Owner: Climbing the Horizon URL:http://www.climbingthehorizon.com/ Join Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:45:34 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: An indie music blog updated daily with albums reviews, singles, and random antics. Written by two students at the University of Connecticut. Site statistics:Click here
Single of the Day 10/9 - DJ Shadow “Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt” 2008-10-09 16:31:41 Dinosaur class was cancelled today. Our professor probably was busy searching Climbing the Horizon for fossils. PROFESSOR, WE DID NOT KILL THE DINOSAURS. Although, friend of CtheH Art McGregor may have. Yes, I just came up with “CtheH”. It will stick. Honestly, check out the link. Art went to a Death Cab show in Columbus last night, and [...] Read more:Shadow
, Building
, Steam
, Grain
Singles(!) of the Day 10/8 - Sufjan Stevens 2008-10-08 14:51:30 Christmas is coming early this year. A little history (forgive me is this is not 100% accurate). Back in the day, SufjanStevens
, using his magical powers, would create cds full of Christmas song covers (and some original Christmas songs) to send to his relatives. These were not meant to be commercially released. One day, a [...] Read more:Singles
Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s - Animal! (2008) and Not Animal (2008) 2008-10-07 19:02:49 Margot & the Nuclear
So and So’s is one of the best bands that’s come out in the last couple years and if you still havent heard their phenomenal debut, 2006’s The Dust of Retreat, I highly suggest you get on that.
So here’s the deal with their latest album(s). Margot & the Nuclear So and [...] Read more:Animal
Single of the Day 10/7 - Weezer “Surf Wax America” 2008-10-07 07:49:14 The other day Bill, Jack, and I decided to listen to Weezer
’s Blue Album all the way through. This was one of the best choices I have made since coming to college. The whole album is incredible; every song is memorable. So here is one of my favorites: Surf Wax America
. Fun chorus:
You take your [...]
Flickr Updated - New Ben Folds and Grace Potter Concert Pictures Added 2008-10-06 14:24:27 Thanks to Anna, Amy, and Liz (for 2 Death Cab photos) for all the pictures. Check out our new concert photo sets here. Here is one from after the GracePotter
& the Nocturnals show at Toad’s Place in New Haven.
Thats Bill (climbingthehorizon) on the right and our awesome friend Anna on the left (check out [...] Read more:Flickr
, Concert
, Pictures
Milestone: 500 hits! 2008-10-05 23:04:49 We’ve just surpassed 500 hits! Thanks everyone for checking out the site. We hope you’ve enjoy our music, musings, and Vince Vaughn.
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- Bill (climbingthehorizon) and Matt (seeroy)
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind OST (2004) 2008-10-05 22:12:01 Eternal Sunshine is one of my favorite movies. I think Charlie Kaufman is a creative genius and if you haven’t seen this movie go see it multiple times. Part of what makes this movie so fantastic is its score/soundtrack which ties in excellently. Primarily engineered by Jon Brion, this soundtrack is one of the few [...] Read more:Eternal
, Spotless
, Eternal Sunshine
Death Cab at the Chevrolet 2008-10-05 20:53:21 There are no words to describe how phenomenal this band is live. I’m not even gonna try.
Just go see them. If you’ve already seen them see them again, here are the remaining tour dates.
Long Live Death Cab
-Bill
Oct 5 2008
8:00P
House of Blues at The Showboat
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Oct 6 2008
8:00P
Radio City Music Hall
New York, New York
Oct [...] Read more:Chevrolet
Death Cab for Cutie Concert Pictures (10/4) 2008-10-05 15:56:55 Check out our new Flickr page for photos from last night’s show. We’ll be updating the photo site with sets from the Grace Potter show and Ben Folds show soon (and hopefully some closer pictures of last nights show). The concert was soo colorful. Here’s one example. (Photos courtesy of Jessica).
- seeroy
Posted in Concert
s, Random [...] Read more:Pictures
Death Cab For Cutie Setlist - 10/4 @ the Chevrolet Theatre 2008-10-05 12:09:10 The concert was sicker than the plague. Bill will write about it in the next few days. My contribution: After the concert a friend of Bill’s was able to get Chris Walla’s official stage setlist. I held back my urge to steal it and run, and instead took a picture of it. Here it is:
I [...] Read more:Chevrolet
Heading To The Concert 2008-10-04 15:47:57 I’m getting ready for the Death Cab For Cutie concert at the Chevy theater in Wallingford. Climbing the Horizon will have a full recap in the next few days (hopefully with some pictures). For now- check out Bill’s “Death Cab for Me” post of his mix of live Death Cab songs.
