I love when people give you good music recommendations. It’s almost like a subtle nod between the two of you. An understanding.
Like…yeah. We’re on the same page. I respect you.
So thank you Sarah. You could not have been more spot-on:
These dudes are amazing.
I’m the first to admit I “borrow” a lot of music.
And, in an ironic moment, I feel a little bad about it lately. So I stopped “borrowing” as much.
And whenever my favorite artists bring out new albums, I feel like it’s a holiday. So I buy their album and wait patiently for it to arrive on my doorstep from UPS-a Claus.
This is the ONLY time you’ll get to hear that album for the first time. Right? It’s like the first time you made out with someone you really liked. Or the first time you got drunk with your friends in high school. It’s that feeling. It’s exciting and overwhelming, and you’re nervous a bit because you know it’ll end and you’ll just know what it feels like.
Nada Surf’s new album, The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy, comes out tomorrow. In an outrageously different moment? I bought a CD (!!) from their label, because it came with the promise of an acoustic bonus disc.
And that’s the best twelve bucks I’ve spent in a while, because they just shipped me the album and this song came with it in all it’s acoustic glory.
And you know…
When I opened the box and saw the CD?
I sorta felt like a music-addled teenager again. It’s like I had forgotten how magical that “Mitch Kramer on the bed at the end of Dazed and Confused with the headphones” moment was.
It still is.
I have no idea if Britt Daniel produced this one too.
But man does it sound like it.
And sh*t yeah that’s awesome if so.
Their new album Milk Famous is out March 6th and you can download Heavy Metal for free here.
I will buy it.
Alexis Krauss is everything that is good, plus a beat.
(this is how you embrace being liked. glad she just went with it instead of being all bitchy about getting famous.)
So, I mean…
Yeah. They are a blatant Phoenix rip-off.
But how is that really a bad thing?
Are you dancing and/or happy while listening?
Exactly.
I mean, he already nicknamed his kid B.I.C.
And we’re all officially less cool than a baby that is a few days old.
WTF.
My friend Connie works for Filter Magazine. She’s one of those people that always ACTUALLY knows bands. If you’ve heard of them or like them, she’s casually had a drink with them.
And that’s sorta the best part: she’s never a dick about it. She just genuinely loves music. It’s pretty neat.
She has been producing these videos with Converse and every one of them have been great so far. The band she sent me today is retardedly good, and doing more research it’s pretty hard to find their stuff. Which is sad.
Because they sound like Foals had a baby with Cymbals Eat Guitars.
So here’s why it’s really neat that she knows people.
I found their stuff for purchase and bought everything I could (they have like five songs, you’d sorta be a dick not to)…but they had this one song that you couldn’t buy. This one. And it’s fantastic.
So she wrote the friggin’ band and they sent me a copy. How effing cool is that?
I love the future. It’s a great place.
Enjoy. Go buy the other stuff Hands made here.
And thank you to Hands. That was pretty cool of you.
Her voice is always magic.
Go listen to the song Lately if you never have. It’s seriously magic.
They have a full length coming out on Sub Pop at the end of February.
And I’m just assuming it’s going to be (wait for it) magic.
Happy 2012.
My head is going to explode if one more Canadian, kinda white-ish guy comes out that I enjoy this much.
I mean, is this a bit “sexxxxxy slooowwwwww jamzzz”?
Yeah.
But, admit it. It’s kinda rad that he had the balls to cover MICHAEL FREAKING JACKSON.
And he did it really well.
The thing about Active Child’s Pat Grossi is that… his voice throws you off the first few listens.
I know, that’s a dick thing to say. But I’m playing the honesty game, and it’s okay because at the end of the game I’m nice and say he’s amazing.
I mean, you turn on a record with a band name that just sorta screams “hip indie kid” and you expect something a bit dirtier, I guess. But then, five seconds in i’m listening to The London Philharmonic.
When I saw him open for M83, I was sorta thrown off. Not sure what I was expecting at a show involving “dream-synth from Paris”.
Basic reaction: “What the f*%k is this opera sh*t?”
But after about three songs…I dunno. It was like a trance.
You’re just into it. Because it’s really, really different. And it’s nice when someone can be different nowadays. Too often you hear people just mimick the shit out of each other. Put a dubstep on it/We’re a “The” band, etc.
Active Child’s You Are All I See honestly gets better with every listen.
If you haven’t ever listened to much Active Child…try it. It’s sorta like Brussel Sprouts.
At start? WHAT THE F*%K. A couple sprouts in? GET ME THE NEXT GODDAMN BRUSSEL SPROUT.
This remix is a free download over at the Vagrant Soundcloud page.
The whole Active Child album is available for moneys over at le iTunes.
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