27 September 07
DayTrotter: Somewhat Like the Peel Sessions
By Eliot Van Buskirk
September 27, 2007 | 12:35:47 PM
The world will never fully recover from the death of John Peel, the legendary British DJ who discovered countless indie bands that became...
27 September 07
Free Daytrotter Session MP3s (Don’t miss this page!)
From golden strings and silver boughs isn’t how Alela Diane was created. She wasn’t – despite all sorts of indications that would support the claim – born of immaculate conception, for it would seem that no person of flesh and blood could birth such a mild and wizened creature as the Nevada City, Calif., songstress. She has a face that is every bit as young as it should be according to a birth date, but holds years, like a pitcher or a sponge. She has a heart that, sight unseen, could take up all the space from the neck down to the beltline.
26 September 07
EXCLUSIVE TO DAYTROTTER: Live in the Pink Room
26 September 07
It must have been in a summer month of my youth, in the midst of a family vacation in the blue and gray Ford minivan, but the night that I’m trying to remember – well, Mariee Sioux is the one...
25 September 07
Deerhunter @ Audio Cinema (at Music Fest NW in Portland, Ore.)
Ah, the joy of being on the inside of corporate sponsorships. As a part of this year’s festival, a little known Portland-based sneaker company called “Nike” had a private,...
25 September 07
It seems these days that Portland, Oregon couldn’t be sitting any prettier. Receiving accolades for everything from having the cleanest city in America to being one of the top 10 singles cities, PDX (as it’s so lovingly penned) is...
25 September 07
Turn Back the Clock: Sept. 17, 2006 – The Bound Stems
25 September 07
Is there value in anything for its years alone? Could wear and tear – essentially scars of survival – be worn as medallions and earned acclaim? An old door knob is kept in the process of a move because it was once on a door in the 1920s, handling hands that went on to wrinkle and find graves. They’re worth money, these door knobs and miscellaneous old Coke bottles, beer signs and threshing machines. Old buttons made from seashells and copies of the Saturday Evening Post are held onto, not just for sentimental reasons, but for ones that have no argument…
24 September 07
24 September 07
Every week, America’s finest indie bands are somewhere on the road, and, in the course of this traveling, Futureappletree Studio One in Rock Island, Illinois, manages to steer two bands to their studio for two hours, where they record four...
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