Oyez

Broked

2009-03-22T21:32:00.001-04:00

My computer broke so I'm waiting for a new one to come in the mail. Therefore it might be a while before music makes its way onto Oyez.

Vetiver

2009-03-03T14:01:00.010-05:00

Their new album Tight Knit makes me happy. So give it a listen and then the happiness will be yours also.

from: vetiverse.com

More Of This Tight Knit (2009)
Another Reason To Go Tight Knit (2009)

Some older songs because it's all quite good:
Blue Driver A Thing of the Past (2008)
Idle Ties To Find Me Gone (2006)

Buy Tight Knit and other Vetiver albums at Amazon, Insound, or iTunes

I want to walk around with you

2009-02-22T01:42:00.012-05:00

Since I haven't posted much in a long time I'm going to post a buttload of songs now since the favorites have been building up and you need to know about all of them. So here I go.

1. Animal Collective Summertime Clothes
Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

2. Little Joy The Next Time Around
Little Joy (2008)

3. Sam Prekop C + F
Who's Your New Professor? (2005)

4. Beirut The Concubine
March of The Zapotec and Realpeople Holland (2009)

5. Alela Diane White As Diamonds
To Be Still (2009)

6. The Thermals Now We Can See
Now We Can See (2009)

7. Department of Eagles Teenagers
In Ear Park

8. Bowerbirds My Oldest Memory
Hymns For A Dark Horse (2008)

9. Bishop Allen The Monitor
The Broken String (2007)

10. The Dodos God?
Visiter (2008)

11. The Shivers Lonely Road
Beaks To The Moon (2008)

12. Andrew Bird Effigy
Noble Beast (2009)

13. Grizzly Bear While You Wait for the Others
Morning Becomes Electric (2008)

14. Diane Cluck Easy To Be Around
Oh Vanille/Ova Nil (2005)

15. Okkervil River On Tour With Zykos
The Stand Ins (2008)

If you like what you hear then do some artist supporting: Amazon / Insound / iTunes

Too cute to be eaten

2009-02-09T23:52:00.010-05:00

Last night I had a terrible dream that my family was starving so we were going to cook Devendra Banhart and eat him. I felt like I was losing a brother. It was a tragedy.
Sort of felt like this song:

Devendra Banhart Remember
Smoky Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, (2007)

If you actually look at this blog, I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while. I've been feeling discouraged about the point of keeping this up, but sometimes I can't help it, I get in a creative music blogging mood. So far I've been able to ignore it but today not so much.

Derderder

2008-10-13T12:15:00.005-04:00

Chill list. Stuff I've liked that is calm, instrumental, or dark.

By Kelly McKernan

Throw Me The Statue Moonbeams
Moonbeams

The Whitest Boy Alive Burning
Dreams

Kings Of Convenience Weight Of My Words (Four Tet Remix)
Versus

Radiohead The Amazing Sounds of Orgy
B-sides

Holy Shit Rough & Tumble
Rough & Tumble 45

Eluvium I Will Not Forget That I Have Forgotten
When I Live By The Garden And The Sea

Everyone likes The Temptations

2008-09-30T21:14:00.001-04:00

You do too.

I wonder if the days I've lived through count

2008-09-08T16:35:00.013-04:00

Finally a post featuring an actual band...or two. I'm too lazy for this usually and my interests are scattered week to week. However, today that's not the case because I'm in school again now. This means I seem to pay more attention to music. It has to do with the whole being immersed in the pursuit of knowledge, growth, and self thing that's supposed to happen when one takes college seriously. Although I'm not sure if I do that enough or not. Anyway...

The Clientele

This band has taken a few years to grow on me because I didn't particularly care for the singer's voice. It's like an exaggerated Beatles-esque stoned sounding voice that tends to make me feel dopey for listening. I'm not sure that makes sense as I'm not very good at describing these kinds of things, but on to my point. Somehow once I got over the voice, The Clientele's music actually became rather groovy/pleasant and suitable for procrastinating with instead when assigned to read articles on the Bush Doctrine. So there you go. They're catchy, so listen.

