There's not many that could top these guys in their heyday.

Oh and I heard this today on Sirius:



FUCKING AWESOME!!!!

The new Quasi album, American Gong.

Everybody remembers Rockwell's Somebody's Watching Me - but what about Obscene Phone Caller?



The greatest chorus ever:

Find someone else to bother
Mister or miss
Obscene phone caller!
Why do you
Get off breathing on the phone?
Obscene phone
Caller - leave me alone!

Fleet Foxes always put me in a good mood

Gogol Bordello:





There is a special place in heaven for people who spread this much joy. O.D.B. is already there.

The lead singer is also a pretty funny actor too if you have seen Everything is Illuminated.

Yeah, that movie is what got me into them. Saw them last night at Irving Place, what an amazing show.

Yeah man, I love Fleet Foxes. Different from everything else I listen to.

Thanks, wasted more time looking up Fleet Foxes today.

Always loved this cover of them



Also been digging these tunes lately:

The new Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is really good. I've been lukewarm on them in the past so I don't know if I'm just in the right mood for this album right now or if it's that much better than their past work.

Stole the show Saturday of All Points West on the main stage. It was funny because I've seen them at the Stone Pony twice in a crowd of a few hundred, but it wasnt until I saw them standing in a crowd of 10 thousand that I realized what a fun band this was. It is generally the other way around.

New New Pornos single, "Your Hands Together" is really great. Really agressive. And I've been told the rest of the record is as well.

Ha! We're always on the same music vibe. Weird.

I was going to post on this album as I finally downloaded it from our lab and listened yesterday. I liked the start, but after track 4 ("War Machine" - which I couldn't get into after 2 listens) it started to slow down too much for my tastes...even in the context of a BMRC album. I thought Howl and especially Baby 81 were much better.

I like them too, but they're kinda hit or miss. They're good enough writers to have maybe 3 good songs an album, but then the rest seem like hipster 2 cool 4 school BS. Gotta keep the energy level up, boys. That's why it's called Rock and Roll.

That's a criticism I've heard from others as well but I'm not seeing it myself. I love it all the way through. It might just be the mood I'm in though. There are weeks where everything new I listen to sounds like shit and then I'll have a day like yesterday where I absolutely fell in love with two albums. Beat The Devil's Tattoo being one and Uninhabitable Mansion's album Nature is a Taker being the other.

I was actually thinking of you last night when I was listening to Nature is a Taker as it's got a really good, upbeat vibe that I thought you'd be into. Sort of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah meets Pela meets Architecture in Helsinki. The band is actually Robbie Guertin and Tyler Sargent from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah with Annie Hart from Au Revoir Simone

I'll have to check out that Nature Is A Taker. I just heard Au Revoir Simone on a podcast (KEXP Seattle's Live Performances - If you don't listen to this, you MUST) and while I'm not the biggest fan of electro bubble-gum pop, they kept me interested for the whole set of songs. And, of course, anything compared to Pela earns an automatic listen.

I too find myself flipping opinions on albums simply because I was in a different mood the next time I heard it. Maybe BMRC sounds better next week or next month, but ight now...meh. I always try again, though because I know mood is a factor.


Right now...Broken Bells' eponymous debut. It's Danger Mouse and the lead singer of The Shins. So far...pretty good.

I should caution that the comparisson to Pela may be a bit of a stretch, based more on the energy than anything else. It really comes out at the start of this song:



And, of course, once the singing starts it has that bubble-gum pop sound but there's also a bit of an edge and that fuzzy, distorted, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah sound.

Hey Mike, Thanks for turning me on to GB...they really are great. I even gave you credit on my FB page!

LOTS of new stuff on my iPod. I've gotta fill 12 hours in the car tomorrow somehow, right?

Baroness - Discography
Tom Petty - Discography
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited, plus a smorgasbord of other stuff
The Fall of Troy - Discography
S.O.D. - Speak English or Die
Death Angel - Act III, Frolic Through the Park
Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
Testament - The New Order, Practice What You Preach
Motorhead - Ace of Spades

F...B...?

Enjoy them, I'm only recently getting into it myself. If you ever have a chance to see them live, I highly, highly recommend it.

Facebook page.

F...B...?

Fart butt.

