Showing posts with label Courtney Barnett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Courtney Barnett. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile was a great first experience at DC’s new Anthem




I got to experience the new nightclub in Washington DC called The Anthem, down on the wharf in Southeast.

The place is amazing. It holds five times the amount of people as the 9:30 Club and seems to equal the sound quality of the country’s greatest music venue.

Courtney Barnett is one of my very favorite rockers of the past five years. Her album Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit is an instaclassic.

Kurt Vile is a performer I’ve admired and now the two of them together just works so well. It’s like they’ve always been together. A sort of Hall and Oates of the indie set in that they complement each other so well and flow in and out from each other’s parts effortlessly.

The set list featured some of each perfomer’s best tunes, of course songs off their new album as a duo, and eclectic covers by the likes of Belly, Gillian Welch, and Barnett’s wife Jen Cloher (whose album, in its own right, is great. She also opened the show).

4.5 out of 5 stars

Video by EasyMorningRebel 665

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

My 7 Favorite Albums of 2015 + 60 More

This was far and away my favorite album of 2015:
Courtney Barnett

  • Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

This is far and away my second favorite album of the year:

  • Bully - Feels Like

And, what the heck, 3 through 7 are:

  • Christopher Owens - Chrissybaby Forever
  • Wilco - Star Wars
  • Mac Demarco - Another One
  • Robert Pollard - Faulty Superheroes
  • Twerps - Range Anxiety

Bully
The "Best of the Rest," in mostly no particular order (not because I'm lazy, more because there is just so much music being released all the time that this is one year I was unable to keep up to date):

Second Tier

  • Alpaca Sports - When You Need Me the Most
  • Astronauts, Ltd. - Mind Out Wandering
  • Best Coast - California Nights
  • Belle and Sebastian - Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
  • Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Style
  • Cheatahs - Mythologies
  • Desaparecidos - Payola
  • Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
  • The Juliana Hatfield Three - Whatever My Love
  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Paper Mache Dream Balloon
  • Laura Stevenson - Cocksure
  • Mac Mccaughan - Non-Believers
  • Mikal Cronin - MCIII
  • Moon Types - Know the Reason
  • Palehound - Dry Food
  • Ricked Wicky - I Sell the Circus
  • Ricked Wicky - King Heavy Metal
  • Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - The High Country
  • Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There

Third Tier

  • Albert Hammond Jr. - Momentary Masters
  • B.C. Camplight - How to Die in the North
  • Beirut - No No No
  • Ben Lee - Love is the Great Rebellion
  • Built to Spill - Untethered Moon
  • Chris Stamey - Euphoria
  • The Decemberists - Florasongs
  • Destroyer - Poison Season
  • Diamond Rugs - Cosmetics
  • Ducktails - St. Catherine
  • The Foxymorons - Fake Yoga
  • Iron and Wine and Ben Bridwell - Sing Into My Mouth
  • Jeff the Brotherhood - Wasted On the Dream
  • Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter
  • Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
  • Lou Barlow - Brace The Wave
  • Low - Ones and Sixs
  • Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves
  • The Monochrome Set - Spaces Everywhere
  • My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall
  • Parquet Courts - Monastic Living
  • Robert Forster - Songs to Play
  • Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield - Sing Elliot Smith
  • Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
  • Surfer Blood - 1000 Palms
  • Swervedriver - I Wasn't Born to Love You
  • Wavves - V
  • Wire - Wire

Best Reissues

  • Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
  • Velvet Underground - Loaded
  • Paul McCartney - Pipes of Peace and Tug of War

Biggest Letdown 

  • Tame Impala - Currents

Singles That Are Hard to Argue Against

  • Carly Rae Jepsen "I Really Like You"
  • Dawes "Things Happen"
  • Madonna "Ghost Town"
  • Rihanna, Kanye West & Paul McCartney "Fourfiveseconds"
  • Snoop Dogg and Stevie Wonder "California Roll"
  • The Weeknd "I Can't Feel My Face"