- 01 COVERS · LIVE-SONGS MUTEMATH – Fallin’ [Like A Version] MAY · 11 · 2012 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 02 LIVE-SONGS Ball Park Music – Do You Realise [LIKE A VERSION] Really enjoyed this morning’s “Like A Version” from Ball Park Music, covering “Do You Realise” by the Flaming Lips. MAR · 23 · 2012 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 03 LIVE-SONGS The Tallest Man on Earth – Little Brother [VIDEO] FEB · 15 · 2012 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 04 LIVE-SONGS Matt Corby – Like a Version (Brother & Lonely Boy) Ok, so this happened this morning. I’ve been trying all day to put something into words here, but try as I might I just can’t… I’m left speechless. JAN · 20 · 2012 2 COMMENTS READ →
- 05 DIGITAL-DOWNLOADS · LIVE-SONGS New The National – Rylan & I Need My Girl DEC · 12 · 2011 2 COMMENTS READ →
- 06 2011-RELEASES · LIVE-SONGS New Mumford and Sons – Ghosts [STREAM] NOV · 02 · 2011 2 COMMENTS READ →
- 07 LIVE-SONGS Ryan Adams talks about (and performs) “New York, New York” SEP · 13 · 2011 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 08 LIVE-SONGS New Mumford & Sons – Home JUL · 03 · 2011 1 COMMENT READ →
- 09 LIVE-SONGS The Tallest Man on Earth – New Song MAY · 19 · 2011 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 10 LIVE-SONGS · MUSIC-VIDEOS New Ryan Adams songs! [VIDEOS] APR · 23 · 2011 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 11 LIVE-SONGS Mumford & Sons – Untitled (Toad Session) Seriously, I know I’ve said this before, but there is a reason that SongbyToad is one of my favourite music blogs. And this is just one example of why. APR · 10 · 2010 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 12 CONCERTS · DIGITAL-DOWNLOADS Pearl Jam, Ben Harper & The Relentless 7 and Liam Finn at the QSAC Stadium in Brisbane, 25 November 2009 God, I can’t believe how long it’s been since I went to a gig… I think my last one was Ryan Adams at the beginning of the year, and here we are in November already. The good news is, my lapse in attending gigs was broke… NOV · 26 · 2009 11 COMMENTS READ →
- 13 ARTISTS · LIVE-SONGS Ryan Adams – A video “Best Of”… So, a while back I noticed that I had watched a lot… and I mean, a lot… of Ryan Adams videos on the ol’ Tube. And I got it into my head that one day, I should really post a collection of my favourite performances of his… OCT · 17 · 2009 7 COMMENTS READ →
- 14 2009-RELEASES · ARTISTS Mumford and Sons – “Little Lion Man” (Video) & live “White Blank Page” I don’t quite know how I’ve let this go until now without a post. Mumford and Sons was a band I’d heard mentioned in quite a few places online, but for some reason I’d never bothered to track down much of their stuff. T… OCT · 05 · 2009 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 15 ARTISTS · DIGITAL-DOWNLOADS Joe Pug – How Good You Are (live at Schuba’s Tavern, 2009) MAY · 18 · 2009 3 COMMENTS READ →
- 16 2008-RELEASES · 2009-RELEASES Ari Hest – Twelve Mondays The other day I got that kind of email that music bloggers love to get… an email from an artist’s management saying, “Hey… you know, I’ve noticed from your blog posts that you like xyz… and I think you might like some o… APR · 01 · 2009 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 17 2008-RELEASES · ARTISTS Coldplay, live at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre On Sunday night, I was lucky enough to see “superband”, Coldplay, perform live at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. MAR · 10 · 2009 9 COMMENTS READ →
- 18 ARTISTS · GUITAR Ray Lamontagne, live on “Saturday Night Live” This past weekend, Ray Lamontagne performed “You Are The Best Thing” and “Trouble”, live on SNL. MAR · 10 · 2009 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 19 ARTISTS · CONCERTS Neil Young & My Morning Jacket, live at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre So, last night, I saw titans perform at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. Not only did I see My Morning Jacket perform as the opening act, but then Neil Young came on and absolutely tore the stage apart. JAN · 22 · 2009 1 COMMENT READ →
- 20 2007-RELEASES · 2009-RELEASES Bon Iver, live at the Tivoli in Brisbane – 17 Jan, 2009 Last night, I had probably the most visceral experience of my life, watching Bon Iver perform live at the Tivoli in Brisbane. To call it sublime would be an understatement. JAN · 18 · 2009 29 COMMENTS READ →
