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  The Good Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Good Life is reportedly the product of 12 years worth of songwriting on the part of Cursive vocalist Tim Kasher, which should give you a pretty good indication of the project's intimacy, intensity, and scope.
In other words, while The Good Life is a collective entity, but the irony of its naming is all Kasher's.
The Good Life's only LP, Novena on a Nocturn, featuring "A Dim Entrance" and "What We Fall For When We're Already Down," came out on Better Looking Records in 2000.
www.epitonic.com /artists/thegoodlife.html   (241 words)

  
  The Good Life (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Good Life (band), a rock band on Saddle Creek Records.
The band itself is named after The Good Life (slogan), a Nebraska promotional slogan.
The Good Life (song), a song and single released by Weezer on their second album Pinkterton.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Good_Life_(disambiguation)   (175 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Chronology of the Life of Jesus Christ
Some of them give us a general view of Christ's life: "The child grew, and grew in strength and wisdom; and the grace of God was in him" is the brief summary of the years following the return of the Holy Family after the ceremonial purification in the Temple.
To conclude the hidden life of Jesus extending through thirty years is far different from what one should have expected in the case of a Person Who is adored by His followers as their God and revered as their Saviour; this is an indirect proof for the credibility of the Gospel story.
The journeys made during His public life may be grouped under nine heads: the first six were mainly performed in Galilee and had Capharnaum for their central point; the last three bring Jesus into Judea without any pronounced central point.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08377a.htm   (6116 words)

  
 themusicedge.com :: The Good Life: Tim Kasher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Omaha, Nebraska, is known for its rash of indie rock bands that bubbled up to the surface of the mainstream in the past few years.
Bands like The Faint, Cursive and Bright Eyes have burst out of obscurity and ‘fringe’ into a quality music-hungry public itching for something new and honest and, of course, relevant.
The difference is that I think I have a tendency to write more Good Life songs because I have a more relaxed approach to writing for that band, just more for the joy of playing guitar and humming along to it and writing lyrics.
www.themusicedge.com /moxie/news/spotartist/the-good-life-tim-kasher.shtml   (1071 words)

  
 The Good Life (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Good Life is an indie rock band on Saddle Creek records.
The other members of the band include Stefanie Drootin, Ryan Fox, and Roger Lewis.
The Good Life has its core in those four musicians, but besides Kasher can be a rotating cast of characters involving many from Saddle Creek Records.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Good_Life_(band)   (209 words)

  
 BigYawn.net :: The Good Life :..: Wednesday, May 11, 2005
The Good Life's "other" sounds are barroom sing-alongs, waltzes, and anthems that find room for congas and keyboards as opposed to relying solely on acoustic guitars and subtleties of voice.
For example while the band played mostly all the requests that were shouted, Kasher had to politely commend a fan for an encyclopedic knowledge of Cursive's catalog but recommend that he name a song of the band that was actually on stage.
The relatively small crowd that risked being labeled "emo" by seeing The Good Life were treated to a very tight set by a band that transcends that tag with songs that might inspire others to pour out their broken hearts but should not get lumped in with that much maligned genre.
www.bigyawn.net /showreview.php?id=5   (588 words)

  
 Unstable, 22-Left, The Good Life, and II Deep - September @ Greencastle Indiana (JMcQ)
Unstable is probably one of the most honest bands out there, as they have just learned by ear and play some of the tracks that have most influenced them, instead of making carbon copies of their influencers.
Being the penultimate band in any show is a difficult role, and the phoenix that rose from What Next’s ashes, The Good Life, took that role pretty well.
In their Brand New cover, The Good Life cannot seem to connect with the hard guitar solos in the song, and the emotive force of Brand New’s vocalist cannot completely be captured in their version of the song.
home.columbus.rr.com /mmcquis/neufutur/Shows/greencastle2.html   (1602 words)

  
 The Good Life: Lovers Need Lawyers - PopMatters Music Review
The band captures Kasher's defeatism with a hazy wash of rugged Americana swagger; their momentum builds, swelling to crescendos of release, only to be reduced to the sputtering afterthoughts of Kasher's disappointment.
The band fires on all cylinders here, sending the song into heady garage oblivion, riding one of the slowest fades in recent memory, impact made and points rendered.
Lovers Need Lawyers finds the Good Life distancing itself further from its trademark gloomy vibe with 20 minutes of stripped-down, acoustic-tinged rockers (the EP is described as a teaser for the band's new full-length, due out later this summer).
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/g/goodlife-lovers.shtml   (947 words)

  
 Lazyeye Live Review:!!!, Tristeza, The Good Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The 8-piece all-white funk band was a cross between Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Wild Cherry, though not as funky as either.
The Good Life is an Omaha-based 4-piece led by Tim Kasher, the primary singer/songwriter in Cursive, Saddle Creek Record's angry young man, post-punk rock band that sort of balances Bright Eyes' sadness and The Faint's New Wave dance rave-up.
For the CD release party, however, The Good Life added a bit of muscle to their set.
www.timmcmahan.com /goodlifelive.htm   (630 words)

