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Free Energy - Stuck On Nothing
A while back, The Aforementioned David Brusie recommended that I check out this band. I didn't pay much attention. Then I was at Grand Old Day in St. Paul this summer, and they happened to be playing. Holy cats, they were great. Total new-skool hippie band, and they couldn't have been having a better time.

Just think of it: A band playing on a stage next to Dixie's on a summer afternoon, everyone on stage with long hair, and the singer (who might be 10 years younger than me) points at the crowd during the chorus of the first album track:

"This is all we've got tonight
We are young and still alive
and now the time is on our side."

Old-style guitar rock. Sometimes with cowbell. Music to high-five strangers to.
2010-07-30  3 comments
Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop
The other night, the title track from this album showed up on the radio. It was weirdly awesome, in an old-skool kind of way. Turns out, the MC is KRS-One, and the album was released in 1989. You'd never know that it was that old. It's perfect.
2010-03-20  0 comments
The Grates - Teeth Lost, Hearts Won
With bands like Bis and Yeah Yeah Yeahs slowly shifting over to a more electro-disco sound, it's kind of great to find a band that's still rocking that late-90's good-natured-Riot-Grrl rollerskate-punk sound. If Bikini Kill had to play at a high school sock hop, it would sound a lot like this.
2010-02-15  0 comments
The Magnetic Fields - Realism
So, I tend to listen to The Magnetic Fields a whole bunch at a time, and while that's always a great thing, it lets me forget how different in both form and content they are from other bands. They always have this weird folky instrumentation, and on this album in particular, the lyrics are really simple but describe situations that are kind of fascinating and weird, and combination of all of it makes me wistfully remember a fictional time when I was in the circus in spring and all day long clowns were straightforwardly professing either their love or dislike for each other, regardless of whether there happened to be an audience there right then or not.
2010-02-05  1 comments
fun. - Aim and Ignite
I played this at Katie, and she said, "It this The Format?" Turns out, the lead guy is the same. I'm gonna go ahead and call this genre "Symphonic Pop". I'm a sucker for "Na na na na na na" choruses. And for albums where you probably need a decent pianist onstage.
2009-08-28  0 comments
Fanfarlo - Reservoir
This band is a weird collision of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Devotchka. It totally works.
2009-08-28  0 comments
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Vaguely electro-indie band. If you're leaving in the early afternoon for a road-trip towards the West to find high adventure, you should probably be listening to this album all the way through, on repeat.
2009-08-04  0 comments
Say Hi - Oohs and Aahs - Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh
The rest of this album is pretty laid-back, and sounds like Pela, which is really pretty admirable. But this track is awesome.

"It's the shape of her legs,
It's the way that she curses."

You've never heard synth-horns used this well.
2009-05-04  0 comments
Metric - Fantasies
I can list off a string of previous Metric successes, but Fantasies is the best place to figure it all out.  The first song is perfect. The last song is perfect.  A couple of the middle songs are perfect, too. Electrogirl. Give it a chance. because, wow.
2009-04-22  1 comments
The Lonely Island - Incredibad
While I'm a little reluctant to post silly albums. . . this is awesome.  Andy Samberg  got a bunch of these songs on Saturday Night Live, and they're pretty amazing. He's got this sense of nerdy-guy-vs.-hiphop, and has some impeccable production.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/56632/saturday-night-live-digital-short-im-on-a-boat#s-p1-st-i1
http://www.hulu.com/watch/1397/saturday-night-live-snl-digital-short-lazy-sunday#s-p1-st-i1
http://www.hulu.com/watch/1404/saturday-night-live-snl-digital-short-natalie-raps#s-p1-st-i1
2009-03-16  1 comments
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