Share The Night That Night, A Forest Grew (2008)
Bookshop Casanova God Save The Clientele (2007)
E.M.P.T.Y. Strange Geometry (2005)

When the night it comes to me
I wonder if the days I've lived through count
With the world strung like a rosary
Through faces moving in the crowd
What is the color, and the number
When happiness begins?
When the night waits in the laurels
There's a dream

Alela Diane

Alela Diane, I've also known about for a while. It's simple folk music that feels like a story unfolding, a rustic cabin, and sepia tinted old pictures. Also her voice is nice and a little different.

The Pirate's Gospel The Pirate's Gospel (2006)
Foreign Tongue The Pirate's Gospel (2006)

(Click the artist names above for their website. And to download now, just click the link, rather than right click and save as.)

2008-07-13T21:45:00.005-04:00

I am so jealous one moment although that first physical pang of jealousy stays in my stomach for hours.
Then I am realizing what emotion I always feel. Unfulfillment. I guess it's not a real word in this form but it works because whatever it is, it is. It is something that won't leave, it's always here. It makes everything lacking, dull, graphite pencil. I'm avoiding "empty". It has been used too many times before with not quite the level of meaning I wish to convey. Words won't help me now though. Only pictures and songs can try to explain so here is what I heard when I felt something:

Before I felt anything. Just cute.

Antsy Pants Vampire
Juno OST

Then I felt like listening to this song because I remember it taking over me this one time I was parked in someone's gravel driveway sitting in the car looking at the raindrops falling on the windshield and then putting my head on the steering wheel and thinking about the air in my lungs, feeling sort of alive. Then thinking about how someone used this song to get over a relationship and they listened to it on repeat and I wanted to remember them and think about how much I missed them and how jealous I felt about some petty thing having to do with them.

The Dandy Warhols The Last High
Welcome To The Monkey House

Then this came on and it closely matches whatever it was that I felt. It reminds me of Waking Life, of floating through the air, feeling aimless and lost, in a never ending pattern, and not caring much more about it for any longer. And because this reminds me of Waking Life I might have to find my favorite part in the movie and show it to you.

Grizzly BearMarla
Yellow House

This Sigur Ros song followed right after to pick up on my emotions more. Like that strange floating feeling, and the feeling that some truths are unfolding, and some dark days are going to come and some hard rain is going to fall, and then boom I'm jealous, I'm conflicted, I'm missing him terribly, I'm terrified of what my existence has come to mean, I'm scared of days ahead, I'm so blank, and all is quiet and I'm floating again, forgetting what I needed to remember and pay attention to.

Sigur Ros I Gaer
Hauf/Heim

A few hours later the feelings subside. I have someone to talk to. I am feeling a little better. And there's a part about "pretty soon I would be in your arms" and a comforting voice and sort of reminds me of myself if I was happier and had someone to see when I am feeling like this. It's a song that is like the next morning when everything is forgotten or thought of as silly and pointless and the sun is out.

Julie Doiron I Left Town
Woke Myself Up

Part from Waking Life that I like:

"If you can wake up you should, because one day you won't be able to."

I got car.

2008-07-07T23:36:00.006-04:00

Yar. The other week I bought a 1993 Mercedes Benz 300 CE coupe. It's super nice, and in really good shape with low miles. But alas, I think it's a gas guzzler. I didn't really have a choice at that point though. My parents were pushing me to get it because it's heavy and safe and reliable and whatever else it is that parents care about.

Theme song for owning a car:

The Cars Here In My Car

2008-05-29T12:03:00.007-04:00

Now if you listen closely, I'll tell you what I know,
Storm clouds are gathering,the wind is gonna blow.
The race of man is suffering, and I can hear the moan,
But nobody, no nobody, can make it alone.

--Alone by Maya Angelou

It's been a while since an update. I'm not sure why. I'm supposed to have more free time in the summer but alas. Work sucks up my life and time. So here's a buttload of things I've enjoyed when I've had time to listen to music.

