Just One Thing

Two Door Cinema Club is an indie band from Northern Ireland. (All the best music comes from Europe, but I might be biased. Europe rocks.) The band consists of three guys, two of whom went to middle school together.  There debut album Tourist History won the Irish Album of the year in 2010.  

This is a really great remix of their song "Something Good Can Work" done by Ted and Francis.  Reminds me of Phoenix, which might be why I love it.

Right From The Start

Went to a DeVotchKa concert tonight.  They played this song as an encore and my friend and I fell in love.  Isn't it crazy how much more you can love a band once you see them live?  I mean thats why we go to concerts right? And you can expect me to be listening to DeVotchKa all day tomorrow.

This is them covering Neil Young's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart."

As I Remember

and speaking of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons...

this song is perfection.

Lovin' Hands

so into this song right now. it was released in 2008.

cover of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

Upside Down

Sufjan Stevens is a singer-songwriter from Detroit, Michigan.  He is best known for his album Illinoise which was number one on Billboard's Top Heatseeker's chart in 2005.

This is one of my favorite songs of his. But to be honest, have no idea when it was written or on what album.

Dark Was The Night

Dark Was The Night is a compilation album featuring music from:

The National, Arcade Fire, Grizzly Bear, Bon Iver, Beirut, My Morning Jacket, Yo La Tengo, Sufjan Stevens, Andrew Bird, Beach House, Spoon, and Iron and Wine (which are some of my favorite artists.) just to name a few.

It was created to benefit the Red Hot Organization – an international charity dedicated to raising money and awareness for HIV and AIDS through popular culture. It was released in February of 2009 and produced by The National's Aaron and Bryce Dessner.

These are my favorite tracks:

Grizzly Bear: Deep Blue Sea

The National So Far Around The Bend

Beirut Mimizan

The Righteous Advice

finally.


sorry it took me so long to post but The Strokes new single, "Under Cover of Darkness," released a couple weeks ago from their newest album, Angles, out March 22. ONE Month!

can't believe its been 5 years since First Impressions of Earth.

Five Songs To Listen To

Five songs I can't seem to stop listening to right now. I suggest you put in your headphones and take a listen (:

1. Vaporize - Broken Bells
2. Shoulder to Shoulder - Little Joy
3. Used To Be - Beach House
4. Angelika - Devendra Banhart
5. I Am Young - Coconut Records

A Lovely Hallucination

DeVotchka is a quartet band based in Denver, Colorado. They get there name from the Russia word devotchka meaning "girl." They fuse Romani, Greek, Slavic, Bolero, and Mariachi with American punk and folk. You will recognize this music if you have ever seen the film Little Miss Sunshine (which I am sure you have) because they did the soundtrack.

This song is off their Una Volta album released in 2003. The song is awesome but this video is weird.

Starts and Ends

I wish this song was longer.

Half-Awake

I heard this song last night and it just made me remember how much I love The National. "Fake Empire" is off their 2007 album Boxer. 


They recently came out with a new album, High Violet in May of last year, which is amazing. Listen to England.


An interesting fact about the National, if you don't usually listen to them, is that the band is derived of the lead singer, Matt Berninger and two pairs of brothers, Aaron and Bryce Dessner and Scott and Bryan Devendorf.

Coolness Is Having Courage

Noah Lennox is a musician from Baltimore and one of the founding members of Animal Collective. He started a solo career in 1998 under the name Panda Bear because he was constantly drawing pandas on his music.


"Comfy in Nautica" is off his third solo album Person Pitch released on March 20, 2007.  Pitchfork named in the top album of that year.

Listen to the newest single "Last Night at the Jetty" from his new album Tomboy set to be released April 12.

Proudly We Hail

Best rendition of the National Anthem I have ever heard. Whitney Houston at the Superbowl in 1991.

Happy Superbowl!

You Will See

This is the first single off the new Fleet Foxes album Helplessness Blues.  It is scheduled to be released on May 3rd.

Fleet Foxes is a Seattle-based folk band.  They have previously released 2 EP entitled Fleet Foxes, released in 2006, and Sun Giant, released in 2008, as well as a full-length self-titled album in 2008, which won Pitchfork's album of the year.  They have been one of my favorite bands since the moment I heard the song "Your Protector." They describe their music as "baroque harmonic pop jams."

This is "Helplessness Blues."

Not As Much Is Good Enough

I can't help myself (:

p.s. New Disco was released on January 25th.

Gentil A Tua Mao

Little Joy is a Brazilian/American indie rock band consisting of singer/songwriter Rodrigo Amarante of Los Hermanos, drummer Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes and multi-instrumentalis Binki Shapiro, who appeared as a "muse" in many of Beck's music videos.  Amarante and Moretti met at a music festival in Lisbon where both bands were performing, humoring the idea of working together on music that sounded completely different than the music they were currently working on.  They met Shapiro through mutual acquaintances.  With the help of producer Noah Georgeson, who also produced Devendra Banhart's album Crippled Crow, their self-titled album was released in 2008.

It has been considered "one of the sweetest, most listenable, consistently enjoyable records of the season" by Pitchfork.

This is "Next Time Around" off the album Little Joy.

I Don't Worry Cause...

Sang this song at karaoke last night with a friend.  Let me just say, we rocked it! (: In my opinion, the best songs to sing at karaoke are songs that are up-beat and that people will recognize, the older the better.

Notice When You Look Back

Rocky Votalato is a singer-songwriter who was raised in Texas until the age of 13 and then moved to Washington due to his parents divorce. Feeling isolated from this abrupt move across the country, Rocky focused on his music. While listening to different punk bands, he tried out different musical projects, finally focusing on his solo career.

While Daisy Passing is the first track off the 2006 album Makers.

We Might Live

The Troggs are a British rock group from the 60s. There most famous songs are Wild Thing and Love Is All Around (yes, that's the song in Love, Actually).

My friend played me this song, With A Girl Like You, recently and it has been stuck in my head ever since.  We were talking about how if we were to ever create a band and make music, we would want it to sound like this.

Keep The World At Bay

Vetiver is an American folk band from San Francisco.  Rolling Sea is the first song off their 4th album Tight Knit released in 2009.

Bones Are Too Heavy

The Morning Benders released the song Excuses on their 2010 album The Big Echo.  It was co-produced by Grizzly Bear's bassist, Chris Taylor.

Chris Chu, the lead singer of The Morning Benders, decided to use the philosophy of Phil Spector and create a wall of sound with a group of friends in San Francisco to do a re-make.

Bold Enough

This is just incredibly impressive. Atomic Tom on a NYC Subway.

Be Your Guide

Broken Bells is a collaboration group formed of Danger Mouse, aka Brian Burton, and The Shins lead singer James Mercer. The pair decided to work together when they realized that they were a fan of each other's music. They announced the collaboration in September of 2009 even though they had been working together for over four years.  They released their self-titled debut album on March 9, 2010.  Because of so much success from this album they decided to keep working together on future projects.

This is 'The High Road', one of the singles from the album Broken Bells.