PLANS

i saw grizzly bear for the third time yesterday. you need to buy grizzly bear tickets right now. it is imperative that you see them, even if you don't really like them.

i love everything about this video. if you have time watch their whole series for la blogotheque, and department of eagles' too.

THE VERY BEST

i was about to write something about authenticity and appropriation and the difference between real and fake. as a music writer and a music listener you can decry bands for playing with sounds that they didn't create to play with and you can call it all fake, but living in the first world who are you to say you know what real is? but then i was thinking that the very best have just made a very good album, and they have made it with some help from two of my favorite voices in all the world, and i have never been the kind of person who considers all this political and cultural shit because all i have done is listened, and that's all we are meant to do, and that is good enough.

here are two jams for the end of your summer.

RAIN DANCE --- THE VERY BEST and MIA

WARM HEART OF AFRICA --- THE VERY BEST and EZRA KOENIG

VAMPIRE WEEKEND'S NEXT ALBUM IS GOING TO BE SICK

don't even tell me to stop blogging about this band because it's never going to happen.

REVEL IN THE GLORY OF THESE FOUR SONGS. ROLL AROUND IN IT FOR A LITTLE WHILE.


RUN


COUSINS


WHITE SKY


LITTLE GIANT

ROISIN MURPHY WAS LADY GAGA BEFORE LADY GAGA WAS LADY GAGA

i downloaded this on a whim from pretty much amazing the other night. it is truly awesome.

RAMALAMA (BANG BANG) --- ROISIN MURPHY

WATCH HER PERFORM IT

A HUNDRED MILES OFF

BUY IT
HEAR LOUISIANA

their heaviest album, all mariachi horns and clangy guitar. a force to be reckoned with live. september 20 in northampton.

CHICKS B JACKIN MY STYLE

the maccabees made this their own. it is so different and so similar and so so so so so incredibly awesome.

SOMETHING EXCITING

(this picture unabashedly stolen off flickr)

i went to all points damp on friday, and of course i saw vampire weekend, and they played a new song, and it is awesome, but you expected that, right? let me reiterate to you that these boys know what they are doing and they CAN BRING IT REGARDLESS OF INCLEMENT WEATHER. at the end of their set ezra said "at first we thought we were going to die. but now we're just having so much fun." which sums up most of my vampire weekend concert experiences!

EDIT: found a new video, better quality / full length!!
(NEW SONG) --- VAMPIRE WEEKEND via youtube.
my brother thinks this might be his favorite VW song to date. i have to agree, i'm really impressed by it. i love the bass/keyboard and the guitar bit at the end. and of course i love that vocal thing (you'll know what i'm talking about when you hear it). give it a listen!