Grandaddy A.M. 180
Under The Western Freeway, 2001

Sigur Ros Gobbledigook
Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, 2008, coming out June 24th (This is Sigur Ros? Wow. Also it starts out sounding like this Dave Matthew's Band song)

Jose Gonzalez Love Will Tear Us Apart
Veneer, 2006

Weezer Burndt Jamb
Maladroit, 2002

Hanne Hukkelburg A Cheaters Armoury
Rykestrasse 68, 2007

The Beatles Goodbye
Not for Sale

Rocky Votolato Tinfoil Hats
Makers, 2006

The Clockwork Army Father Feed Me
Pall Rough

Ryan Adams English Girls Approximately
Love is Hell, 2004

Eddie Vedder Hard Sun
Into The Wild Soundtrack, 2007

Vetiver Roll On Babe
A Thing of the Past, 2008

Egon Schiele

2008-04-16T20:10:00.004-04:00

I learned today that I really like this artist despite him being sort of a pervert (or at least in his time he was considered to be one). It makes me want to sketch and paint and this is annoying because I seem to get into inspired artistic moods when I have to do something that has nothing to do with art. I have to write a paper for anthropology right now. Anyways Egon Schiele, he was a coolio.

Here is a song about him. He did lots of self portraits.
Rachel's First Self-Portrait Series
Music for Egon Schiele (1995)

Smoking crack and cutting crack

2008-04-16T13:23:00.003-04:00

Lately I've been contemplating where I fit in the context of the whole and why people don't care or want to know about the rest of the big world out there and the many ideas circulating around it. This kind of stuff seems like a life mission to me and I thought for everyone, that it is good to learn, experience, love as much as possible. Anyways part of this starts with the fact that I went to this world music festival happening at my school last weekend. Not a lot of people showed up and this saddened and annoyed me. Anyways I heard some groovy sarod and tablas. Here's a video to give you an idea about that.

I was in the throes of despair not long ago but then something happened that was hopeful and reaffirming. Now I am too busy to feel one way or another. I might be winding back down into sadness. Here is some music. I don't know what I mean by it. I don't know where I am. But everything sounds good somedays.

1. The Moldy Peaches Steak For Chicken
Personal Humidity

2. Third Eye Blind Deep Inside of You
Blue

3. The Talking Heads This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
Once in a Lifetime

4. Peter and the Wolf Better Days
The Ivori Palms

5. Iron & Wine Sodom, South Georgia
Our Endless Numbered Days

6. Sufjan Stevens The One I Love (R.E.M. Cover)

7. Radiohead How To Disappear Completely
Kid A

Videoz

2008-03-28T19:26:00.003-04:00

The Books - Classy Penguin

MGMT - Electric Feel

Kings of Convenience - I'd Rather Dance With You

Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla

Yummy

2008-03-16T23:38:00.006-04:00

This picture is probably really inappropriate for the mood of the songs I've chosen but in my view that makes it appropriate, appropriate for being inappropriate. If that doesn't make sense it's okay. Just listen to music.

Do Make Say Think A Tender History In Rust
You, You're A History In Rust (2007)

Carly Commando Every Day

My Brightest Diamond Feeling Good
(2006)

Dipsomaniacs Miles Away

DeVotchKa This Place Is Haunted
How It Ends (2004)

Sigur Ros Untitled #8
() (2002)

A thousand half-loves must be foresaken to take the whole heart home

2008-03-14T14:25:00.008-04:00

Read:

These paths all have the common aim of seeking to overcome the problem that arose when the individual entered into dualism, developing a spurious 'subjective self' or 'ego' that experiences the world as separate from itself, external and objective, and which continually tries to manipulate that world in order to obtain satisfaction and security. In truth, one will never manage to attain satisfaction and security this way, because the cause of suffering and dissatisfaction is none other than the fundamental sense of incompleteness that is the inevitable consequence of being in the state of dualism--and, moreover, all the seemingly external phenomena on which we try to base our satisfaction and security are impermanent.

--From The Crystal And The Way Of Light: Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu

Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, "The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within you.

