this is a good week
I miss my homeland. This has been a very good (albeit teary) week.
(Wake Me Up) In San Francisco – The Welcome Matt
[last photo credit friend Sam, who was there]
November 3, 2010
About Me
Name: Heather Browne
Location: Colorado, originally by way of California
Giving context to the torrent since 2005.
"I love the relationship that anyone has with music: because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part..."
—Nick Hornby, Songbook
"Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel."
—Hunter S. Thompson
Fuel/Friends
Chapel Sessions
- #01 The Head and The Heart
- #02 Kelli Schaefer
- #03 Joe Pug
- #04 Strand of Oaks
- #05 Denison Witmer
- #06 The Changing Colors
- #07 Tyler Ramsey (of Band of Horses)
- #08 Drew Grow & The Pastors' Wives
- #09 These United States
- #10 The Lumineers
- #11 Bryan John Appleby
- #12 Eef Barzelay (of Clem Snide)
- #13 Glen Phillips (of Toad the Wet Sprocket)
- #14 Adam Arcuragi & The Lupine Chorale Society
- #15 The Head and The Heart (encore)
- #16 Tyler Lyle
- #17 Typhoon
- #18 The Barr Brothers
- #19 Hey Marseilles
- #20 Field Report
- #21 Neil Halstead
- #22 Night Beds
- #23 Mike Clark & The Sugar Sounds
- #24 Nathaniel Rateliff
- #25 Pickwick
- #26 Will Johnson (of Centro-matic)
- #27 Dawes
- #28 Desirae Garcia
- #29 Vandaveer
- #30 David Wax Museum
- #31 PHOX
- #32 Small Houses
- #33 Alex Dezen (of The Damnwells)
- #34 Gregory Alan Isakov
- #35 WIDOWER
- The audio guys behind all the Chapel Sessions!
Fuel/Friends
House Shows
- Alex Dezen (of The Damnwells), November 22 2013
- Ark Life & Poets Row, April 12 2013
- Blind Pilot & Tyler Lyle, August 7 2012
- Cataldo, February 29 2012
- Damien Jurado, May 12 2013
- David Bazan, March 23 2011
- David Wax Museum w/ Chimney Choir – July 11 2013
- Drew Grow & The Pastors Wives, w/ Kelli Schaefer, Nov 4 2010
- Edmund Wayne w/ Covenhoven, December 15 2013
- Field Report & Hey Marseilles, October 8 2012
- Hip Hatchet, March 18 2014
- Isaac Pierce (Ten Speed Music) w/ Some Say Leland, June 28 2013
- Joe Pug & Strand of Oaks, May 7 2011
- Lemolo w/ You Me & Apollo, March 12 2013
- Nathaniel Rateliff, w/ Desirae Garcia, Feb 21 2013
- Radiation City w/ Mike Clark, March 18 2013
- Small Houses, w/ Tyler Lyle, August 10 2013
- The Head and The Heart & The Lumineers, Nov 9 2010
- The Head and The Heart, w/ Kelli Schaefer, Ravenna Woods, and The Moondoggies, March 12 2011
- The Lumineers w/ These United States, July 31 2011
- The Oh Hellos, Dec 29 2013
- Tyler Lyle, w/ John Heart Jackie, March 3 2012
- Vandaveer with Joe Johnson, June 6 2013
Hey! That Was Cool
- "A Big Something" feature on NPR affiliate KRCC: Local Music Blogger Heather Browne
- "Influential Women of Colorado," Denver Examiner
- 10 Women Music Writers To Read Now (NPR)
- Article by The Denver Post on the Fuel/Friends house shows
- Article: Getting Heard By Music Blogs (my contribution to ASCAP magazine)
- Feature in the Colorado Springs Independent on our chapel sessions & house shows
- Fuel/Friends in the 2008 Gummy Awards: A "Best Music Blog That Isn't Stereogum"
- Guardian UK article: The things that help us feel alive
- Me on NPR's World Cafe w/ David Dye, 2011
- Me on NPR's World Cafe w/ David Dye, 2007
- Me on NPR's World Cafe w/ David Dye, 2008
- Me on NPR's World Cafe w/ David Dye, 2009
- My SXSW 2012 panel (listen now) – Man vs Machine: New Music Discovery
- NY Times mention from Nick Hornby: "Living With Music"
- Wired Magazine, Italy
Let's be Friends
About The Songs
Mp3s are for sampling purposes, kinda like when they give you the cheese cube at Costco, knowing that you'll often go home with having bought the whole 7 lb. spiced Brie log. They are left up for a limited time. If you LIKE the music, go and support these artists, buy their schwag, go to their concerts, purchase their CDs/records and tell all your friends. Rock on.
