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I'll get right back on track!
This is a post from about a week ago. Now what I'm listeining to has changed quite a bit (it always changes so quick) but these songs are worth downloading.


Man, I'm sorry for being so slow. I had a great Fall/Rainy post coming with lots of great music for that time, but the rain kinda let up and I've been listening to way more than I usually do during this season. So I'll highlight some stuff on rotation on my busrides to school and back and in my room.

De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising

I loved this album before but it's really sinking in now how phenomenal it really is. This sort of album hasn't been done too much, it's just so happy and silly and fun it's hard not to like. But it's one of those classic albums that gets all this hype from writers and stuff so I won't say much more cause it's a well known fact that this album is considered a hip-hop classic.
De La Soul - Jennifa Taught Me (Darwin's Revenge)
De La Soul - Take it Off
De La Soul - Eye Know
(The song "The Magic Number" got me so hyped on this school house rock sample they use, I had to download the original and it's so good! I have to post it also cause I've been listening to it a lot..)
School House Rock - 3 is the Magic Number

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Another classic album that's pointless to ramble on about. Lately I've been taking walks at like 9 O'clock and this album is the perfect soundtrack. Usually the streets are a little wet and all the lights reflect and this album's so dark and dense, I get into a groove and I'm off in my own world. I think I look kinda weird to the people that drive by in their cars.
DJ Shadow - Mutual Slump
DJ Shadow - The Number Song

Ryan Adams - HeartbreakerI was recommended this by an online pal and so I put it on hold at the library. I totally got into it on first listen, it's really addicting. I'm not usually big on country at all, and I know this isn't real honest country music, but it's got so much of a country overtone it's a big jump for me. So I guess I'm a new Ryan Adams fan now.
Ryan Adams - To Be Young
Ryan Adams - Amy
Ryan Adams - Bartering Lines

I got the Friend EP by Grizzly Bear from someone last night, and I haven't listened to it much but I already really like CSS's cover of Knife.
CSS - Knife

And lots of Hot Chip. Not so much their albums but their remixes and that new Shake a Fist song. That's hot, for sure.Another CSS track, I know, but I love this remix.
CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above (Hot Chip Remix)
Hot Chip - Shake a Fist

And lots of other random songs like these.
Daedelus - Something Bells (Ft. Pigeon John and Busdriver)
Atmosphere - Between the Lines
Feist - 1234 (Van She Technologic Remix) (I know I posted this already but I really recommend it, I love it)



And I'll spare you from talking about how good In Rainbows is. I'm really really sick of all the blogs giving track by track reviews. But it is good, it's really really good.

I hope that makes up for the lack of blogging.

Uh-oh

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Could this be the end of my blog? I didn't even get to compile my year wrap-up post with like, best and worst albums of 07 and stuff like that. I'm keeping my eyes open. Maybe I'll switch to megaupload or yousendit. This sucks.

Two things

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. That's what I get for being cheap and not buying a server and using hotlinkfiles.com for free. I can't upload stuff for some reason. But I've got good blogs coming

Second thing. I'm getting really fucking tired of hearing about In Rainbows. And it's only been out two days! By no means am I sick of the album itself, but everyone has their own oppinion on this years biggest album, and it's like everywhere I go I hear about it. Everyone is either praising it or complaining about how Radiohead isn't that good and all the die-hard fans freakout on them.
I like the album, but I won't bore you anymore. Stop talking about it please.

Band of Horses secret show.

The Vera Project was talking about a secret show with a secret headliner this Saturday and they said "if you like indie rock you should go" or something like that. I guess you could say I like "Indie Rock" so I was intrigued. But last Thursday they announced it was Band of Horses. BoH are notorious for their boring live shows but I thought at a really cool and small intimate space like the Vera it might be really cool, which it was.
Tyler Ramsey opened with a really nice set of folksy/rootsy acoustic songs. His fingers are long! Like, really long.
He also played with them, and it turned out it was his first show with them. Honestly I couldn't even really hear what he was doing, he just added extra guitar strumming.
But it was way better than I expected. I've never heard the Vera get sound like that, it sounded almost exactly like the cd.
I tried taking some videos but the sound ain't so hot. Not even good enough for youtube.
But I took some pictures.



I should start taking a real camera to shows instead of digital. I need a flash and a dark room though...
Here's the setlist:
Is There a Ghost
Great Salt Lake
Weed Party
Islands on the Coast
Monsters
First Song
Our Swords
(Some cover song I don't know)
Marry Song
Part One
Lamb on the Lam (In the City)
The Funeral
Ode to LRC
Wicked Gil
No One’s Gonna Love You
Unknown Song (Pretty sure it was a cover)

MP3's from the new CD:
Marry Song
Islands on the Coast
Ode to LRC

PWRFL Power

Last night I was at the Vera Project with some friends seeing Mt. Eerie, the Moools, Oregon Donor and PWRFL Power. Oregon Donor were average, Moools were awesome and Mt. Eerie was enchanting and all that, but I'm blogging about local talent PWRFL Power today.
I saw him at the Capitol Hill Block Party, and you can look at that post for some videos I took from that show, but since then I was so hyped on him I bought his CD and I've been listening to it a lot lately. He put on a great 6 song show last night with his brand new electric guitar which gave him a
really cool sound, I think I may have liked it better. His complicated finger picking patterns sounded strangely fit with the subtle distortion. Sometimes his childish vocals sunk a little low in the mix and you couldn't hear his wonderfully simple lyrics, but besides that it was flawless (oh, it was a litle out of tune at times).



and some MP3's I really recomend
It's Okay
Let Me Teach You How to Hold Chopsticks
Let's Play Drums

www.myspace.com/pwrflpower



And someone asked for this Death Cab track. It's an REM cover
Driver 8
I think it's OK. Nothing special, but worth the listen. It's from some radio session, I forget.

Rainbows

I'm sure this will be in every single blog you read, or already is...
But Radiohead's new album is called Rainbows.
This is the tracklist:
15 STEP
BODYSNATCHERS
NUDE
WEIRD FISHES/ARPEGGI
ALL I NEED
FAUST ARP
RECKONER
HOUSE OF CARDS
JIGSAW FALLING INTO PLACE
VIDEOTAPE

And...
It comes out in 10 days!

but it's wierd....
check it out for yourself
www.radiohead.com

But to get psyched here are the tracks Thom performed solo on a piano for that in the basement thing that will be on the new album.

Videotape
Down is the New Up



But man.... I am so excited.

Did you know Death Cab are recording?

Cause they are. Back in the studio and all...
Some guy named Tom said I should post about it cause it's newsworthy. And two people also asked for a zip file of that mix I made, which is understandable if you don't want to right click and save each and every song, so here:
22 songs
Again, I recomend you burn it to a CD and listen to it as a whole, that's how I intended it.

And a DCFC b-side:
Rocking Chair
It's a Band cover.

And I recently got turned down by HypeMachine. Lame. I think it's cause I use hotlinkfiles.com and that's not compatible. Whatever...