Zooey Deschanel has been of particular interest to me recently, in part because of her newish musical project with M. Ward called She & Him and more specifically because, well, she is beautiful. The new album from She & Him (great name!) titled Volume One, is terrific. Zooey’s voice is mesmerizing and the songs are [...]
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you would know that Mr. Shawn Carter was the headliner for the massive English music festival Glastonbury this past weekend. Paul Underwood over at Men.Style.com put together a great slideshow of fashionable festival goers rocking the wellie look — which is one of the few times I [...]
A band I have become obsessed with as of late is the Akron, Ohio bred duo The Black Keys. Not sure what it is about two man groups like The Black Keys and the now defunct Death From Above 1979 that get me. I made a mix of some of my favorite songs off of [...]
I’m dumb. Why didn’t I go to Coachella? The Indie rock festival was this past weekend near Palm Springs and I am getting all sorts of reports of amazingness — which is prompting me to resentment, jealously and loathing. My biz partner Ali was lucky enough smart enough to go and she said the festival [...]
I keep thinking about this picture and the remarkable story of George Harrison, Pattie Boyd and Eric Clapton’s love triangle that took place in the sixties and seventies. Married to George Harrison of the Beatles for ten years, Pattie ended up leaving Harrison and marrying his good friend Eric Clapton. Through her love affairs with [...]
My friend Kevin turned me on to Beach House a while ago. He’s good like that.
ACL stands with Vulture in support of Vampire Weekend’s cricket sweater styled SNL performance this past Saturday. The band’s quest to become the world’s preppiest musical group remains on track. Apparently, the “blogosphere” has their knitwear in a twist over the band’s insistence on dressing like my grandpa. After a recent outing to see [...]
I can’t get enough of the Argentinian born and Swedish raised singer songwriter José González. His latest album In Our Nature is so soothing and melodic, I can listen to it over and over and never get enough. His voice and acoustic guitar on the track Down the Line are simply perfect.
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