December 14, 2015

Shoegaze kick. Courtesy of soundcloud. No real reason why. Just because.


The Plain Moon - The Besnard Lakes
Caffè - Rev Rev Rev
Kaleidoscope - 93MMFTS
How Soon is Now Best - Ammoniad
Fly On (The) - Crimsonettes
Georgeous - In a Lonely Place
Reina Republicana-Clonidina - Está Pasando
Melting Consciousness - Movoco
Crush - Breather
Accidents Happen - CharlatanSounds
Dear Reality - Salsa Cinderella
Wake Me Up - My Expansive Awareness
Distortion Girls - Distortion Girls

December 8, 2015

More from several places. Including some of the 2015 year in review show from All Songs Considered...




Dearly Departed - Shakey Graves
The Perfect Parts - Shakey Graves
Family and Genus - Shakey Graves
Pedestrian at Best - Courtney Barnett
Price Tag - Sleater-Kinney
Crowded Stranger - Girlpool
Dimestore Cowgirl - Kacey Musgraves
Sprinter - Torres
Magnetized - Wilco
Easy Now - Joan Shelley

November 30, 2015

Bit of a sad tint to the day. Some music to help cope with blues that haven't been nearly as common as I'm used to.



Grace of Lace - Battlehooch
Telephone - DOCKS
I Don't Care - Down and Outlaws
Devastate - Everyone is Dirty
Void - GRMLN
Faultlines - HEARTWATCH
Midnight - The New Schematics
Born without Borders - The New Schematics
All In - The New Schematics
Fish Me - Paisano
Shadowplay - The Saint Johns
Sleeper Hold - Saintseneca
Bad Ideas - Saintseneca


Always on the lookout for new music. I'll keep logging what grabs my ear.

November 13, 2015

Cleanup from the last month or so. Where does the time go? These are new songs to me, they come from a number of different places. All of them caught my ear for some reason.

Introvert - Slaughter Beach
Misguided Light - Younghusband
Desire - Dilly Dally
Even Magic Falters - Marian McLaughlin
Ch-Ching - Chairlift
Elegy To The Void - Beach House
The Kitchen - Tow'rs
Helm - Tow'rs
Mindful - Tow'rs
Porcelain - Tow'rs
Still Here - Thatcher
Illuminated - Thatcher
Close - Thatcher
Bones - Thatcher
White Knuckles - Boh Doran
I Am Real - Boh Doran
The Starting Gun - Candythief
Amnesty - Candythief

October 2, 2015

A bunch of random new songs, most downloaded from Noisetrade, a distribution site that specializes in young artists who are just looking to get EPs distributed and into the hands of as many people as possible. Most of these bands I've never heard of, but I like the sounds they're putting out. Many of them are accessible and responsive on Social Media, giving an extra component of experiencing someone's art.

Enjoy,

Inhale - Nikki Jumper
Black Boots - Nikki Jumper
Wild Roads - Nikki Jumper
No Looking Back - Coves
No Ladder (Revisited) - Coves
Shoes Grow Smaller - Derrival
Original Script - Derrival
Quarterback - Kopecky
Are You Listening - Kopecky
Easy Way Out - Other Lives
Reconfiguration - Other Lives
Imperfections - Passport to Stockholm
Reality - Passport to Stockholm
Bad Things - Rayland Baxter
Let Go - Roses and Revolutions
Bonnie and Clyde - Roses and Revolutions

September 28, 2015

Going on a run with Pandora. I'll jot down anything that strikes my fancy.

Busy Day. Crazy day. A few nice songs crossed my ears. Some familiar some not. Enjoy...



Intro - The XX
Meet Me In The Woods - Lord Huron
Gone - The Head and The Heart
Lately - The Helio Sequence
Riptide - Vance Joy
Broke - Modest Mouse
This Modern Love - Bloc Party
Lucky - Radiohead
The Stable Song - Gregory Alan Isakov
NYC - Interpol
Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
Bermuda - Givers

September 11, 2015

A few strange ones and a bunch of Radiohead. Just seemed to fit today.



Won't Want For Love (Margaret in the Taiga) - The Decemberists
Monster Hospital - Metric
A Slum of Legs - Dralms
4th And Roebling - The Districts
Little By Little - Radiohead
Climbing Up The Walls - Radiohead
Myxomatosis (Judge, Jury & Executioner) - Radiohead
Give Up The Ghost - Radiohead
There There (The Boney King of Norway) - Radiohead
Lotus Flower - Radiohead
I Might Be Wrong - Radiohead


Day's getting old. Music's not. More next time.

