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271. Figurines
April 6th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos 
Tags: "Let's Head Out", Figurines 
No Comments »272. Frightened Rabbit
April 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke For whatever reason I think of these guys as sort of the Scottish Counting Crows with a little more aggressive emotional frankness. Songs don’t come much more brutally blunt than this one: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music Tags: "Keep Yourself Warm", Frightened Rabbit No Comments »289. Jesus Lizard
March 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke For a long time, to my discredit, I naively thought that Nirvana were either a singular phenomenon or a band whose closest cousin was Pearl Jam. Only when I started really listening to music did I realize what different musical universes Nirvana and Pearl Jam really existed in. And coming to this realization took some [...]
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Puss", Grunge, Jesus Lizard, Nirvana 1 Comment »297. Fleet Foxes
March 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke An atmospheric-bluegrass-folk-Beachboyharmony kind of bandwhose debut album is best listened to straight through so that it can wash over you. The first song below is my favorite of theirs and the second is another really good one put to a claymation video, so heads up to fans of claymation. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "He Doesn't Know Why", "White Winter Hymnal", Fleet Foxes No Comments »299. The Hold Steady
March 9th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The 21st Century ’70s Springsteen, Craig Finn writes songs that are anthemic, evocative, and rich with narrative and emotional detail and perceptiveness. If his talk-singing didn’t become a slog so often, his band would rank much higher. This song always makes me smile though: Your Thoughts?
300. Joseph Arthur
March 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The list of my top 366 favorite bands now becomes a list of the top 300 with Joseph Arthur: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "In The Sun", History, Joseph Arthur No Comments »301. The Good Life
March 7th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The Good Life’s Album of the Year is an album of a year long relationship and as a sucker for concept albums and songs about the complications of relationships, I eat it up. I love this (long) song most. It’s the only one with a female lead vocal on the album: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music Tags: "Album of the Year", "Inmates", The Good Life No Comments »302. Jay Reatard
March 6th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Easily one of the most prolific and promising punk rockers of the young century until his tragic and untimely death earlier this year: Your Thoughts?
305. Surfer Blood
March 3rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke The first terrific 2010 debuting band to make the list: Your Thoughts?
St. Vincent Performing Dig A Pony
December 22nd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Something hot for a cold night in December: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Dig A Pony", St. Vincent, The Beatles No Comments »She Won’t Be Home For Christmas
December 22nd, 2009 Daniel Fincke (sadly the version of this song I posted is no longer available on YouTube)
The Black Keys “Girl Is On My Mind”
December 1st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Any one else up for some some good old fashioned hard grooving bassless garage blues rock? Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Videos Tags: "Girl Is On My Mind", The Black Keys No Comments »Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
November 13th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A little Nick Cave for the beginning of the weekend… Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: Dig Lazarus Dig, Live Music, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds No Comments »Matt And Kim In Times Square
November 11th, 2009 Daniel Fincke There’s gotta be some story behind how they made this video… Your Thoughts?
Posted in Arts, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Lessons Learned", Matt and Kim No Comments »Sixpence None The Richer’s “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch”
November 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Profiling the fantastic Fiona Apple version of “Across The Universe” and the new Taken By Trees spin on Animal Collective got me thinking about another of my favorite covers by a woman singer, Leigh Nash’s exquisite performance of “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch” with her band Sixpence None The Richer. Please forgive a Christmas [...]
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "You're A Mean One, Dr. Seuss, Mr. Grinch", Sixpence None The Richer No Comments »Fiona Apple’s “Across The Universe”
November 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke I may be prejudiced in that I first discovered this song through her performance, rather than through either John Lennon’s own or through any other cover it, but as far as I go Fiona’s sultry husky voice languidly mumbling in a flowing, laconic, melodically and ironically complacent way is what the song was written for. [...]
