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More Informations

Apr 4, 2011, 2:56pm I don't even know what the name means.
The Informations - Lion's Hand
Another odd video by the Informations. Oddly enough not the only music video I've seen recently that uses The Holy Mountain.
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The Informations again

Jun 15, 2009, 12:57pm I don't even know what the name means.
The Informations - 'Strange Habits'
Ok, sorta coming out of retirement for a post. Just feel as if people should listen to this band. Don't really know any info other than what is on their myspace and this video, but I still like what I hear. They've also added a new song to their myspace since I last mentioned them. The version of Strange Habits in the video seems to be a little touched up, there's some harmonies at the end that I'm not sure were there before.
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I'm finished.

Sep 29, 2008, 3:58pm I don't even know what the name means.
I think I'm done with the music blog. I'm not entirely sure what I set out to do when I created it, but I'm generally pleased with what it came out to be. And it's not really that I'm axing the blog, I just don't think you can expect any regular updates for awhile. I started this blog with the idea that I would post everyday, but I realized that I ended up just spewing a jumble of words onto here. Updating whenever I felt like writing about music didn't really work too well either. You can really [...]
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The Tiny

Aug 22, 2008, 2:36am I don't even know what the name means.
The Tiny The Tiny have seem to have a new album coming out and you should be paying attention. I honestly just got into their last release from hearing the new song they've posted on myspace. But the difference between the two is astounding. Their new song is simply amazing. I don't think I've been caught off guard by simple, stark emotion like this since seeing Karen O breaking down in her music video (a complete jolt to the then 16 year old me). The first time I listened to The Tiny's song it really dampened my mood. Even the [...]
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Artist:The Tiny
Title:Dirty Frames
Link Text:The Tiny - Dirty Frames
File Name:05 Dirty Frames.mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps
Year:2006

Back!

Aug 21, 2008, 3:04am I don't even know what the name means.
I'm back! I know, it's been over a month, but I should be back to posting regularly now. Regular meaning more than two times a week. Ideally five times a week, but I'm making no promises. The reason I haven't been around isn't because of a summer job, summer classes, vacation, lack of motivation, plummeting torrent share ratios, or anything that might even sound somewhat reasonable. I kinda promised that I would "get" Fuck Buttons before I listened to any more music. It's likely that I might have never succeeded at that task. In fact, it [...]
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The Informations

Jul 16, 2008, 11:18pm I don't even know what the name means.
Usually when making a post I have some concrete idea why I enjoy a song. Usually I just hope I back up my enjoyment enough that someone will go out and listen to it. So I might just be going out on a limb by asking you to just take my word for it. Yes, I am turning into that homeless guy who makes a random declaration for you and runs off. It's usually something along the lines of, "The war is here!" but if you're lucky you get a guy babbling about his lucky third shoe. [...]
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Artist:The Informations
Title:Strange Habits
Link Text:The Informations - strange habits
File Name:Strange Habits.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps

No, I haven't heard it all

Jun 27, 2008, 1:01am I don't even know what the name means.
There's a fine line between craziness and noise in music. Some of my favorite bands really flirt with that line. They manage to "keep it fresh" as the kids are saying, and at the same time manage to be listenable. Yet the band Ponytail has left me a bit confused. If that fine line was a door they would be playing door bell ditch and answering the door at the same time. The vocals of course* are on the left end of the spectrum (the left end being where Carey Mercer and the like sit). Everything in me wants to [...]
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Artist:Ponytail
Title:7 Souls
Link Text:Ponytail - 7 Souls
File Name:03 7 Souls.mp3
Bitrate:222 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:Ponytail
Title:Celebrate the Body Electric (It Came From an Angel)
Link Text:Ponytail - Celebrate the Body Electric (It Came from an Angel)
File Name:04 Celebrate the Body Electric (It Came From an Angel).mp3
Bitrate:223 kbps
Year:2008

Jonquil

Jun 25, 2008, 1:24am I don't even know what the name means.
This song caught me at first by the sheer scale of its vocals. These vocals share a podium with Efterklang; a vocal sound that I don't hear enough of. It's hard to imagine this track being recorded in a studio. Everything about it says this is something you need to experience in the flesh. I feel as if the first time you hear this song you shouldn't be on your computer (browsing myspace), but drawn into a tavern by the somewhat drunken chorus. And everyone realizes this song, this chant, is just begging for a beat. Percussion is improvised: feet [...]
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Artist:Jonquil
Title:Lions
Link Text:Jonquil - Lions
File Name:07 Lions 1.mp3
Bitrate:264 kbps
Year:2007

Love Rhombus?