--Luke 17:20-21

By Ben Miller

Listen:

This is just a playlist of no meaning really. I just happen to like these songs this week.

1. Les Savy Fav Yawn, Yawn, Yawn
Inches (2004)

2. These United States First Sight
A Picture of the Three of Us at the Gate to the Garden of Eden (2008)

3. Patrick Wolf Overture
The Magic Position (2007)

4. The Elected Greetings In Braille
Me First (2004)

5. Yelle Amour du Sol
Pop-Up (2007)

6. Wilco Muzzle Of Bees
A Ghost Is Born (2004)

7. MGMT Kids
Oracular Spectacular (2008)

8. Wheat I Met A Girl
Per Second, Per Second, Per Second...Every Second (2003)

9. Kings of Convenience Know How
Riot On An Empty Street (2004)

10. The Supremes Baby Love
Where Did Our Love Go (1964)

11. Jump, Little Children Vertigo
Vertigo (2001)

12. The Little Ones Theres A Pot A Brewin
Lovers Who Uncover (2007)

13. DeVotchKa Head Honcho
A Mad And Faithful Telling (2008)

The Blocked Road

2008-02-27T00:29:00.004-05:00

I wish I knew what you wanted.
You block the road and won't give me rest.
You pull my lead-rope one way, then the other.
You act cold, my darling!
Do you hear what I say?

Will this night of talking ever end?
Why am I still embarrassed and timid about you?
You are thousands. You are one.
Quiet, but most articulate.

Your name is Spring.
Your name is wine.
Your name is the nausea
that comes from wine!

You are my doubting
and the lightpoints
in my eyes.

You are every image, and yet
I'm homesick for you.

Can I get there?
Where the deer pounces on the lion,
where the one I'm after's
after me?

This drum and these words keep pounding!
Let them both smash through their coverings
into silence.

-Rumi

By sabbbriCA

I'm quite busy lately with school work (6 hours spent on a painting, many more to come reading an ethnography, about 8 chapters in a text book not read yet, and the rest of a book on a complicated concept, Dzogchen) and yet I'm most active here when I have no time to be. Seems like I'm being pushed very quickly while I'm in this state of busyment into a spring and summer full of uncertainty. I hate that but I want it to come so this semester can be over with. Anyways, I'm also actively listening to music along the way to classes everyday and especially when I'm barricaded in the art building for many hours, therefore here are some favorites of the week:

The Arcade Fire My Heart Is An Apple Us Kids Know
Cake Shadow Stabbing Comfort Eagle
Old 97's What We Talk About Fight Songs
Air Run Talkie Walkie
Pedro The Lion I Am Always The One Who Calls The Only Reason I Feel Secure
Third Eye Blind Deep Inside of You Blue
Caetano Veloso Lost In The Paradise Caetano Veloso
Art In Manila Set The Woods On Fire Set The Woods On Fire

Ahh sugar sugar

2008-02-24T11:46:00.001-05:00

HEEE. This used to be one of my favorite songs when I was little.

2008-02-19T19:10:00.008-05:00

I have some news and a buttload of music to share.

My news:
Ben Folds is coming to play at my school(Berry College). I just bought my tickets yesterday. While I don't listen to him that often this is still pretty darn exciting to me because he doesn't suck and it's quite a big deal to get him to play at our little school. So here are two of my favorites:

Ben Folds Gracie Songs for Silverman
Ben Folds Five Philosophy Ben Folds Five

Next some bands I enjoy listening to lately:
The Magnetic Fields

The Magnetic Fields Three-Way Distortion
The Magnetic Fields I Wish I Had An Evil Twin i
The Magnetic Fields Why I Cry Get Lost

Phantom Planet

I'm not sure why this band is not more popular. I know California was a big deal but they have plenty of better stuff. I am honoring them today because I lost my Phantom Planet CD and decided to order it. I got it in the mail today so there must be some sort of celebration. That means you should do some downloading here and buying of their CDs.

