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

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 30, 2012

Here is some cleanup from listening sessions months ago that never found their way to be published. Many of these were from October 2011 and a pretty tough stretch for me. Several things were ending, and not in a way I liked. I'm not over that, probably won't ever be, but music remains a constant thread through my life. Sometimes it has preserved my sanity and sometimes it has served to give expression to many of the emotions that are too hard to know how to feel about.

Swirly - Ringo Deathstarr

Always Looking - Dum Dum Girls

Vessel - Zola Jesus

Get Right - Megafaun

Montana - Youth Lagoon

Free As A Bird - The Beatles

Ghost Town - First Aid Kit

The Lion's Roar - First Aid Kit

And some from now...

Hair - Lady Gaga

Old Friend - Caveman

Gold - Delayed Trees

Art of Almost - Wilco

Always more to come...

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