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A new video from the incomparable St. Vincent: This is the closest to anthemic that Annie Clark ever gets and that makes it too relatively straightforward for her. What is here is good if there were something else, less direct also going on. The song feels half done, more like a traditional pop song than [...]
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St. Vincent’s “Cheerleader”
February 8th, 2012 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music, Music Reviews, Music Reviews 
Tags: Annie Clark, St. Vincent, St. Vincent's Cheerleader 
5 Comments »Some Acoustic Guitar Virtuosity
January 17th, 2012 Daniel Fincke “Acoustimetallus Plectrus” by Ewan Dobson. His album Ewan Dobson III is available today. Your Thoughts?
Camels With Hammers Insomniac Theater: Songs from Synecdoche, New York
January 12th, 2012 Daniel Fincke From the Synecdoche New York soundtrack: Your Thoughts?
Camels With Hammers Insomniac Theater: Low Anthem
January 12th, 2012 Daniel Fincke Who can heed the words of Charlie Darwin? Heed the words of Danny Fincke: if you get the chance to see these guys live, don’t miss them. Their albums are Oh My God Charlie Darwin and Smart Flesh Your Thoughts?
Camels With Hammers Insomniac Theater: Rural Alberta Advantage’s “In The Summertime”
January 12th, 2012 Daniel Fincke As I do the overnight leg of my blogathon I am suddenly nostalgic for the overnights I used to work in the rec room at Grove City when I was an undergrad. I used to love VH1′s “Insomniac Theater”. So for this and the next post, I’m going to do a little Insomniac Theater and [...]
More Encouragement of the Unabashed Desire for Self-Expression, Love, and Fame
January 11th, 2012 Daniel Fincke Having earlier today in my all day blogathon celebrated and analyzed Kermit the Frog’s unapologetic fame seeking, I thought it would be fitting to post one of my very favorite songs, as it is on the same theme and performed by artists with whom I generally identify much like I identify with Kermit: Your Thoughts?
Ingrid Michaelson’s “Ghost”
January 11th, 2012 Daniel Fincke I love when cool new stuff comes out on my birthday. This January it’s going to be Ingrid Michaelson’s Human Again. I love her earlier albums, especially Girls & Boys. She is admittedly prone to being a little too twee and precious at times, but at her best she is has a real way with [...]
Tegan and Sara Pose With Black Eyes—Is It Wise?
January 4th, 2012 Daniel Fincke I love Tegan and Sara immensely. I have tens of thousands of songs on my i-pod, and yet will play their songs on repeat for whole days. Sometimes I will play a single one of their songs on repeat for a half hour straight. I go so far as to consider The Con my single [...]
Shelley Segal’s “An Atheist Album” Is Very Good
November 30th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Remember this catchy, defiantly anti-religious song we brought to your attention in October? Well now Shelley Segal’s An Atheist Album is available for downlaod and I have taken a listen to it and I am extremely pleased with it and can totally recommend it if you like the video above at all. I am always [...]
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music, Music Reviews, Music Reviews 7 Comments »Shelley Segal’s “Eve” (And Interview)
October 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke Following PZ’s lead, last weekend I highlighted the video “Saved” by Shelley Segal. Segal’s debut album is called An Atheist Album and comes out some time in the next few weeks. Below, via Token Skeptic comes an interview and the acoustic performance of another song “Eve”. (By the way, Token Skeptic also has photographic proof of Bigfoot [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheism, Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism 1 Comment »Shelley Segal’s “Saved”
October 15th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The girl can sing. And push back against false ideas. The forthcoming album is called An Atheist Album. This song is available on Amazon. Via PZ. Lyrics are below the fold:
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music 5 Comments »FtBTV
October 15th, 2011 Daniel Fincke In the last week, three of our newer Freethought Blogs neighbors posted videos in which they are featured. So see and/or hear your Freethought Blogs bloggers below! We have Crommie rocking out with his band CROWN, Justin Griffith giving what he considers to be his best interview ever about foxhole atheists, and Dana Hunter debunking “crystal magic”. [...]
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music, Skepticism, Skepticism No Comments »Alessi’s Ark’s Rendition of “Maybe I Know”
September 29th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Laura Marling was fantastic as expected last night. Her opening act was another 21 year old Englishwoman, Alessi Laurent-Marke, who performs as Alessi’s Ark. Her set was very low key, just her on acoustic guitar and behind her an electric guitarist who would back her up in modest ways. Mid-show someone called out a request [...]