Phantom Planet Leader Tour EP
Phantom Planet Knowitall Phantom Planet
Phantom Planet By the Bed Phantom Planet
Phantom PlanetLonely Day The Guest

Other stuff I've been listening to:

Thao Nguyen Beat (Health, Life And Fire) We Brave Bee Stings And All
Dawn Landes Bodyguard Fireproof
Pale Young Gentlemen Fraulein
M. Ward Outta My Head Transfiguration of Vincent
Okkervil River A Hand To Take A Hold Of The Scene The Stage Names

Psalters

2008-01-30T13:22:00.000-05:00

It's about time I said something about this group of musicians. I started listening to them a while ago and then more recently and I should have said something then. But alas. Anyways they combine all sorts of forms and influences of music and they travel in a bus running on vegetable oil and they only take donations (you can email them and receive their albums for free) and they are close friends with my favorite band, mewithoutYou and they are essentially psalmists. I don't know much else about them except that their music is powerful, human, and rich. You might not like it at first, but then they're not really for everyone anyways. They say, "You can come along if you're a miserable wretch...but unfortunately if you are generally a good person there is not enough room for you."

Also, “We are the cry of the exodus.
there is no home for us here.
we are a nomadic tribe of psalters,
walking in the footsteps of ancients past
to the far corners of the present,
united as one voice against the
oppression within and without.
one more echo in the eternal song of our
First Love, our Hope, our Pillar of Fire.”

Psalters Badlands
Psalters Turn Me Round
Psalters Banner
You are my Beloved and no matter what happens I want nothing more than to stand next to You.

Contact: Psalters.org and Myspace

What do I do now?

2008-01-17T22:03:00.001-05:00

I'm sorry this might be filled with sappy love songs but, you know, sometimes it's necessary.

I started liking Ben Kweller again so here is some Ben Kweller:

Ben Kweller Sundress Ben Kweller
Ben Kweller Thirteen Ben Kweller

Songs of the week:

I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye.
Kimya Dawson I Like Giants Remember That I Love You
Woodpigeon Home as a Romanticized Concept Where Everyone Loves You Always and Forever Songbook

Dawn Landes is like a mixture of Cat Power and Feist maybe. She sends me peace and beauty. Listen to her:

Dawn Landes Straight Lines Two Three Four
Dawn Landes You Alone Two Three Four
Dawn Landes Twilight Fireproof

Sobreviviendo sin sangre en mi cuerpo

2007-12-10T14:26:00.000-05:00

DeVotchKa is a favorite lately. They are all sorts of wonderful.

DeVotchKa The Enemy Guns How It ends
DeVotchKa Such A Lovely Thing How It ends
DeVotchKa Dangling Feet Supermelodrama

Ferraby Lionheart

2007-12-10T13:44:00.000-05:00

I'm not sure how I found out about this guy but his music is quite nice and charming. Also he has interesting cheek bones.

Ferraby Lionheart Small Planet Catch The Brass Ring
Ferraby Lionheart Vermont Avenue Catch The Brass Ring

This is heartwarming:

I did everything for you

2007-11-30T00:56:00.001-05:00

By: ~tnoellebinns

Grizzly Bear He Hit Me (Friend EP)
Sufjan Stevens For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti (Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State)
Sufjan Stevens Sister Winter ( Peace: Vol. 5)

I'm gonna hackhackhack it apart!

2007-11-07T15:45:00.000-05:00

By beatlebeetle

Three bands I like this week:

The Violent Femmes
They are good for starting off with. Whiney, fun, quirky. Something like that.

The Violent Femmes Confessions (The Violent Femmes)
The Violent Femmes Please Do Not Go (The Violent Femmes)

Incubus
I've loved this band since I was about 12 or 13 although that love has sort of tapered off the older I've gotten. I didn't buy their last CD Light Grenades because I just figured they were too popular and trying to sound like everyone else by this time. By now I'm going to give it a go. Also I put three love type of songs from three of their CDs that I thought were pretty awesome. In fact, Stellar was probably my favorite song for the longest time.