Jun 24, 2008, 1:37am I don't even know what the name means.
Love Rhombus? There's nothing more frustrating than Googling a band name and finding that Urban Dictionary is in one of the top five results. Even more frustrating when Urban Dictionary is really one of the only relevant results next to the band's myspace. Urban Dictionary defines a love rhombus as an "amorous involvement of two couples- one straight the other gay." Which make little sense to me since the band's myspace says there are three members in the band. Maybe the key is that they're looking for a fourth member? But then there would be two love rhombuses. [...]
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Title:Come on in to the Love Rhombus
Link Text:Love Rhombus - Come on in to the Love Rhombus
File Name:Come on in to the Love Rhombus.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Artist:Love Rhombus
Title:Frostbite Heart
Link Text:Love Rhombus - Frostbite Heart
File Name:Frostbite Heart.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps

Abutting, Dismantling

Jun 23, 2008, 2:19am I don't even know what the name means.
I'll get minus creativity points for the title of today's post, but the song title was achieving a lot more than anything I was thinking of. Gregor Samsa 's (band not person) album Rest doesn't contain driving melodies or huge sounds but it still manages to knock me off my feet each time. Most groups scream themselves hoarse trying to do what this band has done at the lightest whisper. Where some bands would get you by taking the rug from under your feet, Gregor Samsa switches the carpet in the room without you [...]
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Link Text:Gregor Samsa - Abutting Dismantling
File Name:03-gregor_samsa-abutting_disma nting.mp3
Bitrate:177 kbps

Back!

Jun 20, 2008, 12:31am I don't even know what the name means.
I'm back! Both to post and from Bonnaroo. What a festival. I'm just going to give a "quick" wrap up. Thursday: MGMT was a good kick off for the festival. I had heard mixed reviews of their live set before and while I can kinda see where this comes from, it wasn't too much a problem. The crowd favorites were among some of the festival's best performances, and the other songs held their own well. There were points where I thought they were dragging on a little, but in the next moment the song would swing [...]
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BACK

May 25, 2008, 4:45pm I don't even know what the name means.
Yeah, I was gone longer than expected. I've been done with finals for a bit now but went a few days without internet access. But now it's summer and Bonnaroo is 20ish days away! The schedule has been released and while there are some conflicts, there's no conflicts that really have me worried. I should have a real post up soon. In the meantime, did anyone else think some of the Son Lux record sounded scarily like Frank from Donnie Darko ? Someone else has to of made this comparison, but I saw/listened to the two for [...]
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lol brb

Apr 30, 2008, 11:20pm I don't even know what the name means.
I'll be back once these last few weeks of class are over.
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Guess where

Apr 25, 2008, 1:52pm I don't even know what the name means.
It isn't even funny anymore. The number of good bands from Brooklyn is become ridiculous. Do they sell instruments in grocery stores? Are you forced to go to rehearsal instead of church on Sundays? Is their population around 2.5 million? I'm liking this song by Amazing Baby for a lot of the same reasons I fell in love with Yeasayer. This song seems to lack the huge sound of their other songs I've head (all 3), yet is just as easy to get lost in. The melody doesn't really deviate much once the song starts, yet [...]
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Artist:Amazing Baby
Title:The Narwhal
Link Text:Amazing Baby - The Narwhal
File Name:The Narwhal.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps

Split Lips, Winning Hips, a Shiner

Apr 20, 2008, 9:11am I don't even know what the name means.
Now that the fun of undermining my blog is over, it's back to the normal posts. But first thing's first. To the person who was referred here by the google search "spoon in my butt" perhaps you were looking for this .* But we move away from inappropriately placed kitchenware to music. They're from Victoria but now transmit out of Montreal (note to self: another band to add to the ever growing list of good Montreal bands). The songs flit between the wild and rambunctious to the soft and sweet but they're great at both. It's easy [...]
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Link Text:Shapes and Sizes - Alone/Alive
File Name:01 - Alone-Alive.mp3]01 - Alone-Alive.mp3
Link Text:Shapes and Sizes - The Taste in My Mouth
File Name:04 - The Taste in My Mouth.mp3]04 - The Taste in My Mouth.mp3

Don't ask how...