September 10, 2015

Another busy day. Snatching as much time under my headphones as I can. Still listening to a completely random sampling of all the music I have. Makes for an interesting sequence to say the least. Anyway, here are a few that caught my ear.


In The Lion - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
On The Water - The Walkmen
Electioneering - Radiohead
A Wolf At The Door - Radiohead
Soft Rock Star - Metric
Who Am I - The House United
Numb Bears - Of Monsters and Men
Dauðalogn - Sigur Ros
Reminder - Mumford and Sons
Only Love - Mumford and Sons
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles
Spotlight - Leagues

September 9, 2015

More songs. Busy day. Just tuning in to a random sprinkling of music from my laptop. Lots are familiar. Lots are not.


Hook and Line - The Kills
Recover - CHVRCHES
Hey Jude - Joe Anderson
Kiss With A Fist - Florence and the Machine
Ditmas - Mumford and Sons
Consequence of Sound - Regina Spektor
Walk Away - Green Day
Hallucinations - The Raveonettes
The Thing About Dreams - The Airborne Toxic Event
Fast Friends - Paul Dempsey
The Ocean - Noah Gunderson
The Instrumental - We Are Augustines
Ricochet! - Shiny Toy Guns

September 8, 2015

Couple songs from a random playlist of songs hanging out on my laptop waiting to be listened to. Always interesting to realize that there are great songs that I've either overlooked or just forgotten about. So much music to experience, only so much time.


Phone Went West - My Morning Jacket
Flying - The Secret Machines
Lucky (Stint Remix) - Said The Whale
Boys Will Be Out For A Fight - The Filthy Souls
Aftermath - Muse
All Apologies - Nirvana
Horseshoes And Handgrenades - Green Day


As always, there will be more to come...

August 12, 2015

Heads down working on finishing a project at work. Able to snatch a little time with some new music.  Here are a few that stood out.



I Do What I Want - Secret Club
Hush - Cappa
Get Better - Million Trillion
Start Again - Y0UTH
When My Heart Says Goodbye - Chasing Lovely
Go Slow - Lenachka
Wake Up - The Mailboxes
Paralysed - A Silent Film
Tomorrow - A Silent Film
Great. Okay. - Just Lions
Everything Goes Away - Just Lions
Slow Dancer - Noah Gunderson
Jealous Love - Noah Gunderson
Golden Twin - Wild Ones
Nina - Wild  Ones

August 10, 2015

Just another busy Monday in the midst of a run of busy weeks. Hardly have time to stop and think. A weird mix of songs that caught my ear.



Tightrope - Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors
Darlin' - Dave Barnes
Disappointed - Ivory Layne
Aftermath - Fever Fever
Bugs - Talkie
Fire in My Bones - Fleurie
In A Dream - Golden Youth
Noises - Mike Mains and The Branches
Forget You in LA - Poema
Witches - Ravenhill
Talking with Strangers - Miya Folick
Lifted Away - Joseph
Nothing Left to Lose - Pioneer
Start Somewhere - A Yawn Worth Yelling

July 27, 2015

Smattering of New Music I've been parsing through these days, here are a few that caught my ear. The stunning choral work by Muse in the title track of their latest album blows me away.



Mercy - Muse
Drones - Muse
The Shade - Metric
Turn to Dust - Wolf Alice
Bros - Wolf Alice
Your Loves Whore - Wolf Alice


Busy day. Didn't get to listen to much, but some good stuff nonetheless. More to come

July 20, 2015

Crazy busy summer careening by. Attended Firefly Music Festival for the 4th time, Buried 2 grandparents, grieved with a friend for the loss of a grandparent. Sister proceeding with an engagement of questionable wisdom. Life keeps on happening. It's all I can do to grab on some of it as it screams by. Was able to take in the New Pornographers Brill Bruisers tour, which was a great time. This is music from Noisetrade, ASC, or other places...


Young Girls - PINS
Honey - Kid Wave
Baby - Hannah Cohen
Kathleen Sat on the Arm of Her Favorite Chair - Hooton Tennis Club
Chwyldro - Gwenno
Bar Lights - Altadore
Losing You - Altadore
I Admit I'm Scared - Eskimeaux
Hiding the Moon - Hunee



As always - more to come.

