Handsome Furs

Proving that a two person band is more than enough since 2007.
New Plan: Move to Montreal; find a wife; make kick-ass music.

So for real, saw the Handsome Furs last night down at Soundlab in Buffalo (crappy camera phone pic above^)and I must say, they were great. I haven't been able to attend any shows in a while and like I told my friend right after, they totally "made me remember why I loved music... and shows...". I had a slight love affair with their first album but was only slightly familiar with their newest. That being said, they only played like 2 songs off of the older album and it was still F'n great. I'd highly reccamend spending the 10 bucks or so to see them wherever/whenever you can.

Buuut, until you get the joy of seeing them, listen to a few tunes off their newest album, which i now know, is completely awesome.

Handsome Furs

-I'm Confused

-Legal Tender

Also check out this trippy vid to the song I'm Confused. It's been described as a "Zombie love thriller for the ages".

Damn great.

T-On

So...

i can't stop watching vids and seeing info about the tenori-on now. i really want one lol. this is a relatively unknown british singer, Little Boots playing one of her songs on one. yeah... its pretty cool

This is the song live and you can see how different it is. Both pretty cool tho. She also has a cover of Hot Chip Here that isn't so bad at all.

I really want one...

I really wanna go to Japan...

Ha, who's in?

NNNeeeeewwww Music

Soo, The Arcade Fire, Grizzly bear, Iron & Wine, and a bunch of other really good indie artists are coming out with a cd in February that will benefit the Red Hot Organization, a charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS. The double-disc album Dark Was the Night, will feature 32 new songs from these artists. Check out the article here, and I'll keep ya posted as we get closer to the release date. Should be a really cool album.

Till it comes out, I guess we'll just have to listen to some great songs from these artist's preious albums. 

The Arcade Fire

-Antichrist Television Blues.

Or maybe a great remix of a great song?

Grizzly Bear

-The Knife(Girl Talk Remix).

It's Christmas Time!... errr, kinda...

So... since thanksgiving is gone and past... (way to not post a blog about tday moron; 'yes, i talk to myself on my blog, lol) i can start listening to christmas music right?? good, i thought so too. i can finally bust out Sufjan christmas without feeling like a total weirdo. me adoro navidad. 

Love it-

...good stuff her'

-It's Christmas Time!.

...and if ya love getting all sad at christmas time (and be honest, who doesn't?), this is an amazing one...

-Sister Winter.

sorta real (intoxication)

So i was gonn wait till tomoorrow to post the next post. buuuuut, its "push clockes forward night" so in buffalo that means you can drink till 5 instead of 4. which.... is kinda ridiculous, and you KNOW i tok advatage...... (lol, sorry if this is too sloppy to read, it was a good time). plus its the day after halloween so its obviously a little bit caaaaraaazy. anyways, in the spirit of drinking too much and listenign to good music here's some good ones:)
Faded Paper Figures
-Polaroid Solution.
Of Montreal
-The Past is a Grotesque Animal.

ps- i know this says i posted it at 10:15am. i had to wait for the music to upload online and i fell asleep so i just finished the post in the morning. enjoy

Hallo-love

So, "I met a girl on Halloween" just like Mr. Sea Wolf talks about. And it was great. And it was sweet. And I was walking her home and just as we were walking up her driveway I remembered a short documentary I had watched a few days before...

Anyways... I got to thinking that maybe I should just let her off at the door, and head on home... And I've never looked back. So remember kids, as All Hallow's Eve approaches and all of us are dressing up in silly costumes and drinking til even the girls with skary masks on look kute, remember they could have the blood.. And I don't think any of us want to catch the BSD.

So be careful out there;

-always check your candy for razor blades

-your drinks for roofies

-and the sluts with fangs

Be Safe!!

Ok.. now for diminished austerity

Lol, ok back to the fun, no more seriousness for a bit. Just some great tunes that you should enjoy and a pic that i took with the lens i just bought. ha its fun, i gotta play with it more..



This is a song from Metal Hearts, an awesome little band from Baltimore. This album, Socialize was released in 2006, but I found it this year, so its new to me and awesome. Here's the first track from the album.

-Socialize.

On overrated bands and new-ish music news. 

*****OH MAN, I'M DOING SOMETHING ALMOST CURRENT (a month aint bad)***** 

This is the best/only good song off of the Kings of Leon new album (released on sept 23rd), Only By The Night. Enjoy.  

-Closer.

