Bag of Kittens, featuring Allyson Seconds & Anton Barbeau
The Shop has just gotten in a few copies of Allyson Seconds' Bag of Kittens, her new collaboration with Anton Barbeau. If you are a fan of Marti Jones or Sam Phillips, you should check this album out. The arrangements are beautifully done and even if you're already familiar with tracks like "Dig My Pig" and "On A Bicycle Built For Bicycle 9," you will hear them in a whole new way. This is a lovely album that should lead to Anton being taken more seriously as a songwriter, and Allyson, a Sacramento Music Award-winning vocalist, is a first-class interpreter of his work. You can preview a few songs at http://www.myspace.com/bagokittens , and if you're in Northern California, there are concert dates listed there as well.
The penultimate installment, 2005, brings us Scott's "hands down... favorite hip-hop recording" plus this priceless tidbit: "[I]t's a cliche to hate mimes, right? Well, I'm that guy there going 'wow, it looks just like he's in an invisible box!'"
In other 125 news, you will want to read this interview with Jill Tracy from the L.A. Weekly and watch the viral video which has gotten over 1,500,000 views -- with a soundtrack by Anton Barbeau.
Which 1958 selection made Scott feel "like I've failed as a shallow smartass"? There's only one way to find out: read today's installment of Music: What Happened?
After a month off, Scott has returned with 1994. Check out the archive in case you've missed any previous installments. Just three years to go now: 1957, 1958 and 2005!
Yes, it's back at last -- and today, Scott writes about 2002 and happens to list one of my personal favorite songs, Spoon's "Jonathon Fisk." Here's the band's video.
