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Let me preface this short post by apologizing for my 20 day (or so) hiatus... My life was in flux moving to school and everything, it won't happen again. Promise. DISCLAIMER: this shit was just randomly off the top of my fried brain... Kind of like the sculpture of the guy fucking the bear at our school. Enjoy!
1. Buying textbooks sucks
2. Moving into a house is a pain in the ass
3. Beer is good
4 This song pretty much explains the last couple of weeks for me - Arcade Fire - Headlights Look Like Diamonds.
5. Watching people fall on campus just might be the funniest thing ever.
6. 'The Office' is a brilliant show.
7. I think the cut on my right index finger is infected.
8. TGIF
9. Where is my mind?
10*. Ben Kweller tonight (Amazingly average artist, I know... hopefully the live show is better)
*Concert review to come, hey, at least if the show sucks I'm coming home to this...
After a short break, I'm back with a short post about two awesome bands that I've recently discovered. First, Snowden from the drrrity ATL, they sound somewhat like interpol with heavy reverb and drums... awesome. And a band I'm really stoked on from Raliegh NC, Annuals, who have a collective noise about them similar to Broken Social Scene.
Check out the mp3s for yourself though:
Snowden - Anti-Anti
Highlight: the (semi-sarcastic?) lyric: "we are anti-movements, we are anti-anti,one time we believed but now we don't even try, and I can't cut a rug, without my fashion drugs,inebriation leads revelation" seems to encapsulate and poke fun at the current the independent music scene, which I think is awesome.
Bonus: check out the speech impediment remix: Anti-Anti - (Jordan's stutter remix)
Annuals - Brother
Highlight: comes at 1:52 when the tension finally collapses into a full rock out, brilliant. Keep an eye out for more songs from them on this site in the days/weeks to come.
Some housekeeping news... I've taken a couple of mp3s down due to space issues, so remember to get them while you can!
Although I've never heard of Stina Nordenstam before, when I saw this song posted on Gorilla vs. Bear (a great site by the way), it piqued my intrest because it was remixed by The Knife. After listening to it quite a few times in the past week or so, I've decided that it definately takes the title of creepiest song in my library. The icy beat coupled with the whispered chours, "it may be silent, but I hear bombs falling" definately does the trick.
Stina Nordenstam - Parliament Square (The Knife Remix)
Bonus: And as for the second creepiest song in my library, I'd have to go with 'Commander Thinks Aloud' by The Long Winters. A song about the final thoughts passing through commander's head moments before the doomed Columbia shuttle flight descentigrated in the earth's upper atmosphere. Apparently there was a brief period (5 minutes or so) where the crew knew they were going to crash, and could do nothing about it-- definately creepy. This is by far one of my favorite Long Winters songs, and its not on their new album so check it out.
Although they're not a band anymore, I still really like this song and for some reason its been stuck on repeat in my ipod as of late... About the lack of posts lately, I've been pretty busy working on the Great Salt Lake the past few days--I know it's not really such a great excuse, but it is what it is. In other news, hope to get a mix up on the site later this week (maybe a best of August or something). As for some housekeeping issues, I'm running low on space on my ftp server which means that I'll have to start taking down old songs, so download them while you still can!
Anyway, here it is: Death From Above 1979 'Black History Month'
Bonus: Since DFA 1979 is dead, I figured I would post a song by MSTRKRFT (a solo project of one of DFA 1979's members)... One of my all time favorites: '2 More Years (Bloc Party Mix)'