June 11, 2015

Excitement building for Firefly. Music going almost nonstop at my desk. Here are a few that caught my ear...




I Never Would - Seapony
I Really Do - Seapony
Dead Sound - The Raveonettes
Love In A Trashcan - The Raveonettes
Kill The Light - Kitten
Black Sheep - Metric
Fluffy - Wolf Alice
This Lonely Morning - Best Coast

April 21, 2015

I've been fighting the urge to jot songs down. Finally went ahead and started listing them. Running through a random sampling of my on disk library. Crazy combinations of this and that and three of the other. As always these are songs I enjoy that I haven't listed in the past.



Banks and Ballrooms - The Lonely Wild
Faust Arp - Radiohead
Handshakes - Metric
Glass Ceiling - Metric
Bones - Editors
Romeo and Juliet - The Killers
The Porch - Reservations
Stupidland - Family of the Year
Zoo Station - U2
Don't Pass My By - The Beatles
Timeline - CHAPPO
Paper Gangsta - Lady Gaga
I Will Sing You Love Songs - My Morning Jacket
River Rhine - Bison
The Day - They Might Be Giants



Always more to come. Keep listening.

March 12, 2015 (2)

Friday the 13th. More stress at work. More things to worry about. More new music.




Hatcher Creek - Strawberry Runners
Anything I Do Is All Right - Happyness
Strange Hellos - Torres
Tame Impala - Sunflower Bean
Colors - Genevieve
Jackrabbit - San Fermin

March 12, 2015

Have I mentioned how much I enjoy just hearing brand new music. These are bands I've never heard of. Thanks NPR. So refreshing. Here's more of what I liked...



I Like Not Knowing - Fatherson
Uja - Tanya Tagaq
I Love You Money - Lowell
First of August - Joan Shelley
We Are Siamese - The Lees of Memory
Acid Reflex - Pity Sex
Witness - Makthaverskan
Time To Go Home - Chastity Belt
Silhouettes - Colony House
Keef Ripper - Donovan Wolfington
Free - Whiskey Shivers
Understand the Problem - Quiet Company
Blah Blah Blah - Girlpool
Strange Enough - VÉRITÉ
Bamboo - Hinds

March 11, 2015

More new music from the NPR Austin 100. Artists playing SXSW.


Falling - Howard
Townie - Mitski
Everyone But You - Field Mouse
Sedona - Houndmouth
Shiny Things - A. Sinclair
Mania - The Last Year
Thinkin of U - Summer Heart
Darker Side of Sunshine - Bell Gardens

March 10, 2015

SXSW firing up in Austin. NPR providing it's usual rotation of 100 songs mostly from bands I've never heard of. Here are a few songs that caught my ear amidst the hectic crazyness of lots of stuff going on at work. I do enjoy hearing brand new music for the first time.



Something New - Summer Cannibals
Perfect Vision - Cheerleader
Älgen - Amason
Sykia - Young Buffalo
All The Pretty Girls - Kaleo
Pink Slime - La Luz
OutRight - Wild Party
Swimming Pool - Emmy the Great
Ghosts - Ibeyi
Radar - Moving Panoramas
I'm Ready - Geographer

March 5, 2015

The swelling tide of responsibility and projects that need to be done is rolling towards me. I feel like I'm swimming happily (more or less) along at the beach and on the horizon a huge wave is forming. Not a tidal wave or anything, but one large enough that I'm probably going to be tossed around for a bit. I don't know yet how large it will be nor how easy to ride it out, etc... from here it looks like it's going to be a rough go. But you still have to just get through it.

As per usual, these are some songs that struck my fancy. Some old favorites, some newly discovered. Music helps get through those overwhelming waves.

Fake Empire - The National

Next Exit - Interpol
Breathe Me - Sia
Blood - The Middle East
Calgary - Bon Iver
The New - Interpol
To Go Home - M. Ward
Bloodstream - Stateless
Evil - Interpol
Flume - Bon Iver
Jezebel - Iron and Wine
Hallelujah - The Helio Sequence

February 26, 2015

It's a Thursday. Snowing heavily. 1/12th of the year is gone since my birthday. The dreary month of February is almost done. Ticket to Firefly acquired for another year. And I have new music to listen to. The Airborne Toxic Event dropped a surprise acoustic album along with their latest release. I'll be listening through "Songs of God and Whisky" for the first time. It has the potential to be a good day. We'll see.


