The name of this band puts me off, but their name is the only thing that puts me off about the French Kicks. There is not a song I would skip on their new disc, but for now I will focus on “Love in the Ruins”, which is great in context or as a standalone, […]
These guys just played in Vancouver with one of my favorite local bands, Winning. And I didn’t go because I didn’t feel like it. I’m an idiot.
Yes, this song is called “A Tell-Tale Penis”. Oh well.
Some things I like about it:
a) ride cymbal in the verses
b) triple guitar attack
c) “It’s the alaaaarm clock”
d) when the […]
Sometimes I try to put together pieces of video that I’ve shot. I do my best to make these projects visually appealing by applying filters or slowing them down or through the use of other cheap iMovie gimmicks. It’s a pretty enjoyable process. All in all though, the most satisfying part of the whole ordeal […]
During my first two years of high school, my best friend Paul and I used to sit in bean bag chairs and listen to Weezer records. This might be the coolest thing we ever did. We weren’t doing anything else. Since those days, I’ve had my mind bent by a ton of great records, but […]
Frantic is probably the best word I could use to describe the Dodos. Frantic isn’t usually my thing, but it works here. For me. If I could use this song as a soundtrack to an episode of my life, it would probably be the part where I finally ask out the cute girl at the […]
She’s from Canada
I listened to this in my headphones on the way back from the grocery store. Since it is Easter Sunday, the bus was nearly empty. It was one of the new buses, so there were these backwards seats in the rear of the bus, and looked out at Vancouver in the pouring rain. […]
Forget about objectivity for this one. Full disclosure: I love the Megafaun guys. Brad and Phil used to babysit me. Ok, that’s out of the way.
This album is a destroyer. Six songs, thirty-nine minutes. Of all the elements on Bury The Square, the pacing is what kills me the most. It’s a journey. Everybody knows […]
Lyrics are not important to me. As a matter of fact, the poetry is the last thing I pay attention to when I listen to an album. David Bazan sings about finding girls gagged and bound. The Game raps about gangbanging and marijuana. Nobody knows what My Bloody Valentine is singing about. I don’t give […]
So, this is a pretty hot track. Anybody who’s ever heard any of Adam Drucker’s stuff knows you’re gonna be on a bit of a wild ride, at least lyrically. I just read an interview with him regarding the new Subtle album. It started out pretty normal, but about halfway through I was completely lost […]
When I was in 7th grade, I played guitar in a Jimmy Eat World cover band. We played “The Middle”. I will never forget what it felt like to have my entire middle school screaming my name, demanding an encore. To this day, I don’t think a group of people has ever been that excited […]
This song fucking rules.
The sound that Jordon Robson-Cramer gets his guitar to make is perhaps the foremost reason why Sunset Rubdown is one of the most important bands alive right now. The distortion, the delay, the reverb. Dude knows how to use his effect pedals. That opening riff is probably my favorite “triumphant introduction” to […]
I haven’t posted in forever, and this will probably be my last. The other dudes on this blog are much better writers anyway. Sweet.
So, in a few days I’m moving out of my parents’ house, finally, finally. I don’t really have anything else to say about it. Without further ado, here is a song I’ve […]
Leave me the fuck alone. Let me like that fucking record. How is it hurting you?
Tiny Mix Tapes posted a really great interview with Martin Freeman from the UK Office. It’s about record-collecting, the evils of the mp3 format, The Band…a bunch of stuff. Read it here.
This is my favorite song on the new Deerhoof album. It has plenty of what I love about the band–John Dietrich’s guitars and Greg Saunier’s drums–and not too much what I’m not 100% about–Satomi Matsuzaki’s vocals.
The guitar chords that introduce the song are brooding; preparing. They are porcupines patrolling the edge of their forest, preparing […]
The first single from the new Bjork album is very okay. I remember getting excited upon hearing that Timbaland would be teaming up with her, and this track is exactly what one would expect from their collaboration: Great vocals and great drums…yet there’s definetley something missing here.
Timbaland’s Battlestar-Galactica-end-credits-tribal-drums make my heartrate triple, and the synth […]