Incubus Oil And Water (Light Grenades)
Incubus Love Hurts (Light Grenades)
Incubus Here In My Room (A Crow Left Of The Murder)
Incubus Aqueous Transmission (Morning View)
Incubus Stellar (Make Yourself)

Owen
This guy is just special. Sure he sounds like a lot of other stuff, but when I saw him at a mewithoutYou concert playing guitar by himself it was a different story. He puts me in this mood that I can't describe. Like he's telling me a story that completely enthralls and involves me. He plays little ditties about breakups and such and they are nice and they put me in a special place.

Owen The Ghost Of What Should've Been (No Good For No One Now)

Oh when this life just gets so grating...

2007-10-30T16:58:00.000-04:00

By theeos300400d

Sorry this is a buttload of music at once but I put off posting for a while so I figured it's acceptable.

This came to me in a wild rush of sadness and love and it offers some hope. And now I'm okayish:

"Find a friend and stay close and with a melting heart
Tell them whatever you're most ashamed of -
Our parents have made so many mistakes,
But may we forgive them and forgive ourselves."
-From The Sun & The Moon by mewithoutYou

mewithoutYou The Sun & The Moon (Brother, Sister)
Neutral Milk Hotel Song Against Sex (On Avery Island)
El Obo Crops (thank you for this one Paul)
Elf Power Never Believe (Walking With The Beggar Boys)
Patrick Wolf The Libertine (Wind in the Wires)
Lemon Jelly His Majesty King Raam `(Ky)
Guster Manifest Destiny (Ganging Up On The Sun)
Wolf Parade Modern World (Apologies To The Queen Mary)
The Beatles And I Love Her

Also this is incredibly exciting and melodious:

You know how seeing a song live makes it more real and beautiful and makes you pause to consider it when you didn't before? Yeah, that's what happened here:

I'm going to die of loneliness

2007-10-07T21:20:00.000-04:00

Every song is about him today. I'm going to die of loneliness for sure. A weekend without him and I assume the worst and begin contemplating my escape. I thought maybe I'm shizophrenic and this Tom person was just a charachter derived from my mind. All those memories false, all that warmth, and growth, and closeness, and connection nonexistant. How can I be so attached to another person so much? It's beautiful and powerful for sure, yet so delicate.

An ode to the sadness and then rejoicing of this weekend. I can't believe I can be loved so well.

Devendra Banhart My Dearest Friend
(Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon - 2007)
LCD Soundsystem Someone Great
(Sound of Silver - 2007)
The Beatles In My Life
(Rubber Soul - 1965)
Devendra Banhart It's A Sight To Behold
(Rejoicing In The Hands - 2004)

I wouldn't have it any other way

2007-09-26T21:56:00.000-04:00

I'm having a pretty interesting week. But who cares? Okay. On to the music.

Grizzly Bear Shift
Beirut Nantes
(The Flying Club Cup - 2007)
The Go! Team We Just Won't Be Defeated
(Thunder, Lightning, Strike - 2005)
Iron & Wine In Your Own Time
Margot & The Nuclear So And So's Barfight Revolution, Power Violence
(The Dust of Retreat - 2006)

I'm lazy

2007-09-09T22:26:00.000-04:00

And these videos make me happy lots.

The Dandy Warhols - Good Morning

The Go! Team - Junior Kickstart

Animal Collective - Peacebone

The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

Themes!

2007-09-04T15:14:00.001-04:00

Theme 1: College

In honor of my second week of colleging here's a dandy little song.

Animal Collective College
(Sung Tongs - 2004)

Theme 2: For/Of My Love

Like sisters and brothers we lean on each other
Like sweethearts carved on a headstone
Oh why even bother, it'll be here tomorrow
It's not worth it sleeping alone

And look at you and me still here together
There is no one knows you better
And we've come such a long long way
Let's put it off for one more day.