  
 Ground Control Touring: The Good Life
The Good Life started out as a means for Tim Kasher to use a songwriting approach that differed from his other projects (namely, Cursive), but it didn’t take long for the solo project to become a band, and for that band to finally come into its own.
The Good Life’s sound has evolved from the refined, quiet pop of the first full-length, Novena on a Nocturn, to the moody hooks of 2002’s Black Out, to the sing-along anthems of divorce and disillusionment found on the recent Lovers Need Lawyers EP.
Album of the Year brings all that is the sound of The Good Life to fruition — catchy, moody pop/rock that fluctuates between the all-ages club and the smoky cabaret, right alongside sing-along crescendos that spin into cinematic bursts.
www.groundcontroltouring.com /artists/thegoodlife   (294 words)

  
 The Good Life provides just that - Entertainment
Even though The Good Life draws more name recognition than the other two bands (The '89 Cubs and Neva Dinova, anyone?), the show should be dubbed "The Omaha Show," just for the bands' camaraderie.
Ryan Fox, The Good Life's guitarist, fronts The '89 Cubs, a noisy rock band with a penchant for distortions, feedback and a chattering background soundtrack.
The Good Life is currently on their first tour in a couple of years, having waited while Kasher finished touring with his other, more rooted band Cursive.
www.dailytexanonline.com /news/2004/10/07/Entertainment/The-Good.Life.Provides.Just.That-745152.shtml   (752 words)

  
 Crutch Music Review: The Good Life - Lovers Need Lawyers
The first Good Life LP, Novena on a Nocturn, was a birdhouse indeed, a shimmering net that trapped up bits of song that must have shaken loose during the songwriting process for Cursive.
With the Lovers Need Lawyers EP, which is a preview for the third Good Life LP (due out in August), it seems the transition is complete: The Good Life is a band in its own right, no longer a miniaturized extension of Cursive, but a mansion of song.
And highlight “Friction!” is by far the heaviest song The Good Life has produced, a startling blast of punk rock amid all the pseudo-stadium rock anthems.
www.thecrutch.net /musicreview/loversneedlawyers.html   (525 words)

  
 SOUNDTHESIRENS.COM - Review :: The Good Life - Album of the Year
Once upon a time, a fairly new band named The Good Life swept the indie scene with a burst of music that was a deadly concoction mixed of sorrow, love, and three parts vodka.
The Good Life's latest album Album of the Year must be the most appropriate name sharing intimate stories between the narrator and a lost love.
Adding out of tune chords from the piano, The Good Life demonstrates an act of adultery which is overlooked sometimes in relationships...
www.soundthesirens.com /reviews/thegoodlife-albumoftheyear.php   (505 words)

  
 Lazy-I Interview: The Good Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Good Life primary songwriter and frontman Tim Kasher was hardly elusive about that rather bleak interpretation.
The Good Life fills a musical void left gaping in the midst of Cursive's almost ballistic all-out attack.
Another exceptional difference is how Kasher uses electronic effects in The Good Life, a tiresome process that he said he may not do in the future.
www.timmcmahan.com /goodlife.htm   (1053 words)

  
 Polyvinyl Message Board - cursive/the good life
Posted - 08/19/2005 : 09:01:23 AM i have heard very little of the good life, but i love cursive alot...so to those that are familiar with both...if i like cursive will i like the good life...
Posted - 08/21/2005 : 04:05:48 AM the first album of the good life, novena on a nocturn, is really great...
cursive is enjoyable, especially older cursive, the good life is horrible in my opinion...album of the year is a good song, but thats about it..
www.polyvinylrecords.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=749   (304 words)

  
 The Good Life: View from the top   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Nearly 17 years later, the band is as solid and successful as ever — an achievement that has to rank somewhere up there with the three Super Bowls Bon Jovi’s close friend Bill Belichick has won for the New England Patriots.
He and his band mates — keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres and guitarist Richie Sambora, who has a 2 percent stake in the Soul — are regulars at the Wachovia Center, the team’s home field in South Philadelphia, where they often entertain and mingle with fans.
Bon Jovi, whose band has worked closely with the NFL on special events like the Super Bowl in recent years, was a natural candidate to become an AFL owner.
orig.app.com /goodlife/Spring2006/features/features.html   (1901 words)

  
 ASB featured in February, 1998 edition of "the good life"
The February, 1998 issue of the good life features an article by Dyanne Fry Cortez, entitled "For the Love of Music." It details many of the community music groups in Austin, and ASB and its musicians are well represented.
Included are photos of President-Elect Marilyn Good; photos of three generations of one family in the band (Johnny Brunner, Beverly, Tom, and Clint Foreman), as well as interviews with Good and ASB Musical Director Richard Floyd.
Good found a few other folks who needed a musical outlet, and a young man named Bill Whitworth who had always wanted to conduct.
www.asband.org /news/980204.html   (1208 words)

