Ever heard of Two Cow Garage? If you answered no, then you should go treat yourself to some good music, then come back.
The focus of this post is the lead singer of Two Cow Garage, Micah Schnabel. Dude's a seriously awesome songwriter who sings with a sense of urgency and meaning. I had been listening to TCG for a while when I saw that Suburban Home Records would be releasing Micah's solo album. Being the music geek that I am, I swooped on it immediately. I think after the first or second listen through, both Alison and I were hooked on the record. Everything from his playing to his lyrics to his vocal delivery are damn good. I'm not going to bother washing this dude up any longer, just watch the below videos and you'll understand why we like the dude's music so much.
This is where I was about to write about how long it's been since I wrote a Tunesday update. I'm glad I didn't. Although I did. Man...
Even though I have been pretty lazy with keeping up to date in the writing department, I have still been buying new music almost on a weekly basis. There's been so much good stuff coming out lately and a lot of it is coming from one of my favorite labels / distributors, Suburban Home Records / Vinyl Collective. I found out about SH Records when I first started listening to Tim Barry and Drag The River, both of which are on SH Records. I first saw Tim and DTR probably about 4 years ago when they played Alex's Bar in Long Beach. Such a good show, I think I walked away with some merch from both bands.
I discovered SH Records was putting out 7-inch vinyl titled 'Under the Influence' where they find a set of bands or artists to do a cover version of a song that has influenced them and their music. Well, I didn't own a record player, but I had to buy one to hear these songs since they were only available on vinyl or digital download. Now, I have a problem collecting audio. I need the artwork. I need the physical copy, so here I am now with the whole first run of the 'Under the Influence' series (even multiple copies of some since there were some released in different colors of vinyl).
Now since I own the record player, the world is my musical oyster. To top it off, the dudes that run Suburban Home Records also run The Vinyl Collective where they sell tons of awesome vinyl. The most recent releases I bought were a couple of Jawbreaker records... so good.
All that ruthless plugging aside, I'd like to share with you some music from a few of the bands that have been on my turntable / in my CD player / on my itunes. Please pay close attention to the following:
That's Micah Schnabel's (Two Cow Garage) solo record. I'm really impressed with the album front to back, and can't wait to see what he comes out with next.
The Tasty Morsel is a blog written by Bob and Alison covering all things
food, drink and music. By day Bob is a video editor and Alison does
P.R.(and some accounting), but by night we consider ourselves
professional eaters, drinkers (not alcoholics) and music lovers (not
groupies).
We believe life's moments are only enhanced by good food, drink and
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