off we go, or so we say

So I have officially decided that my favorite band is most definitely Modest Mouse. Anyone interested in the band should check out this really cool documentary that was shot while they were making the amazing Lonesome Crowded West. Part one of five can be found below.



And my favorite mouse song of late? check it. off "Building Nothing out of Something"

Modest Mouse - Other People's Lives

record year for rainfall

It's raining out. It has been raining for I think three straight days now. I love the warmth for this time of year, but when you wake up at 4 in the afternoon hungover, it's pitch dark, and raining once again, it gets pretty depressing. Luckily, the Decemberists have a new song that can help us share the pain of this rain. This new song on their new series of singles, "Always the Bridesmaid: A Single Series" is shaping up to be one of my favorite Decemberists songs. I saw them the other night at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston and it was an amazing show, with this song being one of the highlights. BTW, These pics were all taken when I was in Chicago for Lollapalooza this summer.





The Decemberists - Record Year

let's try this again

The best music usually rewards repeated listening. A great test to this is animal collective, an extraordinarily strange sounding band that took me quite some time to get into. The interesting thing about animal collective is for such an odd, random sounding band, their music is really centered in pop. Once you've listened to their songs enough to understand it's form this becomes pretty evident, you just need to get use to it. So anyway, my favorite animal collective jam of late has been off their album "Feels" and it's called "The Purple Bottle." Listen to it a few times, check out the cool lyrics, and enjoy.

Animal Colletive - The Purple Bottle