Monday, May 31, 2010
Hola A Todo El Mundo - "A Movement Between These Two"
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.myspace.com/holaatodoelmundo
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We Were Promised Jetpacks - "Quiet Little Voices"
As if Scotland didn't have enough bands that make me want to go there, just to see what exactly surrounded these minds. I'm weird. Anyways, they're from Edinburgh. Naturally they've played with Frightened Rabbit ;]
Someone asked me if they got their name from something the Beatles said, but I don't see that anywhere online. I'd like to know.
I'm downloading their newest EP, The Last Place You'll Look, maybe if it's good a song will show up on here :P
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Frightened Rabbit - "Swim Until You Can't See Land"
“Are you a man or are you a bag of sand?”
Frightened Rabbit is in my top 3 favorite bands of all time, somewhere with Rilo Kiley and The Mountain Goats. Anyways, this is from their latest album, The Winter of Mixed Drinks. I love songs about solitude. I love Scottish accents. I love Frightened Rabbit.
"With those expectations in mind, singer-guitarist and primary songwriter Scott Hutchison retreated to the Scottish coastal town of Crail to write Frightened Rabbit’s excellent new album, The Winter Of Mixed Drinks. Removed from distractions both existential (his and his band’s place in the world) and mundane (online movie trailers), Hutchison wrote the songs that would become the new album—and wrote them differently. Where Organ Fightdeconstructed a failing relationship, Mixed Drinks finds Hutchison stepping away from what he succinctly calls “songs about girls.” Instead, the album is mostly concerned with songs about self, but not in an overly indulgent way. It’s more about discovering what you’re made of—or, as Hutchison sings in “Swim Until You Can’t See Land,” “Are you a man? Are you a bag of sand?” Just before the band's appearance at SXSW (including a headlining set at The A.V. Club's free day show, March Into Softness), he spoke to The A.V. Club."
read more here.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Big D And The Kids Table - "Bender"
Sometimes I branch out musically and sometimes I want to drink for days at a time, this post is the result.
Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band: Conor Oberst finally doing something right.
Conor Oberst is growing up so much right before our very eyes! After hearing him, Jenny Lewis, Ben Gibbard and M. Ward cover "Handle Me With Care," I just knew he was meant to do something so much better than Bright Eyes. Anyways, if you liked Rabbit Fur Coat or Bob Dylan, you'll like this. Conor's voice annoys me in Bright Eyes, but not here. He was meant to sing like this. I'm just waiting for Ben Gibbard to hop on the folky Dylan-esque bandwagon (and that is not sarcasm).
Saturday, May 15, 2010
fun. - "Walking The Dog" and "At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used To Be)"
Nate Ruess from The Format's sideproject, SOOOOOOO much better than The Format. The whole album is 9/10 imo, the only problems are a few filler songs and Nate's voice just reminds me so much of The Format, which isn't such a good thing because The Format is boring. They were good when I was 14 and just getting into "indie" music. This is the complete opposite, in fact, it's fun! See what I did there?
Girls - “Lust For Life”
At the risk of being too pitchfork-esque, I'm going to post this song. Any song that makes me feel like I'm at the beach with clapping in the background is objectively awesome blossom.
White Rabbits - “Percussion Gun”
This song is so fucking sexy in the way “Hang Me Up To Dry” is, probably because this band may as well call themselves Cold War Kids. Egal. Worth a listen. And a watch because the boys in this video are all incredibly attractive.
La Roux - “I’m Not Your Toy”
Although I'm usually not a big fan of dancey synth pop, this song has earned "on-repeat-for-days" status. You know those songs that you can't listen to just once? Or just five times, for that matter? It's catchy as hell and who hasn't felt used and can't relate these lyrics?
"It's all false love and affection, you don't like me, you just want the attention"
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