Apr 18, 2008, 1:19pm I don't even know what the name means.
Bit by bit each piece is coming to us. I haven't been this excited since Neon Bible started leaking. Oddly enough like a few of my earlier posts, the band seems to reminiscing to a little more than a decade ago (can't believe 80's and early 90's were that long ago). I can hear some of the influence of producer LaVar Burton on it as well. The track is minimal, catchy guitar riffs eliminated to fall back on the strength of vocals and synth. Kinda reminds me if "I'll Believe In Anything" toned down the drums and [...]
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Link Text:Wolf Parade -An Animal in Your Care
File Name:An Animal in Your Care.mp3

Future Islands

Apr 16, 2008, 10:06pm I don't even know what the name means.
I love all those quiet voiced, poppy singers just as much as the next person. But sometimes I tire of hearing perfect pitch singers capable of making a castrato envious. And all those wavering soft voiced songs seem to lack conviction after a certain point. Don't get me wrong, I still am awed by the likes of Beirut, but a lot of it seems to lack to quality to offend*. Which is why Future Islands is my new best friend (Myspace friend request still pending). At points it sounds like a more erratic Elvis skipped a few steps [...]
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Artist:Future Islands
Title:Follow You
Link Text:Future Islands - Follow You
File Name:02 Follow You.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2006
Artist:Future Islands
Title:Little Dreamer
Link Text:Future Islands - Little Dreamer
File Name:09 Little Dreamer.mp3
Year:2008

Easily Amused?

Apr 15, 2008, 9:33pm I don't even know what the name means.
Metronomy 'Radio Ladio'
Watch this video and tell me whether I'm easily amused or if it really is as hilarious as I thought. I'm more familiar with Metronomy through remixes (namely the AIH remix) but I've really got hooked onto the song above and "My Heart Rate Rapid." They have a very poppy and retro feel, which tie well into the recent phase I'm going through (seriously can't get enough of Ghosthustler either). I can practically hear people wondering what they've [...]
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Artist:Metronomy
Title:My Heart Rate Rapid (Original)
Link Text:Metronomy -My Heart Rate Rapid
File Name:02-metronomy-my_heart_rate_rap id_(original).mp3
Bitrate:183 kbps
Year:2008

Show me your heart.

Apr 11, 2008, 5:06pm I don't even know what the name means.
This song (by Need New Body ) has blown my mind. First impressions: Dan Deacon and Man Man are hanging out at the place music artists hang out (tattoo parlors?) and decide to make some music on spot. So they start laying some stuff down. Before they're even a minute in Deacon wanders off to go buy some stuff at Radio Shack or whatever it is he does in his free time. But what ensues is a banjo filled song that's impossible not to move to. Now the Dan Deacon part is really unfounded, along [...]
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Artist:Need New Body
Title:show me your heart
Link Text:Need New Body - Show Me Your Heart
File Name:07 show me your heart.mp3
Bitrate:269 kbps
Year:2003

Whiskers

Apr 5, 2008, 6:14pm I don't even know what the name means.
Whiskers You know that band back home that broke up because they all left for different schools? Well that's no longer an excuse. This post could easily become a preachy post about the wonderful communicative powers of the internet, so I'll get to the music part. The Whiskers are a band from Connecticut, Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts. And before you make the assumption, they didn't all meet in Brooklyn and start playing there. They formed on a message board ( the only Frog Eyes message board to be exact). All their ideas and music was [...]
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Artist:The Whiskers
Title:Autopia
Link Text:The Whiskers - Autopia
File Name:03 Autopia.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:The Whiskers
Title:Ziggurats
Link Text:The Whiskers - Ziggurats
File Name:11 Ziggurats.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2008
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