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music Tags: "Maybe I Know", Alessi's Ark No Comments »As I Watch Laura Marling Perform
September 28th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I got very lucky and my one Wednesday night off this semester (and one of my only week nights off period this semester) coincides (tonight) with the genius Laura Marling’s one trip to New York City on her fall tour for her fantastic new album, A Creature I Don’t Know. I am about to head out [...]
Like Revolution Itself In Musical Form
September 25th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Still the freshest music out there, now exactly 20 years after being first released—every time I hear the opening chords and first drum hits of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, it sounds to me like revolution in musical form: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg&ob=av2e Your Thoughts?
Be Careful About Loving Women Too Much Lest Other Guys Think You’re Gay
September 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke When Pitchfork‘s Chris Dahlen wrote a tribute to Liz Phair’s landmark indie masterpiece Exile in Guyville as a review of its 15th anniversary rerelease in 2008, he led with this paragraph: You break all kinds of unwritten rules when you’re a guy who admires a girl. The white suburban kids who idolize gangster rappers are old [...]
Posted in Culture, Feminism, Feminism, Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music, Sex, Women's Issues Tags: Exile in Guyville, Land of Talk, Lisa Hannigan, Liz Phair, Pitchfork, Sleater-Kinney, St. Vincent, Tegan and Sara 11 Comments »Laura Marling and St. Vincent Release Spectacular Albums Tomorrow (Tuesday 9/13/11)
September 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Seriously, two of the most gifted and groundbreaking women in pop music today are both releasing staggeringly good third albums of their careers. For the love of music stream Laura Marling’s A Creature I Don’t Know at the New York Times Magazine and St. Vincent’s Strange Mercy at NPR while you still can, if you doubt me. And/or support their amazing [...]
St. Vincent’s “Cruel”
September 5th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I cannot figure out what I love more, her brilliant music or her unique and remarkable theatrically controlled facial expressions. Her videos always mesmerize me, she’s positively electric on stage, and the songs get deep under the skin. She’s one of the best of our time. Support genius, pick up Strange Mercy. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music, Music Videos, Music Videos, Videos 1 Comment »Stream Laura Marling’s “A Creature I Don’t Know”
September 4th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Laura Marling’s debut album Alas I Cannot Swim, recorded when she was only 17, is a masterpiece which instantly made her my favorite female folk singer bar none. If Bob Dylan’s 1960s work did not exist she’d be my favorite folk singer, period. Her exceptional follow up I Speak Because I Canonly added textures and nuances to [...]
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Music, Music, Music Tags: A Creature I Don't Know, Laura Marling 2 Comments »Lykke Li's Sadness Is A Blessing
April 28th, 2011 Daniel Fincke My favorite new song of 2011 has a video (and it co-stars one of my three favorite contemporary Scandinavian actors, Stellan Skarsgård). It’s really well done: The whole terrific album on which this song appears can be found here. Your Thoughts?
Stream Lykke Li's New Album, Wounded Rhymes
February 23rd, 2011 Daniel Fincke Lykke Li’s debut Youth Novels was one of my very favorite albums of the last few years. Her new one, Wounded Rhymes, drops next week. In the meantime, you can stream it here. A little bit of Lykke Li’s genius from the first album for the uninitiated: Your Thoughts?
Theophilus London And Sara Quin On David Letterman
February 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke In case you don’t know what Sara Quin’s twin sister Tegan looks like, here’s a heads up: that’s not her with Sara in the video below, Sara is branching out: Your Thoughts?
New Lykke Li Song "Love Out Of Lust"
February 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke Good stuff: <a href="Wounded Rhymes, her new album, is out March 1. I can’t wait. Your Thoughts?
I Am Interviewed About My Personal (Atheistic) Religiosity/Spirituality
February 19th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Through Facebook, I was recently contacted by an old friend from high school (who was actually the first girl to go on a date with me). She is working on her Master’s in nursing and has an assignment which involves interviewing people about their views on religion and spirituality, for the purpose of thinking about approaches [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Love, Love, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Music, Music, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Personal, Philosophy, Religion, Religion, Secularism Tags: Eternal Recurrence, Eternal Recurrence of the Same, Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Stoicism No Comments »Decemberists Play R.E.M.'s "Cuyahoga"
February 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke And it really sounds as though it was written for them. Just listen. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music Reviews, Music Reviews Tags: Cuyahoga, Decemberists, R.E.M. 1 Comment »
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