M. Ward: The First Time I Ran Away

A new Andrew Bird album AND a new solo album by M. Ward? This is my lucky spring!

To top things off, Joel Trussell, the same director who made the gorgeous music video for Chinese Translation, is back on board as well. He directed a new video for the first release of the album: "The First Time I Ran Away." M. Ward says in The Huffington Post:

"Between now and when I made 'Hold Time' there has been a lot of traveling which requires a lot of reckoning with what to leave behind and what to carry - material and otherwise - and thinking about what I want versus what I need, creatively and otherwise. I wanted to get a reflection of that on the album."

You can stream the whole album, A Wasteland Companion, on M. Ward's website.

M. Ward: The First Time I Ran Away

She & Him: In the Sun

Hooray, the new She & Him album is out!

To celebrate, here's a fun High School Musical/Grease-esque video of In the Sun. Now, tell me...how can that moody M. Ward not fall for a charming, hula-hooping school girl like Zooey Deschanel? Enjoy!


She & Him - In The Sun from Merge Records on Vimeo.

Monsters of Folk: Say Please

It's no secret that I'm an M. Ward fan (especially Post-War which I like better and better every time I listen to it). So here's a question for you: What happens when you add M. Ward, Conor Oberst (from Bright Eyes), Jim James (from My Morning Jacket), and producer Mike Mogis? Kind of like some alt-folk musical dream team?

Here's a taste. I'm off to listen to some more of the new album from Monsters of Folk:

M Ward: Rave On

This week, I've been enjoying listening to M. Ward's new album, Hold Time. I started listening to it when I was doing some paperwork, so I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention, just enjoying his typical dreamy, groovy, somewhat nostalgic vibe.

But a few songs in, I had to put down my pencil and grin.

Was this really an M. Ward version of Rave On? Seriously?

Now how cool is that?



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Top 50 Music Videos of 2006

Hope everyone had happy and cozy holidays!

Now that we're headed to 2007, we'll be bombarded with the inevitable "lists of the year." Top 5 this, top 100 that. DoCopenhagen, an alternative music blog has posted a very cool Top 50 Music Videos of 2006 list, including embedded YouTube videos so you can watch them all right there. (Thanks to David Hooper from the Music Marketing & Success Strategies blog for the link.)

I loved the whimsical feel of this M. Ward video, "Chinese Translation," so I thought I'd share.

To view all of DoCopenhagen's Top 50 picks, click here. [Please note: while a lot of these videos are ultra kid-friendly & would be fun & engaging for kids, some may not be...you may choose to preview them if you are browsing with very young children.]