Oh, and did everyone notice that once you start playing a song with the yahoo player, you can hide it to the left side of the screen, and can also scroll through all the songs i've posted so far? awesome.

museeeeko

So i'm totally trying to figure out this yahoo player thing, cuz it'd be sweet on my blog. And I wanted to post this awesome song by Mark Kozelek and his band Sun Kil Moon. Some of you might know him from when he was in Red House Painters, and some might not. They're awesome too, but anyway, before this gets totally unneeded-ly long (I'm sure it already has), here's the song and hopefully the player will start working soon. fingers crossed! 
Sun Kil Moon

-Moorestown.

looking behind

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Posty

Ok, so i totally needed to toss another post up. i've been trying to figure out this new player that a lot of blogs have now for playing music. its really really cool, but i just haven't had the time to figure out the html and all that stuff above my head, lol. yeah i'm a designer who can't design (ha i just need more time to goof around, which is something that's been lacking). ha ok, so since i haven't  figured out the player yet, i'll just link ya a great song from youtube....

sorry, we'll get some better, or at least some more time sensitive content on here soon (i feel like hipsterrunoff talking about electroma 5 years after it came out here, lol). that's^ a great song to listen to while ya surf around tho. have fun kids..

mooo-sic

Sooo, i know that Yeasayer isn't a new phenom, and LaBlogotheque isn't either.. but i've never posted about either, and since i was entertaining myself looking through LaBlogotheque vids (there's a whole bunch of new ones if you haven't checked in a while), i figured i had to put this up here. this is really an awesome stripped down version of the song in such a cool setting.. ok i'm done selling it, watch watch! 

...oh and if you wanna see another great take away show i've been watching the lykke li vid a lot lately too, it's a really catchy fun song that you should totally check out.. oh, she's preeetty cute too.. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFCif_h36Gw&feature=related

 ok, have fun!! make sure to procrastinate all your HW and watch good videos!!!

Yeah... so this group is such trash, but it is so awesome. lol, it's like a mix between like timbaland, and like ed banger record artists. ha it's awesome. plus this video reminds me of flight of the concords. so a band that sounds like justice, mixed with timbaland, with the sarcasm of flight of the concords?? lol awesome, watch the video, you'll like it i promise haha.

Modest Mouse

So last week joe and i went to see modest mouse in rochester. we saw em a year ago, and though i think last year's setlist was a bit better, it was still way fun. lol, not to mention joe convinced me to sneak "backstage" with him to watch the show. lol, so here's some pics of the show from my phone, the ones from the side were when we were standing beyond the gate (hence the sneaking part lol).

MUSIC

Ok, so I can't stop listening to Cloud Cult's new album. I never really listened to them before, but the new album is so awesome. Sometimes they almost sound like an american Arcade Fire with a folky sound; maybe a hint of Bright Eyes and Rock Plaza Central in there as well. Anyways, you totally need to give them a lesson, so here's two of my favorite songs off their new album, Feel Good Ghosts. Enjoy!!

Cloud Cult

-No One Said it Would Be Easy.

-Everybody Here Is A Cloud.

Oh, this too...

Ok, so I found this ridiculous video of spinning plates from our show... had to post it..

yeah... it was an amazing show... and I just got tickets to see them in Cleveland! I'm pretty excited, not gonna lie..

Ok, so I'm thinking that's all the catch up I'm gonna do, from now on stuff will most likely be current unless stated otherwise. Hope you're all having a good day! Oh and everyone should go see radiohead, like ya know.. now! lol

RADIOHEAD!!!!!

That night(5/10) we saw kanye. Good times for sure. 

Next day(5/11), we woke up (after sleeping in the car, and being kicked out of one area.. cuz we were creating such a havoc.. sleeping in the car.. whatever..) realized we had some time to kill before Radiohead, and went to see Ironman. Nothing's gonna be Batman Begins or The Crow if we are looking for the amazing comic book film, but it was pretty good nonetheless. 

After the movie, we decided to head out to the Pavilion to pregame before the show. So, we got our drinks,  food etc. plus a great array of games to play (it was already starting to rain pretty good, so we figured sitting outside, playing pong etc. was out of the question. Little did we know how the rain was going to continue..) I'm thinking the best outcome of this tho, was making a drinking game out of Monopoly (spanish edition of course.. lol)

Unfortunately, I couldn't bring my camera into either of the shows, but I got some pics of our time hanging in the car before radiohead; oh, and I snagged a pic of the band from flickr (def wasn't that close to radiohead lol). 

Yeah... so as you can prolly tell, it was POURing, by the end of the night I saw people wading through puddles almost to their knees. Ha it was nuts, oh and pretty cold too, but totally worth it..

There's joe chillin on the bumper watching/hiding from the torrential downpour. Lol, made it an adventure for sure.

Oh, and my stolen pic of radiohead below\/