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Dr. Dog - “Hang On”
This is one of my favorite songs off of Dr. Dog’s new album, “Fate,” which comes out today on Park The Van Records.
I didn’t really get Dr. Dog til I saw them live a few months ago. Then the pieces started to come together. I was ridiculously impressed by their ability to harmonize so well. That’s probably my favorite element of their music. It gives their songs such a rich sound.
Dr. Dog’s music has such a way of coming together as well as being able to blend elements of music from a different era and still make it sound new and ‘fresh.’ Their music has a vintage feel to it… taking something old and revamping it to represent the present.
They’ll be on tour all of this year and into 2009. You should definitely catch them when they come to town. It’s a hell of a live show.
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Dr Dog - “The Old Days”
Dr Dog has been around for a while (we’ve even featured them before), but they’re new to me. Turns out they’re an interesting band: their sound is clearly rooted in 60s pop (think The Beatles, The Beach Boys, etc), but it takes that sound and marries it with today’s indie pop/rock (think Spoon or The Shins). The result feels new and different while sounding familiar, just the way I like it.
This song, “The Old Days”, is from their upcoming album Fate (to be released July 22nd on Park the Van Records), and jumps right in with the piano hook that plays throughout the song before picking up with the punchy chorus and high-energy breakdown that carries the second-half of the song. After I pick up their earlier albums, I’ll be coming back to this a lot until the album is released.
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Dr. Dog - Heart It Races (Architecture in Helsinki cover)
I’m a big fan of Architecture in Helsinki, so when reader Dave Koen e-mailed us with a few (note: understatement; thanks Dave!) artists to check out, this was the first link I clicked.
This is Dr. Dog’s cover of Architecture in Helsinki’s “Heart It Races”. I generally approach covers with caution, but this is actually pretty good.
You can stream more Dr. Dog on his MySpace and stream his full, unreleased album here.
