Metric – “Sick Muse”
Emily Haines and James shaw who are also a part of Broken Social Scene.
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Carl Sagan – A Glorious Dawn (ft Stephen Hawking)
A strangely affecting track, I love how Sagan sounds like Kermit the Frog in the chorus.
“A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way”
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Feist – My Moon, My Man / Sealion Woman
The groove, the playing, the style, the voice, the band, the look; Feist totally has it all. And this performance of the song “My Moon, My Man” is completely flawless. Go ahead, I dare you: find a flaw.
Sometimes one just isn’t enough:
Listening Party
Boy howdy. Music is being teh good to me these days. I’ve added a music player to the blog so you can listen to songs by these folks right here and now! Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t it just the very most exciting thing that you’ve heard all week? Yes. Yes, it is.
The new Decemberists record is due out March 24th and I can’t wait to hear the whole thing. The pre-release single (which is available now from their site, or to listen to below) is great! Typically dark, moving, and adventurous.
I first heard K’naan on the NPR show All Song’s Considered, which seems to be where I hear about all the new music I end up loving. It’s the best radio show I know and the podcast comes out weekly.
Lily Allen doesn’t offer a whole lot for those who didn’t like her first record, and for my money that’s a good thing. Less ska and more pop and dance feels make it sound like a bit of a progression but the themes are still the same: herself, people she knows, people who know her, people she has screwed, people who have screwed her, drugs, and fame.
Santogold is strange. Dub, pop, rock, all sung with a really cool voice that reminds me of Karen O, of Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
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Swingers – One Good Reason
My good friend James Gossard and I used to swap mix-tapes where one of us would do a side and give it to the other to do a “response” side. I learned about some music from James that I probably never would have found where it not for those mix-tapes. Among the songs I still have on tape, but that I’ve had an impossible search for digital versions of, is this one from the New Zealand band Swingers. I’ve never seen the movie this video is from, but am certainly intrigued.
Antony: If It Be Your Will
I’d only heard him singing on the CocoRosie song “Beautiful Boys,” and honestly didn’t even know it wasn’t one of the sisters.? This version of the Leonard Cohen song “If It Be Your Will” is amazing…spine-tingling. Shake that Devil, the first song I’ve heard from the upcoming record by Antony and the Johnsons sounds great as well.
Listening Party
Something new, something old, and something a bit of both.
- TV on the Radio – Dear Science The new album from New York’s TV on the Radio is the best album of the year so far.
- Die Kreuzen – Die Kreuzen Bill thinks this is more metal than hardcore, and I agree they certainly went that way after a bit. Regardless, their first album kicks ass.
- Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal It’s the ’60s (or is it the ’70s?) again. This reminds me of lying on my parents living room floor listening to “Horse with no Name” by America.
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros – Coma Girl
I’m still sad about Joe Strummer’s death. I think he had a lot more songs in him, as one certainly attests to.