Two of my favorite alternative pics for the first day of school...
First Day of School 2013 -- Alt Pics
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First Day of School 2013
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2013 - Danny (10 - 5th, last year of elementary) | Elijah (12 - 7th, 2nd year of middle school) | Jack (14 - Freshman) | Sarah (16 - Junior)
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Music Monday 8.27.12
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STREAMING
- Animal Collective: Centepede Hz
- Cat Power: Sun
- Stars: The North
- Swans: The Seer (Pitchfork, Best New Album)
- Dan Deacon: America
- Deerhoof: Breakup Songs
CHEAP
- Luciano Pavarotti: 75th Birthday Limited Edition ($2.99 for 100 songs)
- $5 August Albums: including Ryan Adams, Whitesnake, Wilco, The Walkmen, Caribou, The Dead Weather, Pearl Jam, Green Day, & tons more
- Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here ($3.99)
BURNING UP MY iPOD
- Purity Ring: Shrines
- Passion Pit: Gossamer
- Baroness: Yellow & Green
- Wayfarer: The River (FREE)
- Tnght: Tnght
Phriday is for Photos 8.24.12
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I enjoy catching moments in which the mundane becomes interesting. This was a touristy spot in a touristy city with my touristy kid with a touristy dad with a touristy camera. But a mild post-processing filter plays with the light and makes it interesting to me.
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Avett Brothers | "Live & Die"
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In September The Avett Brothers are releasing a new album, The Carpenter. CAN'T. WAIT. Here's "Live & Die" as played on their tour bus for an NPR Music Field Recording. You can get some of their albums for $5 right now: Emotionalism | Four Thieves Gone | Mignonette | Live Vol 2. All excellent.
Mumford & Dawes: "With A Little Help From My Friends"
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A few nights ago in Chicago Mumford & Sons and Dawes combined for a Beatles cover of "With A Little Help From My Friends." No, I wasn't there, but this is something I would love to see live. Wow.
1,000+ $5 Albums | My Faves
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Now that I'm back from vacation, I can highlight my favorite $5 albums out of Amazon's 1,000+ $5 albums for August. A bunch of good stuff!
- The Avett Brothers: Emotionalism | Four Thieves Gone | Mignonette | Live Vol 2
- Brandi Carlile: Bear Creek
- Anais Mitchell: Young Man In America
- The Black Keys: Brothers
- Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- The XX: XX
- The Lumineers: The Lumineers
- Joe Pug: The Great Despiser | Messenger
- Andrew Bird: Break It Yourself
- The Walkmen: Heaven
- Caribou: Swim | Andorra | Swim Remixes
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Belong | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
- Pearl Jam: Ten
- The Raconteurs: Broken Boy Soldiers
- Green Day: Dookie | American Idiot | 21st Century Breakdown | Nimrod | Insomniac
- Rich Mullins: Songs | Songs 2 | Pictures In The Sky | A Liturgy, A Legacy & A Ragimuffin Band | Brother's Keeper
- Phil Wickham: Heaven & Earth
- Flogging Molly: Speed of Darkness
- Wye Oak: Civilian | The Knot | If Children
- The Dead Weather: Horehound | Sea of Cowards
- Cat Power: The Greatest
- Silversun Pickups: Carnavas | Neck of the Woods
- Hospitality: Hospitality
- Bonobo: Black Sands
- Sleigh Bells: Reign Of Terror
- Destroyer: Kaputt | Destroyer's Rubies
- J. Tillman: Year In The Kingdom | Vacilando Territory Blues | Singing Ax
- Fort Atlantic: Fort Atlantic
- Mary Gauthier: The Foundling
- Liars: WIXIW
- Metric: Synthetica
- Death Cab For Cutie: Plans
- Two Door Cinema Club: Tourist History
- Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros: Here
- Givers: In Light
- Trampled By Turtles: Palomino | Stars & Satellites | Duluth
- Regina Spektor: Begin To Hope | Far
- Conor Oberst: Conor Oberst
- Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska | Born To Run
- Civil Twilight: Holy Weather | Civil Twilight
- Bad Books: Bad Books
- M. Ward: Post-War | A Wasteland Companion | Transistor Radio | Hold Time | Transfiguration of Vincent
- She & Him: Volume 1 | Volume 2
- The Magnetic Fields: Love at the Bottom of the Sea | The Wayward Bus | The Charm of the Highway Strip
- Spoon: Gimme Fiction | Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | Kill The Moonlight
- Ryan Adams: 29 | Love Is Hell Pt 1 | Love Is Hell Pt 2 | Follow the Lights
- Jars of Clay: Redemption Songs | Who We Are Instead
- Yuck: Yuck
- Coldplay: X & Y |
- Lambchop: Mr. M
- Amos Lee: Amos Lee
- Alejandro Escovedo: Big Station
- St. Vincent: Strange Mercy
- Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter: Marble Son
- David Gray: Draw The Line
- The Mountain Goats: All Eternals Deck
- Telekinesis: 12 Desperate Straight Lines
- Missy Higgins: The Ol' Razzle Dazzle
- John Hiatt: Dirty Jeans & Mudslide Hymns
- Van Halen: 1984 | Van Halen II
- Whitesnake: Whitesnake
- Guns N' Roses: G N' R Lies
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool |
- John Coltrane: Ballads | Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
- Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde | Blood On The Tracks | Highway 61 Revisited
Neil Young
- Harvest
- Greatest Hits
- Decade
- After the Gold Rush
- Live Rust
- Rust Never Sleeps
- Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere
- Zuma
- Unplugged
Greatest Hits
Michael W. Smith (The Second Decade) | The Cars | ELO | Chicago | Ramones | The Doors | Kansas | Otis Redding | Johnny Cash | Poison | Van Halen | Alice In Chains | Heart (another, another) | REO Speedwagon | Elvis | MC Hammer | Bob Dylan | Drive-By Truckers | David Allen Coe | Crowded House | ZZ Top | Billie Holliday | Living Colour
Phriday is for Photos 8.17.12
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Two photos: First, Sarah fishing while on vacation in Branson, Missouri. We were surrounded by storms. Second, Sarah can't just let our first day of school photo be normal. She's a treat!
Delta Spirit | "Bushwick Blues" at Lollapalooza
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Delta Spirit is one of my favorite live bands. Here's why. Check out "Bushwick Blues" live at Lollapalooza last month. Oh, the ending is so much fun. Get "Bushwick Blues" on their recent & fantastic album, History From Below. Also check out Ode To Sunshine.
$5 Albums for August
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Another month, another list of recommendations from Amazon -- only $5 each. Enjoy!
- Wye Oak: Civilian
- Brandi Carlile: Live at Benaroya Hall
- Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
- Deerhunter: Halcyon Digest
- Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi: Rome
- Neutral Milk Hotel: On Avery Island
- The Rosebuds: Loud Planes Fly Low
- The Mountain Goats: All Eternals Deck
- The Black Angels: Phosphene Dream
- Guns N' Roses: G N' R Lies
- Billy Joel: The Hits
- Luciano Pavarotti: The Best
- Thelonious Monk: The London Collection Vol 1
- See all 100 August $5 albums at Amazon!