Most of my favorite songs from the upcoming album by Bill Patton are originals, but the man has a way with covers that has revived my enthusiasm about artists playing each other's songs.
Due to pleasant coincidence and shared taste, Eef Barzelay (Clem Snide, and solo fame) has just recorded an EP of songs by Seattle songwriter Terri Moeller, the voice behind Transmissionary Six and Terri Tarantula.
"If I was an actor, I would only ever play villains." - Cody Foster
"For awhile I was like, 'I'll just make the most complicated thing that nobody else can do and then I'll be the best.' And now I'm kind of learning that sometimes the most difficult thing to make isn't the best at all."
Our music editor's picks for the best albums of 2010 include Damien Jurado and Sarah Jaffe.
I end every year by making a list of my favorite albums. Some years there are as many as 30 albums that I couldn't live without, but this year there were really only 10 for me.
This past February, I spent a month in the mythologized town of Marfa, TX, recording an album with Robert Gomez for a project which has since been named Ormonde.
"I think total democracy in bands can sometimes be a bad thing musically."
"I guess we got into more of this British folk thing and a 'fair maiden' thing as I call it, but I don't think we really sound like these bands, though there is more than a hint of it on the new album."
"Melancholy is not really the right word to describe the mentality. Swedes are more...serene and mellow, and not afraid of the dark, and this is something that I still think is a big part of my personality."
