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I bought The Stage Names from E-Music last year sometime and it fast became one of my favourite ever albums. In a way I'm glad I found out about this band late on because it meant I had quite alot of their work to catch up on and enjoy. If you still haven't given them a listen I recommend the above album and then perhaps Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See which is also really strong.
The lead singer/songwriter, Will Sheff, has a real talent with words. Many of h... MORE
An alphabetical list of great music I found through my fellow Moggers.
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To this day I don't know who my father is. I was told once when I was about 18. My feeling is, the male roll models in my life were my grandfather and my Uncle Bob. That was enough. My mom got married in the mid 80's to the man I now call dad. He is very much like my Uncle Bob, only older and less athletic. In a purely Freudian sense, my mom actually married her brother and I got my uncle to live with all over again.
In the summertime, I like to sleep naked.
My gra... MORE
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Okkervil River albums have so much personality, the songs themselves become characters: players, people in the guise of animals or gods (and who can tell the difference sometimes?). And like watching a melodrama, we are witness to emotions that heave and plummet with frightening force. The songs can be drunken youth: the rotund boots on their feet knocking wildly on every surface. Or they can be villainous and smart, full of smiles and wishing-you-well up to the second they t... MORE
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Catch a live webcast of Okkervil River playing at the Paradiso in Amsterdam this Saturday, February 9th.
Okkervil River
8:00 PM (local time)
09-02-2008
Paradiso, Amsterdam
Fabchannel.com webcast:
http://www.fabchannel.com/okkervil_river... MORE
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I am very late posting thanks to my Secret Santa, matt cleveland. I have a reason, I hope justifiable.
Throughout the year, I noticed that Matt was promoting a program. I thought that he, like many other Moggers, was promoting his own radio show or podcast. I am always short on time and I usually don’t follow those links from anyone’s posts. Well, this was certainly my loss. It turns out that The Program which Matt refers to is really a “personal listening plan.” H... MORE
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Kinda obsessive with linking between song and picture.
I could not see any correlation between this song and picture at all. just like it.
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Okkervil River is definitely a band that is on my top ten list of 2007. Lead singer Wil Sheff is far better than good. He does a pretty good job of making me want to stop making music. Their 2007 release The Stage Names [Jagjaguwar], has garnered and demanded my full attention since it's release in October.
[Pause: Ugh, Jameson has a hangover right now, can you tell. What's not very apparent is how I'm just mashing my paws against my keyboard and letting my Firefox b... MORE
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Been awhile since I posted anything, but that's because I've been busy compiling interesting tidbits from around the net on the Duck & Cover blog. There was Okkervil River giving away a free album of covers, 50 Cent boldy announcing that P2P file sharing doesn't actually hurt artists afterall, and the newly introduced Duck & Cover mix tape: we think it's really neat.
All this yumminess put together without Google Ads staring blankly from the sidebar. Because we don'... MORE
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Okkervil River are channeling hip-hop and releasing their own lo-fi mixtape -- for FREE via their Web site. The Golden Opportunities mixtape is a compilation of live cover tracks recorded on tour between 2006-2007. Joni Mitchell's "The Blonde In The Bleachers," Serge Gainsbourg's "I Came Here To Say I'm Going Away" and John Cale's "Antartica Starts Here" are among the cover songs on the nine-track mixtape, with the exception of one new original holiday song, "Listening To Oti... MORE
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...I was an extra on a movie set yesterday.
So if you you recall my recent musings about Sunday mornings, which I was typing out on my laptop while drinking some spiced chai tea in a cafe/foodcourt, I was just finishing up enjoying the morning (as campus was becoming more and more busy) when I was approached by a tall guy accompanied by a bloody-armed and faced girl wearing a tattered shirt. Despite the blood she was smiling happily. It was fake blood. Pretty realistic... MORE
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Great Interview with Okkervil River at
http://www.daytrotter.com/article/1068/forcing-them-to-talk-all-of-them-scene-stealing-what-comes-of-it
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