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![[Miike Snow]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2589528_lg.jpg)
"I change shapes just to hide in this place, but I'm still, I'm still an animal." Proving to me yet again that anything from Sweden will never disappoint me, I turn your attention to the Stockholm-based trio that is Miike Snow . This group hustles up to play in the ever-growing popular arena of rock that holds colleagues that include the likes of groups like Passion Pit or Phoenix. With brethren that, these days, numbers up into quite the competition, Miike Snow manages to set itself apart from their division with such an ease in [...]
![[If You've Only Got...]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2543169_lg.jpg)
3 Minutes, 32 Seconds "You make up these excuses and hope no one will see that the biggest liar in the room is you." "If You've Only Got" is a feature here on Both Sides showcasing one song, one artist. Whether you have all day to listen to it or just enough time to play it once, an If You've Only Got song is gonna be well worth that time. It could be something from way back or something entirely new to you, but ultimately it's [...]
![[Retrospective: BLSH @ Emo's]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2542408_lg.jpg)
The Bright Light Social Hour @ Emo's I trust you all recognize that the drunkard is Thomas Alva Edison, Master of the Lightbulb In a statistic that scares me, up until this rambunctious quartet saved me, I hadn't been to a concert since the bowery days of South By. On the eve of Mother's Day, the Bright Light Social Hour provided a set that could only be brought about by four crazy sons of b*tches. Because Emo's, it seems, prefers hugs over kisses, I stepped into the venue [...]

According to their website, thelighthouseandthewhaler.com , the band, The Lighthouse and the Whaler, had a storybook beginning. For some reason, the three future band members were in a field for a photoshoot. I don't know why the photoshoot was in a field or why the three were even in a photoshoot, for that matter. I've Google-imaged them all and none of them are particularly good-looking. Anyway, so these average-looking guys are in a field, waiting around to get their photograph taken, and they all just happen to have musical instruments on them. [...]
![[PTGEAIYGTSBWLAEIYWG Mix - Part 2]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2411015_lg.jpg)
The People To Get Excited About If You're Going To SXSW But Would Like Anyway Even If You Weren't Going Mix Part 2 of 2 You're probably wondering what the hell all those letters mean. Kicking off South By Southwest coverage this year is a massive mix for a massive fest. There's been quite a bit of material I could have covered before the fest officially goes down, and the operative phrase there is "could have." Undoubtedly, it's a gargantuan amount, and the time I've had lately has [...]
![[PTGEAIYGTSBWLAEIYWG Mix - Part 1]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2411016_lg.jpg)
The People To Get Excited About If You're Going To SXSW But Would Like Anyway Even If You Weren't Going Mix Part 1 of 2 You're probably wondering what the hell all those letters mean. Kicking off South By Southwest coverage this year is a massive mix for a massive fest. There's been quite a bit of material I could have covered before the fest officially goes down, and the operative phrase there is "could have." Undoubtedly, it's a gargantuan amount, and the time I've had lately has [...]
![[3.14 : A Pi Day Mix]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2407764_lg.jpg)
3.14 Pi Day Mix Apparently the United States is the only one that formats its dates as Month.Day.Year, so for most of you out there, this is going to be pretty irrelevant. Considering the international date line, this was always going to be pretty irrelevant to all of you out there in the future. Regardless! Today is 3.14, and for the nerds in the United States, that number only means one thing - Pi. Happy Pi Day, nerds! 3.14 Pi Day Mix (artist name leads to [...]

Cymbals Eat Guitars may be my new favorite band. Whereas Brad's musical inclinations were birthed from Spoon, mine sprouted from the likes of Built To Spill, Sunday's Best, and Hey Mercedes. Cymbals Eat Guitars brings me back to my musical roots. Emo is not the trashy pop/punk that you hear on the radio today. Emo started in the late eighties with bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Jets to Brazil. It transformed the independent rock world and quickly turned into a lifestyle. Picked guitar melodies and average-white-guy vocals [...]

I'm sure wherever she is right now, Karen O is finding it lonely at the top. She's like Eminem, except she's not the sole white rapper worth his weight in the industry. Ever since Gwen Stefani went solo, Karen O's been the only frontwoman of a rockband worth mentioning. Until now... maybe. The future success of Lookbook will not depend on whether Maggie Morrison can sing any better. She's got that shit on lock. Our friends who don't really see us the same way at Pitchfork called Morrison "the missing link between Cyndi [...]

