Tilly & the Wall are doing a west coast tour opening for She & Him — dates and a video of “Lost Girls” below:
Wed-Jun-19 Las Vegas, NV The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
Fri-Jun-21 San Diego, CA SDSU Open Air Theatre
Sat-Jun-22 Berkeley, CA Greek Theatre
Tue-Jun-25 Salt Lake City, UT Red Butte Gardens
Thu-Jun-27 Council Bluffs, IA Harrah’s Stir Cove
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“All Boy Band” is a song by Park Ave., a band that featured two members of Tilly and the Wall and Conor Oberst on drums.
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Tilly and the Wall are currently touring to support their new album, their first in almost 5 years.
The set list above is from a show last week . I hope they play older songs like “Pictures of Houses,” “Love Song,” and “Lost Girls.”
“All Kinds of Guns” is the best song from the new album:
Check out the tour dates here.
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Here are 4 good “literary songs” — songs inspired by/about/thematically similar to works of literature.
“Cemetery Gates” by The Smiths: about Keats, Yeats, Wilde, plagiarism, “‘Ere thrice the sun done salutation to the dawn” (Shakespeare’s Richard III), and prose and poems
“Lost Girls” by Tilly and The Wall: about Henry Darger’s “The Story of the Vivian Girls…” and 19,000 pages
“Hey There Ophelia” by MC Lars: told from the perspective of Hamlet from Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet”
“Ketchum” by Ben Lee: about Ernest Hemingway
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Here is a collection of good songs with alliterative titles:
“Silvery Sleds” by Army Navy:
“Coughing Colors” by Tilly and the Wall:
“Bratty B” by Best Coast:
“Little Lungs” by An Horse:
“Demon Daughters” by Phantom Planet:
“Sunny Sunday” by Leona Naess:
Honorable Mentions:
“Daisy Duke” by Rooney
“Why Worry” by All American Rejects
“Get Gotten” by Ben Lee
“Runaway Run” by Hanson
“Big Brat” by Phantom Planet
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Song of the day is “Lost Girls” by Tilly and the Wall. Album version and live version below:
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Song of the day is “Pictures of Houses” by Tilly and the Wall.
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This collection of songs features water, lakes, waves, seas, oceans, etc. as a predominant theme (literal or figurative):
“Some Are Lakes” by Land of Talk:
“With Arms Outstretched” by Rilo Kiley:
“Waves” by Holly Miranda:
“Catch a Wave” by The Beach Boys:
“New Wave” by Against Me:
“Black Waves” by Jason Boesel:
“Big Wave” by Jenny Lewis:
“Smile and Wave” by Maria Taylor:
“Wires and Waves” by Rilo Kiley:
“The Ocean” by Tegan and Sara:
“Treading Water” by Nada Surf:
“The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future” by Los Campesinos!:
“Led To The Sea” by Jenny Owen Youngs:
“Ship Lost At Sea” by Phantom Planet:
“River” by Hanson:
Honorable Mentions:
“Chandelier Lake” by Tilly and the Wall
“Draining A Lake” by El May
“Lake Charles” by Lucinda Williams
“Waves that Never Break” by The Like
“Waves” by The Elected
“Something In the Water” by The Jealous Girlfriends
“Black Water” by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
“Sea of Doubts” by Azure Ray
“Sea King” and “Lost At Sea” by Eisley
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