Lykke Li’s debut Youth Novels was one of my very favorite albums of the last few years. Her new one, Wounded Rhymes, drops next week. In the meantime, you can stream it here. A little bit of Lykke Li’s genius from the first album for the uninitiated: Your Thoughts?
Good stuff: Lykke Li – Love Out Of Lust by LykkeLi
Through Facebook, I was recently contacted by an old friend from high school (who was actually the first girl to go on a date with me). She is working on her Master’s in nursing and has an assignment which involves interviewing people about their views on religion and spirituality, for the purpose of thinking about approaches [...]
And it really sounds as though it was written for them. Just listen. Your Thoughts?
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A couple of the songs that resonate most deeply: Your Thoughts?
This was one of the most geekily glorious things ever: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> Video Archive And, for the record, The Black Keys rule (and are hilarious even without Colbert involved): The Black Keys “Tighten Up”The Black Keys | Myspace [...]
Tonight, Dave Smith (our trusty Camels With Hammers webmaster) and I will be heading to see the Rural Alberta Advantage live! Here’s their awesome music: Their first album is Hometowns. Their next album comes on March 1 and it’s called Departing. They have already released the song “Stamp”. Your Thoughts?
One of the best bands going and a personal favorite: Their brilliant new album is Mines. Your Thoughts?
Liars’ most recent album, Sisterworld, is simply my favorite 2010 release so far. It is just a great album. Listen to a representatively great song from the album: Your Thoughts?
This is classic: Twenty Four Bit provides context: A Jeff Tweedy solo show is something to behold, and the Wilco frontman’s benefit gig at Chicago’s Vic Theatre in March was—by all accounts—a prime example. Tweedy performed a host of pre-submitted audience requests, including “Shakin’ Sugar,” a Wilco rarity that even he had to Google, Radiohead’s [...]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7XSvZi9Z1E&hl=en_US&fs=1&] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocYRedWheDw&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Your Thoughts?
For whatever reason I think of these guys as sort of the Scottish Counting Crows with a little more aggressive emotional frankness. Songs don’t come much more brutally blunt than this one: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ3r2BC7ctA&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Your Thoughts?
For a long time, to my discredit, I naively thought that Nirvana were either a singular phenomenon or a band whose closest cousin was Pearl Jam. Only when I started really listening to music did I realize what different musical universes Nirvana and Pearl Jam really existed in. And coming to this realization took some [...]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4E_1I4kiP0&hl=en_US&fs=1&] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx4UxfJbLwg&hl=en_US&fs=1&] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBvwXghx9j4&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Your Thoughts?
An atmospheric-bluegrass-folk-Beachboyharmony kind of bandwhose debut album is best listened to straight through so that it can wash over you. The first song below is my favorite of theirs and the second is another really good one put to a claymation video, so heads up to fans of claymation. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brZTvGIzeGg&hl=en_US&fs=1&] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrQRS40OKNE&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Your Thoughts?
The 21st Century ’70s Springsteen, Craig Finn writes songs that are anthemic, evocative, and rich with narrative and emotional detail and perceptiveness. If his talk-singing didn’t become a slog so often, his band would rank much higher. This song always makes me smile though: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqdT8tIrfEU&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Your Thoughts?
The list of my top 366 favorite bands now becomes a list of the top 300 with Joseph Arthur: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJkOat8zTO4&hl=en_US&fs=1&] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QotZ7TIaztw&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Your Thoughts?
The Good Life’s Album of the Year is an album of a year long relationship and as a sucker for concept albums and songs about the complications of relationships, I eat it up. I love this (long) song most. It’s the only one with a female lead vocal on the album: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYT8XUKO-58&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Your Thoughts?
Easily one of the most prolific and promising punk rockers of the young century until his tragic and untimely death earlier this year: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG65eqfg6bc&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Your Thoughts?
The first terrific 2010 debuting band to make the list: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh7WN7vrJ8s&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Your Thoughts?
Just the second of what will be many Swedish artists to make the list, but the only one who sings their songs in Swedish: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hey5JOvnEiY&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Your Thoughts?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nMHGyR_i8g&hl=en_US&fs=1&] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36nW3e3Pkf4&hl=en_US&fs=1&] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpdDpi2Y4Y4&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Your Thoughts?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oRlpGyI1rg&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Your Thoughts?
Their EP is only 4 songs long but it’s spectacular. With a full LP this good, they’d rank way higher on the list. Here’s their anthemic, “It Gets Your Body Movin’”. One of those songs that felt so right to me the first time I heard it that I could have sworn I’d known it [...]