Donerail (Image Credit: Trask Bedortha) Donerail (pronounced Dawn-er-rale) are a Portland band that make me smile. Much like a past Burgoblog favourite, High On Stress, Donerail play that kind of Replacements-like rock ‘n roll that never fails to bring a smile to my face. Donerail’s latest album, “Destiny and Dishonor“, was recorded live over the […]
Category: guitar
Bugger. I missed posting this yesterday, but in the United States, it still is yesterday, if you know what I mean… so I thought I would post anyway. Yesterday (or today, depending upon where you are when you read this), marked the 15th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death. There’s a trifecta of musical deaths that […]
The other day I got that kind of email that music bloggers love to get… an email from an artist’s management saying, “Hey… you know, I’ve noticed from your blog posts that you like xyz… and I think you might like some of my client’s stuff. Want to check it out?”… and you actually do […]
So, apologies for the decline in posts around these parts lately. It’s been a hectic few months. Actually, scratch that… it’s been a hectic year, and posting sometimes fell by the wayside. So you know it had to be something special to bring me out of that unintentional hiatus, right? Well, it is. Something special, […]
On Sunday night, I was lucky enough to see “superband”, Coldplay, perform live at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. Now, I’m going to throw this right out there. Even when uber-popular music blogs like Stereogum feature bands like Coldplay, there always seems to be a massive backlash from the “Hipster Runoff” type kids. The ones who […]
This past weekend, Ray Lamontagne performed “You Are The Best Thing” and “Trouble”, live on SNL. Posting the videos here… because… well… simply because both performances are FREAKING AWESOME. ‘Nuff Said. Ray Lamontagne, “You Are The Best Thing”, live on SNL Ray Lamontagne, “Trouble”, live on SNL
The Deep Dark Woods “I’ve been waiting here for days, tryin’ to catch a break. But the way i’m living, it’s gonna cause my heart to ache” ~ The Deep Dark Woods. Ok, ok… so Cap beat me to posting about these guys, so I’m simply going to point you towards his post rather than […]
Alex Dezen (image credit: Heather Conley) So everyone’s still talking about The Damnwells‘ latest release, “One Last Century”, which was released through Paste Magazine (for free) on Tuesday. And why wouldn’t they still be talking about it? It is, quite simply, one of those albums. An album that was written just for you. Alex Dezen […]