Tomorrow, February 23, three musical juggernauts will be releasing third, fourth, and fourth albums, respectively. Of course, I am talking about Joanna Newsom, Electric President, and Shout Out Louds. Here I provide samples and synopses from each. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me After the overwhelming success of her sophomore album, Ys , expectations were high for the follow-up. Luckily, Newsom does not disappoint. The track "Good Intentions Paving Company" has already gotten a fair amount of play via Drag [...]
![[The Answering Machine]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2348272_lg.jpg)
The Answering Machine "I saw you there at the Friday show. You looked so strange in your brand new clothes; you spoke with an accent I don't know. I guess it's true - we all have to grow up soon." Am I late on the wagon on this one? When I heard this English quartet took up reigns at the last Monolith Festival, I suddenly remembered I had this foursome simmering on my backburner. It seems, coming back to them now, they had already set a pan fire and were [...]
![[If You've Only Got...]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2342394_lg.jpg)
2 Minutes, 59 Seconds "If I made it through Christmas without smoking til your parents went to bed, if you made it through too without sticking your nailseses in my neck..." "If You've Only Got" is a feature here on Both Sides showcasing one song, one artist. Whether you have all day to listen to it or just enough time to put it in play once, an If You've Only Got song is gonna be well worth that time. It could be something from way back [...]
Nouvelle Vague @ Mohawk's "All the things you do to me and all the things you said. I just can't get enough; I just can't get enough." When it comes to Nouvelle Vague , the idea is pretty basic - take some classic rock tracks, strip them down to the simplest chords, and dip them in the stylings of bossa nova. At the core of their description, Nouvelle Vague essentially crafts covers, but to call their tracks covers or to call this band a cover band would just be so...wrong. Nouvelle Vague holds [...]
![[Musicupid]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2339562_lg.jpg)
[Musicupid] A Singles Awareness Day Mix On this day of chocolates, of roses, of hearts, and other things in plural, there are those among us that are rather...singular. Whether our status of "single" be fresh or stale, it can be accounted for that Cupid missed a few, and with the blindness of that cherub in hand, it becomes a delightful thought to some of us that St. Valentine was beheaded for "meddling." So here, on this Anna Howard Shaw Day, you can revel as singles and celibate celebrate. [...]
![[We Have A Heart On For You]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2339563_lg.jpg)
[Heart Day Mix] A Mix for Valentine's Day As I sit here penning this, waiters and waitresses at Italian restaurants are readying their tables and florists are picking bushes clean of every single rose that dare bud from it this season. Be weary dear readers, VD strikes everyone on this day, and it is my dearest wish that you catch it and hold on to it forever and ever and ever. Ah, love! Happy Valentine's Day! Heart Day Mix (artist name leads to site and all songs are right click [...]
![[Spoon: On Transference]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2269858_lg.jpg)
[Spoon] "Look out! All I know is all I know. Yes, all I know is all I know." For anyone that's been reading this blog a while, it should come as no surprise that I'm quite fond of the Austin quartet that is Spoon - a band that, I feel, needs no introduction. At that, let's just jump right into Transference . Now when it comes to Spoon's discography, one of the things I've come to love is the lasting quality of each album. Call it bias, [...]
![[I'm With Coco]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2263204_lg.jpg)
[I'm With Coco Mix] In Our Support Of Team Conan Just taking a second out of our break to go ahead and lend my support to the late night man with a bushfire on his head. I'm With Coco Mix (artist name leads to site and all songs are right click - save as) : Andrew Bird - Dr. Stringz Bikini - Tonight The Chalets - Nightrocker [...]
![[Retrospective: DJ Car Stereo (Wars), Neiliyo @ Emo's]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2193591_lg.jpg)
And to think with my last retrospective being pictureless! Unfortunately, not only does this Retrospective have to be pictureless (well mostly), this post is gonna have to be a bit less wordy too. As this season tends to do, I've been hit with something that's thrown my body off it's homeostasis. Whatever it was I was fighting Thursday morning with OTC meds, came back with a full vengeance later that night while I was out at Emo's and still has me fighting. So while I trip on Dayquil and Nyquil to sounds of whatever happens to be bobbing my record [...]
![[If You've Only Got...]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2185304_lg.jpg)
4 Minutes, 3 Seconds "I'm goin' back and forth, been goin' back and forth, then goin' back and forth. I want you to feel everything that I feel!" Filling the hills of Austin with the sound of music like a group of the most "gifted" Von Trapp children, the Bright Light Social Hour have been frolicking (in a manner similar to what's pictured above) around Central Texas since 2005. On the table for this If You've Only Got... feature is their decidedly danceable piece of tunage, "Back and [...]