January 12, 2024

Getting ready for a family weekend. It's not without its challenges, but launch headlong into it we shall.

Couple new songs, couple old songs, Lots of favorite bands. Some new ones. An interesting mix.








Beautiful People (Stay High) - The Black Keys
One Eyed Bastard - Green Day
Sea of Love - The National

How Can I Make it OK? - Wolf Alice

Stadium Love - Metric

Kill You - Swim School

Electirc Blue - Arcade Fire

All The Children - The Airborne Toxic Event

Kyoto - Phoebe Bridgers

Rhythm & Blues - The Head and The Heart

Sleepwalker - The Killers

Chaise Longue - Wet Leg

Stuff - Sl0tface

Wide Eyes - The Big Moon

More to come...

Aug 14, 2018

A mid-July edition of All Songs Considered caught my ear today. Great Selection of new Music!

Also, Holy Shit Meg Myers. Might need to do a Meg Myers only post. Love it.



Dark Saturday - Metric
Water - Ohmme
Soft Stud - Black Belt Eagle Scout
Make Time 4 Love - The Goon Sax
Hot Hot - Mirah
The Storm Won't Come - Richard Thompson
A Trick of the Light - Villagers
Do Your Hair - Ty Segall & White Fence
Tear Me To Pieces - Meg Myers

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

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

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.

May 1, 2013

Happy International Worker's Day. Still stuck on a Metric kick.


Empty - Metric
Patriarch on a Vespa - Metric
Ending Start - Metric
Pear Tree - We Were Promised Jetpacks

More to come

April 25, 2013

These are mostly old songs that resonate.


Intervention - Arcade Fire
Windowsill - Arcade Fire
Breathing Under Water - Metric
Ghost Town - Shiny Toy Guns

More to come.

End of August

It's been a weird period of adjustment for a number of different reasons. Been listening to a lot of Editors, but not a ton of other music. But here are a few songs that are getting me through the days.

Smile (Pictures or it didn't happen) - Amanda Palmer
On and On - The Sea and Cake
Radioactive - Imagine Dragons
Demons - Imagine Dragons
Artificial Nocturne - Metric
Youth Without Youth - Metric
Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors - Editors

Publishing this like 2 months after the fact. Need to collect my thoughts and put down what I'm listening to now. Ugh.

March 8, 2012

Thanks to Pandora, spent a day or two listening to light, female driven alt rock... Hauntingly beautiful music but mostly sad, struggling, and all too relatable lyrics. Oh, and the Kishi Bashi song is awesome.

Sleep Through Summer - Now Now Every Children

I Won't Be Left - Tegan and Sara

Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John

Cheated Hearts - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Where is My Mind - Pixies

Don't Rush - Tegan and Sara

Magnetic Hill - Land of Talk

Everyone You Know - Now Now Every Children

Runaway - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Help I'm Alive - Metric

Isolation - Carissa's Wierd

Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Soft Shock - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

All the Rowboats - Regina Spektor

Bright Whites - Kishi Bashi

December 19, 2009

Christmas time, Snowstorm has descended and left the world white. The past few weeks have been busy ones but time keeps on rolling along. The end of the year brings retrospectives of what music has been important over the past year. Here are some songs that I've enjoyed hearing.

Satellite Skin - Modest Mouse

Sick Muse - Metric

French Navy - Camera Obscura

You are the Blood - Sufjan Stevens

Say Please - Monsters of Folk

Eet - Regina Spektor

Wilco - Wilco

Hand Me Down - Visqueen

Blood Part 2 - Buck 65

Take a Minute - K'Naan

I am a Pilot - Fanfarlo

Kettering - The Antlers

Winds Dark Poem - Mt. Airy

Blue Skies - Noah and the Whale

Coast of Carolina - Telekineses

August 24, 2009

Whew. Time is just flying by. Today our baby girl turns 4 months. I'll list a few notable events of the past few months...

• Lots of Baby Stuff
• New roof on our house
• Started up our fishtank again
• 2 of my fave people spent 9 weeks away in Europe
• Attended Green Day Concert in Philadelphia with one of my best friends
  
• Have enjoyed reasonably stable outlook all summer.
  
• Lots and lots of music... some of it listed below.
  

Help I'm Alive - Metric
The Greatest Man That Ever Lived - Weezer
Fix You - Coldplay
Kristy, Are You Doing OK? - The Offspring
The Mountain - Heartless Bastards
Dustland Fairytale - The Killers
Last of the American Girls - Green Day
21 Guns - Green Day
Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Rake Song - The Decemberists
Sons and Daughters - The Decemberists
The Calculation - Regina Spektor
Laughing with - Regina Spektor
Study War - Moby
Zombie - The Cranberries
Le Disko - Shiny Toy Guns