Nothing more than just a fun song! Reminds me of nice late summer days like today. It features Noah Lennox of Animal Collective.
What did you want to see? What did you want to be when you grew up?
Jens Lekman = Not Spam!
Take notice Yahoo! that a response from Jens to an e-mail I sent two months ago is not spam! Jeeze. I love this guy!
My E-Mail:
I think you’re beautiful, but it’s impossible to make you understand that if you don’t take my hand I will lose my mind completely.
That’s not to you, but to a future girlfriend, hopefully. BUT I hope you are feeling much better my friend, you make great music. And when you are fully recovered I hope you make a stop by Boston Massachusetts for a show! You have some big fans out here buddy.
glen,
i hope that future girlfriend will not leave you over misheard words. be sure to art-i-cu-late the words heavily.see you in boston, hope to make it there as soon as possible.cheers,jens
CD Review: Now We Can See
Band: The Thermals
Label: Kill Rockstars
Release: 2009
1. “When I Died” – 8.7
2. “We Were Sick” – 8.9
3. “I Let It Go” – 8.2
4. “Now We Can See” – 9.1
5. “At the Bottom of the Sea” – 8.5
6. “When We Were Alive” – 8.4
7. “I Called Out Your Name” – 8.1
8. “When I Was Afraid” – 8.3
9. “Liquid In, Liquid Out” – 7.1
10. “How We Fade” – 8.0
11. “You Dissolve” – 8.3
Comments: The Thermals is a band that I really really wanted to see when they came to the Middle East Downstairs on May 7th. I had to weigh my priorities…King Khan and the Shrines or The Thermals? I chose KK and the Shrines without much hesitation. My acquaintance with the The Thermals is from their song “Passing Feeling” featured on the video game MLB 2k7. Just a side note: the MLB 2k7 soundtrack was instrumental in forming my current day music tastes. In addition to The Thermals, other great songs came from the likes of Editors, Walkmen, Bishop Allen, Tapes N’ Tapes, The Stooges, and Death From Above 1979. Back to this album…it’s safe. Less post-punk than what I’ve heard in the past from them and more pop-punk. I’ve never had a problem with decent pop-punk and for the majority of the album, it is exactly that! In the end I’m not sure if the change in sound has anything to do with their switch from Sub Pop to Kill Rock Star.
Grade: 8.3
Songs of the Week!
At the Drive-In- 198D (1999)
The Walkmen- Louisiana (2006)
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart- Hey Paul (2009)- for the one and only!
Phil Ochs- Power and Glory (1974)
Chris
Singles Review: Another Girl Like You
Band: Bobby Ubangi
Release: 2009
Comments: I believe the late Ubangi was once called the king of the three chord garage song. I see why! Ubangi sounded like a slightly more accessible Jay Reatard. Perhaps too like super lo-fi Ramones or the Beach Boys on salvia. B Jay’s catchy tunes no-doubt made him a legend in Atlanta punk circles. Real sappy stuff as Jared Swilley would probably say.
Grades: “Another Girl Like You” (9.8); “Greasers Lament” (9.2); “Back To You” (9.7)
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If you are more interested in reading about Ubangi and the months and days leading up to his July 1, 2009 death check out this article.
Single Review: Hold On 7″
Band: Mark Sultan
Release: 2009
Comments: Pretty good shit from Sultan here. Nothing too exciting, yet nothing too depressing. The music is vintage, as expected. “Hold On” has the pace of an above average 50s/60s rock & roll piece. The B-side, “I Hear A New World,” is experimentally satisfying, sounding at times a bit like a mixture of a Christmas tune and a freak folk campfire classic. That said, it won’t knock you off your ass. No one said it should.
Grades: “Hold On” (8.0); “I Hear A New World” (8.6)
Mary of PP&M Dead @ 72
Yahoo!
BOSTON – Mary Travers, one-third of the popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary who were perhaps best known for their hit “Puff (The Magic Dragon),” died in a Connecticut hospital after battling leukemia for several years. She was 72.The band’s publicist, Heather Lylis, said Travers died Wednesday at Danbury Hospital.
Bandmate Peter Yarrow said that in her final months, Travers handled her declining health with bravery and generosity, showing her love to friends and family “with great dignity and without restraint.”
“It was, as Mary always was, honest and completely authentic,” he said. “That’s the way she sang, too; honestly and with complete authenticity.”
Police Find DNA In Yale Murder
Looks like progress is being made toward justice in this atrocity…
Police have matched DNA from a Yale research technician to evidence found at the crime scene on the Ivy League campus where graduate student Annie Le was found murdered this week, police sources reportedly said late Wednesday.
According to the New Haven Register, police have obtained, or are now in the process of obtaining, an arrest warrant against Raymond Clark III, 24, who had been named a “person of interest” in the case.
New Haven police spokesman Joe Avery said early Thursday that an arrest was expected “soon.”
Democrats Reject GOP Stimulus Advertising Ban
Across the country, motorists are being greeted by signs advertising President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill, and Republicans aren’t happy about it.
The large green-and-white highway signs declare, “Project Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.” Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H describes them as the “signs to nowhere” and tried in vain Wednesday to stop the advertising.
Democrats were nearly unanimous in voting to defeat an amendment by Greg that would have prohibited the use of stimulus funds for signs that advertise taxpayer spending on stimulus projects.
Signs to nowhere? Not really. At least they’re letting us know where our money’s going. It’s not like these signs say, “Hey, look! The recession’s over!” You know…what Obama’s been spending the last few days trying to get us to believe.
African Union Peacekeeping Base Explodes Today
More violence in Africa…
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Two big explosions rocked an African Union (AU) peacekeeping base in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday, wounding several troops, witnesses said.
Kids Like You & Me (KLYAM) 