Poor Isaac - The Airborne Toxic Event
A Certain Type of Girl - The Airborne Toxic Event
Change and Change and Change and Change - The Airborne Toxic Event
April is the Cruelest Month - The Airborne Toxic Event
The Lines of the Cars - The Airborne Toxic Event
Strangers - The Airborne Toxic Event
Why Why Why - The Airborne Toxic Event
The Fall of Rome - The Airborne Toxic Event

February 16, 2015

Trip to Ohio. Good chance to relax a little. Home with my girls today. Have enjoyed the snatches of music I've been able to grab. Here are a few songs that caught my ear...



Hollow Moon - Awolnation
Recognition - THEESatisfaction
Feel The Lightening - Dan Deacon
Pacify - Jackson Scott
Black Soap - Ex Cops
Wolves - Dreamers

February 4, 2015

Pressure mounting at the office. Trying to drown myself in the familiar melancholy of sad music. A pretty dismal winter, up until my Birthday in late January. Up until then, the normal struggle with rejection was winning pretty handily. Since then a handful of things, elucidated elsewhere, although probably never published, surprisingly point toward what is at least healthy if not strong relationship. I've been thinking through the dichotomy of little things such as I crave actually occurring, but still feeling like any happiness is sure to crumble, and that whatever happiness I try to experience is unearned and short lived. Ah well. Much to deep for me. But it slightly informs this sad strain of music and how that feels comfortable to me.

Also on pins and needles for the Firefly lineup to come out. Could be today, could be any day really. Really hoping for St Vincent, Metric, and of course Arcade Fire.



Always Gold - Radical Face
How To Fight Loneliness - Wilco
Learning - The National
Broadripple is Burning - Margot and the Nuclear So and So's
Love Vigilantes - Iron and Wine
Crown of Love - Arcade Fire
Michicant - Bon Iver
Gentle Hour - Yo Lo Tengo
Darkmatter - Andrew Bird
Shelter - The XX

January 23, 2015

Tough weekend. Only tough days loom ahead. Sad and Reflective mood.
Coming weekend looms tiring, but strangely enough, I'm ready for it. Sometimes the chance to get some things off my chest help me feel better about life in general. Mix of songs is strange, and reflects a bit the complication of not knowing for sure how I feel or fit in to certain situations.



Love Takes A Wrecking Ball - A Silent Film
Heartbeat - The Kopecky Family Band
Work It Out - Knox Hamilton
Goshen '97 - Strand of Oaks
Say My Name - ODESZA
Boys Can Never Tell - J. Roddy Walston and The Business
Seventeen - Lake Street Dive
Sugar - FIVE KNIVES



More to come. Especially with the Firefly lineup not that far away.

January 15, 2015

A bit of furor over the release and impending release of Music Festival lineups. Confession: I quite enjoy that kind of furor. Looking forward to the lineup that Firefly will put out. Still hasn't been released but the rumours point to Pail McCartney, The Killers, and Kings of Leon as headliners. Not a bad first line. Here's hoping that many more quality artists fill it in, and I would still love it if they managed to work Arcade Fire into the mix somehow. Oh well, we'll see.

Enjoying a few Noisetrade albums, some artists I heard last year at firefly. Here is some things I've found myself listening to...

Only - Shakey Graves
Parasites - San Fermin
My Place - Young Buffalo
Hold - Austin Manuel
Stare at the Sun - Death By Unga Bunga
Sweet Tooth - My Goodness
Raindrops - IAMEVE
I'm Not Ready - Chappo
Where Scars Don't Show - Cold Mailman
No Joke - Boxed In
We Are Undone - Two Gallants
Common Mistake - The Bad Years
The Man I Was Before - Christian Lopez  Band
Next Time - Satellite Sky
Money and Shiny Things - The Damnwells

... More to come...

January 8, 2015

First list from the new year. Just catching a few songs here and there while trying to keep up with work. Plenty of anxiety on just about every front.

Bling (Confessions of a King) - The Killers
Music is my Hot Hot Sex - CSS
Commercial Breakdown - Sunshine Underground
Love - Foster the People
Put 'em Up - Priory
Sad Machine - Porter Robinson
Main Offender - The Hives
Sacrilege - Yeah Yeah Yeahs


Busy day and busy evening...

More music soon.