Feb

21

Indecisive Mix

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So I have been sitting here pondering what music to post…And I have strummed my fingers on my laptop and bitten my lip because that’s what I do when I am pondering things and yet I am still just not sure what to do. See it is not a matter of not having anything to post it is matter of having too much to post, which is really not a good thing for me because I am the most picky indecisive person you will ever know!

In the spirit of indecisiveness (wow that is a word!) I have decided to post a mix, who knows maybe this will be a new feature. Enjoy and yeah for Wednesday! Middle of the week baby! And Yeah for surviving my first Astronomy midterm!

Bronson (mp3 expired) – Calla
Strength In Numbers 2007

Oh, MJ! (mp3 expired) – The Little Ones
Sing Song released to the UK on 2/12/2007
US get it here

Yankee Go Home (mp3 expired) – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
Some Loud Thunder 2007

A House Is Not A Home (mp3 expired) – Field Music
Tones of Town US release 2/20/2007 get it here
UK get it here

Alright that is all for now, don’t want to run out of music! Is that possible? I think not.

Feb

20

Explosions In The Sky

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It is pretty cool when you play an album whether it be for the first or hundredth time the melodies spin and twirl their way into your head and the beat marches it’s way in and then it all just resonates inside, making it’s home, making you feel…

Explosions In the Sky released their new album today in this Northern part of the world, All of A Sudden I Miss Everyone.

I think it is fucking brilliant.

Welcome, Ghosts (mp3 expired)

So Long, Lonesome (mp3 expired)

Explosions In the Sky, All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone [Get it]
Check out their news section for some info on a remix disc with purchase of their new album. Also they are currently on tour and selling out fast.

Feb

19

Least Amount of Words

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Yeah I’ve kind of been in one of those moods as of late…Like I have been avoiding just speaking in general, I am such a chicken shit really. But what is that saying? “You can run but you can’t hide”….Is that even a saying? If not it should be…

So do forgive me if I post a little mini mix tonight rather than carry on about broken hearts, Astronomy Mid-terms, new loves or tell you how awesome all of these songs are (which they are) but I suppose I have already managed to carry on quite a bit. ;-P
Some brand spanking new music and some not so new, enjoy!

Fade Together [Avalanches Remix] (mp3 expired)- Franz Ferdinand
*Eleanor Put Your Boots Back On

Ease My Mind (mp3 expired)- Annuals
*Big Zeus

You’re a Wolf (mp3 expired)- Sea Wolf
Sea Wolf will be playing at *The Troubadour in LA on March 2nd

I Might Be Wrong (mp3 expired)- Radiohead
*Amnesiac (Probably one of my favorite of Radiohead’s songs if not #1 then #2)

Feb

16

What I’m Excited For

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Has everyone had enough love, chocolate and hallmark bullshit for one day? I think I forgot it was V-day like at least 5 times through out the day. Who cares? I am not a big chocolate person so it is not really all that exciting for me.

What is exciting?

A little sneak peak to get you all as excited as I am for this Tuesdays releases…

The Subjects will release their full length indie-rock album, with the ease grace precision and cleverness of human beings on Pretty Activities. Check out their Daytrotter session here
The Hounds of War (mp3 expired) – The Subjects
with the ease grace precision and cleverness of human beings [Get it]

The One A.M. Radio’s new album, this too will pass will also be released this Tuesday on
Dangerbird Records. I am really excited about this album and this song certainly intensified this excitement because it is just beautiful.
In The Time We’ve Got (mp3 expired) – The One A.M. Radio
this too will pass [Get it]

Happy Friday everyone!

Feb

14

All Time Favorite #12

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Nothing says Happy Valentine’s Day like a little BDSM!
Secretary is really just a superb film, it is surprising actually. Directed by Steven Shainberg who I personally have never heard of nor have I seen any other films in which he directed but bravo to him for this film. Secretary also introduced me to the work of Erin Cressida Wilson who wrote the screenplay and Mary Gaitskill who wrote the short story, but regardless of the unknown this film was so well done and I applaud all who had a hand in creating it.

I am sure some were probably hesitant to see this movie because of the sadomasochistic plot but I think as long as you are not my grandma (who actually did see this film not knowing the plot outline and being the miserable closed minded person she is you can only guess what she thought of it) I recommend giving it a whirl, I think you may just be pleasantly surprised unless of course you are a miserable, bitter and closed minded person then you may not like it so much.

Leonard Cohen’s sultry I’m Your Man accompanies Gyllenhaal’s character as she crawls on her hands and knees towards her boss’s office, and with that this makes Secretary my official All Time Favorite #11 on this mushy love blah blah blah day. ;-)

I’m Your Man (mp3 expired) – Leonard Cohen
Secretary (Soundtrack) 2002 [Get it]
also available on I’m Your Man 1988 [Get it]

Feb

13

Random Music #3

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Land of Talk members include Elizabeth, Bucky and Chris they are a Montreal-based band started by Elizabeth Powell. Elizabeth has been making music for awhile but it wasn’t until she met up with drummer Bucky was Land of Talk formed, then Chris (bass) came along and the intricate beaming rock of Land of Talk was complete. Their debut album Applause Cheer Boo Hiss was released on Dependent Music on April, 11th 2006. Weeeeee!
Sea Foam (mp3 expired)- Land Of Talk
Applause Cheer Boo Hiss
Get it

Nurse & Soldier is collaboration between 4 members who hail from Brooklyn, New York and I urge you to read their bio here, quite entertaining. Their new album, Marginalia was released on Brah/Jagjaguwar on January 23rd.
Fishing (mp3 expired)- Nurse & Soldier
Marginalia
Get it

