Month: May 2014

Courtney Barnett – Anonymous Club

 Frequent visitor to Vodka, Courtney Barnett, is a very talented songwriter and performer. She’s been getting some much deserved press recently from the likes of Rolling Stone and The New York Times. On top of that, she was recently a musical guest on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Her star is rising! Here, from the Double EP, A Sea Of Split Peas Courtney proves that she has a contemplative style as well, with the plaintive Anonymous Club. If you have not purchased this, or…

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Eliza Rickman – Start With Goodbye, Stop With Hello

 Eliza Rickman’s provocative new video Start With Goodbye, Stop With Hello, from her 2012 long player, O You Sinners, is both dark and fun. It is a look into the complexities of ms. Rickman as well. Eliza has a beautiful voice and an enviable range. It can ring bell-like from above, or delve into a throaty alto. Like her voice, her music and message are full-ranged as well. As the video for Start With Goodbye, Stop With Hello hints, tracks…

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Hey Geronimo – The Girl Who Likes Me

 Fun loving retro-pop rockers Hey Geronimo return to Vodka with another top-notch fun track. You may remember Why Don’t We Do Something? from about a year ago, and Carbon Affair from just a few months back. Here, Hey Geronimo captures video footage from the road with a track that doesn’t necessarily fit the video, but is very fun anyway, The Girl Who Likes Me. The single is yet to be released in any form that I can find, but if…

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Chris Kasper – Miss Augustine

    Note: The original video content doesn’t appear to be available any longer. This live version has very good audio, so Vodka is putting it in as a replacement:  Chris Kasper has a very pleasing musical style, a slightly chirpy vocal, which works well with his music and a folkish pop sensibility that lends itself well to tracks such as Miss Augustine from Chris’s November 2011 long-player, The First Hundred Years Are The Hardest. He has a recent long-player, Bagabones, which was released in…

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