July 21st, 2009 - Escape Escape The Great Escape

Today's featured free music download is a full demo of "Great Escape". This song is mainly focused on the drive to escape the structure of traditional society and just go live in the woods like an animal. We are animals after all and I think the drive to live on instinct is present in all of us. Also, three shows coming up in the next two weeks. This Friday at the St. Paul Eagles Club with the full 5 piece electric group, next Thursday in Minneapolis with the 3 piece electric band and next Friday at the Root Note in LaCrosse, WI with Casey and Joe acoustic.

Below are the albums I listened to yesterday in no particular order.

Criteria - En Garde
I am a big fan of singer/guitarist Steve Pedersen's other previous group, The White Octave, so I was not surprised to find that this debut album from the group he started after White Octave to sound pretty similar. Seems to be a pretty good record but still liking his work with the White Octave more.

Grizzly Bear - Vecktamist
Listened to this album last week as well, not tiring of it at all yet. Great record, if you haven't listened to it, do so now.

Pearl Jam - The Fixer (single)
The first single from Pearl Jam's new record "Backspacer" is now streaming at their Myspace site. Pretty cool little punk rock song, nothing to exciting here though. How does a great American rock band compete with it's own youth?

Thom Yorke - Present Tense (solo acoustic)
Thom Yorke debuted a new song at a festival this weekend, pretty hard to get much satisfaction out of the poor audio quality of the You Tube video but worth checking out if you are into Thom.

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
I am not huge into Jazz, but I do like my the groups that push the envelope and love the experimental leanings of this double album. If you haven't heard it yet, make time soon.

Weezer - 8 bit Tribute Album
A Weezer tribute album with the songs reimagined in 8-bit. In other words Weezer as video game music from 1989. Not really that satisfying, didn't listen to the whole thing.