An Ode to Moving House

DEAR CHILDREN:
In case you read this, and in case you have zero contact with any other form of nonsense with which we contact you (IE facebook, the radio, face to face), you should know we've moved. We'll be updating from headquarters located at:
http://friendsdontletfriendsbehipsters.tumblr.com/

From now on, until a cooler, more hipper form of communication becomes prevalent.

Until then,
Stay tumbld?
--A&K and the Fiddle Fib Four

The Avett Brothers at the House of Blues. Part II

So oddly, this is the second time I've seen the Avett Brothers at a House of Blues. I say oddly because they were in different states. No matter. I can reduce the review to four things (one of which will have to wait until I find me a camera cable).

1) The Low Anthem were very, very boring. Bluesy folky types, and had their one song not been that slow, listening to it ad nauseum for almost an hour wouldn't've been so bad. The exception? Resident clarinetist/singer/what-was-that-thing-she-played-that-looked-like-saucers/bassist Jocie Adams. I genuinely thought she was about 12, and quite frankly I'm still not convinced to the contrary. No matter. Chick's got pipes. If she had sung the entire set I would've been a happy little toad. However, she sang about 1.5 songs spread out over 45 minutes.

2) The Avett Brothers rocked it, somehow, harder than they did in Boston. I'd attribute it to the smaller venue, more rabid fans, and the sheer damn giddiness everybody possessed. Whatever the cause, they smiled more, literally everyone knew the words to literally every song (even the obscure early stuff) and the floor shook so damn hard from all the jumping on Paranoia in B-Flat Major that we all thought our deaths were imminent.
3) Scott Avett is one of those lucky few who looks even more attractive drenched in sweat than not.
4)Despite cameras being banned, despite getting a pat down before entering the HOB, and despite getting stuck behind the son of Robert Pershing Wadlow I snagged some bitchin' photos, which I'll post soon.

So, until I find my camera cable/we think of a more entertaining post,
Stay sweaty and proudly North Carolinian,
--A&K&M&R

The Avett Brothers - Paranoia in B-Flat Major
Side note: The weird damn things Jocie Adams played are called crotales (crote-all-ace). In case you were curious.

Hipster Puppies, too!

Kendra posted a Hipster Kitty, so I shall post a Hipster Puppy.

I sense judgement in his stare.

You know you'll miss us next week,

Here's a present to help pass the time, going along with the furr-y friend theme.

[A&K&M&R]

An Ode to the Human Body

Bodies are kind of awesome if you think about it. Not just in the without-them-you'd-be-incorporeal way, either, but also in ways significantly more badass. Like, you can lose 2/3 of your liver and a) survive, and b) it'll grow back. When you get a cold, the swollen throat, snot, fever and phlegm are all products YOUR OWN BODY has made in order to combat the virus. The average adult small intestine is 20 feet long.

While you're picturing snot and your liver and intestines, here's the playlist from this week:

1. Adele - Cold Shoulder
2. Florence + the Machine - Kiss With a Fist
3. Passion Pit - Eyes as Candles
4. Alice Russell - Fly in the Hand
5. Regina Spektor - Blue Lips
6. Tegan and Sara - Back in Your Head
7. Noah and the Whale - Shape of My Heart
8. Ray Lamontagne - Hold You in My Arms
9. Cary Brothers - Blue Eyes
10. The Avett Brothers - Kick Drum Heart
11. Amy Millan - Blue in Yr Eye
12. Laura Gibson - Hands in Pockets
13. Hugh Grant - Pop Goes my Heart
14. Jon Foreman - Behind Your Eyes
15. Johnny Flynn - Tickle Me Pink
16. Paul's Grandfather - Bones
17. Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - Skeleton Key
18. Kate Nash - Skeleton Song
19. Muse - Map of Your Head
20. Bowerbirds - Human Hands
21. Ra Ra Riot - Run my Mouth
22. Los Campesinos - You'll Need Those Fingers for Crossing
23. The Matches - Salty Eyes
24. Wonderful Spells - Bacon Bones
25. Damone - On my Mind
26. The Pixies - Crackity Jones
27. The Ukranians - Batyar (Bigmouth Strikes Again)
28. Islands - the Arm
29. Carpark North - Human

Next week is spring break, but you can betcha bottom dollar that we'll be posting extraneous nubbins over the break.

