
Chasing Dorotea - In April I met her one summer in Prague She had just dyed her hair dark as my soul I think she said she liked Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds but I could be wrong 'Take no kisses', she said 'You don't look well enough and I'm in love with an Italian man' 'Steal no kisses', she said 'Boy, you know you've drunk too much and I'm [...]

Nothing de-stresses me than listening to songs that have lovely instrumention and arrangement, especially ones that only musical instrument players can truly appreciate. We break away from the usual guitar heavy / synth heavy music to a more unplugged, acoustic style . This week, we have my top 5 favorite songs that have that lush feel in them featuring your not so typical musical instruments found in a pop song - 1. A Big Yes and a Small No - Composure [...]

So, Valentine's Day has come again. You know that all over the world men, women and, especially, teenage boys are going to be dedicating "Creep", "Hallelujah" and uhm... "I Will Always Love You" to their loved ones. Leonard Cohen, Bright Eyes, and Brian Adams, Death Cab for Cutie, Magnetic Fields, and The Beatles will be heard on stereos, ipods and gramophones (for the old-school) all day long. If you don't want to bore your boyfriend/girlfriend/wife/husb and/crush with the same ol' same ol' here are some lo-fi and possibly less known songs that are begging to be dedicated to someone, [...]
A couple of years ago, Swedish record label Labrador released a summer sampler of gargantuan proportions . A lot of those 68 songs are unremarkable (though none is truly awful). But I keep coming back to Chasing Dorotea 's unabashedly romantic The Anchor Song . Part of the song's charm is its simplicity: two voices singing mostly in unison, backed by an acoustic guitar, with a harmonica decorating the space around the verses. The singers exude tranquillity and relaxation, right from "You've got a sparkle in your eyes, stronger [...]

Sebadoh - Dreams "In my dreams, I react as my true self" Weezer - Only in Dreams The Magnetic Fields - Asleep and Dreaming "I've seen you when your ship came in, and when you train was leaving" [...]