- 21 ARTISTS · LIVE-SONGS Ryan Adams, “Sinking Ships” – Black Cab Sessions Because it’s been a while since my last Ryan Adams post, and because Black Cab Sessions just posted this a few days ago… well, the timing was too fortuitous to ignore. Below, for your entertainment: Ryan Adams performin… JAN · 14 · 2009 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 22 2009-RELEASES · ARTISTS Dead Man’s Bones – In Your Room (Video) Ok ok, I’m going to be upfront here. I’m probably a bit biased about this track, as ever since the days of The United States of Leland (seriously… this is a criminally underrated film), actor Ryan Gosling has been… well… DEC · 30 · 2008 2 COMMENTS READ →
- 23 2009-RELEASES · ARTISTS Joe Pug – I’m Not So Sure & Bury Me Far From My Uniform I recently came across this session on the always fabulous LaundroMatinee site, and simply had to post it. Anyone who’s read this blog for any amount of time will know my love for Joe Pug (after all, I included him in m… DEC · 24 · 2008 1 COMMENT READ →
- 24 2008-RELEASES · ARTISTS Samantha Crain & The Midnight Shivers – The River (Video) You know, I wasn’t sold on Samantha Crain… not quite, despite the major promise that I heard in her release “Confiscation EP“. It was undeniable that there was major talent in there, but for some reason, it just didn’t… DEC · 22 · 2008 1 COMMENT READ →
- 25 ARTISTS · GUITAR State Radio, “Right Me Up” live at the Bank of America Pavilion It’s obviously a week for talking about my favourite bands. Today, I’m going to post about another favourite band of mine, State Radio. For more about how much this band means to me, you can check out my past posts on S… DEC · 19 · 2008 2 COMMENTS READ →
- 26 ARTISTS · GUITAR Ryan Adams, Holiday Home Jams So over the last four days, Ryan Adams has been busy on Youtube (see the Cards’ ‘Tube profile here), uploading “home jams” of some of his past songs. Given that he uploaded yet another one, “Cobwebs”, only 8 hours ago,… DEC · 09 · 2008 1 COMMENT READ →
- 27 ARTISTS · GUITAR Kelly Jones, “Maybe Tomorrow” from BBC’s “Later… with Jools Holland” Included here for no other reason than: DEC · 08 · 2008 1 COMMENT READ →
- 28 2008-RELEASES · ARTISTS Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, 3 Voor 12 Set Following on from the Cardinals’ Coffee Shop Show, Ryan Adams & Co. have just released the entire (yes, entire… in other words, close on 30 minutes) 3 Voor 12 set up at cave.cardinology. NOV · 20 · 2008 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 29 2008-RELEASES · ARTISTS Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, in the BBC Studios So this past Saturday, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals appeared on BBC Radio 2’s Dermot O’Leary show… and man, what a treat we were in for. NOV · 11 · 2008 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 30 2008-RELEASES · ARTISTS Ryan Adams, Cardinology Coffee Shop Show… Wow, look at all those alliterations in that title. Anyway, straight to the business at hand. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals recently celebrated the release of their “Cardinology” album with a eight-song acoustic performa… NOV · 05 · 2008 1 COMMENT READ →
- 31 1999-RELEASES · GUITAR Ben Folds Five Reunion, Front to Back… on Myspace now! Another short post today, but Myspace has finally put up their “Front to Back… Ben Folds Five Reunion” videos that “the other Matt” and I were so excited about. OCT · 24 · 2008 1 COMMENT READ →
- 32 2008-RELEASES · ARTISTS Bon Iver – New EP free on Myspace Ok… so this isn’t so much a post as an announcement to all Bon Iver fans. Bon Iver (now more than just Justin Vernon, as pointed out here… now a full band) recently contributed to the Myspace Transmissions series; and t… SEP · 21 · 2008 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 33 2008-RELEASES · ARTISTS New Ryan Adams tunes… Sinking Ships, The Colour of Pain, Cobwebs & Fix It. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals on tour… standing on the shoulders of giants. SEP · 10 · 2008 4 COMMENTS READ →
- 34 ARTISTS · CONCERTS Death Cab for Cutie, live at the Tivoli in Brisbane Unfortunately, and in keeping with the general lack of time around these parts lately, this post might need to be a bit short. But on Friday night, I saw one of my top 5 shows that I’ve ever seen at the Tivoli… Death Ca… AUG · 25 · 2008 4 COMMENTS READ →
- 35 2007-RELEASES · ARTISTS Live Music Friday – Radiohead, live at BBC Radio Theatre Welcome back to another Live Music Friday here on Burgo’s Blog. For today’s show, I’ve decided to post one of the most requested sets from my readers: Radiohead, performing live at the BBC Radio Theatre, on April 1, 200… JUL · 31 · 2008 1 COMMENT READ →
- 36 2008-RELEASES · ARTISTS Live Music Friday – Kaki King, live at Ironhorse Welcome back to another Live Music Friday here at Burgo’s Blog. For today’s post – and largely due to the fact that I’ve just watched “August Rush” again – I thought I would post something slightly different; a 2004 sho… JUL · 24 · 2008 6 COMMENTS READ →
