Get, Got, Done.

School of Seven Bells

Dreamy dopeness from two hot twins and the dude who quit the Secret Machines. I won tickets to see them on Saturday with M83 (whom you should check out as well). Two for two! BOOYAH!

Lykke Li

Pop gems from a dreamy Swedish chick. She is the same age as me. She covers Tribe. One time, Q-Tip covered Tribe with her. Is that still a cover song? Search it out at mtv.com. She'll be here in February. Don't sleep.

Manchester Orchestra

This band rules. Hard. Listen. Those aren't the best jams really. They just put out a new EP called Let My Pride Be Whats Left Behind. If I had any money at all, I'd buy it. I like the way that dude writes songs. Simple guitar lines, great lyrics, heavy in all the right places. Sound familiar...? Did I just give myself away?

The show on Saturday ruled oh so much. Thanks to all who came. Wouldn't have been the same without you. Peep the official site for more on that. I'm pretty sure that almost everyone on my short list of favoritepeopleintheworld was there. There were a few glaring ommissions. But when duty calls...

Oh and hey... look at this guy. We did it! Get hyped. He's got a lot of work ahead of him, but I feel good about it.


One more thing too. Get hyped for this. January 9th at the Uptown Theater. Damn it looks good.

"You Seem a Little On the High Side"

Imagine if My Bloody Valentine and Bob Dylan made sweet, noisy, thoughtful love. And they didn't wear protection. Cause why would you? You've gotta mix and spread both of those genes around, and they know that. Well anyway, they bone, and 9 months later a baby is born. A beautiful baby named The War on Drugs.

I can't figure out how to get a song to stream right from here, so head over to the hype machine and listen to the War on Drugs. Pretty much ruling right now. I know I really like a band when I wish I was in said band. That's going on right now.

Oh, and that show Californication... too fucking good. Hank Moody is the man.

Voices

Love these dudes. I know I'm far from alone in that, but they still continue to impress me.

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by lablogotheque

Completely unpretentious. Just some dudes hyped to explore some really good songs. I read an interview where the artist talked about living in your songs and finding new life in your own songs. I think it was Justin being interviewed, but I can't be sure. This band does just that so well. All of the songs take such different forms in different settings. It is something I have really been applying to my own music lately. Once a song is recorded, it is not the end of the evolution of said song. You can find so much more within it. Things you never even thought about or knew were there in the first place.

A song is never done, per say, and that is far from a bad thing. Just watch above for proof.
And you might never really know everything there is to know about the song either, but it is all about how you apply it to yourself at a certain moment in time.