Here’s what I’m listening to:
Tegan and Sara — So Jealous, I know, I need to get the new one
The Everybodyfields — Everything is Okay, this is the best I’ve heard in a long time.
Robbie Fulks — Let’s Kill Saturday Night, someone stole my my copy of this years ago, and I just found a new one.
Alkaline Trio – Good Mourning, a desert-island disc for sure
Gutter Twins — Saturnalia, yeah, it’s not out yet, but I can’t get enough at their MySpace page. March 7 in Chicago. I love being able to drive home again.
What are you listening to?
Ernie: So when...
Bon Iver, “For Emma, Forever Ago”: This is really frickin’ awesome. Imagine TV on the Radio mixed with Iron & Wine and you wouldn’t be far off.
Dan Deacon, “Spiderman of the Rings”: Stupidly good. Low-rent electronic (his pawn-shop setup is just unreal) that’s more creative than 90% of the artists recording electronic right now. I saw him live in D.C. and I loved it.
T.Rex, “Electric Warrior”: An oldie that holds up really well 35 years later. “Cosmic Dancer” is a great song, as are half the other songs on this album.
LCD Soundsystem, “Sound of Silver”: There’s at least three killer singles on here, and then there’s “All My Friends,” which rises above killer like a phoenix out of the abyss.
The Weakerthans, “Left and Leaving”: This is what Death Cab for Cutie wanted to be. This album has quickly become one of my faves – a perfect synthesis of emotion, honesty, and great storytelling.
The Felice Brotherrs, “Tonight at the Arizona”: Saw these guys open for Bright Eyes three months ago, and they got perilously close to upstaging the main act. (Conor Oberst, who judging from the show isn’t as bad as critics say he is, still won, though.) They’re a folk-rock group in the vein of The Band, and they hail from the Catskills of New York. Their album rocks.
Girl Talk, “Night Ripper”: This guy was at the Dan Deacon show too. Basically, he’s a mashup artist who takes all the really good hooks from pop songs in the last 40 years and turns them into brand new dance songs. Three at a time pretty often, at least a dozen songs on each track. He does things like put The Notorious B.I.G. over “Tiny Dancer” and turns Weezer’s “Say it Ain’t So” into the hottest beat around. This CD = instant party and frickin’ great, just in general.
Yeah, I’m that guy who follows trends and is hip and in the know.