Songs From the Union Volume #1

Just songs and I think they are all worth checking out

Cassettes Won't Listen - Paper Float
Novi Split - Leaving It
Cars Can Be Blue - I Use To Think
Atlas Sound - River Card
The Teenagers - Starlett Johansson
Main Drag - All My Friends (LCD Soundsystem Cover)
Ghostland Observatory - Sad Sad City
Biirdie - Him
Great Northern - Home
Times New Viking - (My Head)/RIP Allegory

also if house cats were not creepy enough look at this

New Feature

Okay first feature really, but whose counting. So no posts in awhile cause of school and work, but as some of you know I have to work late on Wednesdays (today) and am allowed to be on my laptop. Instead of watching movies I will search for songs and post them Live from the AMU. So look out for that tonight. Here our some not newly found songs you might like. O yeah again go Giants.
Immaculate Machine - Dear Confessor
Jack Penate - Second, Minute, or Hour
Deertick - Hell on Earth
Bowerbirds - In Our Talons

California Girls

So I am listening to the Magnetic Fields a lot right now. Especially the song "California Girls" off of the new album Distortion. It has the oppositite message of the famous Beach Boys song. Also the depressed voice of Merrit is not singing lead here and I think it works perfect. Also songs from Grand Archives and Say Hi, two Washington bands after the jump. O yeah lets go Giants, Eli for mayor.


Magnetic Fields - California Girls
Say Hi - Northwestern Girls
Grand Archives - Torn Blue Foam Couch

Golden Animals

Golden Animals is also an awesome band name. It's not better than Care Bears on Fire, but my school logo is technically a golden animal. Anyway this band makes really cool music. I think some would call it psychedelic, but I don't like the way that sounds. They really remind me of Two Gallants for some reason. Check it out.


Golden Animals - Do the Roar

Two Gallants - Las Cruces Jail

Care Bears on Fire

Care Bears on Fire is probably the coolest band name ever. The band is very young I think in the 7th grade. So they weren't even born when the care bears were really popular. I am not going to lie I was a fan. Different color bears that released beams out of their stomach. That is just awesome. Plus these kids do not sound bad. Check out the songs on their myspace.


Care Bears on Fire - I Must Know Why

Close To Me

I almost never take my phone off vibrate, but if i did one of my ringtones is The Cure's "Close to Me". I love that song. Why? is a band I do not know well enough to love, but I have liked what I've heard from them and this cover of "Close to Me" does not let me down. It is courtesy of Pitchfork.


Why? - Close to Me (The Cure cover)

The Baconator

I haven't posted in way too long. I apologize, but please beware of the baconator.

Only a couple songs, but I think they're all winners.

Field Music - Working to Work
Thurston Moore - Fri/End
Tullycraft - Wild Bikini
14 Iced Bears - Hay Fever

Aye Aye

Sometimes I don't really know what to type up here. I don't really give background on any of the songs or artists, but thats because I kind of find that boring. Maybe that makes me bad at this. I wish I knew how many bowls of Cap'n Crunch I ate during break. I am pretty sure the number would shock people.

Interesting Fact: all of the songs below were recorded in July.*

The Unicorns - I Was Born (A Unicorn)
Bedroom Eyes - Hand-in-Hand Grenade
Murder Mystery - Love Astronaut
Jack Penate - Spit at Stars (solo)
The Secret Life of Sofia - Hospital Inside of Me
Handsome Furs - Cannot Get Started
Sunny Day Sets Fire - Stranger
Julie Dorion - No More


* Probably not true

A-Punk

Antarctica Takes It! - Circuits

I found this song on some blog a while ago and really liked it. Pitchfork posted a remastered version of the song. I think its really good so check it out. Also here is the new Vampire Weekend video. The songs called A-Punk and is from their soon to be released self titled debut.

Thanks Al

Why did it get warm yesterday all of a sudden? I do not trust this, its January. Also my mom told me theres a tornado moving through where I go to school. Tricky weather. I like it when Al Roker throws it to the local weather person and the person pretends like Al is just talking to them like "thanks Al". Al can't hear you! Here are some songs to check out.

The Shaky Hands - The Sleepless
Handsome Furs - What We Had
Good Times Good Times - Sunshine Sunshine
Flowers Forever (the guy from Tilly and the Wall) - Black Rosary
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
A Weather - One More Night Stand

lo-fi

So one more week before school starts again for me. I may go see Thurston Moore solo tomorrow at the Knitting Factory. Besides that not much is going on. New Mountain Goats album coming out though called Heretic Pride. Got to love the lo-fi.


Mountain Goats - Sax Rohmer #1
Architecture in Helsinki - Heart it Races
Wye Oak - Warning
The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
The Occasional Flickers - Rucksack
Celebration - Evergreen

Bring them on

26

Our Life is Not a Movie

So 2007 ended and I never gave a best albums list or whatever. I know that Okkervil River's The Stage Names was my favorite. My favorite song was probably Mending of the Gown by Sunset Rubdown. I also thought the whole Radiohead letting people pick a price thing was very cool. My favorite movies were No Country for Old Men and King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. O yeah and There Will Be Blood kept selling out at Lincoln Center like crazy. We had to get tickets for the show at 10 even though we went at 2. It was great though. Also I am Legend kind of sucked. I am not going to even give it a link. I posted some mp3s that I like so I hope you check them out. And the picture is of Okkervil River.

Okkervil River - Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe
Stars in Coma - Revanche
Afternoon Naps - Clean Bill of Health
Boat - Last Cans of Paint
The Libertines - Time For Heroes
Priscilla Ahn - Dream
Sambassadeur - Final Say
Capstan Shafts - Bluejeans V. Debs