Until then, marvel at the fact that the human femur is pound for pound stronger than concrete.

Whoa, dude.

--The Fiddle Fib Fam

An Ode to Silly Voices

We here at FDLFBH take ourselves very seriously. Like, deadly. Subsequently, sometimes we need to vent, lest our poor little heads explode and our brains burst forth like some kind of horrendous piñata gone terribly wrong. Anyway, where was I?
Oh right, this week's theme. It's all funny voices, varying from men who sound like women to women who sound like men and everything in between. Enjoy. Or, rather, we hope you enjoyed.

Yeasayer - Tightrope
Jeff Buckley - Sweet Thing
Soko - I'll Kill Her
The Black Keys - Psychotic Girl
The Decemberists - The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid
Enrique Bunbury - Que Tengas Suertecita
Claudine Longet - Hello Hello
Rufus Wainwright - 14th Street
Bon Iver - Creature Fear
Ra Ra Riot - Dying is Fine
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
Amanda Palmer - Leeds United
Flight of the Conchords - Albi the Racist Dragon
The Hidden Cameras - In the NA
Miss Li - Bourgeois Shangri La
Devendra Banhart - Carmencita
Rusted Root - Send Me On My Way
Jukebox the Ghost - Hold It In
Peter Bjorn and John - Let's Call It Off (Girl Talk Remix)
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - The Golden Age
Regina Spektor - Hotel Song
Tegan and Sara - Where Does the Good Go?
Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
Vampire Weekend - California English
Matt and Kim - Spare Change
Swimming in Speakers - In Knowing
Yeah Right - Yes Yes No

Until next week,
Keep practicing your best Kermit voice
--the Fiddle Fib Fam

An Ode to Obscure Holidays

So I meant to post this last week, when it was relevant, but I guess a week late is better than never. First, a preface:
I don't really get most holidays, particularly religious ones. And by 'get', I of course mean have any concept of what they represent, or why people celebrate them. Subsequently, last Wednesday when I saw flocks of people with little smudgies on their forehead, I thought lots of kids had been falling asleep in art class...near charcoal. Ash Wednesday = not something in my head.

Anywho, here's a song that, like my knowledge of the holiday, actually has nothing to do with it.
Until tomorrow,
Stay wise
FDLFBH

Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday

FUCK YEAH HIPSTER KITTY!

So we here at Fiddle Fib enjoy promoting things we enjoy when we have the opportunity. Last week, Ali brought you a nubbin on VV Brown, easily one of the most badass humans on the planet. This week, I bring you a website about kittens.

Maybe not a direct correlation, but I enjoy thinking about it.


Until Thursday (tomorrow?)
Stay Obscure,
--A&K and the Fiddle Fib Funky Bunch

We Are Family

It was all about familial love at FDLFBH last week; because we all like reliving those moments involving sisters/parents/uncles/second cousins-twice-removed-wait-they're-a-part-of-our-family (?) That and apparently we're Dolly Parton fans now. Not sure how the two are correlated? Listen in this week for an Ode to Funny Voices.

(Will Dolly make an appearance? You'll just have to find out!)

Here are the songzz...

Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want (21 Motion Picture Remix)

Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama

Avett Brothers - The Perfect Space

Mates of State - Now

Arctic Monkeys - The Bad Thing

Noisettes - Sister Rosetta (Capture the Spirit)

Vampire Weekend - Cousins

The Eames Era - Brother

Jaymay - What About the Bob

Angus and Julia Stone - Just a Boy

The Weepies - The World Spins Madly On

Diane Birch - Rise Up

Elizabeth and the Catapult - Race You

Over the Rhine - Entertaining Thoughts

Pulp - Razzmatazz

John Lennon - Mother

Avett Brothers - Matrimony

Felice Brothers - Whiskey in my Whiskey

Billy Bragg & Wilco - Walt Whitman's Niece

Paul's Grandfather - Bones

Ash - Uncle Pat

Dolly Parton - Daddy's Working Boots

Half Cousin - Girl

Cold War Kids - Pregnant

Turbo Fruits - Mamas Mad Cos I Friend My Brains

Richard Hell and the Viodoids - Blank Generation

Manic Street Preachers - Been a Son

Los Hermanos - Condicional

Until Thursday,

The Fiddle-Fib Family - A&K&M&R

PS Don't judge me for the Dolly Parton. It's a good song about the plight of the working class, and it was my don't judge me. JUDGERS.

Taking the Throne

With Wino in rehab/out of rehab/giving away her 11 cats because they're 'out of control' (Google the last one, swear it's true), who can we turn to in order to fill that 60's soul meets R&B meets "wow is that voice coming out of that girl's mouth?" void?

We have finally found our answer. Check out V.V. Brown.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8vk2bk_F6o

For all you Bostonians, she'll be at the Great Scott on February 22. For $9 we say this breath of fresh air will most definitely be worth it.

Happy President's Day!

A&K (&M&R!!! Yay for interns!)

An Ode to < 3

Ali loves love. Kendra hates love. Ali was the kid in elementary school who handmade all of her valentines. Kendra was the kid who ripped off all the candy, ate it, and hucked the cards afterward. Ali's half is more sweet than bitter. Kendra's half is more bitter than sweet. Together, it'll be the awesomest Valentine's Day tribute since the original My Bloody Valentine (and no, fool, not the band).

1. She and Him - I Was Made For You
2. Little Joy - Brand New Start
3. Arctic Monkeys - Baby I'm Yours
4. Jim Noir - I'm Me, You I'm Yours
5. The Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes Out
6. Ingrid Michaelson - You and I
7. Allo Darlin - Dear Stephen Hawking
8. Amos Lee - Sweet Pea
9. Alice Smith and the Great Picture Show - Colors
10. VV Brown - Crazy Amazing
11. Barry Louis Polisar - All I Want Is You
12. Joshua James - The New Love Song
13. Sondre Lerche - Heartbeat Radio
14. Coldplay - Lovers in Japan
15. Feist - Secret Heart
16. Matt Nathanson - Come on Get Higher
17. the Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart
18. Ludo - Love Me Dead
19. Plain White Ts - Hate (I Really Don't Like You)
20. Manic Street Preachers - You Stole the Sun From My Heart
21. The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me
22. Robots in Love - Velma*
23. Weezer - I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams **
    
24. Timothy Seth Avett as Darling - About Love
25. John Shade - I Fall In Love too Easily ***
    
26. Avett Brothers - Pretend Love
27. Louis XIV - Finding Out True Love's Blind
28. MSTRKRFT - Heartbreaker (feat. John Legend)
29. Ash - Nicole
30. VV Brown - Crying Blood

Next week:
An Ode to Fambly/Familia/Famiglia/Family/Being Trapped in a Car for Six Hours at a Time
quite fitting, given the addition of two baby interns to our family here at FDLFBH. By the by, in case you're wondering how to pronounce that, it's fiddle-fib. If you're trying to save time.
Anywho, until then, enjoy the tunes. Maybe we'll post some stuff. Maybe the interns will. Maybe barnacles will come flying out of my pants.
-A&K&M&R
[Spongebob References = Cool]

*A local band that has since split up and more or less reformed under the moniker Wonderful Spells.
**It's Rachel Haden of that dog on vocals, and was a b-side, hence the lack of Rivers Cuomo singing.
***Sometimes he goes by Dave Godowsky, which is his real name, and frankly the change is a little too Robert Zimmerman for my likings. Just stay with your real name, Dave.

A Post Script

Sometimes we'll arbitrarily post songs from the previous week's show. This is one of those times.