Interviews
- Josh Ritter Album Club! (group conversation and interview)
- Interview: Winston Yellen of Night Beds
- “the songs of sickness can become the songs of healing” :: the Typhoon interview
- Talkin’ italiano with Jovanotti
- The musical brilliance of Friday Night Lights
- Interview: The minds behind the new Jeff Buckley/Shakespeare musical
- Talking to Josh Ritter in Telluride
- “A new sonic playground” :: Works Progress Administration interview (Glen Phillips)
- Nobody but you :: Interview with Langhorne Slim
- Standing at the center of the occupation :: Interview with The Handsome Furs
Shows I've Seen
- a damn good night :: Nada Surf, and Leon Bridges open mic!
- Eaux my goodness, Eaux Claires
- now here’s the moon, it’s alright
- another uninnocent elegant fall :: The National at Red Rocks (9/17/13)
- i’m the air you cannot breathe
- so, Blind Pilot played at my house
- really, i’m not ready
- i feel it pushing down on me / so please baby, just drive
- on these Red Rocks, sounds like hallelujah
- safe from harm but going numb
Books I Like
Colorado Pals
- A Walking Disaster
- Backbeat Online (Westword)
- Bocumast Records
- Brass Tree Sessions
- Cause=Time
- CC Block Partie
- Concerted Effort
- Coverville
- Danger Radio
- Denver Reverb
- Denver Six Shooter
- Empty Reviews
- Gigbot concert community
- KRCC Colorado College Radio
- KRCX Regis Univ. Music Blog
- Merry Swankster
- One Track Mind
- Oomph Music Blog
- Radio 1190 CU Boulder
- Rocky Mountain Highway Blog
- Something Like Sound
- Spork (Twist & Shout Record Store blog)
- That's The Thing About That
- The Denver Eye
- The Donnybrook Writing Academy
- The Flat Response (Denver concert recordings)
- The Ruckus
- The Troubadour's Road
Blogs That Rock
- Aquarium Drunkard
- Aurgasm
- Awesome Tapes from Africa
- bag of songs
- Can You See The Sunset From The Southside?
- Chromewaves
- Cover Lay Down
- Dance Hall Hips
- Daytrotter
- Elvis Enthusiasts Unite
- Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands
- Fingertips Music
- HearYa Live Sessions
- Henry Miller Library's music blog (Big Sur)
- I Guess I’m Floating
- La Blogotheque
- Marathonpacks
- Music vs. Misery
- My Old Kentucky Blog
- Passion Of The Weiss
- Postsecret
- Said The Gramophone
- Scatter o’ Light
- So Much Silence
- Some Velvet Blog
- Songs For The Day
- Sound on The Sound
- Stereogum
- The Vinyl District
- To The Maxx
- You Ain’t No Picasso
As a Cubs fan I can’t even tell you how jealous I am that your team won. Baseball is my sport, so it’s sad I’ve been saddled with loving a franchise that is doomed. However, I really did enjoy the WS this year (judging by the numbers I was one of the few) and the Giants really showed up and deserved it.
Also, Brian Wilson is a national treasure.
Hope the shows are ridiculous this week. Still very bummed I don’t live near Denver, though I did pass along the show information to the one friend I have that lives in the area and told her she needed to go see The Head and the Heart.
Adam — November 4, 2010 @ 6:52 am
Good to have you back – had a heart attack when I checked the site this morning!
ForTheShorties — November 5, 2010 @ 12:19 pm
yeeeeah, miscommunication on the ole’ “who is going to renew the domain name?” question
browneheather — November 5, 2010 @ 2:30 pm
Aw, this song makes me feel more homesick! Thanks for sharing it though
Tiffany — November 6, 2010 @ 12:23 pm
Oh but if you really want to get nostalgic about SF you can’t forget Piazza New York Catcher (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ugnh4nZtwI) or the Decemberists’ Grace Cathedral Hill (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEjgf6tMlZc).
So many good songs about San Francisco, it just seems to generate amazingness.
Shut-the-folk-up — November 7, 2010 @ 8:49 am
ohhh, i was just thinking of Piazza New York Catcher. That one has a special connection for me and still kinda kills me everytime I hear it. “Meet you at the statue in an hour.”
Let’s make a Bay Area playlist. I would also add something by Rancid to represent the South Bay (“took the 60 bus out of downtown campbell…”)
What else?
browneheather — November 7, 2010 @ 11:19 pm