!!! Frontalot + Achewood? How have I been in the dark for so long?

God-damn Chris Onstad. Way to stick that in small print at the corner of your homepage.

Stuck in an I Am Kloot rut.

I am listening to Radio 4's Gotham!, The National's Alligator and Little Barrie's We Are Little Barrie. When they have done, I'm going to put on some of the Go! Team!'s new album, with some Doors and Baka Beyond.
I love working from home

Thatcher Fucked The Kids by Frank Turner.

TV Pro by the Vines, been listening to them since this morning. Have all of their CD's on my iPod. =]

Mmm, yes please. The new Go! Team is probably better than the first, and I honestly didn't that that was possible. Little Barrie also good, so a secondary woo for that.

Other than the aforementioned Go! Team, I've been filling my ears with P J Harvey's new one (bleak, but strangely pretty) and a sudden desire to overplay Cobra Killer's 'L.A. Shaker' for the second time this year. Funkaay!

Heterosexual men listen to PJ Harvey? Blimey. On the evidence witnessed by a friend of mine, over many years working various record shops, PJ Harvey was exclusively bought by women with short hair who have a taste in clothing that frequently strays towards lumberjack shirts.

What am I listening to? This week I'm alternating between Terry Pratchett novels and Robert Jordan's Conan audiobooks.

Ain't it Fun by GNR.

Manu Chao! Excellent poppy worldy stuff with an impeccable French accent. Dude sounds like the Listening portion of the SAT French.

The new Jimmy Eat World album, Chase This Light, is fantastic. Okay, there's one song that really irritates me and it was never going to be as good as Bleed American, but this album is still pretty damn awesome.

If I Had £1 For Every Stale Song Title I'd Be 30 Short Of Getting Out Of This Mess by Gat Cape, Wear Cape, Fly.

I know it is both a long song title and artist name, but if you get past that to listen to him, I reckon you will love him.

I saw him last year at Truck Festival, in the rain- his PA system broke down and he got us to do a huge hokey-kokey. He is a good performer, but a really rude person!

Today, I was listening to two National albums (Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers and Aligator), and The Arcade Fire's Neon Bible.

I bought Get Cape.Wear Cape.Fly's album based on the strength of the song Whitewash Is Brainwash, but the rest of the album bored me when I listened to it. I should probably give it another chance, but meh. I've got too much awesome music on my computer to bother with that.

Enter Shikari - Ok, Time For Plan B

Har har. Enter Shikari suck bum.

This evening, we danced a lot to Michael Jackson's Thriller and pretended to be ZOMMMMMBIEZZZZZ to the other people in the pub. It was fun. We were zombies.

No one posting here for a while, eh?

Well I've been listening to lots and lots of David Bowie. He's so awesome. *swoon.*

Animal Collective. Again: ANIMAL COLLECTIVE. I have been trolling around the country listening to their music in horrible settings (e.g., airports, rental cars, Holiday Inns) and they are great. They are great. Oh man.

Animal Collective, guys.

Sticking with this theme, I'm listening to Band of Horses. At the moment, just The Funeral but I might put on the whole Everything All The Time album. It works well as background music for packing.

Deviating from the theme, I am listening to the Dismemberment Plan. They are delightfully cantankerous.

I have a mix of King Creosote's last album, a Mojo CD from a couple of years ago (entitled Americana, with Joanna Newsom, The Bright Eyes, Iron&Wine, Ray Lamontagne etc) and Mr Driver's Legendary Music Collection (CD1), all going round in my CD player.

The latter being one of six CDs a friend of mine compiled for me. It's already gone The Hives, Nick Drake, The Datsuns. Happy music

Steve Vai lately. He. Is. Awesome. So is Joe Satriani.

Yesterday I went to a Two Gallants and Kelly Stoltz gig and it was more than awesome.

At the moment I'm listening to She Wants Revenge.

Lately I have been pretty hooked on The Mountain Goats, mmm.

^! "on the shores of a lake named after a late queen of england!"

Right now I'm listening to Gogol Bordello, who probably should be institutionalized.

Oh but they're so SO good!
I want to listen to Devendra Banhart, but I also want to stay in bed and work from here all day. Hmm, decisions, decisions.

/me loves wifi.

Sondre Lerche! So simple and cheery. Things are good.

Foiled from Blue October.

Amaaaaazing!
Drilled a Wire Through My Cheek and Overweight are my favorites...closely followed by X Amount of Words.

Their lyrics are amazing, and each song has a distinctly different sound. I am lovin' it.

Memoirs of a Geisha soundtrack - Chiyo's Prayer

(gooood instrumental soundtrack if you like shamisen/japanese music)

Permanantly with my mp3 player stuck to my ears... went to see RENT at the Orpheum and I've been listening to the full show since...

also...

... sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who listens to rap.

DOOM.TREE.

^Just for you, I've been listening to some rap this morning.

Wu-Tang Clan- Babies (Arguably the best use of a sample in a song, ever, even to the point where it excuses: "the killer had to be mad smart/he wore mittens")
Biggie Smalls- Dangerous MC's
Pharoahe Monch- Desire

Brazilian Girls--Jique.

I saw them last night--consisting of me staring in awe at the lead singer, and inventing such profundities as: "Dancing is, like, breathing with your feet".

So good. Such a pretty lead singer. Such a crappy venue. Yet a glorious night.

Scout Niblett- Kidnapped By Neptune and the Ting Tings- Not My Name. Both super catchy, clappy, drum filled Indie (potential)hits.
For you UKians out there, the Scout Niblett song is used on Stella McCartney's perfume advert. It goes "shoob shoob shoob shooba shoob shoob shoob" etc etc.