Elvis Perkins in Dearland - Doomsday
Andrew Bird - 11:11

Their theme? Gangly, pasty white multi instrumentalists in their mid 30s we currently or have in the past crushed on.

(A&K)

So I guess it's sort of fitting that last week's theme was an Ode to Time and somehow it's Sunday and the playlist hasn't been posted yet. Like, we haven't had the time to do it. GEDDIT?!

Screw you. It's funny.

1. Obra Squara - Perfect Timing (This Morning)
2. Emily Jane White - Time is On Your Side
3. John Mayer - Stop this Train
4. Alexi Murdoch - All My Days
5. Department of Eagles - Too Little Too Late
6. Vetiver - Everyday
7. Little Joy - The Next Time Around
8. Noah and the Whale - 5 Years Time
9. The Kooks - Tick of Time
10. Ke$ha - Tik Tok
11. needtobreathe - More Time
12. Local Natives - Sun Hands
13. Regina Spektor - That Time
14. Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire - 11:11
15. Fischerspooner - The 15th
16. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - 40 Day Dream
17. Futureheads - First Day
18. Elvis Perkins in Dearland - Doomsday
19. Morrissey - Every Day is Like Sunday
20. Weezer - Holiday
21. Dawes - When My Time Comes
22. Frank Black - Thalassocracy
23. Wilco - Summerteeth
24. The Needs - Winter Gardens
25. The National - Mr. November
26. Jessica Lea Mayfield - For Today
27. Ra Ra Riot - Each Year

NEXT WEEK: An Ode to [how much] Love [sucks]

Until then,
Wear a watch, it's almost Valentimes
--K&A

Ga-Ga-Grammys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7CrIvrikFU

Your homework for Thursday: Watch. Ponder. Watch again. Love.

(Yes, we'll be covering this in two days. We know you secretly want us to. After all, that's what FDLFBH is all about.)

Until then, this has been an Ode to 'Not Doing Homework and Updating the Blog and Facebook Fan Page (add us as a fan!)'

Adios,

Ali

You Know What's Big in Europe?

The music from this week. No kiddin. Most of the kids are Brits, but we've got some Colombians and some Swedes in there, even some Americans who could never rock the States like they could rock a kingdom. What's that? We missed your favorite obscure Italian pop duo? No problem, this Ode is comin' back soon, WITH A VENGEANCE.

1. Lily Allen - Everyone's At it
2. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You
3. La Roux - Bulletproof
4. Florence and the Machine - Kiss with a Fist
5. Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
6. Mark Ronson (feat. Kasabian) - LSF
7. Kate Nash - Pumpkin Soup
8. Lykke Li - Dance Dance Dance
9. El Perro del Mar - Change of Heart
10. Bombay Bicycle Club - Always Like This
11. Juanes - Volverte a Ver
12. Mumford and Sons - White Blank Page
13. Peter Bjorn and John - I Want You!
14. Allo Darlin - Henry Rollins Don't Dance
15. Housemartins - Happy Hour Again
16. Ash - A Life Less Ordinary
17. Jesus and Mary Chain - April Skies
18. Kenickie - Punka
19. Kinesis - Billboard Beauty
20. Liam Finn - Second Chance
21. Little Hell - Use Your Brain
22. Los Campesinos! - Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks
23. The Libertines - Can't Stand me Now
24. Phoenix Foundation - Damn the River
25. Florence and the Machine - Halo (Beyonce cover)
26. We Are Scientists - This Scene is Dead
27. The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me
28. The Pixies - Allison
29. Manic Street Preachers - Revol

WITHIN SOME DAYS:
A Contra review.
WITHIN A WEEK:
An Ode to Time.
WITHIN OUR LIFETIME:
Hamsters with an expiration date longer than milk.

Until then,
This is Kendra and Ali
[Signing Off]

[It's also Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos]

[ampersands are, evidently, impossible].

[Until Thursday, when we actually have a show]

This has been Kendra,
-K
Wasting Time

An addendum

I would like to note a correction to last week's show. The preposterously long title to of Montreal's little known hit 'Dustin Hoffman's Wife Makes A Sarcastic Remark, Cuts The Head Off A Duck, Places It Where The Tub Was And Begins To Growl' was written down incorrectly on the part of yours truly. Too many words for my wee little noodle to grasp, methinks.

