the best day of the year-

Fleet Foxes :: Covers

Don't know if I have ever posts any Fleet Foxes. These guys have a crazy good sound- a lot of harmonies, and awesome ones at that... very mellow shit.

Fleet Foxes - Your Protector


Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal :: Undoubtedly there most popular song


Fleet Foxes - He Doesn't Know Why


Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood :: Maybe I don't know what im talking about, another popular jam- these guys are just good.



COVER


First Aid Kit - Tiger Mountain Peasant Song (cover) :: I have never heard of this swedish sister duo, but they are pretty fucking awesome, a phenomenal cover-

Justin Vernon

Its always a good day for this.

Justin Vernon - Hazeltons


"You came, you saw, you sawed her brain, cut out all the parts that held your stain."
fucking awesome.

Tuesday Jams

Two quick songs, no commentary, enjoy.

Field Music - THem that Do Nothing


White Denim - Regina Holding Hands

Optimistic playlist on a gross day

Again posting during the rain (er snow?)

Spoon - Written in Reverse :: Good jam, even on repeat


Thao with the get down stay down - When we swam :: Video is on a beach, that'll piss you of when its cold and rainy


Vampire Weekend - Giving up the gun :: New song, weird video.. Lil John.. RZA, Joe Jonas?


Broken Bells - The High Road :: Love this one- This is James Mercer (from The Shins) and Dangermouse


The Wombats - Lets dance to Joy Division :: Not new, but it makes me happy.


Los Campesinos - There are listed buildings :: Just good upbeat music.


Neon Indian - Terminally Chill :: Caution epileptics.


Yeasayer - Madder Red :: Sorry no video


Local Natives - Sun Hands :: Good band- listen to them...


Ra Ra Riot - Too too Fast :: Again no video, sorry


Kooks - Ooh La :: Hasn't gotten old to me yet, i love their sound


Enjoy.

New song testing-

Hey guys, testing some new formats- let me know what you think.... do you prefer the videos or just the audio tracks? the audio should make the pages load a lot faster-


Here is a little playlist for thursday, or whenever you listen to this... If you hit play on the first song I *think* it should cycle through all of them-

Middle East - The Darkest Side

The National - So Far Around the Bend

Phoenix - Rome

JayZ, Coldplay - A Life of Clocks

Clearly this band is named for me.

Very good. very good.

Also, with the new format i have, i can put on bigger videos... that puts me in a good mood.

The Tallest Man on Earth - Where do my bluebird fly


The Tallest Man on Earth - I won't be found


The Tallest Man on Earth - the gardener


The Tallest Man on Earth - King of Spain

UdoU

Hey guys- here is another 2 songs... hope you like-

ALSO, I have been posting more often lately, but with less songs per post... any feedback? Do you prefer the 1/week with a bunch of songs, or a couple times per week with only 1 or 2 songs?

Bear in Heaven - You Do You


Surfer Blood - Swim (To Reach the End)

jingle jangle

Here's another track from the vault, heard it the other day, took me a while to remember the name, many apologies.

Bear Hands - What a Drag

Caribou- Odessa

I forgot this one, its been seemingly on repeat on XMU for a couple days and it almost took me that long to decide whether I liked it or not... I will let you decide i guess-

Caribou - Odessa

A little more rock than normal, plus a rapper?

Heard this song the other day, I dig it, sounds a little white stripes, but less grungy.. call me crazy but I hear a little Audioslave-ish influence in there?

Crash Kings - Mountain Man


XX (pronounced The X X) is a band I have tried to ignore for a while and not post, but they just don't go away, and I find myself liking every successive song more and more, very cool sound, very chill, i'll post a couple of my favorites now:

XX - Islands


XX - Crystalised


XX - Basic Space




A band I know nothing about, but I like this song... stolen from Aquarium Drunkard

Dr. Dog - Shadow People


The rapper as promised..... Gil Scott-Heron, known as the grandfather of rap, fresh outta jail with a new album- this song is awesome.

Gil Scott-Heron - Me and the Devil



Thats all for today- this took too long. I don't like working to hear good music.

New layout

I apologize for the constantly shifting layout, it has taken me a long time to find one of these stupid templates that won't cut off the edge of the widescreen videos... i know its boring, I'm working on that-

Not my usual post, but please watch this in full 1080p and full screen, it is crazy.

There is no wonder he wins gold at everything....

Cover story

Three covers for today, people i like covering other people i like. what could be better?

First, listen to these two clips from Peter Gabriel, talking about his album "Scratch my back"

Its a brilliant idea (trading songs with other artists... you cover me, and i'll cover you)... and he executes it beautifully.... and the first cover i pull here (after the interviews) should come as no surprise.

If you don't have 20 minutes, skip to the songs posted...





I don't know about you... but I will be buying this album. (see previous posts about my love for peter gabriel)



Peter Gabriel - Flume (original by Bon Iver) - you can download this track for free over at Peter Gabriel's site Sorry for the -kind of lame- video, there isn't exactly a music video for this yet...



The next cover is an interesting one, but once you hear it, you kind of get why they did it.

Phoenix - Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands (original by Bob Dylan) - Thomas Mars has a little dylan to his voice.. i REALLY dig how he made it his own, but you can absolutely tell its a dylan song. Awesome.




I will throw this last one in just for shits... because sometimes the covers are better than the original, and sometimes they aren't (pretty profound statement, huh) what you think of this one? Me? I dig.

The Kooks - Crazy (original Gnarls Barkley)




It's a good day for music. It always is.

Two new Yeasayer tracks, and 2 bonuses

For you DC, since you finally listen to good music.

Yeasayer - O.N.E.

Yeasayer - Ambling Alp

BONUS TIME... more Justin Vernon

Bon Iver + St. Vincent - Roslyn

Volcano Choir (Justin Vernon + Collections of Colonies of Bees) - Island IS

EDIT:

OK I forgot about this one, been meaning to post it for a week or two. Gutt this one probably appeals more to you but DC you might like it too:

The Middle East - Blood

Edit edit:

I am beginning to realize i post most often on rainy days. I wonder why that is.

PLEASE enjoy some Bon Iver. Its a Justin Vernon kinda day.

Some bands just dont get old to me... and PLEASE check out Blogotheque on Youtube... awesome collection of vids.

If you have a good internet connection, just click through the vids and watch these vids in 720p HD on YouTube... very worth it, though Skinny Love is a bit grainy. Kind of fitting however.

#93.1 - Lump Sum

#93.2 - Flume

#93.3 - For Emma, Forever Ago

#93.4 - Flume (Second take)

#93.5 - Wolves (Act I & II)

#93.6 - Skinny Love

Mumford and Sons

Thanks Mr. Gutt... check out this tune- truly rocks.

Fanarlo....

I can't get over fanfarlo, truly. I have been blowing through the CD on repeat for a couple weeks now (very unlike me) and i just cant get over it. Truly awesome.

Will upload some tracks soon.

Harold T. Wilkins (or how to wait for a very long time)

The walls are coming down