Ben Folds Five has released the first video from their new record, “The Sound of the Life of the Mind”, and “Do It Anyway” features Fraggles. FRAGGLES, PEOPLE.
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Spin Cycle: Easy Star All-Stars, Easy Star’s Thrillah
After tackling Radiohead, Pink Floyd, and Beatles records, Easy Star All-Stars give the King of Pop the reggae royalty treatment with Easy Star’s Thrillah. Read our review!
The Viewfinder: OneRepublic, “Feel Again”
OneRepublic’s new song and video, “Feel Again”, benefits Save the Children. Watch the video here on Popblerd!
Spin Cycle: The Darkness, Hot Cakes
Almost a decade after Permission to Land and “I Believe in a Thing Called Love”, The Darkness once again rock out with their collective cock out. Popblerd reviews “Hot Cakes”.
The Singles Bar: Bleu, “It’s Not Over (‘Til it’s Over and Done)”
Two Popblerd favorites, Bleu and David Mead, team up for a wonky, catchy new track; check out “It’s Not Over (‘Til it’s Over and Done)”!
Pass the Popcorn: The Dark Knight Rises
Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy has drawn to a close with “The Dark Knight Rises”. How does it fare next to 2008’s titanic “The Dark Knight”?
The Singles Bar: The Avett Brothers, “Live and Die”
The Avett Brothers are back! Get your Friday folk on with “Live And Die.”
The Popblerd Halftime Show: Drew’s Best of 2012 So Far
James Mercer and The Shins have created one of 2012’s best albums, according to Drew. Who else made his list? Read on to find out…
The Viewfinder: Soul Khan feat. Akie Bermiss, “Wellstone”
The title track from bespectacled, gruff underground rhymer Soul Khan’s Wellstone EP now has an accompanying video; Khan plays a downtrodden, put-upon vet, in an evocative visualization of the soulful, Grass Roots-sampling track. Watch the video, and check the album – it’s free, and excellent, so you’ve really no excuse.
Spin Cycle: Glen Hansard, Rhythm and Repose
Glen Hansard, of Swell Season, The Frames, and Once fame, lends his soulful brogue to an all-new set of tunes on his first solo record, “Rhythm and Repose”.
Spin Cycle: The Tallest Man On Earth, There’s No Leaving Now
Beset by not-entirely-off-base Dylan comparisons since his debut dropped, Swedish folkie Kristian Matsson (stage name: The Tallest Man On Earth) is operating under the small-ish genre umbrella of indie folk, a lovely little haven where performers live and die by the strength of their songs, where rugged baritones and rambling napkin poetry are the order of the day, where boredom is uncomfortably easy to attain if you’re not careful. Fortunately for Matsson, he’s got the goods – “the goods”, in […]