Helene I have posted about before here she has released a new single, Apostille Series 8. Her angelic voice is always a pleasure to listen to.
Apostille (mp3 expired)- Helene
Apostille
Get it

Feb

10

Rewind Repeat #3

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I know I have been away for too long but I do have some wonderful music to offer you…What has been sparking my interest this past week? Well let’s see…

Bloc Party’s Weekend in the City was officially released this past Tuesday and I immediately noticed Okereke’s apparent lyrical growth. The lyrics of songs like “Waiting for the 7:18” and “I Still Remember” are much more expressive in a strikingly direct way. “I Still Remember” recalls an attraction of two schoolboys with such an eloquent tenderness:

And on that teachers’ training day
We wrote our names on every train
Laughed at the people off to work
So monochrome and so lukewarm…
–I Still Remember, Bloc Party

It is hard to deny that Bloc Party has demonstrated their growth and experience by giving us an album that retains the same energetic post-punk Bloc Party we have come to love and combines it with an emotional intimacy, which has created a connection that resonates in the listeners mind. Get it here.
(mp3 expired) Hunting For Witches
(mp3 expired) I Still Remember

Other music I was enjoying this week?

The Apples In Stereo have released their long awaited new album, New Magnetic Wonder. Get their new album here.
(mp3 expired) 7 Stars
(mp3 expired) Beautiful Machine 3-4

Also, I highly recommend giving Eleni Mandell a listen, her new album, Miracle of Five was just released and it is fantastic. Get it here.
(mp3 expired) Moonglow, Lamp Low
(mp3 expired) Make-Out King

Feb

9

All Time Favorite #11

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Dead Melodies (mp3 expired) – Beck
From Adaptation (2002)
Available on Mutations (1998) [Get it]

This All Time Favorite almost didn’t happen but then while I was requesting pip’s vote on a possible ATF contender it dawned on me and then suddenly the clouds in the sky parted and golden rays shined from the heavens and I was granted immortality…Actually wait can I change what’s granted to me because I would so much rather have the ability to teleport! That would be so rad! But I have really just gone off on a fanciful tangent that may have been exaggerated just a smidgen…

Going in to see Adaptation in the theater I don’t really remember anticipating it’s release but I loved this film! Directed by the very cool Spike Jonze who also directed Being John Malkovich, as well as numerous music videos for artists like Björk and the Beastie Boys.
The screenplay was written by the Kaufman brothers and I think it is Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman who really deserve the gold stars for how well this film turned out.
I must add that I think it might just be my favorite Nicholas Cage film who is actually playing Charlie and Donald Kaufman in the film. (He was unbelievable in Leaving Las Vegas but I mean you don’t feel like celebrating much of anything after watching that film)

And of course Beck’s, Dead Melodies makes Adaptation an official All Time Favorite. Happy day! It’s Friday! Next up I’ll rewind the week…

Last little query of the day…Is it wrong of me to find this just a bit ridiculous? The headline reads, What made us care about Nicole?
Seriously? I care about the baby she supposedly had a few months ago, I mean does anyone care about that? (sorry there is my gossipy two cents on a bit of Hollywood star soap opera crazy talk)

Feb

7

Peter Bjorn and John, Writer’s Block

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Chills (mp3 expired)

Objects Of My Affection (mp3 expired)

Peter Bjorn and John, Writer’s Block [Get it]

The poster above is from a free in-store the Swedish indie-pop band Peter Bjorn and John did at Fingerprints on 2/2. They also sold out The Roxy in LA on 2/1. The official US release of Writer’s Block has finally arrived and now I want another live show please. ;-)

Writer’s Block is a solid well paced album, the kind of album you pop in and enjoy all the way through and maybe even repeat it.

You can hear the entire album spin here.

That’s all I got for you at the moment, still looking for a job, learning about the stars and chilling with Puma (she sleeps a lot)

Weeeeeeee for Wednesday!

Feb

5

Rewind Repeat #2

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Farewell sweet weekend till we meet next time…
So last week I started classes again to finish off the last couple of credits I need, basically kids, my only advice is something my dad would always say, “Eat your peas before your dessert” because it is just so much easier to get classes like Astronomy or Math and Survey of Literature out of the way. The lit class really is one of those classes that could be cool with the right professor but you know that is not always the case, and as much as I love reading the epic poem, Beowulf I do feel as if these classes have become much more of a thorn in my side than they seemed when I was a weeee college freshman at the bright age of 18! Holy shit I am old!

Anyway let’s see what my old ass was listening to last week ;-P

Gong (mp3 expired) – Sigur Rós
Takk (2005) [Get it]

Sigur Rós has been playing on my headphones quite a bit due to their January 13th announcement of a new album in the works. This gets me excited, so to celebrate I revisited their glorious 2005 album, takk…
And I don’t think there is anything I could say that could possibly top this…

‘takk…’ is, according to the band (with icelandic tongue firmly placed in icelandic cheek), a “rock’n’roll record” – and it certainly is on occasion played both loud and fast – but few of the clichés of the genre come through sigur rós intact. in fact, listening to ‘takk…’ it is not images of rebellion or off-the-peg degradation that comes to mind, but more a feeling of being washed clean by music. even when they rock sigur rós provide a clear spot of, dare i say, sanctity, and, at the end, of the record the prevailing feeling is one of peace. –Sigur Rós website

An album which is high upon my all time favorites list, play it loud and often (just broke the cliché-o-meter with that one I think). Also check out a couple of Sigur Rós covers over on their site:

Hoppípolla Acoustic (mp3 expired) version by We Are Scientists

Starálfur Acoustic (mp3 expired) version by Special Moth

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