The Smashing Pumpkins Beautiful
(Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - 1995)
Grizzly Bear Plans
(Yellow House - 2006)
Air Sexy Boy
(Moon Safari - 1998)
DeVotchKa Til The End Of Time
(Little Miss Sunshine Soundtrack - 2006)
Explosions in the Sky Day Six
(The Rescue)
Four Tet You Were There With Me
(Everything Ecstatic - 2005)
The Dandy Warhols The Last High
(Welcome To The Monkey House - 2003)
Rachel's Forgiveness
(Selenography - 1999)
Butthole Surfers Pepper
(Electriclarryland - 1996)
The Thermals How We Know
(Fuckin A - 2004)
Skeleton Key The Barker Of The Dupes
(Obtanium - 2002)

Theme 3: Nice Things!

Cheesecake! Sea otters! New socks! Colorful lights! Colorful music! Drinking stuff when you're nearly dying of thirst! Unnatural colored hair! Raspberries(not the food kind)! Venom guitar picks! New guitar smell! Orange and yellow things! Not having to wake up! Singing along to Bohemian Like You! Groovin'! And most of all...Tommy!

I'm so sorry I'm so paranoid.

2007-08-13T19:07:00.000-04:00

There's a new album coming out called Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon by Devendra Banhart. It's going to be available September 25th I believe. Therefore I am quite excited. Now listen to these new songs because they are groovy.

Devendra Banhart Seahorse
Devendra Banhart Rosa

Besides this development, I know I haven't updated this in a while and so a lot of songs of the week have gone by and maybe I have even tired of them by now. But nevertheless here are a few of them:

Ben Kweller Until I Die
Peter Bjorn and John Paris 2004
Sigur Ros Olsen Olsen
Queen Bicycle Race

The Snake The Cross The Crown

2007-07-06T17:54:00.000-04:00

I recently saw this band for the second time playing with mewithoutYou in concert and I have to say they have gotten even better. Their music has a bit of a country feel to it with some rock and folk and it makes me happy lots lately so listen to it.

The Snake The Cross The Crown A Brief Intermission
The Snake The Cross The Crown Gypsy Melodies
The Snake The Cross The Crown Behold The River

A Recurring Feeling

2007-05-23T18:32:00.000-04:00

Sufjan Stevens Vito's Ordination Song
(Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lake State - 2003)
Rachel's Last Things Last
(Systems/Layers - 2006)
Radiohead Morning Bell
(OK Computer - 1997)
Cul de Sac I Remember Nothing More
(Death of the Sun - 1995)
Metric Empty
(Live It Out - 2007)
Innocent Civilian What Is Right

To live, to learn, to love in the major key

2007-05-03T23:30:00.000-04:00

Patrick Wolf and songs of the week.

And I know how you've hurt
And been dragged through the dirt
But come on get back up
It's the time to live

Video for The Magic Position:

Patrick Wolf A Boy Like Me
Patrick Wolf Tristan
Patrick Wolf The Magic Position

Freeform Five No More Conversation (Mylo Remix)
Queen I Want To Break Free
The Format Snails

I am a whore I do confess

2007-04-21T13:47:00.000-04:00

But I put you on just like a wedding dress

by Sabrina Ward Harrison

Random mix of songs that have affected me lately. Mostly Wedding Dress. Look into it
Derek Webb Wedding Dress
The Go! Team Huddle Formation
Emiliana Torrini Sunny Road
The Police Roxanne
K-os Sunday Morning

Oh what am I to think

2007-03-30T17:03:00.000-04:00

"...of what the writing of a thousand life times could not explain if all the forest trees were pens and all the oceans, ink?"

mewithoutYou The Dryness & The Rain
Ryan Adams Amy
Bright Eyes First Day Of My Life
Page France Jesus
Thao Nguyen Feet Asleep
The Strokes What Ever Happened

Lavender Diamond

2007-03-26T19:49:00.002-04:00

Happy and pretty and catchy.

Lavender Diamond Here Comes One
Lavender Diamond You Broke My Heart
Lavender Diamond Like An Arrow

Three themes

2007-03-12T17:43:00.000-04:00

Theme One: I want to be a hippy.

Across the Universe Fiona Apple (quite possibly better than the original version)
Heard Somebody Say Devendra Banhart
Insect Eyes Devendra Banhart
See Saw Devendra Banhart

Theme Two: Cilantro!