I'm cold.

Permutation (Album) by Amon Tobin.

Very interesting music.

Been listening to the latest Iron and Wine lately. It's kind of mesmerizing.

Seeing as I have had The Alterkicks stuck in my head for most of the day, I'll say that I have been listening to them.
I have been listening to The Alterkicks. They are quite good, catchy, but not spectacular.

Today, I am actually listening to music and it just so happens to be Noah And The Whale.
I first saw them this year at the Institute Of Contemporary Arts in London, when they were supporting fields. who were playing with a mini-orchestra. They were lovely, playing energetic, romantic, shoe gazing music with violins, cardigans and soft London accents. I should have seen them later on in the year, too, when I saw Broken Social Scene at KoKo in Camden, but got there too late. They did come on stage to join in with BSS's last song, though, which was awesome.
To cut what could be an even longer story short, they are really cool chaps who play soft, mellow music and who are good to listen to in cold evenings next to the fire. /radiator- we are in the future, after all.

Been rocking out to Rachmanninoff all morning. His music is the kind of person I'd like to fall in love with. : )

Owning an MP3 player has killed my ability to post here - I just pile up random nonsense which I almost immediately forget.

Songs of the last few weeks that have stuck in my fickle mind:

Just Abandoned My-Self - Boris
Air War - Crystal Castles
LA Shaker - Cobra Killer (nothing will shift it...)
Like This With The Devil - Entombed
The Final Mistake - Beastellabeast

On a music-related note, I recently watched the Sigur Ros DVD 'Heima' whilst soaking my foot in a bucket of TCP-laced warm water. I recommend this setup, as the two experiences work together quite well. Lovely DVD, I must say - less a music DVD, more a protracted advert made by the Iceland Tourist Board.

I'd heard that about Heima. Come to Iceland! We're all bonkers and have lovely scenery!

I've been listening a lot to the Blade Runner soundtrack, the Esper Edition. This has never been released and (as far as I know) was made by a load of geeks by removing the vocal track of the movie. The result is the only full soundtrack available from the film, and jolly good it is too.

You... you say it like it's a bad thing?

*is an utter utter Icelandophile*

Yay for MTV2 playing top100 of 2007, I am at number 16 which is the great Klaxons with Golden Skans, everyone out of the UK hates them I think but they are class!!!

Notes From Above Ground by The Augean Stables. They're a small band with one album that I only found because they had a song pre-downloaded on a Rio MP3 player I bought about 2 years back. Their drummer emailed me as someone who bought the albun through their label at the time and they're coming back with another album soon... YAY!

Ahhhhh!!! MCR made it to number 7 with I Don't Love You or something, the completely stole the riff from Coldplay and then murdered it with emoness =[

A Silver Mt. Zion and their various name-changes. They're so moving. Even if the singer's voice annoys you (it does that to me sometimes), there's tons of instrumental stuff that's just mindblowing.

^ Now, see, I've been wanting to check them out for months but I'm not willing to pay for it and as of now my only method of getting free music is from CDs stolen from the floors of friends' bedrooms. Gragh. I am now frustrated.

Listening to St. Vincent, very pleasant if not especially interesting. Dynamite video for "Jesus Saves, I Spend" though--utterly adorable and full of Cub Scouts.

Listening to Gonzos top 10 guests ever =]

The Klaxons are ok, but ... just not spectacular. I'm not sure you could say that "everyone out of the UK hates them! But, like The Kaiser Chiefs and The Arctic Monkeys, their first album was vaguely good but hideously overplayed.


*coughdownloadingpmmecough* >_>


I got to see St. Vincent supporting The National in October. We had only heard OF her, not TO her, and she was surprisingly delightful!

Recently, I have been listening to Scout Niblett. Her song Kidnapped By Neptune was on a Stella McCartney perfume advert over Christmas, and her album of the same name is brilliant. Elphabaramabarba, I think you would like it.

Iceland is teh win, but it is populated by nutters who believe in fairies. Which is a good thing, obviously.

In my excitement at getting my mitts on some Urusei Yatsura (best Scottish band with a Japanese name evar, indie-rock kidz) I've been utterly caning 'Slain By Elf'. A truly marvellous tune about the joys of being a D&D obsessed nerd, and also a tune I'm yet to get tired of. Result!

Also 'Rattled By The Rush' by Pavement. Sweeeeet.

I think that it's pixies that the Icelanders believe in, not fairies. Pah! Believing in fairies? That would be nuts! But pixies, well yes, obviously they live in the big stones and will get offended if you move them... They once diverted a road around a big rock (a metre or two wide) instead of moving it because pixies lived inside. Completely lala bonkers, but a lovely bunch. Their sagas totally rock too.

Silver Mt. Zion are good in small portions - Froggy introduced me to them. I like it, but not usually for a whole album. I'm also a person who prefers their instrumental tracks.

Currently I'm listening to 'The Dark Side of the 80s', a compilation album that I downloaded purely because it featured one of my old favourite bands called That Petrol Emotion. Right now it's playing The Cramps - Garbageman.

Inky, you always restore my faith in humanity. Heima is a slice of wonderful.

Completely understandable, Mata. I'm about to inundate a friend with ASMZ, and I will be telling them "The vocals can be kind of annoying, but you have to listen to at least the first album (which is almost entirely instrumental)!" And sometimes I can't listen to them that much because they are so good at what they do they depress me.

Beckys is giving me music... ooh.