-seeroy
Posted in Random [...] Read more:Concert
, Heading
Death Cab for Me: My Fantasy Setlist 2008-10-03 13:40:55 The Death Cab concert is tomorrow. For those of you who don’t know, my admiration for Death Cab transcends fanhood and is borderline idol worship. So basically in honor of their visit to Connecticut, here is my fantasy Death Cab set list. I was able to get live recordings of each song so its about [...]
SOTD 10/3 - Owl City - “Rainbow Veins” 2008-10-03 13:33:11 I’m going to see Death Cab for Cutie tomorrow night with Bill and everyone (minus Anna, again), I’ll be busy getting my mind blown instead of updating the blog this weekend. Deal with it.
To help you deal, here’s some mindless music for Friday. It’s pretty, poppy, and plastic. Get yours while they last!
Owl City - [...] Read more:Rainbow
Cool Google stuff 2008-10-02 22:12:05 If you search Ben Folds Mix on Google
this post about my impending (and now posted) Ben Folds mix shows up first!
-seeroy a.k.a. internets superstar
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The American Dollar - The American Dollar (2006) 2008-10-02 20:44:12 Some of the most beautiful post-rock you’re going to find. This is an orchestral, brilliant album from start to finish. Definitely check this out if you like Godspeed or Explosions in the Sky. Turn off the lights, plug in and enjoy this masterpiece.
get it
and if you love it like I do, buy it.
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, Dollar
My Real Fake version of Ben Folds’ “Way to Normal” 2008-10-02 11:10:58 Last night I promised to post my own hybrid version
of Ben Fold’s new album “Way to Normal
”. So here it is. I’ve included 3 songs from the fake album, 7 from the real one, two versions of “Bitch Went Nut(s/z)”, and the operatic opener (of both my mix and the concert last Saturday) “Way [...]
Ben Folds Mix 2008-10-01 23:00:37 The new Ben Folds album is great, but so is the new fake Ben Folds album. In honor of both, tomorrow I’m going to create a hybrid album consisting of my favorite songs of both albums. It’ll be my real fake “Way to Normal”. Catch ya on the flipside.
-seeroy
UPDATE: Check out the mix I ended up making [...]
MGMT - Time to Pretend EP (2005) & Oracular Spectacular (2008) 2008-10-01 22:47:34 Today was hella long, and by the time my lab was over I was totally beat and ready to pass out. On the way back the version of “Time to Pretend” from the EP came on, and it was the perfect song for the moment. It totally centered me and mellowed me out. [...] Read more:Spectacular
SOTD 10/1: The Flaming Lips - “She Don’t Use Jelly” 2008-10-01 09:32:40 It’s a bit rainy around Uconn today, so I picked out a silly song for a silly day. Remember your vaseline.
Get it.
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Some Live Death Cab 2008-09-30 13:52:24 Death Cab is currently touring and will be visiting the Chevrolet Theater in Wallingford, CT this weekend. In honor of that here is a phenomenal bootleg of theirs from 2003 courtesy of my friend Mike. It’s from when Transatlanticism had just come out so they play a lot of the great old stuff that they [...]
No title 2008-09-29 19:04:50 This is the funniest comic ever. It’s featured daily in the Uconn student newspaper, The Daily Campus.
Go to www.haveyourphil.com and have some Phil.
Posted in Random
Matt’s Single of the Day - 9/29 2008-09-29 12:00:20 Lo-fi for Monday morning. Start the week off right with some indie lo-fo done right. Right? My song of the day is “About To Walk” by Throw Me The Statue. It’s catchy, quirky, and has a cool telephone call ending. In other news, I made the InstantDaily for the 2nd time this year today. Something [...]
The Decemberists - Always the Bridesmaid: A Singles Series EP (2008) 2008-09-28 23:06:34 This is the just recently leaked new Decemberists EP. It’s awesome, much more reminiscent of Picaresque than The Crane Wife. In my mind that’s a good thing. Everyone needs some absurdly literate silliness sometimes. Enjoy.
get it
Posted in Albums Read more:Singles
, Bridesmaid
Matt’s Single of the Day - 9/28 2008-09-28 18:28:47 Last night Bill, the rest of the Uconn gang (minus Anna, who was being a Masshole), and I went to see Ben Folds at Jorgensen. It was the shit, but I’ll let Bill write more about it later. For now I want to share my favorite song of the concert. It’s a song from the [...]
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