Rebecca Black’s Friday

Rebecca Black’s horrible song must be heard to be believed.Read More

5 songs that sound perfect when you need to get somewhere.

5. Bon Iver- Babys.

Best when  listened in – The middle of the woods, or your local park, next to the kids throwing sticks at each other.

4. Gorillaz – Hong Kong

Best when listened in- Your local Chinatown. … Read More

My five favorite Tv on the Radio songs.

Hello,  First of all. How are you? Missed me? I did. Your side of the bed was really cold.

This week I am putting a spotlist on perhaps my second favorite band (after The Beatles), which is Tv on The Radio.

So follow me, after the jump, there is cookies and shit.

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Americanarama

First there was Okay Go with the tread mill jumping, now every band wants to have a crazy original music video and thats not a bad thing.Read More

Five songs that sound pretty sad after a break up, rejection, or whatever that thing in the middle of Mexico was.

Because music is the only thing that can really heal the wounds.

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The Four Aces of Mariachi music.

The Four Mariachi Singers you should know (so you have something to talk about in cinco de mayo)Read More

The Five songs that for some reason or another, lighten up a shitty day.

This are five songs that give my gray days some color.

5. Good Fortune – PJ Harvey.

It’s really hard to explain this one, but PJ Harvey is my top pick for shitty days. It is almost religious to listen … Read More

Heard It Here First – The XX

Today, The XX won the Mercury Prize for their first, self titled album. Read More

Five songs I listen the most when I am in the mood of turning my brain off.

Maybe the top five most awesome songs that will put you to sleep, (in a good way)Read More

Album Review : Arcade Fire – The Suburbs

One of six alternate covers of The Suburbs

I’ve taken a lot of crap from a lot of people for my glowing reviews of past Arcade Fire albums.  This article isn’t going to help me in that regard in any way at all because I plan on gushing yet again.  Get your raincoats on and come with me as I gleefully slobber, gush, and get other body juices all over this Canadian band’s newest masterpiece.

Win Butler and his wife, Regine Chassagne, started Arcade Fire back in 2003 and have been blazing an exciting trail for modern music ever since.  Their first full album, Funeral, released in 2004, was a sprawling work, with a musical backbone that felt too sturdy for a first album.  The range of sound that was pulled together in that album was stunning, and a feet rarely achieved by a band until after they have been playing together for decades.  It couldn’t have been done without the myriad of other artists that they pulled together, but with the group consisting of 7 members playing multiple instruments, Arcade Fire required a masterful orchestrator to keep the music from turning into a jumbled mess of noise.  The Butlers did it, and they haven’t stopped since.

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