I think he knew that, but since he has no things in his apartment he was acting like the loser to society he is

(sorry Mike it was too easy )

Haven't heard this tune in about 15 years, but it's been stuck in my head for the past few days.

This is weird. I have this on my mp3 player and I've been listening to it a lot the last few days. Along with this song.

6 Underground is on my MP3 player, too - good tune for the beginning of a run.

I love Saint Etienne's "Good Humor" album for running.

YES.

Heh...one of the guys I work with came into the office today and was singing 'Kill Yourself' for a good hour. Good shit.



I'm bored.

I think someone's mentioned these guys around here before, but...

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The Angels' Share

Life Below the Ice's new album, "We Thought We Knew Everything."

He's actually got a new album out, The Brutalist Bricks, but it's a bit of a disappointment. It did, however, cause me to revisit his last album, Living With The Living. That album also disappointed me when it was released but, listening to it two years later, I realize that it's just overly long. About half the songs on it are brilliant. If you've got an Ipod, try making the following playlist from Living With The Living:

The Sons of Cain
Army Bound
Who Do You Love
A Bottle of Buckie
La Costa Brava
The Lost Brigade
The World Stops Turning
CIA

The result is a short, tight album that's acually a pretty good follow up to Shake The Sheets. (Unfortunately, the album as released contained another 5 songs of filler that is, at best, uninteresting.)

I got The Brutalist Bricks along with Shake The Streets and also enjoyed the former, although not as much as Streets. Maybe because I was working on the first listens, but all the tracks were pretty good (all except three got at least 3 Stars on Melvin's Super-Awesome, All-Binding iTunes Rating System© ). I'll do a re-listen of each album individually in the coming days to separate the two, but I enjoyed both together very much. Have to get Living With The Living.

30 Seconds to Mars- This is War
Not as good as From Yesterday, but still very good nonetheless...I recommend.

Also, Stephen Lynch- 3 Balloons
Also not as good as his previous albums, but still hysterical.

The new Deftones.

While I've enjoyed their past few albums, they've always been kind of "meh." Some good songs, some not so good songs, overall just ok albums with high points.

This one blows them all away. Chino channels Duran Duran a lot. It works. It works really, really well.
http://soundcloud.com/deftones_official/diamond-eyes

How can you go wrong?

You can't but I've been on a Gaza binge today. He is Never Coming Back might be the best album title of the decade.

This.

Mike Doughty's new album, "Sad Man Happy Man":

I actually need to go get this. I really liked the first album. They're also playing at the Wellmont in Montclair and I'm thinking of getting tickets. Matters if I go to Citi Field for opening day next week or not.

I also blame Bryce Lampman for liking 30 Seconds to Mars. He had them add a bunch of songs to the pregame warm-up music at Pack games back in the day. And because of that I bought the album. Damn you Bryce Lampman.

Been on a Dandy Warhols kick lately - fun to run to, particularly the first two here:

Didn't know the Deftones were still making albums at this point. I'll have to check it out.

Sugar Hill Gang.

So, I found a free song for Guitar Hero and really liked it. Checked out the band and I'm liking it a lot.

Said song:



Sick guitar part on the game. Haven't tried the drums yet. Probably this weekend. Maybe I'll even try the vocals. After a few drinky-drinks.

Just another example of a band that is great musically and ruined by the vocals...I just don't get it. I was really diggin' it until he opened his mouth. Oh well

I dunno. I'm generally not a hardcore fan. The growling thing is more tolerable to me than some of the "screamier" vocals out there. I guess if there's at least some melodic aspects to the growling, it helps me like it more. Does that make sense?

I saw Unearth a bunch of years back before their makeover. Toolish guys with thick out-of-style glasses. Cracked me up. Very D&D metal. Lots of lame metal theatrics. They opened for Converge, who sarcastically imitated their theatrics. Most notably was playing guitar with one hand while slowly raising the middle finger to the crowd. Lame when one band did it, hysterical when another mocked it.

Still not into them. Over the top D&D metal with weird growling instead of falsettos. They've gotten very popular, though. Can't deny their talent, just not my style.

Speaking of Converge, it took me forever but I finally checked out the new album. I went probably over a year without buying anything new.
I dig it:


Very varied. This song is fast as shit. Other songs were co-written by Cave In. Others have a slow western feel.
Solid.