Posted in Arts, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Across the Universe", "Pleasantville", Beatles, Covers, Covers Better Than Originals, Fiona Apple, John Lennon No Comments »Animal Collective’s “My Girls” and Taken By Trees’ Cover “My Boys”
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A really good song first tripped out in Animal Collective experimentation and then stripped down in Taken By Trees’ more elemental (but barely less buoyant) version. For cover lovers, this is a wonderful contrast worth exploring: You can get Animal Collective’s album here and Taken By Trees’ here. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "My Boys", "My Girls", Animal Collective, Covers, Taken By Trees No Comments »Grizzly Bear’s Wacky New Video
November 6th, 2009 Daniel Fincke So Grizzly Bear’s newest album Veckatimist is all the rage in the indie music world (and has been since long before it was officially released). I haven’t yet given it much of a chance outside listening to a few tracks because I never got into their previous album. Nonetheless, I’m a sucker for claymation and [...]
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Uncategorized, Videos Tags: "Ready, Able", Allison Shulnik, Grizzly Bear, Veckatimist No Comments »St. Vincent’s Marrow Video
November 1st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Annie Clark’s singing is ethereally and unnaturally deliberate in a way that sucks passion out of her vocals and replaces it with a creepy ironic distance and “more-knowing-than-thou” feeling. Slowing down her delivery of otherwise immediate lyrics in order to enunciate them with an ominously remote quality, her songs always strikes me as in turns [...]
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Marrow", Corey Creasey, St. Vincent No Comments »Philosophical Ethics: Whether It’s Worth It To Be Just With No Incentives Or With Disincentives
October 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Before we get to the philosophy this time, let’s enjoy my favorite Flaming Lips song: In a series of posts this semester, I am going to blog all (or almost all) the lecture topics for the two Philosophical Ethics classes I am teaching this semester. Each of these posts will primarily explicate the reading or [...]
Posted in Contemporary Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Historical Ethics, Historical Philosophy, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Love, Morality, Music, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Plato Tags: "Bad Days", "Evil Will Prevail", "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song", Competition Among Intrinsic Goods, Disincentives To Be Just, Flaming Lips, Glaucon, Incentives To Be Just, Injustice, Intrinsic Goodness, Joel Feinberg, Justice, Paradox of Hedonism, Self-Overcoming, Selfishness, Socrates, Value Judgments, Weighing Competing Goods No Comments »Happy National Coming Out Day 2009!
October 11th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Let me just take the opportunity to let all my LGBTQ friends know how much I admire your resilience in the midst of so much cultural hostility. Individuality, self-definition, self-creation, self-overcoming, and values-innovation are all extremely high ideals to me (in no small part due to my Nietzscheanism). And the increasingly successful struggle of gays [...]
Hope Sandoval With Jesus & Mary Chain
October 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Okay, that Dervish performance of Bob Dylan’s “Boots of Spanish Leather” was a bit of a downer, here is a real charmer Hope Sandoval singing meeee-ow over a backing that sounds like something out of Fight Club: And a great live vintage Letterman performance of her utterly charming duet also with Jesus & Mary Chain, [...]
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Perfume", "Sometimes Always", Hope Sandoval, Jesus & Mary Chain No Comments »St. Vincent’s “Actor Out Of Work”
October 2nd, 2009 Daniel Fincke A little more awesome Annie Clark. First, here’s a brilliant video which I keep watching over and over. It’s so hard to describe the way her immaculately deliberate, full mouthed enunciation in all her songs, including this one, conveys both a creepy intensity and almost mocking sense of overstatement and how her almost unnaturally [...]
Posted in Arts, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music Tags: Actor Out of Work, Annie Clark, St. Vincent No Comments »St. Vincent’s “Now Now”
October 2nd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Was just listening to (and as usual loving) St. Vincent’s “Now Now” and decided to see what the ol’ youtube had of the song. And I just had to share this awesome live performance I came across: “Now Now” comes from her terrific album Marry Me. And while we’re sharing St. Vincent videos, here’s a [...]
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: Annie Clark, St. Vincent No Comments »
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