Anywho, to make up for it, here's a really, really good song.
In the coming week, expect more errors, more music, and above all, more of this stuff:


Images we love, blatantly stolen from websites funnier than ours.

Until then,
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
K
[Toothpaste for Dinner did that one.]

Florence and the Machine - Halo (Beyonce Cover)

Lions! And Tigers!

1/21/10

...and Andrew Bird's and Fleet Foxes and 'Dustin Hoffmans Wife Makes a Sarcastic Remark Bites the Head off a Duck Places it Where the Tub was and Barks'...oh my? Yes this week we focused on the natural world, playing our favorite songs about animals, or sung by bands with animalistic names. Plus we meowed and quacked in the studio, no big deal. Roar.

1. Anonanimal – Andrew Bird
2. Sealion – Feist
3. Red Rabbits – The Shins
4. Caterpillar Playground – The Nurses
5. Rear Moth – Psapp
6. Animal – Miike Snow
7. Two Weeks – Grizzly Bear
8. The Great Defector – Bell x1
9. Time is a Lion – Joe Henry
10. She Wolf – Shakira
11. Two Birds – Regina Spektor
12. Mykonos – Fleet Foxes
13. The Crane Wife 3 – The Decemberists
14. Sic of Elephants – Andrew Bird
15. Anniemal – Annie
16. Dustin Hoffmans Wife Makes a Sarcastic Remark Bites the Head off a Duck Places it Where the Tub was and Barks - Of Montreal
17. Ponyride – Bumblebeez 81
18. Hounds of Love – The Futureheads
19. Fur Coat Roaming Like Animals – Jonezetta
20. Lizze’s Lion – Mystery Jets
21. Ser Humano – Natalia y La Forquetina
22. Paper Kitten Nightmare – Margot and the Nuclear So So’s
23. Cardinal Rules – Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
24. Rama Lama – Sons and Daughters
25. Slow Crows Over – These United States
26. Wolf Like Me – TV On the Radio
27. I Fought Piranhas – White Stripes
28. The Rat – The Walkmen
29. Send Away the Tigers – Manic Street Preachers

Ode to Pretension

1/14/10

First show! And what a great way to start off the semester with our favorite hipster virtue: pretension. Here are songs we love, but are "holier than thou" in some way or another…whether it is the title, the group, or even the way the artist sounds while singing. Note: we also threw in some extremely unpretentious songs, too, just to feel a little bit better about ourselves.

1. Charmless Man- Blur
2. So Bored – Wavves
3. Bad Education - Tilly and the Wall
4. Kiss of Life – Friendly Fires
5. Staplegun – Ladyfuzz (Moment in A Capella - RIP segment)
6. The Penalty – Beirut
7. The Crook of My Good Arm – Pale Young Gentlemen
8. Peacebone – Animal Collective
9. Damn Sam I Love a Woman – Ryan Adams
10. Lord – Langhorne Slim
11. About Love – Timothy Seth Avett as Darling
12. White Sky - Vampire Weekend
13. Maybe Someday – The Ordinary Boys
14. You, Me, and the Bourgeoisie – The Submarines
15. Kings of the Wild Frontier – Adam and the Ants
16. Pretty Green – Mark Ronson (Feat. Santogold)
17. I’m Good I’m Gone – Lykke Li
18. Homecoming – Kanye West (Feat. Chris Martin)
19. When the Day Met the Night – Panic at the Disco
20. The Underdog – Spoon
21. Momma’s Boy – Elizabeth and the Catapult
22. That’s Not My Name – The Ting Tings
23. To Kingdom Come – Passion Pit
24. The Angels Hung Around – Rilo Kiley (Music About Musicians - RIP segment)
25. Small Planet – Ferraby Lionheart
26. Dearest – Buddy Holly
27. By and By – Brett Dennen