I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS
...we've got the means to make amends. I am lost, I'm no guide, but I'm by your side. (Pearl Jam, Leash)
About Me
- Name: heather
- Location: Colorado, originally by way of California, United States
FUEL/FRIENDS HAS MOVED! Please visit http://fuelfriendsblog.com... "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 - ....................................... Got something I should hear? Email me at browneheather@gmail.com. Each comment left here is also emailed to my inbox, regardless the age of the post. Music submissions etc. can be sent to: Fuel/Friends, PO Box 64011, Colorado Springs, CO 80962-4011
A note about 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. If you represent an artist or a label and would prefer that I remove a link to an mp3, please email me at browneheather@gmail.com and I will immediately remove the file.

Oh, let's be friends, shall we?
Fuel/Friends Flashbacks
- Pearl Jam 15th Anniversary Live Mix
- Jeff Buckley Tribute Songs
- Behind The Music: Eddie Vedder, Bad Radio, and early Pearl Jam
- The Zombies, Live at the BBC
- Why Mike Watt rocks
- Paul Westerberg & Replacements rarities and b-sides bonanza
- Counting Crows: Boulder, 1993
- Worst Album Covers Ever
- Annie Leibovitz music photography exhibit
- Field trip: College radio station
- Jeff Buckley's "debut" at St. Ann's Church, 1991
- Jeff Buckley: Rarities from NYC Tape
- Thoughts on the nature of songs in everyday life
- Sub Pop Singles Club retrospective
- Scratch: A history of turntablism
- Pearl Jam Live Mix #2
- Ray LaMontagne live & unreleased
- Favorite Songs from Year #1 of Fuel/Friends
- Pearl Jam Christmas Singles Retrospective
- My Top 20 Albums of 2006
- A favorite poem
- Hype! and "The Seattle Sound"
- Look ma! I'm a rock photographer!
- Someone bring it on home already: Sam Cooke gets covered
- Ten years gone: Jeff Buckley
- 40 Years since 1967, Sgt Pepper's tribute on BBC
- Brit-Pop & the Live Forever documentary
- New York City Mixtape
- Fuel/Friends is Two Years Old!
- Fuel Favorites of 2007
- Wicked cool Olan Mills portraits
- About A Son: Kurt Cobain
- Will Ferrell and Dave Grohl in Leather and Lace
- The Strokes live in a little Aussie pub in 2001
- M. Ward demo tape
- Meeting The Hoff (it's ok, you can touch me still)
- Bruce Springsteen becomes rock and roll future
- Dylan plugs in at Newport
- Ella Fitzgerald discovered at Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater
- Jackson 5 audition for Motown Records
- Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has left the building
- Music made for television
- Roger Clyne (of the Peacemakers/Refreshments)
- Pete Yorn
- Matt Nathanson
- Q&A with Duncan Sheik
- Hymns band
- Noise Pop Festival guru Jordan Kurland
- Taylor Hicks
- Mason Jennings
- Nate Ruess of The Format
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
- John Davis of Superdrag
- Travis
- Matthew Caws of Nada Surf
- Musical archaeology in the Library of Congress with Larry Appelbaum
- Joey Ryan and the evocative soundtrack to Bella
- Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit
- Ryan Auffenberg, Marigolds album
- Ricardo Baca and the Underground Music Showcase
- Grace Potter
- Love Is A Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song At A Time
- Fools Rush In: A True Story of Love, War, and Redemption
- 33 1/3 Series: The Stone Roses
- No Country For Old Men
- A Million Little Pieces
- She Got Up Off The Couch
- Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley
- Pearl Jam in San Jose, 11/4/95
- Rage Against The Machine @ Tibetan Freedom, 1996
- The Honking Seals (Pearl Jam) at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz, 11/12/97
- U2 in San Jose, 4/20/01
- Ray LaMontagne in San Francisco, 4/6/05
- Cake, 1/25/06
- David Gray, 3/13/06
- Ryan Adams in San Francisco, 4/27/06
- Live, 5/19/06
- Brandi Carlile & The Fray, 6/24/06
- Pearl Jam & Tom Petty, 7/2/06
- Jackie Greene & Corinne Bailey Rae, 8/4/06
- Luce, 8/11/06
- Ben Kweller, 10/3/06
