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.

December 19, 2014

And here's more from end of the year lists...

Queen - Perfume Genius
Quartz - TV on the Radio
Jackie And Wilson - Hozier
Brill Bruisers - The New Pornographers
Seasons (Waiting on You) - Future Islands
Taking Chances - Sharon Van Etten
Shades of Cool - Lana Del Rey
Could I Be - Sylvan Esso
Under The Pressure - The War On Drugs
Rent I Pay - Spoon
Weight of Love - The Black Keys
High Ball Stepper - Jack White
Lights On - FKA Twigs
Blue Moon - Beck
Nara - Alt-Ja

December 18, 2014

2014 drawing to a close. Work has been demanding enough of my focus that I haven't been able to listen nearly as much as I would like.

Lots of music on NPR top album lists, top 20 lists etc... Here are some that caught my ear.


Traces of Our Tears - The Rentals
Coffee - Sylvan Esso
Carissa - Sun Kil Moon
The Body Electric - Small Town Heroes
Morning - Beck
Sparrow - Joe Henry
Full Stick - Herzog
Palace - The Antlers
Two Weeks - FKA Twigs
Dark Side of the Moon - Chris Staples
Small Window - Luluc
Archie, Marry Me - Alvvays
Soon Come Soon - Young Fathers
Cleopatra - Weezer

October 22, 2014

A handful of songs to jot down. Listened to the early stream of The Flaming Lips song by song recreation of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper. Such a wonderful mixture of weird experimentation, Interesting Collaborations, and a fresh take on this much loved and familiar music. Worth a listen for any fans out there.



On The Rocks - The Rural Alberta Advantage
Paradise Girls - Deerhoof
It's Our Game - Helado Negro
Jackie and Wilson - Hozier
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Flaming Lips
With A Little Help From My Friends - The Flaming Lips
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Flaming Lips
Getting Better - The Flaming Lips
She's Leaving Home - The Flaming Lips
Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite - The Flaming Lips
When I'm Sixty-Four - The Flaming Lips
Lovely Rita - The Flaming Lips
Sordid Affair - Röyksopp

October 13, 2014

I like ice cream a lot. I can eat ice cream about as fast as anyone I know. It is a talent / quirk / genetic predisposition. It is so tasty and creamy and rich, and sometimes gives you a headache. I've been listening to a log of EDM music lately, especially when I'm heads down working, concentrating on something else, Bass thumping in my brain and no need to concentrate. That's like ice cream - especially the headache part... It's tasty, It's enjoyable. but when you take in nothing but that for days on end after a while you start to get tired of it. I still like the lazy energy and catchy electro-sounds in EDM, I'll still enjoy it from time to time, but today I flipped over to a pandora channel spun from the National. As those first crunchy guitars, forlorn horns, and above all, lyrics with depth and meaning I realized again that this is more my speed / more of what it takes to keep my brain in the right place.

Here's a few songs, some new to me, some old favorites.



Take me to Church - Hozier
Satellite - Guster
Neigborhood #3 (Power Out) - Arcade Fire
For Emma - Bon Iver
Gospel - The National
Gone for Good - The Shins
Neighborhood #4 (Kettles) - Arcade Fire
Family Tree - TV on the Radio
1901 - Phoenix
We're Going to be Friends - White Stripes
Fiery Crash - Andrew Bird
Holocene - Bon Iver
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate - The Flaming Lips
New Slang - The Shins
As Tall As Cliffs - Margot and the Nuclear So and So's




Plenty more to come in the days ahead.

October 7, 2014

Way way too busy. Pressure raising a bit at work. Have just completed a pretty intense 2 month long period where I couldn't listen to music much at all. Getting just a little these days. Will drop some that I found interesting lately below....

Interesting Mix from ASC. Some electronic twists in there. Not necessarily my favorite, but interesting to say the least.

Little Maggie - Robert Plant
Taranta - Mina Tindle
Nose Grows Some - Thom Yorke
CIRCLONT14 [152.97] [shrymoming mix] - Aphex Twin
The Night is Young - The Two Bears
The Way He Looks at Me - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
Form by Firelight - Jon Hopkins
Come Unwound - The Bulls
What You Think I Am - The Choir
Two Clouds Are One - The Choir
White Knuckles - The Choir