By now most folks know where I stand on the present sensitive folk movement. Mainly that I’m over it. So today I thought I would prove I'm capable of more than just bitching and post some bands I actually like. And no, none of them formed in the 90’s. In my latest search for bands [...] The post Songs I like: Ladies Night appeared first on Your Music Is Awful.com .

Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago ? Listen to the April 2012 One Year Ago Mix and find out. You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Downloadables: [...]

It is time for the second volume of the Best Downloadables of 2012 . You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can download any or all of the tracks at your leisure (with the usual right-click or control-click) and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Listen. Downloadables: Super Vague (mp3) by Roomrunner Fatherland (mp3) [...]
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We are counting down the hours until Shey, Rocko and I hop on our respective planes from our humble homes and hit the hip streets of Austin, TX for SXSW. While we are all n00bz to the pure mayhem and insanity that is SXSW, we think/hope we have appropriately prepped our livers, iCals, eardrums, etc. for the days ahead of us. Although it is hard to tell how our days in Austin will actually pan out, we have carefully combed through every party, panel and showcase and prepared the following agenda in case you care to follow along or even [...]

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGG RGRGRHHHHH!!!! Our hosting company had a major meltdown last week, and by major meltdown I mean their servers crashed, and then their backups also crashed, and they didn't have a third backup... so we were screwed. I finally got access to the site a couple days ago and am now finally getting back online. On top of this I was hosting about 7 other sites with topclasshost, so basically It has been a nightmare and I have gotten very little sleep over the past week. But we are back! The site might have some things [...]

Monday 7/13 * Wilco, Yo La Tengo @ KeySpan Park * Future Of The Left, Me You Us Them @ Maxwell's ( MP3: "Seraphim Succubi" by Future of the Left) Tuesday 7/14 * Aimee Mann @ City Winery * The London Souls, Locksley, The Drums, Glint @ Santos Party House ( MP3: "Let's Go Surfing” by The Drums) [...]

Monday 5/18 * The Shins, Delta Spirit @ Terminal 5 ( MP3: "Streetwalker" by Delta Spirit) * The Vaselines, Adam Green @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Tuesday 5/19 * Green Day @ Webster Hall * Skeletons, Nick Krgovich, Katie Eastburn, To Bad Catholics @ Cake Shop ( MP3: "Things" by the Skeletons) Wednesday 5/20 * St. Vincent, [...]