The Musicmen Cometh!
This is the marriage of two musical minds, Josh Bain and Nolan Ross. Friends since high school, they've seen the seven wonders of the world, jumped from helicopters, hang-glided, climbed Mt. Everest, and even offered jokes over dinner with Bono, Springsteen, Clapton, and others.
Okay, none of that is true except the friends since high school part. Nonetheless, these guys love music and love talking about it. We hope you enjoy it.
December Music
Warning: This post will have little cadence in relativity, but rather, erratic nuggets of music news and such. That’s my schtick though, so get over it.
Christmas music. Who doesn’t love free music? Yeah, thought so. Well, this is the second year that UBC Waco has done a Christmas record for everyone to hear, so I’m thankful for that. I love the Whiskey Priest song and the Loxly song. But they’re all warm and gooey, so get on it. Yeah, and get last year’s too.
Next is The Civil Wars. And keeping with the same vein of free-ness, go to their myspace and you will see on the left, a download link for one of their live shows. Not too shabby, but I highly recommend the Poison & Wine EP. Really good acoustic guitar, wonderful vocals by Joy Williams, who sounds completely different than what I remember of her. Every song is good, so I won’t even tell you what to check out.
Lastly, there’s a record that’s not very winter-y, but I love it anyway. It’s Ben Lee’s 2009 record that may end up on my top 10 of the year list. At least Top 15, I’ll say. It’s called, “The Rebirth Of Venus” and it’s easily the best pop record this year. Pop in the sense that A-ha was pop, not Britney Spears pop. Check out the songs, “What’s So Bad (About Feeling Good)?,” “I love Pop Music,” and “Yoko Ono” for starters. Great record and perhaps his best to date!
