Root Down in the Shadow

This latest entry in the COVER SONG OF THE WEEK vein is a tried and true formula. Take a verifiable classic, and tweak it to your own style? Don't overdo it and it will turn into a beauty. In this case, the Simon & Garfunkel jubilant tune 'Cecilia' was barely touched in this 2008 showing. Instead it was amplified with additional vocals and percussion, in this case the strengths of 2010 indie darlings the LOCAL NATIVES. Who are the Local Natives? According to Wikipedia: Local Natives are a successful Silver Lake (LA) band that caught steam from the 2009 SXSW festival and has yet to look back. They have ridden the media wave with their 2009 release Gorilla Manor and continue to get better and better. EDITOR NOTE: see previous Podcast edition - Best of the Interface post for a great live view While the band is in the works to recording a new album, give Gorilla Manor a listen. Many videos can be found on their site thelocalnatives.com including beau...

*** Part of an ongoing series of TOOLS TO ENJOY MORE MUSIC ***** I will attempt to profile great avenues of finding, listening to, and downloading new music, to help you , the music fan, get more out of your listening experience. The interface  was probably my first podcast.   Back in 2006 I spent many weekends working in my new house, and I needed some new music to get into while I was demolishing, rebuilding and painting.   I think I had been looking up bands for the upcoming Virgin Festival in Baltimore, MD ., but somehow I had stumbled onto four awesome new bands.   Pigeon John, the Raconteurs, KT Tunstall, and Lady Sovereign . During these early podcasts, the podcast was referred to as AOL Interface @ Spinner.com .  It was also mainly an interview with some performance added at the beinning or end.  Somehow they embedded chapters into the podcasts, so you could skip through and listen to the songs.  That was nice as, after the 10th time...