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