Tuesday, March 16, 2010

New Release Tuesday - March 16, 2010

This week's unrated notables:
[03.]
The Audition - 'Great Danger'
tf: ehhh.

It's all been downhill for me since 'Controversy Loves Company'... It seems like they've been focusing harder on making records than music, and it's honestly getting pretty old.

[02.]
Streetlight Manifesto - '99 Songs of a Revolution Vol. I'
tf: ehhh.

A good attempt at a cover album... but it's still a cover album. They're fun and I might listen to a track here and there, but the album as a whole doesn't really do it for me... and I don't see how anyone would be super excited to listen to a double-digit amount of covers at once. They're an awesome band - they just need to write some new stuff.

[01.]
From First to Last - 'Throne to the Wolves'
tf: aight.

Besides the fact that the quality of the recordings that I listened to were a little lacking, this is a pretty decent album. People used to love to hate Sonny, and will probably continue to hate this band - but I'm not into politicizing... I like how it sounds.

Next Week:

Monday, March 15, 2010

Watch Out - Of Mice & Men

who: Of Mice & Men
why: have put out the first video for their song "Second & Sebring" from this year's self-titled debut. Pretty gnar.

Watch Out - Manchester Orchestra

who: Manchester Orchestra
why: if you like em, just watch it.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

WE'LL DO IT LIVE! - Greg Holden

who: Greg Holden
why: because I haven't even watched this yet... but this dude is always dreamy. YouTube, ftw.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

tf presents: i love it all. (spring.2010)

It's technically 8 days early... but happy spring, peeps.

I wanna first give a shout out to my bff Manny who inspired me put these songs together. I stole the first two songs from one of his mixes, because they're basically perfect... but they're not meant to be taken too literally. I'm not mourning someone's death or anything quite so depressing, but we all know how much it sucks to lose something important to us. That's kind of the theme I had going in my winter mix, so I decided to keep it going and put together something of a sequel. You can let the story come to you, or just plain enjoy the songs if you wish, but either way I hope you like it.

tf presents: i love it all. (spring.2010)
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[01.] Day at the Fair - "The Lost, The Lucky"
[02.] Death Cab for Cutie - "Title and Registration"
[03.] Local Natives - "Airplanes"
[04.] The Temper Trap - "Sweet Disposition"
[05.] Straylight Run - "Existentialism On Prom Night"
[06.] Inkwell - "Shufflesaur"
[07.] Fleet Foxes - "Ragged Wood"
[08.] Freelance Whales - "Starring"
[09.] Now, Now Every Children - "Everyone You Know"
[10.] Kevin Devine - "The Only One"
[11.] Electric President - "Feathers"
[12.] Port O'Brien - "Sour Milk/Salt Water"
[13.] Wild Sweet Orange - "Seeing and Believing"
[14.] Minus the Bear - "Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse"
[15.] As Tall As Lions - "Love, Love, Love (Love, Love)"
[16.] The Forecast - "Life's a Garden, Dig It"

WE'LL DO IT LIVE! - Foxy Shazam

who: Foxy Shazam
why: they're crazily weird... but it'd probably be a pretty fun show. Here's their performance of a new song titled "Wanna Be Angel & Bye Bye Symphony".

Friday, March 12, 2010

Friday Flashback - Bayside

who: Bayside
why: one of my favorite bands of all time, I've been listening to this album a lot recently since I got their self-titled on reprinted vinyl in the mail the other day... soooooo good. Here's an acoustic performance of probably my favorite song from the record - "Montauk".

WE'LL DO IT LIVE! - Portugal. The Man

who: Portugal. The Man
why: holy hell these guys are amazing live... if you've never seen 'em, you need to. Here they are performing "The Dead Dog" off of their new album 'American Ghetto'.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Thursday Night Fights - March 11, 2010

who: Coheed and Cambria
why: in anticipation for this year's prequel album 'Year of the Black Rainbow', I've decided to propose the question over which era of Coheed people prefer... I can't help but love Claudio Sanchez... the dude's hair has more charisma than you, but this whole "I can't decide what genre i'm in mix of metal riffs and mythologically epic vocals" thing is getting a little bit old. Anyone else miss old Coheed besides me?

"A Favor House Atlantic" - 'In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3' - 2003

VS.

"The Broken" - 'Year of the Black Rainbow' - 2010

WE'LL DO IT ACOUSTIC! - New Found Glory

who: New Found Glory
why: my last live video for the day... I promise? NFG take it back a ways and perform "Something I Call Personality". WHERE'S IAN?!