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Weeeeeeeeee! Today kicks off the South by Southwest Festival in Austin Texas and oh baby I wish I was there! But rather than pouting about it I thought I would profile a band a day from the SXSW Festival. So for the next 10 days I will bring you a little taste of SXSW Untitled style and next year WE are going people, I don’t care if we have to drive there we will be there and it will be glorious, start planning now.

The first band for this SXSW post fest is The Palaxy Tracks, Brandon Durham, Keith Grap, Brad Murph and Chuck Harling hail from Austin, TX. Their third full-length album, Twelve Rooms 2005 is definitely their most polished album to date. Their all-embracing emotive melodies are matched by Brandon Durham’s emotionally intense lyrics creating music that the listener can identify with and find pleasure in. In January 2007 The Palaxy Tracks released a special digital edition of Twelve Rooms, which you can find here. They will of course be a part of the South by Southwest Festival, playing at the Blender Balcony at The Ritz on March 14th.

mp3: Lamplighter (mp3 expired), The Palaxy Tracks
Twelve Rooms 2005

mp3: Grey Snake (mp3 expired), The Octopus Project Remix
Twelve Rooms Special Edition 2007

So if you can make it through the Arcade Fire excitement you can also listen to a track off Maria Taylor’s new release, Lynn Teeter Flower.

And for a little pick me up take a listen to the 80’s punk pop-rock of Charlotte Hatherley off her 2007 release, The Deep Blue.

Next up I’ll kick off my 10 day SXSW 2007 post fest because I have been wishing on stars and I have been tossing pennies into fountains for some sort of miracle takes place and I wake up one day between the 9th-18th in Austin, TX and I see and hear some of the greatness that is bound to take place…But alas I think the odds of this actually happening are some what laughable so to take some of the bummer blues I will post a SXSW 2007 band a day for ten days. Weeeeeeee

Mp3: Good Start (mp3 expired), Lynn Teeter Flower 2007

Mp3: I Want You To Know (mp3 expired), The Deep Blue 2007

Candy meaning Record, therefor meaning Record Store…Meaning recent releases that have been given the “Approved for Lovin” stamp by me obviously.
And not to stray away from the purpose here too much but based on experience make sure your insurance covers “water damage” because unexpected kitchen pipes can burst sometimes and shoot out water for an hour until someone discovers it and doesn’t know how to shut the water off! Oh my mom is comedy, but do not weep for my mother my dears she indeed has “water damage” coverage and now she gets wood floors, so yeah she is not really that upset it seems but man water does a lot of damage and it does it fast.
I also start my new job tomorrow/today so I must get to bed. Enjoy!

mp3: You Turn My Head Around (mp3 expired)- Dean & Britta
Back Numbers 2007

mp3: Rise & Fall (mp3 expired)- The Cinematics
A Strange Education 2007

mp3: The Dance (mp3 expired)- P.G. Six
Slightly Sorry 2007

Errr kind of in a funk this evening…Think the lack of action on the job hunt has caught up a bit…And I know something will come into play, I’m just saying it is a bit of downer.
And I noticed my mom removed a picture from a frame and replaced it with one of her and her significant other on their recent trip to Hawaii…Which I understand and it pleases me that she is happy, she deserves it…It’s just blue blah and I do apologize if I brought anyone down. But I tell you it felt good to sit down and zone while listening to some music and of course I invite your ears as well. Enjoy!

I will include a few words with Cortney Tidwell’s music…As I have previously mentioned Tidwell’s, Don’t Let The Stars Keep Us Tangled Up a couple of times here and here. Her debut full length was just made available in the States and Canada and since it is such an amazing album I thought I would point her out again.

Eyes Are At The Billions (mp3 expired) – Cortney Tidwell
Don’t Let The Stars Keep Us Tangled Up

Eternity Is A Long Time (mp3 expired) – Creeping Weeds
We Are All Part of a Dream You’re Having

American Pastime (mp3 expired) – David Karsten Daniels
Sharp Teeth

Gone (mp3 expired) – The Fast Camels
The Magic Optician

Chemicals Collide (mp3 expired) – Cloud Cult
The Meaning of 8

Disaster (mp3 expired) – The Besnard Lakes
The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse

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.

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)

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!

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

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

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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