Fuckin a. Exhorder is a criminally underrated thrash band.

The Decemberists Rox in the Box just played on Pandora - holy shit - great tune.

The whole album is amazing.

understatement right there.

Really, I cannot stop listening to it. Listening to January Hymn and June Hymn over and over again on the way home today, driving in the dark through piles of snow in my neighborhood...I haven't been hit by music like that in a while.

don't even remember the last concert I was at.

Currently listening to some of the tracks off the new cake album

People listen up don't stand too near, I have something that you'll want to hear...

The new Cold War Kids album is pretty good.

Also really like this song:

New music!

Leedsy's head exploding in 3...2...1...

As long as he doesn't tell us about his boner again.

ELO's A New World Record. Over and over. Still one of my favorite albums, some thirty-odd years after I first heard it.

Just got back from The Hold Steady at Music Hall...I'm still pretty fired up, and my ears are still ringing, so it will be a while before I get to sleep. They completely killed it, as usual. I forget the name of the second lead guitarist they recently brought in, but he is amazing. It really enhances the sound to have him there when Tad Kubler solos, because Craig Finn isn't much good for any guitar work when he's spazzing out dancing around the stage. They didn't have a keyboard player tonight though, don't know what the deal is. It was really noticeable on a few songs, like Stay Positive, Stuck Between Stations, and especially Sequestered in Memphis, which people didn't even recognize at first. Great show otherwise, though. The played The Swish, which was the first time I had seen that live, and completely made my night.

Funny random story - before the show, I was standing outside the place next door, which is called Public Assembly, and is a music venue as well. Guy walks out to smoke, kind of strangely dressed, wearing these garish Air Jordans, which is the first thing I noticed. He's sort of antsy, bouncing around, and I creeped him out for a few seconds by staring at him until I placed his face. Turns out to be Ben Lovett, the keyboard player from Mumford and Sons. I asked him if they were gigging here tonight, he said they were on "holiday", I made a crack about him trying to go incognito, and he told me me promotes or puts together a show that just started up at Public Assembly. He was in town to see how it was going. He was really excited about this girl Sarah Jarosz, a bluegrass musician from Austin, who is also playing some shows around this spring. More info on Lovett's shows here: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/tag/Ben+Lovett

We 'rawn ollidye !!

He may have called me "mate" once, not sure.

Given my love for Mumford and Sons, I took that recommendation to heart and am digging what I'm hearing via The Hype Machine:

http://hypem.com/#!/search/Sarah%20Jarosz/1/

Did you listen to those Shankill Butchers and Come On Up to the House covers? Very cool.

Young The Giant's debut album...

Definitely hear some Kings of Leon influences, but thats not a bad thing...

Some more great soul:

I saw Iron & Wine at Radio City on Saturday night. Started out doing mostly acoustic, then brough out a full band and did some of the newer work and then for the encore, Sam Beam came out and did a solo acoustic version of "The Trapeze Swinger" and that was wonderful. The onlt bad part was that the band was a little on the loud side so they tended to drown his voice out a bit. The encore was brilliant though.

I was there too, and was also bugged by the full band material, maybe that's why. Agreed on the encore, it was completely riveting. When he opened with "In the Reins", I was hoping that meant he'd do more off that EP. I was also disappointed in how short the set was, though the tix were so cheap for that venue, so it was well worth it.

Here's the version of the encore I've seen with the best sound and audio, if you can stand the cameraman's unsteady hand and stupid commentary for the first minute:

I'm not really digging the new album. There are a couple of okay songs on it but over all it's pretty terrible.

Snot bad. I like these 2 tunes...

I love "Half Moon", but for some of that other material, I thought I was listening to smooth jazz or something. I experienced a big disconnect between the two halves of the show.

Yeah. The new Destroyer album is also all about the smooth jazz. WTF?

I was listening to David Dye the other night, and he kept going on about how "you're not gonna believe this new Destroyer CD," and when I heard it, I thought, um...

I just added you.

I like/hate that a certain board member who shall remain nameless introduced me to Pitchfork's Web site, which I had never thought to seek out before.

Party!!

Bet you non last.fm foos are pretty jealous right now.

Blah, blah blah...Fleet Foxes. Anyways, here's a new song off their album due out in May. May be a little underwhelming after the first listen but still a solid tune with great vocals. Tickets for their spring tour go on sale this weekend.

Rediscovered Dirty Pretty Things (Barat's band pots Libertines) after buying their debut album when it came out and never giving it a chance:

CREEP - Days



Can't wait to hear more stuff from them...

Holy shit, this is the first good rap I've heard in forever. Deep stuff.

Phantogram played "Mouth Full of Diamonds" on Fallon last night with Questlove playing drums and it was unbelievable. I'll find video if I can.

Checked out the Radio Dept. at Music Hall last night, based on a friend's recommendation. Normally, I think drum programming is a complete cop out and would never want to see a friggin' laptop on stage, but this was pretty cool. They're from Sweden, sort of poppy shoe-gazerish stuff with a more contemporary sound.



And actually, upon reading about them a little, their studio work is recorded with drum kits, so maybe they just don't have the personnel to play it live.

I liked wavves better when they were blink 182.

Very fair assessment.

Thanks to Cliff for reminding me to buy Wild Hunt - amazing. I'm sorry that I didn't pick this up right away.

And don't forget that Sometimes The Blues Is Just a Passing Bird is equally good! I was just listening to it last night.

The Joy Formidable, from my post just above yours, is hitting such a sweet spot for me right now it's rediculous. The album version of that particular song is much longer. Here's another one by them:



The album's not out in the US 'til March 15th but it's a day one purchase for me.

Thanks to the EPL, from about Friday afternoon until Monday evening each week I've got this song stuck in my head.

Goddammit that is so fucking good.

Your goddamn right it is.

Been on a Cocteau Twins/MBV kick.

Also, a lot of flornk/hikjo mashups.

"Flornk hikjo joik and lokk" might actually be a lyric from a Blue Bell Knoll-era Cocteaus song.

New J. Mascis single, with Ben Bridwell:

http://pitchfork.com/news/41513-listen-new...cis-is-it-done/

Pretty good. Sounds a little Son Volt-ish to me.

Huh - Sebadoh's playing in my town next month.

EDIT: Oh yeah - and in April there's some U2 cover band playing here as well.

Yeah, I like that a lot. Thanks. I'm going to have to check that out.

Also, linked further down the page is Local Natives doing their song Who Knows Who Cares as part of one of those take away concerts.



I was all set to fire up Dinosaur Jr's Farm but I think I need to listen to Local Natives first.