  
 Bettawreckonize -- Album Reviews
Whether it's those things that they really want to say or things that they must say, the best songwriters tend to let their lyrics say the things that they may feel be better left unsaid.
With Novena On A Nocturn, the Good Life's debut album, Tim Kasher left the door of his personal life open just a crack so that we may see and hear more than we should, and he set it against a soundtrack that still compels each of us to continue eavesdropping.
We were far from calling it the Good Life, but it was pretty much the same incarnation that there is today, and we're still playing some of the same music that we were playing five years ago.
www.bettawreckonize.com /interviews/thegoodlife_interview.html   (1141 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | It's Good Life indeed for songwriter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Songwriter/guitarist/vocalist Tim Kasher said his band Cursive was actually a side project to his other band, the Good Life.
The balance is deciding which band to focus on when he has a choice to make, said Kasher.
And when the Good Life was on some down time, I'd be touring with Cursive.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600126258,00.html   (416 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Chronicles of Life & Death (Life Art Version): Music: Good Charlotte   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
DESCRIPTION:Chronicles of Life and Death is the follow-up to Good Charlotte's breakthrough, The Young and the Hopeless.
Good Charlotte try to be all brutal and punk by wearing makeup and tatoos and body piercings.
Good Charlotte obviously contradicts themselfs with the song, Life Styles of the rich and famous, and then try and tell those who question them to just let them live.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002X590Q?v=glance   (1572 words)

  
 April 20, 2002 | Calgary Sun | Living The Good Life
Rivers Cuomo, frontman and songwriter for L.A.'s most inventively melodic rock band, Weezer, was looking to replace AWOL bassist Mikey Welsh for an upcoming tour, and felt Shriner could be the man for the job.
Last year, the band returned to the top of the charts with another self-titled album, nicknamed The Green Album because of the cover's colour scheme.
As recently as this week, the band has been in the studio recording tracks for yet another record.
wma.weezernation.com /20020420cs.htm   (722 words)

  
 The Good Life | ENTERTAINING
Speaking of good beginnings, while most hosts start with the menu, the flowers, the décor — let’s face it, the fun stuff — Tutera begins with more practical matters after choosing the site.
Tutera knows from experience that local laws governing sound volume (if you’re hiring a band), the distance between houses and how many people are allowed to congregate vary from town to town.
If there is a tent — and Tutera recommends one, though not a tent “that looks like a tent, but a place hung with chandeliers, fabric, furnished with unusual tables and chairs” — it should be an environment that reflects the garden or woods outside.
www.panachemag.com /Archive/5_04/TheGoodLife/alfrescopartygiving.asp   (1399 words)

  
 Splendid: Departments: LiveLine: Superchunk, The Good Life, Rilo Kiley
Her strong vocals and smart lyrics made the band instantly accessible -- the fine guitar work of Blake Sennett and the precise, swinging, heavy-hitting drummer were merely icing on the cake.
The last time I saw The Good Life, Kasher didn't seem too terribly invested in what he was doing, but tonight, he had energy to spare, and watching him pour his heart and soul into singing his introspective songs was invigorating.
Of the other three times, two shows were good, but left me with the feeling that the band was having an off night, and one was simply one of the top five best shows I've ever seen.
www.splendidezine.com /departments/liveline/superchunk   (1416 words)

  
 "Album of the Year," The Good Life
The Good Life's "Album of the Year" may not live up to its presumptuous title, but that's an utterly emo risk to take when naming your record.
That said, this record is de rigueur for a Saddle Creek artist, especially lyrically, which is a good thing.
But this is an album that grows on you, and while you may not introduce it to your road-trip repertoire, it's a good listen when you're alone in your room.
www.sgmag.com /mindcandy/the_good_life   (229 words)

  
 good life
Through his work in Cursive and The Good Life, Kasher has a rare gift that enables his audience to almost voyeuristically experience the events to which he writes about.
I think it's just good exploration and by studying the act of doing what I do, this sort of awkward career you can bring the listener closer to understanding it and you're also able to bring the listener and writer to the same level.
I'm already working on the next Good Life album, which I think is exciting considering this one isn't even out yet.
www.abhor.org /interviews/archives/goodlife.htm   (2666 words)

  
 Review | Life Is Good by LFO
Life Is Good is an appropriate sophomore album for the group that gave us "Summer Girls" (remember all of that Abercrombie and Fitch stuff in the summer of 1999?) on their self-titled debut album two years ago.
Though the music is solid and -- really -- surprisingly good, Life Is Good has brought some Pearlman-style boy band elements with it, elements that have nothing to do with the music.
On Life Is Good, LFO dips heavily into almost every place that dipping could be done.
www.bluecoupe.com /pop/lfo.html   (729 words)

  
 The Good Life: Lovers Need Lawyers EP: Pitchfork Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The first Good Life album, Novena on a Nocturn, was a prototypical side project-- a record of fluttery boudoir ephemera; remnants scraped from the mental sieve that caught whatever grains of song wouldn't sift into Cursive's oeuvre.
But even then, The Good Life was more than Cursive's rough drafts, with an emphasis on starry ballads and minimal electronic embellishments.
Lovers Need Lawyers, a teaser EP for the new Good Life full-length due out in August, is ballasted by both of Kasher's constant themes-- the inevitable failure of romantic relationships and the futility of art.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/g/good-life/lovers-need-lawyers.shtml   (579 words)

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