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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 »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 »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 [...]
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 »"Who Could Heed The Words Of Charlie Darwin?"
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The Low Anthem’s sublime song and beautiful video for their song “Charlie Darwin”: I had the pleasure of seeing the Low Anthem a month ago at the Jazz Center at Lincoln Center. They played most of the songs from their new album, Smart Flesh (due out in ten days) and their first album,Oh My God [...]
The Return Of Beavis And Butthead
February 3rd, 2011 Daniel Fincke MTV has announced that Beavis and Butthead is coming back with new episodes. Pitchfork has a list of some of their best musical criticism on this page (scroll down on that page a bit to find the full list, excerpted a bit below): “Uh oh…I think this is college music” (during the Flaming Lips’ “She [...]
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Get Their Zeppelin On For New Song
March 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A few weeks ago Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers revealed they would be releasing a new album called Mojo this spring. Somewhat amazingly, this fulfilled the final of three major projects that Tom Petty had listed wanting to do four years ago. At the time I was skeptical he would actually put together a reunion [...]
Let’s Hear It For New York!
November 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Oh how I love this glorious city. I would live here my whole life if I could. Below is a beautifully shot video and achingly catchy anthem from two real New Yorkers. Several times in the last week I’ve watched it over and over consecutively. My favorite thing about it is how authentically New York [...]
Posted in Bob Dylan, Music, Music Reviews, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Empire State Of Mind", Alicia Keys, Jay-Z, New York, Rap No Comments »The Best 7 Minutes, 13 Seconds Of Tom Petty’s Career
October 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke I say this with no exaggeration: I have heard all the albums and hundreds of live concerts many many times and this performance of Refugee from his Take The Highway tour features the most perfect realization of one of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ most perfect songs. It has the fullest and most exciting and [...]
Posted in Music, Music Reviews, Music Videos, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Videos Tags: "Take The Highway", 1991, Guitar Solos, Mike Campbell, refugee No Comments »God Is In The House
September 11th, 2009 Daniel Fincke As I’ve mentioned before: As far as I go, no singer/songwriter better explores the theme of religion or better employs religious imagery than Nick Cave. Very few people write either religious music or music about religion that avoids either preaching on its behalf or railing against it. Nick Cave is liberated from any creedal loyalty [...]
Posted in Arts, Christianity, Culture, Cutural Criticism, Fundamentalism, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Reviews, Music Videos, Pop Culture, Religion, Religious Satire, Sarah Palin, Videos Tags: "God Is In The House", "Hallelujah", "Mercy Seat", Dante, John Milton, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Red State America, Sarah Palin, Small Towns No Comments »Amy Millan Covers Death Cab For Cutie (And I Review “My Favorite Book” By Stars)
August 30th, 2009 Daniel Fincke I could seriously listen to Amy Millan sing just about anything, so I don’t know if her new cover of Death Cab For Cutie’s “I Will Follow You Into The Dark” which you can stream here is actually any good (Pitchfork hated it and I often trust Pitchfork’s judgment more than my own), but I [...]
Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl
July 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In honor of Metric’s appearance promoting their new album “Fantasies” on David Letterman just now, here is the song in which Metric’s lead singer Emily Haines first completely mesmerized me (and many others). Her voice and performances are so completely alluring that I keep going back and listening to her even though her song writing [...]
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