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Well, I’ve taken a little more than a week off from blogging, and most likely my posts will be few and far between until this semester is over. To compensate, I thought I’d just do a bunch of quick posts that don’t take much time, just so our faithful readers don’t think I’m abandoning them. I haven’t been listening to anything new lately, just a lot of Person Pitch. So it’s not like you’re missing out on anything. Anyway, I thought I’d start my series of quick posts with this Tom Waits song, because it just sounds too cool to pass up, and I feel like it should be played over opening credits to a movie as action happens in slow-mo. Maybe not though.

UPDATE: Thanks to one of our readers, it has come to my attention that the song actually is in the opening credits of a movie already: “Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead.” Having not seen the movie, I cannot comment on it’s validity or it’s use of slow-mo. I guess I’ll have to find another song to play over the slow motion opening credits in my movie, which currently doesn’t exist.

Tom Waits- Jockey Full Of Bourbon
Buy Song: iTunes /amazon
Tom Waits MySpace

-Chandler

The word on the streets is Micachu & The Shapes are gonna be huge. After giving them a listen, I think I might have to agree. They’re incredibly young, and yet have created a somewhat unorthodox, yet undeniably fresh sound. Their debut LP Jewellery, a collection of short and twisted pop gems, drops in the U.S April 7th, so get ready for that. Each song needs a couple of listens, so try and let this one sink in.

Micachu MySpace

Micachu & The Shapes- Golden Phone

-Chandler

For those of you that haven’t heard this yet, here is a recording from Animal Collective’s newest song that they’re playing live. Whether it’s “Blue Sky” or “What Would I Want Sky” or whatever else it’s called, it is something great. Go see one of their shows and hear it live!

Animal Collective- “Blue Sky/ What Would I Want Sky”

-Chandler

In addition to listening to The Hazards of Love more, one album has really controlled most of my listening opportunities. Blueberry Boat, the sophomore album from The Fiery Furnaces, has almost literally been on repeat for a few days now. It’s such an amazing, yet polarizing release that manages to become more and more interesting with each listen for those that like it. This heavily layered concept album needs to be listened to all together to understand the story, so I’m not going to post a song from it. Instead, I strongly encourage you to pick up the entire cd (or vinyl, like me) to really experience this masterpiece in its entirety. Anyway, the song of the week is a Built to Spill song, because they’re great and there’s a chance we may go and see them at the Pitchfork Festival this summer. As a side note, we officially have a Twitter account, so feel free to follow us to catch more of our wild and zany antics!

Buy Blueberry Boat: itunes/amazon

Built to Spill- Distopian Dream Girl
itunes/amazon

-Chandler

Wakey! Wakey! is the name Mike Grubbs plays under, along with a few other talented musicians in studio. He’s done a lot of covers, including a great cd that’s entirely covers and can be downloaded for free here. This weeks song isn’t on that cd, but it is really quite good and can be found on another cd of his from a live show at Bowery Ballroom that also can be downloaded for free here. It’s a cover of Gnarls Barkley’s smash hit “Crazy,” and I really like what Grubbs does with it. I think next week’s song will be something by Wavves, because I’m really enjoying his new cd. But that’s neither here nor there.

Wakey! Wakey!- Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover)

Wakey! Wakey! MySpace page

-Chandler

I have no classes on Fridays, and yesterday was a snow day. This has caused four consecutive days of me doing nothing, including not posting my weekly posts Song o’ the Week and MMM. For this I apologize, but I hope to make it up to you in this Superpost combining the two. Happy Len Cabral day everyone!

Song o’ the Week #12

For the past two weeks or so I’ve been eating up Yo La Tengo. Having albums like Painful, And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out, and I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One on repeat on my iPod, it’s really hard to pick just one song from one of the greatest and long lasting indie acts to walk the planet as song of the week. But I managed to pick one. “Little Honda” is actually a Beach Boys song that appears on All Summer Long, but it’s given a very nice treatment by YLT here. To really appreciate their stuff though, go buy an album and listen to it all the way through. It’s worth it.

