Too much of a good thing

There’s an overwhelming amount of music coming out right now. Seems that everyone has timed their new releases with SXSW. I like what I’ve heard so far, but I find this flood of new music to be kind of paralyzing. My instinct is to retreat – to stop reading music blogs, stop listening to the radio, ignore the mp3s that friends send me… I can’t take it all in and make good executive decisions. It’s just too much to handle. I might take a few posts to share things of a different nature (shadow puppetry, poetry, detailed accounts of my trip to the Topshop opening in Soho, etc.)

Here are some music related things that managed to slip through my road block:
Handsome Furs – Nyet Spasiba

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Grand Duchy, follow up…

The album is good. I’m noticing that a lot more good albums are coming out this year than last. That is a good thing.

Grand Duchy- Fort Wayne

Grand Duchy- Come On Over To My House

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Stuff from old tapes; Part III

So, back when I was living in Manhattan and Brooklyn… I had a landline. And it used regular old cassette tapes. I started leaving strange outgoing messages all the time. Basically encouraging my friends to leave me strange messages. Although, I don’t think I really needed to give them any encouragement. Here are a few choice ones from my collection of answering machine messages…

Fannie Mae- Reba (This was a random call that I got. I don’t know how the woman didn’t know she got the wrong number. She never called back.)

Graham- Wondering Where I Am (I ended up going with them. Obviously, since I still have my testicles.)

Chris M.- Reading From A Porn Book (My friend, Chris, would call up and leave strange messages. Usually for no other reason then to be strange. We actually had an ongoing battle back in high school with his own answering machine.)

Kehoe- Getting Skin to Say What He Is Doing (My friend, Matt, called me when he knew I wasn’t home to play a prank on our mutual friend, Skin (James). Pretty funny, I think.)

Mom- Ann Is Out Of Jail (My sister decided to take a taxi from New York City to Northport. And then she decided that they would stiff the cabbie out of the fare. But, the cab driver told the police that she and her friends robbed him by gun and knife point. Needless to say, I became the good child after that for awhile.)

Magic Steve- Wants To Be On One Of My Tapes (I used to go to this bar on the Upper East Side and he was the bartender. He used to let me bring in mix tapes and play them while I was in there. And he would do magic tricks for me. We ended up becoming friends. But, then he wanted me to have sex with his wife and he wanted to have sex with my girlfriend at the time. He was a swinger. And my girlfriend wasn’t about to do that… ha ha.)

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Hey Rosetta!

Check out this beautiful video for Hey Rosetta!‘s, Red Song (currently unreleased). Their full length album, Into Your Lungs, came out in 2008.

The video is directed by the talented, Noah Pink.

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Grand Duchy

I’m really, really, really, really looking forward to this:

(really)

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Flower power!

Today’s a better day (I know you were all really worried, so I just want to set your minds at ease). Sorry I slipped up (Score: Mimi 95 / Bloggy Blog 4) .

Here’s some new stuff I like:

Thomas Function – Belly of the Beast (fun, upbeat)
BLK JKS – Summertime (good energy)
Mayer Hawthorne –Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out (29 year old white boy…seriously?! this is officially my new go to break up song)
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone – Old Panda Days (W/ Nick Krgovich) (owen ashworth’s a great storyteller – simple music, raw lyrics – love it)

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Oh man, how good is the new Decemberists album?

Soooo good!

Take a listen to these two tracks. Although, you should really listen to the album from start to finish. It’s basically a folky rock opera.

The Decemberists- The Rake’s Song

The Decemberists- The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)

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