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its my song but I’m still trying to learn the words

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Passion excessive passive agressive
the first one to strike, the last one to exit
castles unprotected, capture the princess
fasten the seatbelt, drive and count the inches

Well. It was Jeremiah Edmond who led me to discover this band. This band called Felt.

Well. Jeremiah is the drummer of Manchester Orchestra, a band that we love and have written about a few times on this blog. Jeremiah runs the record label Favorite Gentleman and the production company Fifth Story Music. This doesn’t have a lot to do with Jeremiah except that I trust his taste in music. When he recommended a great hip-hop album in Felt 3, I decided I better check it out.

Now that you understand how this album was discovered, let me continue introducing you to the music and the players involved. Felt is a hip hop group consisting of Slug of Atmosphere and MURS of Living Legends. Both excellent hip-hop outfits separately, but I must admit that getting Murs and Slug together is something special.

The Felt project is currently on volume 3, A Tribute To Rosie Perez. Tribute to who? I look into the other projects by Felt and discover that the previous two volumes are tributes to Lisa Bonet and Christina Ricci. All chicks Murs and Slug have lust over but also have fallen off career wise. The group says it’s a karma thing and we wouldn’t understand. /shrug

Every album has had a different producer, keeping each album fresh and new. The Grouch produced the first volume. The Grouch is an MC and producer for Living Legends. Volume 2 brings Ant from Atmosphere to get the production done. Volume 3 goes outside the groups home bases to reach out to Aesop Rock! Aesop has always been on the forefront of Alternative Hip-Hop groups, so the synergy is totally there!

I gotta share a song from each album, just to make sure you buy all three.

Suzanne Vega is a track of the first Felt album. Vol 1 A Tribute to Christina Ricci. This is a a slow and dizzy, unsteady song. It’s about not getting high, yet sounds super stoned! One thing to note is that on the first two albums two tracks were named after singers. On volume 3 though, it’s actors. Kevin Spacey and Paul Ruebens! WTF!

Download Felt -Suzanne Vega

Life Vegas is just a fun party track off the second album. In fact, the whole second album is a light, fun, party album. I suggest you pick it up and buy your self some drinks for you and your friends and get it in the CD player!

Download Felt – Life Vegas

In the track Give It Up, it’s Aesop Rock’s work as producer that truly shines. When the guitars come in, it really has the feeling of a story being told. Fantastic production work that the the Felt boys have no problem running with when they lay down their rhymes.

Although, one might argue that what Aesop Rock brings is too dark for this particular project. Normally a light, fun, antic filled style is what the last two albums have been about. This latest Felt album is kinda twisted with rhymes of drug addiction and wrong turns and either is Aesop’s fault, or was a part of the vision of this Felt album. You know me, I like it gloomy. Especially when the winter grey rolls in, I guess I’m just a product of too many high desert winters.

Download Felt – Give It Up

Check out this video from another track off volume 3, and then get your credit card out and click these links!


You don’t know, you think you know

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You had her all wrapped up in a neat and tidy package… One that you would never open. You thought you knew, but you didn’t know.

You didn’t know that she eats dark choc-o-late and reads dirty magazines.
And it was even news to her that you could kill her with a kiss.

She had no idea how badly she’d need to try to step into your open arms, and she had no forethought about demanding a kiss.

She broke a few rules.


[Harrison Hudson – Kill Her With A Kiss]

This is the only picture of Harrison Hudson I’ve ever seen, so I was taken aback when I heard the tunes on their debut album Blood, Sweat and Sweat. It’s like I am hearing a more approachable, more fun-loving, but just as hard-rocking, Chris Robinson.

Pictured here is the frontman for the three-piece band that bears his namesake. Hudson is backed by Brandon Dees on bass and Steven Kadar on drums, who are talented enough to sound like a quintet. They really embody the southern rock sound. And of course the genius that are Andy Hull and Jeremiah Edmond signed them to Favorite Gentlemen. I am entranced by the sound and the lyrics. I can’t be more eloquent than that.

I even love that they managed to make a word like “Californ-I-ain’t” sound cool, as demonstrated in Track 4, “California Girl”.

Ah, that’s a better picture. I am going to become a groupie. I am in love with these guys. I need my saving grace; I keep fallin’ into love with every pretty face I see…

Probably the song on the album that is strong enough to go toe-to-toe with any of history’s greatest southern hits would be track 6, “Clown”. Oh please be my guest and enjoy. ENJOY!

Oh, I gave you my heart and you took it like a common meal…


[Harrison Hudson – Clown]

Go to their website and copy the embed code for the widget below to help promote them and bring GOOD MUSIC to the masses:

And then support the bands we love, along with our favorite label in the universe, by visiting the Favorite Gentlemen store.

And just for the hell of it, play Blood, Sweat and Sweat (by the way, could you get a better name for a good strong rock and roll album coming out of Tennessee?) side by side with the Black Crowes. Do it. I dare ya.

The dirtier the sound the best I breathe

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The Manchester Orchestra has friends. Good God do they have friends. I’ve never felt that I could come anywhere near writing a decent blog post about this amazing band from Georgia, but the premier release from their upcoming Mean Everything to Nothing album moved me like no other recorded track of theirs ever has.

[The Manchester Orchestra- I’ve Got Friends]

Mookie and I discovered them together when we were researching the bands that were sharing the bill on Brand New’s tour back in early 07. When I found their website, my exact words were, “this is the most independent indie band” or something to that effect. We’ve been able to experience them live several times in a handful of cities since then and each performance has been an event we’ll never forget.

In the last few years, members of The Manchester Orchestra have managed to start their own label (speaking of having friends, they sign and work with only bands who are friends – TALENTED friends), tour with incredible bands, perform at prestigious music festivals, inspire new artists, oh… and arrive at legal age.

Regarding this period of time since the band formed, they say it’s been “an absolute whirlwind of experience and life lessons most people wouldn’t learn until they are 30.”

A few of us here have experienced more pain and loss, but also more joy and miracles, than anyone should by the time they are 30. And we still manage to be turned inside out by the music and lyrics of The Manchester Orchestra.

Look, I don’t know what the fuck this particular song is about, but it gets me. It just kills me. They know how to perform the slow, smoldering build. All elements of the sound deliver to you the heart, soul, blood, and sweat of all its contributors.

Andy Hull has used lyrics inspired by odd dreams, by confusion or confirmation of a relationship with God, and everything in between. For me personally, it gives a voice to everything that has run through my head recently and lays out a mise en place for all of the people we have in our lives and the purpose they serve, whether altruistic or selfish. And it helps me distill all of the bullshit down to the most important and compelling reasons to go forward, to breathe, to strengthen your dedication to your priorities.

If that didn’t make any sense then tough for you. It makes just as much sense as the lyrics of the song.

To lighten the mood let me confess that the first time I ever sat behind the drum kit for Guitar Hero World Tour, I channeled Manchester’s Jeremiah Edmond, of all the great drummers there ever were. It’s true.

The Manchester Orchestra is hands down one of the greatest things to happen to music. That’s all there is to say. No other witty uberblogger music expert bullshit.
The new album hits April 21. I will remind you.