Yo La Tengo- Little Honda
Amazon/ iTunes

Music Movies Monday #7

Liars is a three piece band that plays great music. Here’s the video for “Plaster Casts of Everything” from their most recent self-titled album. I would’ve posted a song, but I’m scared because they’re on a major label.

An animated story to help celebrate Len Cabral day:

One of my dad’s favorite music videos:

One of my favorite videos:

Superpost done! Tell some stories!

-Chandler

I’m posting this song because it’s so hard to find, and deserves to be heard by many, many people. The original is a classic by Harry Nilsson, and whenever I hear it I think of the scene from Goodfellas when Ray Liotta’s driving paranoid because of the helicopter. And then I think of how good of a director Scorsese is, and then of how he has so much money and can’t find some time to trim his enormously bushy eyebrows. I mean, that’s out of control. Anyway, I digress. This is another instance where LCD Soundsytem takes a great song and makes it even better by adding that LCD Soundsystem “oomph.” So here you go. Please play as loud as possible.

LCD Soundsystem- Jump Into the Fire (Harry Nilsson cover)

-Chandler

I’m feeling a little under the weather, so the song o’ the week is a day late. My apologies. Anyway, we got this gem thrown our way through our mailbox, and I thought it needed to be shared. The Sonic Truth are five guys from North Carolina making some quality mashups and remixes. Enjoy one of my favorites from their catalog, and check out their MySpace page here.

Sonic Truth- Push In This Club (Gameboy Gamegirl VS Usher)

-Chandler

I was going to post a rather new song as song of the week, but Donovan wants to post it instead. We’re good guys around here, so it’s all yours friend-o. Anywho, I’m going to give you a throw back to one of my favorite EP’s released since the turn of the millennium, so I guess it’s technically Song(s) o’ the Week. The other day I listened to it all the way through, and then again yesterday. The band is Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!, and the EP is entitled You Seize the City, I’ll Seize the Sky, released in 2006. Not only do I absolutely love the title, but it sounds great and it flaunts a nice little cover to boot.

Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! are from Australia, and this debut EP is as much energy as you can pack into five songs. It’s guitar-driven pop, with rather undecipherable lyrics the first ten times through. Seize was available for free download years ago lots of places, but I’ve managed to dig up a location for you even though many of them have disappeared. Fire!’s website, which is nothing much except the words “The band where other band members and your manager sleeping with your girlfriend is A-OKAY!” and an expanding smiley face, doesn’t offer much about the band’s future. Their MySpace, however, contains their newest song, “War Coward,” which is quite good. Fire! also says there’s a “new digital EP coming out soon,” which is fantastic news. Until then, enjoy a couple songs from one of my favorite EP’s, and hope, hope, hope they come out with something in the near future.

Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!- Captain Thunder Hearts Mistress Ice

Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!- Hounds

You Seize the City, I’ll Seize the Sky can be downloaded for free here.

-Chandler

I’m still not getting blown away by any releases recently, so this week I’m just going to throw a couple songs out there and hopefully you’ll find one you like. The first one is from Soko, a French solo artist. Most of her material is pretty terrible, but this one song got stuck in my head and it won’t get out. It’s simple ukulele pop, and it sounds like it came straight from the “Juno” soundtrack, or like it could be eaten up by some company to be thrown into a commercial (*cough, Apple). But I still enjoy it quite a bit. It takes a while to get into it, so give it a chance. Visit her website here if you feel she’s worthy.

Soko- I Will Never Love You More

The next is a song that gets the kids dancing and the head movin’ from side to side, and it’s a good cause. Heroes of the Dancefloor is a collection of artists that put out albums where ALL the money go to charities. It’s a funky little song, so check out their website to stream more and help out a good cause.

Heroes of the Dancefloor- Ricky
Buy Song: iTunes

Finally, I wanted to reiterate how great this is. Donovan and I just can’t get enough. Have you tried doing the scream he does? Impossible.

-Chandler