Daryl's House & Company of Thieves

I'm thoroughly enjoying the post Christmas gift card euphoria - I love buying music - there's something very noble and rewarding about it. There's a website that I've been digging for a while - Live from Daryl's House -  it has this killer show that captures Daryl Hall and his band - they welcome in a different  artist every other month, hang out and play music.  They cover some of the guest artist's songs and then some of the Hall & Oates classics.  It's all shot and recorded live - the music sounds and feels real - you get a sense of what it is was like to be there - you also get a sense of the musicianship required.  Check out the trailer below:

The episode that turned me onto the show was K.T.Tunstall's  - she was brilliant - check out this version of Black Horse and the Cherry Tree.  The current episode is with a band called Company of Thieves - I'd never heard of them but checked out the show - 30 minutes later I have their EP Ordinary Riches playing through my iTunes and my gift card is $5.99 poorer - 15 tracks too - amazing value!

This is the music business - it is alive and getting better all the time.

Weezer and the Lady on the train...

Music's freaking awesome. I met a lady on a train - we were both delayed and inconvenienced so we talked about music. We swapped likes and I referenced Weezer's hit "Beverley Hills" - to which she demurred as not really representative, I was intrigued.

I had got the irony of the video when it came out, although I hadn't really listened to their music prior to that- I had it in the same category as Eels - cool hipster music (listen to Beautiful Freak)- and I dug them 'cos I like cool hipster music - that and the name Rivers Cuomo stuck in my head.

I'd made a mental note to check them out - and then life got busy - until RockBand appeared in the house.

If you're a music fan - which I'm guessing is likely if you're reading this - try it - just try it, I think it's brilliant fun. We had Kelli on the guitar this afternoon and me on vocals as we attacked Nirvana's Bloom -

..and then you play "Say It Ain't So" - and they have a crowd track. Yeah it's true - when things are going well - the bloody crowd starts singing - and you just gotta wonder what a Weezer gig feels like? The killer for me of course is that I now have my 10 and 11 year old step children accusing me of wanting to drown them.

I have subsequently purchased the track - and I'm going to listen to their new album - and their old stuff too - http://www.weezer.com/ I'm pretty stoked about that and looking forward to it.

So, Lady on the train - thank you - I hope you're well and I hope that you dig Weezer's new material - that would be very cool indeed. I love this video: [display_podcast]