- Trent Reznor acoustic, 10/21/06
- Bridge School Benefit, 10/22/06
- The Lemonheads, 12/2/06
- Noise Pop Festival Feb 2007
- Cracker, 3/27/07
- Street To Nowhere & Rocky Votolato, 4/10/07
- Andrew Bird & Apostle of Hustle, 4/25/07
- Kings of Leon, 5/5/07
- The Hold Steady, 5/22/07
- Jesse Malin, 6/15/07
- Feist, 6/22/07
- Ike Reilly & Tom Morello, 7/15/07
- Ryan Adams in Santa Cruz, 7/21/07
- Ryan Adams in Berkeley, 7/24/07
- Boulder AAA Records & Radio shows, Aug 2007 (Ryan Adams, Augie March, Josh Ritter, Matt Nathanson)
- Wilco, 9/1/07
- Monolith Festival 2007, Day One
- Monolith Festival 2007, Day Two
- Jason Collett & Josh Rouse, 9/18/07
- The Alternate Routes & Roger Clyne, 10/12/07
- Bob Schneider, 11/15/07
- She & Him, 3/2/08
- Ra Ra Riot & The Cribs, 3/28/08
- Nada Surf, 4/1/08
- Bruce Springsteen in San Jose, 4/5/08
- Eddie Vedder in Berkeley, 4/7/08
- Coachella 2008!
- The Raconteurs at the 930 Club in DC, 5/27/08
- Frightened Rabbit, 6/15/08
- Gnarls Barkley at Soco Music Fest 6/28/08
- Girl Talk in Boulder 7/11/08
- Supergrass at the Larimer Lounge, 7/14/08
- Mile High Music Festival, Day One
- Mile High Music Festival, Day Two
- Fleet Foxes, 7/22/08
- The Faint, 7/29/08
- Denver Post Underground Music Showcase, 8/1-2/08
- The Avett Brothers in Steamboat Springs, 8/19/08
- DNC Unconventional '08, 8/27/08
- Nine Inch Nails, 9/2/08
- Foo Fighters, 9/9/08
- Monolith Opening Party: Young Coyotes and Cloud Cult, 9/12/08
- Monolith '08 Saturday, 9/13/08
- Port O' Brien amazes at Monolith, 9/13/08
- Monolith '08 Sunday, 9/14/08
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, 9/26/08
- Hacienda, Delta Spirit and Dr. Dog, 9/27/08
- Mountain Goats with Kaki King, 10/17/08
- Kings of Leon, The Stills, We Are Scientists 10/23/08
- Ray LaMontagne, 10/27/08
- My Italian Favorites
- Angélique Kidjo (Benin)
- Seu Jorge (Brazil)
- Jarabe de Palo (Spain)
- Arabic Groove with Abdel Ali Slimani
- Omar Sosa (Cuba)
- Songs You Know, In Languages You Don't
- Mali Bluesman: Ali Farka Touré
- Modern Mexican Music
- Music from the Coffee Lands
- Juana Molina (Argentina)
- Bombay The Hard Way (Indian remixes)
- Nil Lara (Cuban-American)
- National Geographic's World Music Site
- Africa covers U2
- Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump
- Backbeat Online (Westword)
- Cause=Time
- Coverville
- Denver Reverb
- The Donnybrook Writing Academy
- The Flat Response (Denver concert recordings)
- Get Real Denver
- Gigbot concert community
- Merry Swankster
- The Mountain Tempo
- Spork (Twist & Shout Record Store blog)
- A Walking Disaster
- Aquarium Drunkard
- Aurgasm
- bag of songs
- Can You See The Sunset From The Southside?
- Chromewaves
- Dance Hall Hips
- Daytrotter
- A Deeper Shade of Soul
- Dooce
- Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands
- I Guess I'm Floating
- La Blogotheque
- Marathonpacks
- My Old Kentucky Blog
- Passion Of The Weiss
- Postsecret
- Ruined Music
- Said The Gramophone
- Scatter o' Light
- (sm)all ages
- So Much Silence
- Some Velvet Blog
- Stereogum
- To The Maxx
- Tremble.com
- The Vinyl District
- You Ain't No Picasso
- November 2005
- December 2005
- January 2006
- February 2006
- March 2006
- April 2006
- May 2006
- June 2006
- July 2006
- August 2006
- September 2006
- October 2006
- November 2006
- December 2006
- January 2007
- February 2007
- March 2007
- April 2007
- May 2007
- June 2007
- July 2007
- August 2007
- September 2007
- October 2007
- November 2007
- December 2007
- January 2008
- February 2008
- March 2008
- April 2008
- May 2008
- June 2008
- July 2008
- August 2008
- September 2008
- October 2008
- November 2008
- December 2008
- January 2009
Memorable Moments in Music Series (for WXPN)

Interviews
A few books I've written about
Some Shows I've Seen
World Music Wednesdays
Colorado Pals
Other Blogs That Rock
Archives


Discover Something New

- I talked about my top picks of 2007 on NPR's World Cafe w/ David Dye on January 1st. If you missed it:
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