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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 [...]
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Stream Laura Marling’s “A Creature I Don’t Know”
September 4th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke 
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?
Kanye West "Monster" Muppet Remix
April 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke I’ve been listening to Kanye West’s “Monster” pretty obsessively for the last couple months, but just watched the song’s listless official video for the first time and found it really disappointing. Then I discovered this perfect visualization of the song: The only thing downside of the video is they do not include Nicki Minaj’s full, [...]
Posted in Music, Music Tags: Animal, Bon Iver, Cookie Monster, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Kermit the Frog, Monster, Muppets, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, The Count No Comments »In Honor of Trent Reznor's Academy Award Win
February 27th, 2011 Daniel Fincke One of my favorite Nine Inch Nails songs, “Only”, from the album With Teeth. Your Thoughts?
55 Years of Chart Topping Songs In 75 Minutes
February 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Click here for two compilations which include all the US chart topping songs spanning 1956-present in short clips so you can catch up on the last 55 years of mainstream pop music in just an hour and fifteen minutes. 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?
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 »Daily Hilarity: 130 Bands In A Less Than 4 Minute Love Story
February 15th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Pretty amusing: Your Thoughts?
Valentine's Daily Hilarity: How To Write A Love Song
February 14th, 2011 Daniel Fincke It’s Valentine’s Day and if you’re a cheap bastard who has not yet figured out what to get your beloved for $0, there’s still time to write her a song following these familiar steps: The Axis of Awesome: How to Write a Love Song – watch more funny videos Thanks to @FunnyVideos on Twitter. Your [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Love, Love, Music, Music, Music Videos, Music Videos, Parody, Parody, Satire, Satire, Videos 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 [...]
Pearl Jam vs. Social Darwinism
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A really well made music video for their otherwise mediocre song “Evolution”: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Evolution, Evolution, Music, Music, Music Videos, Music Videos, Political Satire, Political Satire, Videos Tags: Animated Shorts, Animation, Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam's "Evolution" 1 Comment »Cat Faber's "The Words Of God"
February 6th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This is another, meditative Sunday afternoon song, each of I’ve lifted from either this post or its comments section). This one though is not satirical and should be genuinely amenable to the more sophisticated theist (or pantheist or other believer in a philosopher’s god of some sort), who wants more God in her view of [...]
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 [...]
I’m Seeing This Brilliant Guy Tonight
January 29th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Sam Beam of Iron and Wine: For wider screen video, watch it here instead. Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: Ezra Koenig Vs. The Black Keys On The Colbert Report
January 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This was one of the most geekily glorious things ever: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c <td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan='2'MeTunes – Grammy Vote – Dan Auerbach, Patrick Carney & Ezra Koenig<a> www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> Video Archive And, for the record, The Black Keys [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music, Music Videos, Music Videos, Parody, Parody, Pop Culture, Pop Culture, Satire, Satire, Videos Tags: Black Keys, Colbert Report, Ezra Koenig, Grammies, Vampire Weekend 1 Comment »Camels With Hammers Goes To See The Rural Alberta Advantage
January 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Tonight, Dave Smith (our trusty Camels With Hammers webmaster) and I will be heading to see the Rural Alberta Advantage live! Here’s their awesome music: Their first album is Hometowns. Their next album comes on March 1 and it’s called Departing. They have already released the song “Stamp”. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music, Music Videos, Music Videos, Videos No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Josh Groban Sings Kanye’s Tweets
January 5th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Hilarious: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Music, Music, Parody, Parody, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Tags: Jimmy Kimmel, Josh Groban, Kanye West, Twitter No Comments »Daily Hilarity: “Intervention” By Tegan & Sara & Margaret
January 3rd, 2011 Daniel Fincke I had never found Margaret Cho remotely funny before but I love Tegan & Sara just way too much not to find this video incredibly awesome: Margaret Cho – Intervention – featuring Tegan and Sara from Margaret Cho on Vimeo. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Indie Music, Indie Music, Music, Music, Music Videos, Parody, Parody Tags: Comedy Music, Indie Pop, Intervention, Margaret Cho, Parody Songs, Tegan & Sara 1 Comment »Menomena
September 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke One of the best bands going and a personal favorite: Their brilliant new album is Mines. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music Tags: Menomena No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Inception A Capella Re-Dub
September 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke This made me smile start to finish: Thanks to Pete for the find. Your Thoughts?
Mike Campbell Plays 14 Year Old Fan’s Home Made Guitar On Stage
August 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke This is a terrific story about the guitarist from my favorite band, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, and a remarkable young fan: One night in front of the computer, Griffin was watching footage of a 1985 concert. “And Mike Campbell, the lead guitar player from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, came out playing this really [...]
A 90 Minute New Pornographers Video With Soundboard Audio?
August 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Yes please! Watch the full concert, filmed October 25, 2007 at Webster Hall, on Babel Music. (And buy their terrific new album Together if you haven’t yet!) The rest of the concert is much better than the song they’re offering as a representative clip (which is one of my least favorite in their otherwise illustrious [...]
Posted in Music, Music Tags: Ads, Babel Music, Facebook, Facebook Privacy, New Pornographers, Webster Hall No Comments »Heathen Child
August 14th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Nick Cave’s Grinderman project has a second album coming out this fall a second album coming out this fall and here’s the bizarre video for the first single, “Heathen Child”. Cave has long been drawn to the weird, dark, and outright grotesque within religious ideas and imagery and this weird little song and video epitomize [...]
Aimee Mann’s “4th Of July”
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Originally from her album Whatever, here is Aimee Mann’s song “4th of July” as performed on the DVD Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse: H/T: Balloon Juice for reminding me of the song today. Your Thoughts?
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