http://somuchsilence.com "Prague... you'll come back a bug." Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:51:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en More indisputable evidence that Ben Bridwell is one of the more genuine dudes in rock: He and two of his band members delivered a surprise performance of Marry Song at the wedding of a couple that got engaged at a Band of Horses show earlier in the year. Full story ... http://somuchsilence.com/?p=3976 The 47th installment of I Used to Love H.E.R., a series in which artists/bloggers/writers discuss their most essential or favorite hip-hop albums and songs, comes from Paul Edwards, author of How to Rap: The Art & Science of the Hip-Hop MC, a 340-page book containing analysis, advice and guidance about, ... http://somuchsilence.com/?p=3960 On his sophomore release, Everything Changed Nothing, up-and-coming L.A. rapper Trek Life reps his home city to the fullest, with at least three songs – one appropriately named So LA – serving as obvious odes to the City of Angels. But Due West is a little different, a thoughtful narrative that ... http://somuchsilence.com/?p=3955 If you were paying attention back in April, you know that a Telekinesis 7-inch containing two new songs and a cover was released for Record Store Day. Well, those three tracks ended up on a five-song EP that is out in digital format today, called Parallel Seismic Consipracies. This is ... http://somuchsilence.com/?p=3950 Internet TV network Revision3, which I'd never heard of until today, employed an arsenal of HD video cameras to film Frightened Rabbit at a recent sold-out tour date at San Francisco's Rickshaw Stop. The result is a 70-minute, 14-song experience that sounds just as wonderful as it looks – this is ... http://somuchsilence.com/?p=3944 I mentioned recently how much I've enjoyed The Soft Pack's self-titled debut, and here the band performs one of the tracks (Answer to Yourself) from the LP for La Blogotheque's Take-Away Show for part of its series from NxNE in Toronto. Remember: The Soft Pack makes its way to the Clubhouse ... http://somuchsilence.com/?p=3933 The 46th installment of I Used to Love H.E.R., a series in which artists/bloggers/writers discuss their most essential or favorite hip-hop albums and songs, comes from Chris DeLine, the man behind the long-running and rather prolific (not to mention excellent) blog, Culture Bully. Chris shares with us "a few songs ... http://somuchsilence.com/?p=3925 On a weekend road trip to Newport Beach in June, a friend and I made a well-timed stop in LA and caught the first show in almost a decade of the recently reunited Freestyle Fellowship, hip-hop icons and forebears of the art/jazz rap movement of the '90s. I'd seen ... http://somuchsilence.com/?p=3920 For as bleak as El-P's music can be, there's a strangely uplifting ending to this video for Time Won't Tell, a track off the recently released Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3. The official info tells us that the video "is inspired by a childhood memory of director Shan Nicholson, who grew up in the ... http://somuchsilence.com/?p=3916 As part of a mailing-list update, The National offered a brief – yet totally logical – statement concerning SB 1070 and the band's two October shows in Arizona: "Finally, we'd like you to know that we're concerned about the discriminatory legislation that has been passed into law in Arizona. We ... http://somuchsilence.com/?p=3908