The Days of Lore

Spoon me ni esrever

Monday, February 8th, 2010 | musiX | No Comments

It’s funny, I used to lump Spoon in with bands like the Gin Blossoms … I don’t think anyone wants to be lumped in with the Gin Blossoms. My apologies, Mr. Daniel.

I put Britt Daniel more in the Jeff Tweedy school of making music that is beautiful and sometimes a little weird and cranky. Take the first single off the band’s latest Transference. “Written In Reverse” is sweet and spastic, and the video is in black and white and features a large mirror. And you know what? .smossolB niG eht ekil gnihton sdnuos tI

Tags: "Written In Reverse", Spoon, Transference, video

There are many hiatus

Monday, January 25th, 2010 | musiX, pdX | 1 Comment

Talk about a hiatus.

TDoL—the blog that never sleeps (except Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 3 a.m. to 6:15 a.m.)—has been away for a couple of weeks, traveling, learning to put chains on tires, and being just plain naughty. But mostly I’ve spent the time away recharging the batteries and contemplating the plural of hiatus. Hiatus? Hiatuses? Hiati?

Of course, there’s been a soundtrack to all of this fun: Surfer Blood (April 3 at the Doug Fir!), The Goodnight Loving, and more recently the new Spoon and Yeasayer records. And, of course, you’ll be reading about these bands right here (look for my interview with Milwaukee country five-piece The Goodnight Loving in the coming weeks) in addition to all of the usual nonsense.

Until then, here’s a song that’s near and dear to my heart, a song that needs no introduction, a song that sums up the past two weeks at The Days of Lore …

… I guess that would qualify as an introduction.

“Holiday Road” - Lindsey Buckingham

Tags: "Holiday Road", Lindsey Buckingham, Spoon, Surfer Blood, The Goodnight Loving, Yeasayer