- 37 2007-RELEASES · DIGITAL-DOWNLOADS Live Music Friday – The National White Sessions Welcome back to another Live Music Friday here at Burgo’s Blog. For this week’s post, I decided to revisit a past Live Music Friday post, from April, where I featured The National live on the Radio Inter Black Sessions.… JUL · 17 · 2008 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 38 ARTISTS · DIGITAL-DOWNLOADS Live Music Friday – Alex Dezen and Dave Chernis of The Damnwells, live on World Cafe Live Welcome back to another Live Music Friday here at Burgo’s Blog. Thanks to all the regular readers who were patient while I took my week off from posting… it was much needed, and I think it did me a world of good. For th… JUL · 10 · 2008 13 COMMENTS READ →
- 39 2007-RELEASES · ARTISTS Bon Iver on La Blogotheque – Flume Aaaah… La Blogotheque, you’ve done it again. If you’ve read my blog for any period of time, you might have noticed my love for the Takeaway Shows that La Blogotheque puts out. JUN · 27 · 2008 1 COMMENT READ →
- 40 2007-RELEASES · 2008-RELEASES Live Music Friday – Xavier Rudd, live at Bonnaroo Music Festival Welcome back to another Live Music Friday here at Burgo’s Blog. Today, we’ll be featuring someone a little closer to my (adoptive) home… Australian musician, Xavier Rudd. JUN · 26 · 2008 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 41 2008-RELEASES · ARTISTS Live Music Friday – Coldplay, live at London’s Brixton Academy So I was all set for a Calexico “Live Music Friday” post today, and then at the last minute, an email came through pointing me towards this NME article, which in turn led me to the BBC Radio 1 site, which – finally – po… JUN · 19 · 2008 3 COMMENTS READ →
- 42 ARTISTS · DIGITAL-DOWNLOADS Live Music Friday – Amos Lee, live on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic” Welcome back to another Live Music Friday here on Burgo’s Blog… unfortunately, due to time constraints, this post might be a bit short… but still packed full of great tunes. Today, I thought we would get a bit soulful,… JUN · 12 · 2008 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 43 ARTISTS · DIGITAL-DOWNLOADS Live Music Friday – Pete Francis, live at The Woodstock Opera House So by now, if you’ve read this blog for any amount of time, you would know my love affair with the band Dispatch. Dispatch was, I think, probably the first band that I really obsessed over. Ultimately, they were everyth… JUN · 06 · 2008 4 COMMENTS READ →
- 44 A-LOOK-BACK-AT-BURGOS-BLOG-THUS-FAR · COVERS Burgo’s Blog – A Retrospective Mixtape So, I realised the other day that this blog has now been live for over 6 months on this domain (not including the few months I was on a WordPress hosted domain), and I thought now was as good a time as any to take a ste… JUN · 05 · 2008 8 COMMENTS READ →
- 45 ARTISTS · DIGITAL-DOWNLOADS Live Music Friday – G Love & Special Sauce, live at the Belly-Up Tavern, 2006 Welcome back to another Live Music Friday here at Burgoblog.com. For today’s post, I thought we would get a little motown. A little funky. A little bluesy. A little… well… everything, with a show from G Love & Special S… MAY · 29 · 2008 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 46 2008-RELEASES · ARTISTS Live Music Friday – Counting Crows Live on WXPN/World Cafe Friday Possibly the post that I receive the most emails about on this blog was my past post about the Counting Crows performance on WXPN’s World Cafe Friday. I don’t think that a a single week has gone by, since that post was… MAY · 22 · 2008 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 47 ARTISTS · GUITAR Later with Jools Holland does it again… The Raconteurs & Bon Iver “Later… with Jools Holland” constantly impresses, and most who have read this blog for any period of time would know my love for the show. MAY · 19 · 2008 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 48 ARTISTS · COVERS Live Music Friday – Howie Day live at The House of Blues. (Or, I’m in mourning. I missed the Howie Day gig.) I’m in serious mourning here. Somehow, the fact that Howie Day was in Brisbane – or even Australia, for that matter – opening for Whitley completely flew under my radar, and I only found out after it was too late. To pu… MAY · 15 · 2008 1 COMMENT READ →
- 49 2007-RELEASES · ARTISTS Live Music Friday – Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, live on NPR’s World Cafe Just so that everyone knows, my iPod has officially given up the ghost, completely and utterly without warning. With most of my music on there, this is severely going to impact posting, and – quite frankly, more importa… MAY · 08 · 2008 3 COMMENTS READ →
