April! Week 4!

Wow! I made it to the end of April.

So far I've got 2 cd's under my belt, neither one of them was like WABAAM! AWESOME! But instead are the kinds of albums that could provide a steady soundtrack during your morning commute on the train. Hopefully I will stumble upon something amazing, after all, isn't that what we're all looking for?

Out of nowhere on Wednesday night, I followed a link on the Bwog (Columbia's The Blue and White's Blog), watched an admittedly awesome GarageBand scraped together video about Columbia's Frontiers of Science class. One thing led to another and (no I did not start dating her, although that would be awesome) I plopped down $9.90 on iTunes for Reni Laine's album, American Baby. She is currently a freshman at Columbia and has a lovely voice and has been putting in the time to tour the NYC music scene at places like Pianos (which is awesome). I just finished listening and it was awesome, and then out of nowhere my iTunes search filter let in a Wesley Willis song and I was treated to the sweet sounds of Chronic Schizophrenia. Take a listen @ http://www.myspace.com/renij. If there's one thing I do, it's help out my school and support emerging artists.

Hot Stuff!



Reni Laine- American Baby
Spill Canvas- Denial Feels So Good

Not Bad Not Bad.

Rocky Votolato- The Brag & Cuss
The Comas- Spells
Bjork- Volta (I'm on the fence about this, it could be a lot more awesome than I think it is right now)
Rufus Wainwright- Release the Stars

April! Week 3!

I am falling behind, the music queue is too big!! Here's what's up for next week as I attempt to catch up: Update: WOOO listened to it all. This week produced some for-seriously good stuff.

FANTASTICO!!



Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have Your Back (even though this isn't "new", it's from ~ 6 months ago and I didn't have a blog then, I thought it deserved some recognition)
The Academy Is- Santi (it's not brilliant, but something about it is so good. however this might get demoted to Gouda as the lyrics are at times horrible, worse than the creative writing story I wrote in third grade)
Islands- Return to the Sea (they kind of remind me Death Cab for Cutie... sort of)
Stars- Do You Trust Your Friends? (awesome. remix cd of Set Yourself on Fire, excellent excellent)

Gouda.
Mad Caddies- Keep it Going
Manchester Orchestra- I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child
Hilary Duff- Dignity (hm... not particularly interesting though, disappointing but not awful)
Melee- Devils and Angels (almost made it to my very much recommended list)
Army of Me- Citizen
Stars- Do You Trust Your Friends?
RJD2- The Third Hand

April! Week 2!

WOW.


1997- A Better View of the Rising Moon (new band on Victory Records)
Artic Monkeys- Favourite Worst Nightmare

A little less WOW!

Air Raid Barcelona- Self-titled EP (album is not stellar, but you can tell they are an amazing live band)
High and Driving- 4 Song DEMO
Low- Drums and Guns
Mono- Under the Pipal Tree (kind of like Explosions in the Sky but not quite as interesting and songs are LOONG)

New Category!

Every recommendation needs a worthy counter balance, which is why I present everyone with a new post category: Worst albums of the month. The first winner for April is.... drum roll...


Avril Lavigne- The Best Damn Thing

Avril, congratulations. Somehow I made it through the entire album, and it hurt me. Hurt me in the same way that eating too much Taco Bell will hurt your innards.

Watch this video: it sums up how awful the entire album is. It's bad when this song is your first single and is only one of maybe two decent songs. It was hard to even pass this off as decent.

April!

Week 1. Holler at your boy. More to come, wait for me to finish listening to stuff.

Fantastically Awesome:




Bright Eyes- Cassadaga
The National- Boxer
Panda Bear- Person Pitch

Worth Mentioning

Limbeck- Self-titled
Hot Rod Circuit- The Underground is a Dying Breed
Waking Ashland- The Well
LCD Soundsystem- Sound of Silver

My True Love

It's become painfully obvious for me and a lot of my friends that once you leave the university environment, your awareness of new music hits an all time low. Even I, who was once on the bleeding edge of music fell victim to real life, my job, and the adult life. With the help of my younger brother who just started college, we will maintain this blog to help you, recently out of school music snob, stay hip and with it. I like to think that we have 2 very good sets of ears and would not steer you wrong, after all, there is a lot of crap out there and not enough time to listen to it all. Onwards!

I will inaugurate this blog with a few new cds for 2007. Rating system of 3 stars, three being the highest.

Tickles My Fancy





Dustine Kensrue- Please Come Home
Explosions in the Sky- All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
Ratatat- Ratatat Remixes Vol. II
Rosie Thomas- These Friends of Mine

Won't Make Your Ears Bleed

• Arcade Fire- Neon Bible --> ***
• Piebald- Accidental Gentleman --> **
• The Queers- Monki Brain --> **
• Bayside- The Walking Wounded --> **+0.5
• Fall Out Boy- Infinity on High --> *** (surprising)
• Lifetime- Self-titled --> **
• Apostle of Hustle- National Anthem of Nowhere --> **
• Feist- The Reminder --> ***
• Modest Mouse- We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank --> *** (also surprising)
• Morningbell - Through the Belly of the Sea: A Choose Your Own Adventure Album --> **
• Yoko Ono- Yes, I'm a Witch --> ***

Walk of Shame

• Of Montreal- Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?--> *+0.5