Hello darlings. I thought I'd weigh in with my top ten favorite albums of the year thus far, in no particular order. The Mountain Goats "Get Lonely" several songs linked to here The Pipettes "We Are The Pipettes" Pull Shapes The Long Winters "Putting The Days To Bed" Pushover Antarctica Takes It! "The Penguin Leauge" I'm No Lover Neko Case "Fox Confessor [...]

While listening to the Lovely Feather's Frantic, I wondered what it is that would make an artist come to the conclusion that all that's needed to complete a song is a good "OoOo" chorus of some sort. All the pondering eventually led me to go out and just find these elusive "OoO" songs, and after quite some time and a bit of work, I managed to collar this bunch. After all the work it took, I realized the rarity of all these "oOo" songs, yet just about every time a song implements an "OoO", the finished song turns out great. [...]

The opening act for The Spinto Band last night was The Lovely Feathers. I had never heard of them previously, and was very impressed by the show and their music. You can peep a load of their music over at Anthony's Hype Machine. The Lovely Feathers are from Montreal, obviously. Who isn't these days. According to their site, they "are a band which toots blossomy, extractive post-punk-infused eccentric pop. Rarely do we experience music that portrays the canopy of life with such clarity and tragic [...]