Band of Horses - Infinite Arms

I am so sad. I am heartbroken. Heartbroken in only the way a beautiful woman named Band of Horses can break hearts. I had very high hopes for this album. Everything All The Time had power in sounds like Our Swords and The Funeral and it had heart with I Goto The Barn, Monsters and St. Augustine. Cease To Begin has thick blood with songs like Ode to LRC and Cigarettes, Wedding Bands and moved me to the soul with Detlef Schrempf and Marry Song. Both albums were beautiful and powerful. Then Infinite Arms. It had so much potential. Every song sounded like the last, with a slight pick up toward the end but nothing to inspire me to remember the titles. I am so sad. SO sad. I can't even express my disappointment.

You owe me one Ben. I didn't just download Infinite Arms, I bought it. You owe me big. I wanted you to melt my heart, not break it.

Edit:

This album got better after a few listens. While it isn't what was expecting, it isn't bad. I just wanted to tell Ben he doesn't owe me anything. Unless he wants to get me ticket to a NJ or NY show.

FiKus and Good Love Entertainment

I just wanted to make a post about a new band and an organization I recently came upon: the band FiKus and Good Love Entertainment. FiKus is a sweet jam band from North Jersey. I saw them last Thursday at Tommy Fox's Public House in Bergenfield and my face was totally melted. They busted out a sick cover of Wolfman's Brother, and made me dance like a jungle man with their originals. They are totally awesome and I know that because the dance floor was full up to the stage. I've seen a lot of bands at bars and halls where people stand in the back and sides of the floor like a middle school dance, but not for FiKus. These guys play every Thursday at Tommy Fox's and if you have facebook take a look here: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/event.php?eid=120045538029855&ref=ts

Then we have Good Love Entertainment. These guys are an awesome music group dedicated to bringing good music to the people want it and bring people to the good musicians who deserve them. They take on bands like FiKus and Shwizz and Mother's Wine and get them shows and media and just take good care of them. Adam of Good Love even provide psychological help for any bands in need...happy bands make sweet jams.

So next time you are looking for a good time, check out Good Love's facebook site for some live music http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Good-Love-Entertainment/190536617479?v=info&ref=ts

and don't forget your Campy Jammy Land tix! http://www.campjammyland.com/

Ace Enders/River City Extension 4/30

Ace Enders showed up at Ramapo College of New Jersey on Friday April 30th to play a show supporting his solo project I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody’s Business. I Can Make A Mess released The World We Know on March 23rd. Ace hung out in the WRPR Ramapo Radio studio for a bit before the show and told us about his 1949 Kay acoustic guitar, his studio’s destruction due to rain and his top musical influences: Pearl Jam’s Single Video Theory documentary, Back to the Future and The Matrix Trilogy. Ace took the stage a little after 10pm, Telecaster in hand and loop station at foot. He got down dirty with tunes from both of his solo projects, I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody’s Business and Ace Ender’s and a Million Different People and even threw in some stuff from his band The Early November. Ace made brilliant use of his loop station and guitar, showing the small but dedicated crowd that he could in fact make a mess like nobody’s business all by himself.

Opening bands can be a coin toss, but before Ace, River City Extension took the stage; all eight of them. Sporting instruments like the French horn, trumpet, cello, banjo, and all of your standard rock band axes, keys, and skins these guys (and girls!) shook Ramapo up. The indie, country, bluegrass and what-have-you conglomeration that is River City Extension is sporting the release of their CD The Unmistakable Man on May 7th at the Asbury Lanes.