From motionographer.com - “White Winter Hymnal,” a stop-action music video directed by Sean Pecknold for Seattle band Fleet Foxes, is a quietly beautiful meditation on nature and time. Channeling the music’s cyclical vocals, the video stars a Father Time-ish gnome who brings to life—and then to death—the natural world around him. Sean is repped by Curious Pictures, but this project was completed on his own in Seattle. Sean’s brother, ...

Recently Daruck Tatiuaem left the pop collective Curious People for a Curious America and made the announcement to release his own solo album. This has prompted me to also say goodbye to Curious People and release my own solo album, set to come out in late spring: Nevermind that I was never actually in the pop collective Curious People for a Curious America. I have decided to preemptively leave. ...

"They have opinions, and I have lists." Radiohead, In Rainbows Sunset Rubdown, Random Spirit Lover Arcade Fire, Neon Bible Panda Bear, Person Pitch Animal Collective, Strawberry Jam Grizzly Bear, Friend EP The Shins, Wincing the Night Away The National, Boxer Low, Drums and Guns Liars, Liars Honorable Mentions Band of Horses, Blonde Redhead, Menomena, Spoon, Iron & Wine, Frog Eyes, Les Savy Fav, Caribou, The Go! Team, Apples In Stereo, The New Pornographers, Of Montreal, Justice, Working ...

According to ABC News, 62% of those who downloaded Radiohead's In Rainbows decided to pay zero dollars. This makes me angry. Perhaps I'm wrong in assuming that those who downloaded the album knew what they were getting into. Why waste the time downloading something you wouldn't pay for? I'm not some file sharing nazi, but if a band with the pedigree of Radiohead offers something ...

I've been quiet for a while, and that's because stuff's been going on. I've been dealing with my feet... but that's an entirely different post that I promise you'll be seeing soon. This weekend I'm planning to unleash the new blog look, which I hope everyone will find more fun--because it has a lot more of Josh and I built right in! Can't you smell the tasty goodness? ...

I'm going to see Spoon with the New Pornographers this Friday at the House of Blues in Dallas. Would anyone else like to go?

We get hooked to directors, teams, bands, people, places, etc. We give something a try and it connects and every few years the same names pop up and we invest time to hear them out. Eventually these people we admire either die, or stop producing things we like; the latter more often being the case. I bet it is rare that someone creates amazing results ...

downloaded it last night at about 12:40am, listened to the first four or five tracks, went to bed, burned a cd, listened to it all the way through on the commute (damn you 635!), and listened to it once on headphones on work. I will keep my thoughts to myself so far about what I think about it, because I'm not sure yet. I've learned from ...