The Helio Sequence – Accessible Interpol

Can you imagine damaging your vocal chords so badly that you couldn’t talk for 60 days? Well, it looks like people who lose their voice come back to make great music. I sort of want to lose my voice now. First Feist, now The Helio Sequence. Although, i’m confident that I wouldn’t read 60 books in 60 days like…

Doves – New Album This Summer

I just recently began listening to Doves (not, the Doves, just “Doves”). Not as poppy as Snow Patrol (but similar enough to remind me of them), more melodic that The National (deeper voice), and they’ve got a slight Elvis Costello thing going on. Sometimes I want to snap my fingers with their music…then I realize if I did that I would deserve a face punch.

Hailing from the…

Bacilo – Baxter, You Know I Don’t Speak Spanish

My friend Brooks introduced me awhile ago to Carlos Vives — a Columbian musician who has tried his hand at acting, and still has a knack for some of the most toolish photos I’ve ever seen on artists website (on par with Creed). Anyhow, in that mix was a song by a band from Miami named Bacilos (meaning a genus of rod-shaped, Gram-positive…

No Camera. No Film. Just Radiohead’s New 3D Video. Just Data and Lasers

Radiohead just produced a mind-blowing video that combines an incredibe song, with some incredible technology. It is my blog’s current “Featured Video.” You need watch it immediately and then to go visit this site right and check it out. It’s incredible…I’m honestly drooling.

In Google’s words…
In this new video, there were no cameras on set. Instead, two scanning technologies were used to capture 3D…

Amiina – Kurr – Sexfaldur – Think Sigur Ros

Amiina – Sexfaldur from the album Kurr:

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I’ve said before that Sigur Ros was the best show I’ve ever seen. When I saw them a few years ago, Amiina was their opening act and they were gorgeous. Four girls, also from Iceland, who make such pretty music…

Listen to Coldplay – Viva La Vida Full Album

For all you Coldplay haters, eat it. Their new disc, “Viva La Vida and Death to All His Friends” just released today. This album is really, really good. Heads and shoulders above X&Y. I’m honestly not a Coldplay…

I Feel Like Swaying Back and Forth

Thanks to Sam for the heads up regarding Fleet Foxes. The song below makes me want to sway back and forth, maybe close my eyelids partially, and just chill. Is that weird?

Anyone know the song Chinese Translation by M. Ward? These guys are a bit like that. They describe themselves as…
baroque harmonic pop jams…

Coldplay Viva la Vida and Lost – Fantistico!

Viva La Vida:

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So, the aforementioned iTunes commercial inspired me to buy the new Coldplay single Viva La Vida.

It’s a bit new for Coldplay…I mean when have we heard a string’s based song from them? And church bells? But, it’s not pretentious, it’s not annoying, it’s just…

Oh Dear LORD This is so GOOD!! Jump, Little Children!

LISTEN. DO IT.

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Big, hard thanks to Nick for exposing me to this band. Man, they are just really, really good! It’s just so sad when you come across a band that makes your life better, and then you find out they broke up and played their last show in 2005…

The Bad Plus

Since Todd liked Madeleine Peyroux, I thought I’d put up another “jazz” artist–The Bad Plus. I put jazz in parentheses because Wikipedia assures me that “…they defy any genre.” Mostly because they cover anything from Nirvana to Neil Young (not to be confused with Neil Diamond).

I saw these guys awhile ago on TV and didn’t know who they were, and then my…