Quiet, Too Quiet » bands

Rodrigo Y Gabriela

Taybin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:29:52 +0000

I first heard this band when a yoga instructor played their cover of Stairway to Heaven. I had a hard time concentrating on her directions when all I wanted to do was listen to this beautiful, mexican version.

Here is a recent writeup of them on NPR.

Jimi Hendrix – May This Be Love

Taybin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:01:03 +0000

Just heard this song on the radio. I hadn’t heard it before and wanted to share it.

Celestial

Taybin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:38:37 +0000

Chillin' in Örebro, Sweden

I finally bought the Celestial album, Dream On. Man, it’s good. It’s got that combination of twee-pop/shoegaze that I’m so into.

I’m not quite sure what their label situation is. Dream On is on Skipping Stone Records, but they have a new album out that seems to be hosted by Music Is My Girlfriend.

Clearly, I need to pick up that album as well.

Regardless, here are all the links for them I could find:

Queen Bitch – David Bowie

Taybin — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:13:34 +0000

This is the David Bowie song from the Milk trailer. I especially like how the video is from one of those stogy old English, voice-of-a-generation music shows.

Dear Nora

Taybin — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:50:32 +0000

Dear Nora

Dear Nora has some of the most depressing songs I’ve heard, but they’re sung in such a pretty, upbeat way, you don’t even notice until you listen to the lyrics.

The band has been, err, disbanded, but they played was at NYC Popfest 2007, so maybe they’re keeping it alive.

label: http://magicmarkerrecords.com/dearnora.html

myspace: http://myspace.com/dearnora

Doveman – Footloose Soundtrack

Taybin — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:24:54 +0000

This is just awesome. Doveman did these Cat Power style covers of the entire Footloose Soundtrack. It has a sad backstory of being a tribute to a deceased sister. It’s pretty effective.

I’m certainly not going to criticize the songs, but they’d be so good with a full band doing these songs. Maybe Sufjan Stevens it up a bit with some banjo? They’re a collection of hymns the way they’re done anyways.

Wow, even WNYC’s Soundcheck is all up on this. Not that I blame them though.

All the comments on the blogs talk about how ironic these songs are, but I don’t see it. They’re just great.

The mp3s have been C&D’d off Doveman’s website, but I’ve got two of the tracks here, because, you know. Fuck the man:

Noise Addict

Taybin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:06:06 +0000

2,000 kids with guitars

I just accidentally stumbled on this song I hadn’t heard for at least a decade. I was clicking around my sister’s music and saw this band Noise Addict. First song, Body Scrabs & Bizzos. Took a while to recognize it, but I remembered it from this mixtape I had made in 1997 with songs my sisters were listening to but I didn’t have at college.

Hmm, what was on that? Pixies, Julian Hatfield, Raincoats, Frank Black, um Sinead O’Connor? I liked that song, The Emperor’s New Clothes.

But yeah, Noise Addict. Ben Lee’s first band, from when he was 13. Pretty neat.

And the song has this great line about 2,000 kids with guitars.

Update:

Well shit, it looks like my podcast plugin doesn’t work with the new wordpress 2.6. Here is a hard link to the song.

Ulrich Schnauss

Taybin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:30:05 +0000

I found this guy, Urlrich Schnauss, who makes some great trance-y music. He plays with Airiel on their song Sugar Crystals. But his solo stuff is pretty great.

I’m actually working on a video very much like this one right now.

myspace

The Raincoats

Taybin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:30:55 +0000

The Raincoats

Okay, look, I know anyone reading this has probably heard of The Raincoats. But I just relistened to this old favorite song of theirs, No One’s Little Girl, and man, it’s so good. The way the bass line comes in all mellow during the first verse? And the violins hinting sinisterly in the background? Just super. It almost convinces me that every girl’s dream is to reject a marriage proposal.

Apparently they have a myspace.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Taybin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:44:44 +0000

In Connecticut, I found an orphaned baby mouse in the driveway.

We fed him a strawberry after he didn’t run away.

Then, Kat and I named him Huck and took him on an adventure to the city. We now have a pet.

Current Album: animals
Images:

He reminds me of the song The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Especially the verse:

Far – Far away from West Virginia
I – Will try on New York City
Explaining that the sky holds the
Wind the sun rushes in and a child
With a shotgun can shoot down
Honeybees that sting
BUT THIS BOY COULD USE A LITTLE STING!

I feel the same way, having moved from pretty rural area to NYC. Over the weekend we were feeding chickens and hanging out with sheep. It was pretty great. Someone should write a song about being in the city but missing the country. I bet there’s some material in that.