why the silence is being broken, I’m just going to jump in and start writing again. Ten albums I couldn’t stop listening to that were released in 2008. Mates of State – Re-Arrange Us Smiley happy music is what I’ve gotten [...]
Occasionally I’ve seen the module above show my top 8 listened to artists (which adds Springsteen and Counting Crows into the mix), but it’s a new and improved view of what I’ve been listening to. In all fairness, the majority of my music listening has been at work lately and I rely heavily on data [...]
A friend and colleague asked me that yesterday and I kind of blanked on a good answer, so my answer likely resembled mumblings about rock and roll, growing up in the 80′s, coming of age during grunge, etc. I think I could probably write a book to answer the question if I could organize my [...]
Do you ever find yourself caught off guard by something that seems like it should be familiar? Let me explain. Apply the question to music. There are probably songs that you’ve heard hundreds if not thousands of times…but then one day something about the song clicks…like you’re hearing it for the first time…it might even [...]