- 50 ARTISTS · COVERS Live Music Friday – Bob Schneider at Antone’s, 2002 Time for another Live Music Friday! Following on from our Alex & Angela Dezen post here, and The National Black Sessions post here, today we’ll be following up with a Bob Schneider show from 2002. MAY · 02 · 2008 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 51 2007-RELEASES · ARTISTS-TO-WATCH-FOR-IN-2008 A Romantica Vision… Romantica APR · 29 · 2008 1 COMMENT READ →
- 52 2008-RELEASES · ARTISTS Billy Bragg – Live on Fair Game Billy Bragg recently performed a live set on PRI’s “Fair Game” APR · 28 · 2008 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 53 2005-RELEASES · ARTISTS Live Music Friday – The National Black Sessions Wow. That week went fast. I can’t believe it’s time for another Live Music Friday. Following on from our Alex & Angela Dezen/Damnwells post here, I thought that today we’d feature a show from The National. APR · 25 · 2008 2 COMMENTS READ →
- 54 2007-RELEASES · ARTISTS Live Music Friday – Alex Dezen of The Damnwells, Live at Hotel Cafe Over the years, I’ve amassed quite a large collection of live shows of my favourite artists… thank god for all those tapers out there who share their wealth with those of us who can’t make it to the show! When I was liv… APR · 17 · 2008 10 COMMENTS READ →
- 55 2008-RELEASES · ARTISTS Tunes to tide you over… Brett Young, Brendan James and Jay Clifford I’m off to Sydney for the rest of the week, and probably won’t manage to post until next week. I know, I’ll miss you too. APR · 08 · 2008 2 COMMENTS READ →
- 56 ARTISTS · GUITAR Ryan Adams has left us a parting gift… Ryan Adams has left us a parting gift. Unfortunately, I think this signals the end of his blog. But he’s left us a parting gift. APR · 06 · 2008 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 57 ARTISTS · CONCERTS G Love and Ozomatli… at the Tivoli. So after a few days off down the coast, I know this entry is popping up late; but on Sunday evening, I accomplished one more of my “band goals”, with a night at the Tivoli. This entry is being composed on the long train… MAR · 25 · 2008 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 58 2007-RELEASES · 2008-RELEASES Mr A to the Z and Friends… at the Tivoli. So last night, I went to another show. MAR · 20 · 2008 3 COMMENTS READ →
- 59 2007-RELEASES · ARTISTS Yeasayer – No Need To Worry/Redcave… I was wrong. I’ll admit it. I haven’t been a fan of Yeasayer at all. Don’t get me wrong, there’s definitely talent there; intelligent lyrics, great harmonies… I’m not denying that’s there. But, listening to their recorded material,… MAR · 18 · 2008 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 60 2003-RELEASES · 2005-RELEASES Jack Johnson and Friends… at the Brisbane Riverstage. As mentioned yesterday, on Sunday I headed across to the Brisbane Riverstage, for an evening with Jack Johnson, Matt Costa, and Will Conner. And – despite my longtime love affair with Jack Johnson, and my (extremely) te… MAR · 17 · 2008 2 COMMENTS READ →
- 61 2006-RELEASES · 2008-RELEASES Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s A friend recently alerted me to the fact that a new Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s track is floating around the wide wide world of the internets, and it is with much pleasure that I present it below. FEB · 28 · 2008 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 62 2008-RELEASES · ARTISTS Stephin Merritt – A Nun’s Litany (live on Fair Game) The Magnetic Fields (with Stephin Merritt – middle) FEB · 27 · 2008 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 63 ARTISTS · GUITAR Mr. A to the Z… yes I’m excited. Last year was a great year for live shows. After seeing (just to mention a few) Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, The Frames, Jeremy Fisher, Xavier Rudd, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Crosby Stills & Nash, The Beautiful Girls an… FEB · 21 · 2008 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 64 2007-RELEASES · ARTISTS The National – Slow Show (live on Fair Game) Just a quickie post today; but thought I would delight you all with another offering from The National. FEB · 19 · 2008 NO COMMENTS READ →
- 65 2008-RELEASES · ARTISTS Counting Crows live on WXPN – Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings Thank god for WXPN – as usual they’ve brought the goods with NPR’s latest World Cafe show, featuring Counting Crows live, previewing eight (yes, I said eight) songs from their forthcoming album, Saturday Nights and Sund… FEB · 10 · 2008 13 COMMENTS READ →