twenty-three

As the summer is now in full swing, my reading list is also now finally moving into full motion. During the year I find it hard to sit down with a book for any extended period of time, let alone finish with any semblance of recollection of the main point, so this has been a [...]

Over the course of the last day, I've gotten a lot of Facebook comments/questions that read like this: "Hey Seth, how's the new Coldplay album"? I've also had a few face to facers: "You listened yet, what do you think?" And finally, my favorite, a voice mail message: "I'm calling to talk about the new [...]

Well folks, I'm starting to get pretty excited. It's 4 hours 'til midnight. Coldplay's new album, Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends, will be released tomorrow. I'm hoping iTunes will push the button for the east coast and I'll get to listen in about an hour, but I'm not getting my hopes [...]

Local songwriter and piano player, and friend, Dana Little is playing this Friday at the Lettered Streets Coffeehouse in Bellingham. Dana, formerly of Late Tuesday fame, is kicking off some summer shows with an intimate gathering at Bellingham's newest and coolest coffee shop. The concert is at 7pm at 1001 Dupont Street, over by the [...]

"Hi. We’re Death Cab for Cutie. We think it might be worthwhile re-introducing ourselves, because we just released our newest full length album. And it doesn’t really sound like us. Or at least you might not think so. So, pleased to meet you once again."
Here’s the first review I was eluding to with yesterday’s post. [...]

Whatever it takes to get the blogging juices flowing again, I think I’m going to try a music review. I’m thinking it’d be a good idea to prime the pump for a couple of albums I’m really looking forward to that come out in the next month or so, so why not start with a [...]

"Violet Hill", the first single from the long-awaited fourth studio album from Coldplay, is now available for free download at www.coldplay.com. The album comes out June 17 in the US. I’m pretty excited. I know how I’m going to kick off the first week of my summer - sit indoors with my headphones on!
I’m [...]

I’m currently sitting on the floor of my living room, plugged into my CD player, listening to the opening tracks of "The Beatles" (aka the White Album). It’s a very good experience, let me tell you.
I’ve had a slight fascination with the Beatles for quite some time, but I’ve never really spent much [...]

Just before Christmas, I wrote about how a friend of mine, Corbin Watkins, was getting ready to release his first Christmas album, Incarnation. It’s been a couple of crazy months and now, Christmas is finally here. And the album we should all be listening to around the tree is here as well. It’s been really [...]

Soft picking of a guitar begins, slowly meandering along, becoming an interlude. Each note weaves into the next, each word bleeds out from the last. In and out, like deep breaths, an outpouring of story, of fact and fiction, of feeling and faith. It seems like chance that these words would play off one another [...]