If you haven’t seen enough of Kishi Bashi on the blog lately (exhibits A & B), I am alerting everyone to the fact that NPR has a couple live shows on its website, streaming both mp3 and HD video. Or, look no further than the PaisleyBlog to provide you a link to the Washington DC show and check […]
Author: Architorture
Live in the Early 1970s
Let’s just pretend. It’s the early 1970s and you have $5 in your pocket. Who would you rather see? The Doors, The Who, The Grateful Dead, or George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar, Ringo Starr, & more – all at one show! Yeah, thats what I said too: Everybody! Utilizing the miracle of modern […]
Kishi Bashi: Room For Dream EP
Ah, faithful PaisleyTunes fans. Today I bring to you quite a treat. Its Kishi Bashi again! I cannot get enough and so, I assume, neither can you. But alas, Bashi has only one album. So, I, intrepid music hound and servant to the readership, sniffed out another.. earlier.. raw-er and equally beautiful EP. Simply a […]
Ritchie Valens: Rockin’ All Night / The Ritchie Valens Story
One week from today should have been Ritchie Valens 71st birthday. Instead, this past February we silently noted the 53rd anniversary of his death by airplane crash along side the “Big Bopper” and Buddy Holly. He was 17 years old. Valens was 16 before he decided to join a band. The band was called The […]
The 2 Bears: Be Strong
Beyond this blog’s rampant bear obsession and Be Strong‘s introductory track, The Birds & The Bees’ quiet music-box Teddybear Picnic conclusion, there are many reasons to stop everything and listen to this album. The 2 Bears (I feel like I’ve posted them before but for some reason haven’t) consist of London pals Raf Rundell and Joe Goddard […]
Sigur Rós: Valtari
The Cambridge headquarters of PaisleyTunes has a guest for the next day or so who is in possession of a six-month old baby girl. What kind of music would a baby girl want to hear? While Stabbarific would certainly choo-choo-choo-choo-choose mid-’90s Raffi, I am going to lean toward something a little more avant garde. I’m […]
British Sea Power: EP 4
While the sea-shanties of British Sea Power haven’t been the most popular with our guests here on the Paisleyblog, their sequential EPs continue to be adorned by intensely hooded creatures and therefore they get a little press for that reason alone. If you’re keeping count, we now have two owls (one viking + one sith), […]
James Rustad: Discography
A little over a month ago Stabarific and I threw a party. I think it was an early birthday celebration at which we sampled three or four different whiskeys and about 20,000 beers… or something like that. Our midnight ghost hunt not withstanding, the greatest surprise of the evening came during a mesmerizing impromptu performance by […]
Kishi Bashi: 151a
While awaiting King Charles‘ release (due in a week), I set out to discover additional music that fell into a similar vein. Coincidentally, I happen to receive a notice that The Barr Brothers would be traveling through Boston, MA and playing a show at the Brighton Music Hall in Allston. The brothers are playing that […]
Henry Mancini: A Shot in the Dark
Yes, indeed. It was in the 1960s that humanity arguably witnessed the pinnacle of creative film scoring: Ennio Morricone’s seminal work for Sergio Leone on A Fist Full of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly; Serge Gainsbourg’s Anna and the sitar driven, psychadelic-funk sounds from La Pacha (which inspired, […]
British Sea Power: EP 3
These guys are geniuses. It’s true, a number of artists have done this already and, of course, by ‘this’ I’m speaking of well packaged sequential EP releases. Bishop Allen’s “every month for a year” collection. Sufjan Steven’s “every state in the country” vaporware set. Adele’s “it’s my birthday” editions. The Polyphonic Spree’s “section 01-infinity” naming sequence (my personal […]
Amadou & Mariam: Folila
As a number of blog readers will be traveling this weekend, I decided to post a bit of traveling music, not so much of a review as a recommendation. Amadou & Mariam create some great world-fusion music. Their upcoming release, Folila (due April 2nd), is no exception. Unfortunately, rather than utilizing their recent fame to […]