Concept albums typically deal with a topic or an idea, but what if you took a style of music and decided to make an album? Ask The Likes Of Us, a duo of Benj Heard and Katrina Stone, who realized a musical connection …
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Griffin House – The Guy That Says Goodbye To You Is Out Of His Mind
Griffin House is a pretty good songwriter. This song, one of my favorite love songs, is a particularly well written one. It’s an oldie but a goodie. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsnlrXza57o]
Joshua Hyslop – Where the Mountain Meets the Valley
Every time we do a year end, best of list, we inevitably leave albums and songs off of our list. Sometimes it takes us months to hear those albums, other times, like this time, it takes us a day. Joshua Hyslop is an …
Angus Stone – Broken Brights
I mentioned Angus Stone last week when I placed his album in my top 10 albums of the year. I hadn’t had a chance to write a review for it before I put it on that list. Angus Stone is an Australian musician …
Casey’s Top 10 Albums of 2012
After our first full year here at EarToTheGround Music, I’m really excited to bring you a full year’s worth of albums. This year was a really interesting year and one that was really different from last year. Last year, we saw the release …
Carry Me Home – Hey Rosetta!
My new favorite Christmas song and one of my favorite EPs of the year belongs to Hey Rosetta! “Carry Me Home”, the video below, is the first track from the new EP,is a phenomenal song (almost in my top 20 even though it’s …
Casey’s Top Songs of 2012: #10-#1
#10 – “Not With Haste” – Mumford and Sons I’m usually a fan of the popular songs from albums and I certainly understand why those songs are chosen as singles, but I love the lesser known tracks so much more. Mumford and Sons …
Casey’s Top Songs of 2012: #20-#11
Wow, this was a really, really hard list to make. There were so many great albums and great songs that to pick 20 seems insulting. To put them in an order is even worse. But, for what it’s worth, this is the first …
Over The Rhine Christmas
Over the Rhine, one of Paste Magazine’s 100 best living songwriters (or groups), just released a Christmas album on Noisetrade and it’s incredible. It’s full of original songs, which is unique for a Christmas album, and sad songs, which is maybe not so …
EP Roundup: Fiction Family, Robinson
First things first: all of these EPs are free on Noisetrade right now (see embedded downloaders below). Fiction Family is the brainchild and musical outlet of Jon Foreman, the frontman from Switchfoot, and Sean Watkins, former guitarist and vocalist of Nickel Creek. It’s …
