15 The Midnight Room (Jennifer Gentle)
14 Mugiboogie (Mugison)
13 Planet Earth (Prince)
12 Or Give Me Death (Aqueduct)
11 The Else (They Might Be Giants)
10 Memory Almost Full (Paul McCartney) 
09 Every Scene Needs A Center (Tullycraft)
08 Yours To Keep (Albert Hammond, Jr.)
07 Hvarf/Heim (Sigur Rós)
06 Við og Við (Ólöf Arnalds)
05 New Magnetic Wonder ( ( Read more... )

jack white makes for kind of a dreamy bullfighter in conquest ( Read more... )

i should be at my friend's house now. i'm not. i don't think i'd be good company, i'm so worried. worry about one thing leads to worry about another until suddenly, i am worried about everything. i'm not from this day and age, i belong in the past.  if i lived in 1770, i'd have less to worry about. that's maybe not true. in any case i don't. ( Read more... )

last night i saw bright eyes at radio city music hall. it was sort of an odd viewing experience. radio city is huge and the seats were so comfortable it was almost like sitting on your living room couch watching a concert. maybe that feeling of familiarity and comfort is what made people think it was ok to constantly fidget and get up. maybe that ( Read more... )

I'm watching ben at ACL right now. He said he and the boys are going to stay in Austin for a couple of weeks and record. He's playing a couple of songs from the new album. I couldn't resist. I never can with Ben. With Sigur Ros, I always need to wait. (Ben just played Old Hat.) Right now I could go on their myspace and listen to the acoustic tracks ( Read more... )

message received loud and clear

With another trip to Snoresville coming with the rising sun, I decided to make a list of shows I will miss or play hookie to attend ( Read more... )

who are you?

i have a lot if ideas for my future. i know who i want to be with, what i want to do and where. but as usual these things fit together like pieces of different puzzles that don't make logical sense put in the same context. the future is so full of possibility and impossibility at the same time. go live here and do this but not with these people. ( Read more... )

In the past three days I have practically lived on Fifth Avenue, in Brooklyn. Ben Kweller played one of his studio records in full each night. Sha Sha is a quirky, fun album featuring a couple of Radish songs Ben felt deserved a better chance at being heard. This album conveys a sense of naivety and spunk that gained Ben a unwaivering fan base. On ( Read more... )