After breaking up with his girlfriend… Ebert began work on a book about a messianic figure named Edward Sharpe. According to Ebert, Sharpe “was sent down to Earth to kinda heal and save mankind… but he kept getting distracted by girls and falling in love.” Ebert later met singer Jade Castrinos in Uruguaiana. In the summer of 2009, as Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Ebert and Castrinos toured the country with a group of fellow musicians in a big white bus.
Here’s their song called “Come In Please” from their self-titled 2009 release.
Radio Moscow is a couple of Iowa rockers cranking out 70’s style guitar rock. Thick and chunky musical stew so hearty you can eat it with a fork.
Here’s a classic the first time you hear it, called “Broke Down,” from Brain Cycles (2009). The lead guitarist and vocalist, Parker Griggs, also plays the drums on their studio albums. They have a drummer tour with them.
So, turn it up, man! And enjoy.
Song: Broke Down Artist: Radio Moscow Album: Brain Cycles Label: Alive Records Buy from: Amazon | iTunes
I hope to do this for a while… Select songs to share with people and post them here.
For the first post, a fairly current song from my favorite trio, MMW, a jazz(?) band out of NYC. The song, Riffin’ Ed, is a strong acoustic offering from the trio, a band that will be featured again here. John Medeski’s piano-work is sublime and soulful. Billy Martin’s percussion is garage-sale-funky and well-timed. Chris Wood’s rou-ound bass is the glue.
The song is from their Radiolarians recordings, created over the course of about a year. They performed this formula three times: 1) write a bunch of songs, 2) play them in front of their audiences on tour, 3) record an album of the material.
Here’s a great article about the band and the Radiolarians process. I’ll ignore the fact that they trash mp3’s as a medium in this article. I assume they know you don’t need vinyl, vacuum tubes and gold speaker wires to really HEAR a song. Anyone who’s fallen in love with something they heard over some crappy old car stereo speakers knows what I’m saying. So I’ve taken their comments in the article as a hyper-sensitivity to the quality of a recording rather than snobbiness about how people should consume their music. Yeah… I think they’d want you to buy their mp3’s. And so do I. Give this one a shot.
100th song. Throw some streamers and drink a cold one.
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