This Week's Mix

Next week, I will present you with my favorite albums of the year. Before I do that, I wanted to touch upon some of my favorite songs that aren't on the CDs that made my list. So I decided that this week's mix would be a good chance to that. Enjoy!

Modest Mouse - Spitting Venom
Film School - Must Try Easier
Band of Horses - Is There A Ghost?
Junius - A Word Could Kill Her
Kinetic Stereokids - Explosions Were Heard
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Battles - Atlas
Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe
Kasabian - I.D.
Editors - Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors

This Week's Mix

No mix last week, because I got caught up with school. So, there are going to be two this week! Enjoy.

Tegan and Sara - Dark Come Soon
Bishop Allen - Click Click Click Click
Iron & Wine - Boy With A Coin
Dappled Cities - Holy Chord
Band of Horses - detlef schrempf
Beirut - Nantes
Stars of Track and Field - Movies of Antarctica
The Long Winters - Pushover
Modest Mouse - Missed The Boat
Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On

This Week's Mix

In honor of the crappy music at the VA Tech concert featuring DMB and John Mayer, I give you ten songs that I actually would enjoy (or have enjoyed) seeing live.

The National - Green Gloves
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
The Octopus Project - The Adjustor
The Go! Team - Bottlerocket
Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps
Modest Mouse - Education
Harrisons - Dear Constable
Kaiser Chiefs - Oh My God
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter

Enjoy your weekend!

Modest Marr

I was doing a little catching up on news and I stumbled upon this. Johnny Marr of legendary Smiths fame has officially joined Modest Mouse. Apparantly he was helping them write some songs for their next effort and ended up being a part of the entire thing. Lead singer Isaac Brock is saying "He made a cautious commitment to write and record with us, and then the tighter we got, he was like, ‘okay, let's tour too.' Then he was pretty much a member of the band-- not pretty much. He's a full blown member of the band. It's really fuckin' nice." The new disc is tentatively titled We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank and is slated for release later this year. This is pretty interesting news, I can't wait to hear what this is going to sound like. In the meantime, you will have to mash them in your head.

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