I Pledge A Few Bucks To Pancake Breakfast…
Posted: 05.19.2010 Filed under: 2010, and so on, announcement, new release, of interest, Pancake Breakfast, something completely different, supergroup Leave a comment »Alright, so I’ve been in hiding/working on other projects for the past month or so, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been listening to music. Quite the contrary; I’ve been listening to a ton of great music, and I’m working on a ton of reviews. (Sort of.) When will I get around to throwing those reviews onto this site? All in good time, mes amis, all in good time.
In the meantime, I want to devote a quick post to a band called Pancake Breakfast, a pretty awesome good-time folk/anything goes neuftet from Portland, Oregon, who’s currently in the process of recording their first album. What’s even better about this is that one of its members is friend Stephanie Lawson, born out near me in good ol’ southeastern PA. They’ve recently started a pledge to secure funding for their debut album, with a goal of $6,000 by August 3rd; as of today, they’re well over their goal, so good on them! But a little extra money certainly doesn’t hurt, so go on over to their official website, listen to some of their tracks, watch some of their videos, be charmed by their personality and down-home, fun-loving vibe, then head over to the pledge site and pre-order the album.
Who knows – if it’s released by the end of the year, it might even end up on my best-of 2010 list. That’s when they’ll know for sure that they’ve made it!
Them Crooked Vultures
Posted: 08.23.2009 Filed under: 2009, supergroup, Them Crooked Vultures Leave a comment »2009 seems to be the year of supergroups: first came Chickenfoot (well-known riddle intended), which was a massive disappointment – at least, in my eyes, and apparently a lot of critics, too – and now is Them Crooked Vultures. To me, this is a supergroup of even more epic proportions, with Queens of the Stone Age vocalist/guitarist Josh Homme, Foo Fighters vocalist Dave Grohl on drums (just as he had done in Nirvana, of course), and John Paul Jones of some band called Led Zeppelin on bass, keyboards, and general awesomeness.
They’ve already performed a handful of shows this month, with more to follow; most intriguingly, though, is that the shows featured entirely new compositions, prompting rumors and speculation that a new album is imminent. It seems that the concrete is already starting to harden, with the Chicago Sun-Times reporting that the supergroup’s new album is called Never Deserved The Future, and is due October 23rd – however, the group’s publicist denies this. Luckily, it wasn’t the Chicago Tribune, or else I would have dismissed this news as blatantly false.
Anyway, a 33-second video clip of ‘Nobody Loves Me And Neither Do I’ can be seen on their YouTube channel, and if it doesn’t promise to be totally awesome, then I just don’t know what. If you’re intrigued, I suggest you keep yourself updated via their official website. Or just check back here – you can count on me to keep this site maintained!
