Blog: Hey, I'm Not Too Dance To Drunk

Put three candles in the highest place you have at home, inside a plate with sugar all around the candles. Light the candles. Ask for three wishes to your guardian angels ST.RAFAEL, ST MICHAEL, and ST GABRIEL. Ask one wish for business, one wish for love, and one impossible wish. Publish this spell on the third day after you requested the wishes (by mailing it to another person, posting it to a usenet newsgroup, or announcing your thanks to the saints in a newspaper (classified ad) and see [...]

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This band is better than you, sorry.

I go to a lot of shows. It happens. Sometimes, I go to enough shows in a given amount of time where I come home and look at my bed and wonder where it came from (see CMJ 2007 for pointers on that one). But if I didn't go to as many shows as I do, I'd have never come into a Piebald love. Me and my best friend have seen them loads of times so the name is familiar when it appears on the bill. But the last time--oh dear, the last time was enough to make us [...]

Really, at this point in my life I should just have an Innerpartysystem appreciation blog but, you can listen and vote below for Innerpartysystem's remix of Radiohead's "Nude" below: I don't really get the point of this contest but damn...the combination of Radiohead and Innerpartysystem can sure make a girl pretty damn giddy. I'm still convinced that I'm at least 500 of the plays on their Transmission cover...make that 501.

I keep saying that any day now I'll stop failing at life and actually post again. Expect some backdated Innerpartysystem love. Moving along, I can't stop listening to this song. I love Kevin Devine. More than life itself. When I graduated high school, the boy who I was in love with band played a show at the Continental with Kevin Devine direclty after Make the Clocks Move dropped. There was something kinda quirky in him and my best friend bought his CD. Fast forward to finding Spilt the Country, Split the State for for [...]

So, I'm in every sense of the word a born Anglophile (which is ironic, considering I read French). If there's a trend that comes from that part of the world, I'll normally be down with it (shoegaze, take notice). I consider Wales to be a part of that too, and as a result, I love Duffy. Monday night, I got the chance to see her at Hiro Ballroom. For New Yorker's who have never been there, Hiro Ballroom is the oddest venue known to man for one simple reason: it shouldn't be a venue--it should be a [...]

New song, "I Will Possess Your Heart" has been every bloggers buzz the past few days. Obviously, I'm late--whatever. But...I can't help but think two things: a. Why Death Cab For Cutie feels future tense verbs in song titles are appealing. b. I don't like it. This shoegazing-looking-at-noiseroc k is not something I feel they do well. The lyrics, once you finally get to them, are amazing--Death Cab style for real. But the song...not so much.

From an avowed Modest Mouse fan, this video makes me confused and excited at once. Maybe it's the color-scheme--I feel too female just looking at it: Tipped from Pitchfork; Modest Mouse's We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank available now on Epic.

Now, storytime: when I was 15, you couldn't top Yellowcard. Every 15 year old has that genre of the generation and we had pop-punk. Fast forward past two really shitty albums and a loss of fanbase--they're touring again. Pause at me and Marie being giddy little school girls for "Cigarette" and downing four too many beers--good times. Honestly, I'd have been a lot happier if there wasn't an acoustic set--if it was something more dance-able (cause every girl loves to dance--let's not lie!). But good times overall. Sometimes, music can just be good and there's no need [...]

• Rilo Kiley - Let My Love Open The Door

So, sure--I'm late on this but--MGMT? Wow. That's it. Live on Letterman (seriously, when did trendy NYC bands get on Letterman? Vampire Weekend this past weekend...apparently, MGMT did it first though):

British singer, Duffy , is the Itunes single of the week. It's actually worth it for once. And this is from a person with limited disc space when it comes to music.

Shitty quality (kinda) but how has it taken me so long to find this on Youtube? My google skills have now officially failed:

I haven't been paying much attention to the listings for SXSW since it makes me sad but I do pay attention to myspace bulletins. To those of you actually going to SXSW (I hate you, let's move on), head to this showcase before Colour Revolt and Bowerbirds go Vampire Weekend on your asses: And also, the combination of Nada Surf and the all too amazing Ultragrrl make this a must-not miss: [...]

I got Bela some catnip the other day. At first, she looked at the bag with this face--as if to say "What you talking about, Willis?" Then, she wised up. She proceeded to push the bag around with her nose (gee, talk about brown-nosing). She also though it a good idea to bite into the back. Several hours later, when she stopped chasing her own tail and the circles it must have made in the air...she curled up under my arm and took a nap. She might have still be chasing dragons but it must have been [...]

I can't help but pimp one of the best bands in the game. Live shows like acid-rainbows, bass lines like heartbeats in the pit of your stomach--there is no topping innerpartysystem. [/end] electronic rock revolution. IPS already pwned it.

Now, I hate internet radio more than most people. I don't get the point of having to sit here and listen to songs you may not want to hear when I can open Itunes and choose one of the 30,000 I actually do want to hear. However, Musicovery isn't actually internet radio in that sense. It's customizable. Let's see I woke up today and wanted to hear a calming 70's reggae song. I, theoretically, could. A 00's upbeat folk song I've never heard of? Yes, that too. The site allows people to customize by year, mood, [...]

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I'm one of those people that--ranther then tackling my massive to-do list, I'm more likely to clean the deadly areas of my room. And by "deadly areas," I mean those places those places where everything goes to die. For me, those areas have always been the underneath of things. When something falls, then it's just time to kick it on under there. While moving my cabinet to see what wonders its underbelly has, I found the following that has lead me to believe a Mogwai (yes, a Mogwai) now lives with me: 1. 7 Popsicle sticks [...]