Life is Good
Listen to Snow Patrol – A Hundred Million Suns
Snow Patrol just released a new album, “A Hundred Million Suns” and while it’s better than their last disc; it still misses the “Final Straw” mark. For those of you who never heard the alumb “Final Straw” that needs to change. The disc “Eyes Open” wasn’t too bad; but it seemed overly poppy and a bit cheesey to me.
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…
Imogen Heap’s New Album via her Video Blog
I have loved her music, and I love her. My wife and I saw her at the 9:30 club, and not only was the music great — she was absolutely hilarious. She was possible the most endearing person I’ve ever seen — and the lady wife agreed.
Well, Imogen has a new album coming out sometime this fall/winter. And…
Stars New Video – Bitches in Tokyo
You may already know that Stars is in my top three favorite bands. I love these guys. Every disc they put out just keeps getting better.
Last year they put out “Up In Our Bedroom After The War” which represented a slightly different sound for them. A sound, that I love. Well, one of my favorite songs off that disc, “Bitches in Tokyo” has just been…
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…
Listen To Coldplay Viva La Vida – Full Album
I Heart Music has Coldplay’s entire new album streaming–the entire thing. Big thanks to Jer for the heads up. I really like it.
My Web Host Literally Blew Up
Wow.
I’ve had some crappy luck with web hosts. I just recently ditched Dreamhost because of how often my site would go down. I switched to Webfaction. Anyhow, those poor dudes at Webfaction had something explode recently, and my site was down for the entire weekend. It literally set fire and blew up. As a result, I lost some subscribers and received loads of hate-mail (the last…
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…