Smile Around The Face Four Tet

Theme Three: Loving is strange and hard.

Love And Some Verses Iron & Wine
Crown of Love The Arcade Fire
Untitled #4 Sigur Ros

I need sunshine.

2007-03-04T11:49:00.000-05:00

I've had these songs playing constantly the past couple of weeks.

Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind Vashti Bunyan
Pictures of Trees Inlets
You Broke My Heart Lavender Diamond
The Soloist In The Living Room Cold War Kids
Skeleton Key Margot & The Nuclear So & So's
Garden Grove Sublime
I'll Believe In Anything Wolf Parade
I Can't Even Lift My Head Sufjan Stevens

If I should ever disappear
What would I come to?
What would I come to believe?

If I had seen your father
What would his face do?
What would his face do to me?

Oh, I can't even lift my head
To say a word
To say a word to you
I can't even recognize
What I did wrong
What I did wrong

Oh, I can't even lift my head
To say a word
To say a word

My Brightest Diamond

2007-02-07T16:51:00.000-05:00

I saw this band way back in September playing before Sufjan Stevens with a sound that seemed perfectly suited for a dark starry Fox Theatre. It's quite dark and beautiful. Very much like Elysian Fields with the sultry sounding voices.

My Brightest Diamond - Feeling Good
My Brightest Diamond - Workhorse
My Brightest Diamond - We Were Sparkling
And for comparison purposes:
Elysian Fields - Live For The Touch

You're a stranger now unto me

2007-01-15T22:21:00.000-05:00

Simon & Garfunkel - The Dangling Conversaton

'A' Bands And Some Others

2007-01-03T16:22:00.000-05:00

The Boy Least Likely To - Be Gentle With Me
I just can't switch myself...off/When I want to so, I never do
Aphex Twin - Avril 14th
Grizzly Bear - Easier
Sufjan Stevens - That Was The Worst Christmas Ever!
Silent night/Holy night/Silent night/Nothing feels right
Anathallo - Hanasak ajijjii
Animal Collective - Did You See The Words
Animal Collective - Prospect Hummer

Kay, So It's Supposed To Be Christmas Time

2006-12-18T17:10:00.000-05:00

Or something. Doesn't feel like it but here are some Christmas songs anyways. I don't like Christmas songs much or the season for that matter. It's a thing lately where there is no feeling in it but all commercialism that leaves us feeling empty except this year I'm starting empty. But Sufjan Stevens and some others make me feel somewhat better. And here is why:

Sufjan Stevens - Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing
Sufjan Stevens - Holy, Holy, Holy
Sufjan Stevens - Put the Lights On the Tree
The Dandy Warhols - Little Drummer Boy
Belle & Sebastian - O Come, O Come Emmanuel.mp3

Songs that remind me of people I love.

2006-12-12T22:56:00.001-05:00

Unforunately I couldn't remember all of them or find links for all of them. But here are a few:
Jimmy Eat World - Sweetness
Porno for Pyros - Pets
Filter -Take A Picture
Tenacious D - Kielbasa
Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!
Air - Sexy Boy
The Beatles - Yellow Submarine
Weezer - El Scorcho

Pretty Darn Awesome

2006-12-05T15:36:00.001-05:00

by David Shrigley

This will probably be my only post with Damien Rice songs. I can only stand these two pretty much.

Damien Rice - The Blower's Daughter
Damien Rice - Lonelily
Do Make Say Think - Horns of a Rabbit
Devendra Banhart - Doo Wop (That Thing) Live in Paris, Lauryn Hill cover
DeVotchKa - How It Ends
Oliver - Good Morning Starshine
Grizzly Bear - Knife
Starlight Mints - Seventeen Devils

Just Because

2006-11-29T19:07:00.000-05:00

Deerhoof - Desparecere
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
Clint Mansell - Summer From "Requiem For A Dream"
Clint Mansell - Death Is The Road To Awe From "The Fountain"
The Smiths - Pretty Girls Make Graves
Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World From "Stranger Than Fiction"
Semisonic - FNT