First Aid Kit is a duo of sisters from Sweden. Watch a live version of their excellent song “Ghost Town”:
Author: aftertheshow (Page 172 of 192)
Part 3 of After The Show’s “Using Music to Learn Vocabulary” has arrived!
1. Vagrancy: “Difference is Time” by Jason Boesel / Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
Vagrancy is the state of wandering the land of an itinerant person without a home or regular employment.
2. Apocryphal: “Smarter” by Eisley
Apocryphal means erroneous or fictitious; of questionable authorship or authenticity; false.
3. Jonestown: “Highs and Lows of Being Number 1” by Jenny and Johnny
Jonestown, or the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, was a cult led by Jim Jones. In November 1978, 918 people in Jonestown died in a mass-suicide / mass-murder.
4. Garish: “Get Well” by Noise Addict
Garish means obtrusively bright and showy, loud, or gaudy.
5. Watershed: “Watershed” (an unfinished, unreleased demo) by Hanson
A watershed is a ridge of high land dividing two areas that are drained by different river systems; a critical point that marks a division or a change of course; a turning point.
Here’s a really good cover of The Lemonheads’ song “Paid to Smile” by a guy named Jeremy Sparrow.
I wouldn’t say that it’s better than the original, but it does offer more layered and textured guitar work than the original. This cover also lacks Juliana Hatfield’s backing vocals, which are a bit too shrill in the original song.
Daytrotter announced that it’s changing from a free site to a paid membership site.
It will only cost $2 a month, and you’ll get member benefits like no more ads and live streaming sessions as the bands play.
I think another benefit of membership should be more accurate artwork. Daytrotter’s artwork always manages to make the band members look extremely ugly.
See examples of Daytrotter’s depiction vs. real photograph below:
Pete Yorn:
Pete Yorn does not really have strange facial rashes and a lopsided face:
Best Coast:
Beth of Best Coast is not really an angry Native American with blood stains on her cheeks:
Juliette Lewis:
Juliette Lewis doesn’t really look like a frumpy cat-lady:
Rural Alberta Advantage:
The band is not really that plain/ugly-looking:
Holly Miranda:
Holly Miranda is not, and has never been, an obese redhead, as Daytrotter’s image implies:
Continuing with yesterday’s theme of posting a song by an artist that I’ve never before featured here, listen to “Can’t Bribe God” by 1,2,3:
A couple days ago I got this envelope in the mail:
With these stickers:
