What’s Rocking Me This Month …
I link to all these through Amazon, so you can listen to clips if something looks interesting. Here’s what I’ve been listening to in April:
- TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain : This is a deeply weird, rocking album. So non-traditional, but so good. Start to finish this is a good album. I can see why so many reviews picked this as album of the year for 2006. Essential Tracks: Blues From Down Here, Whirlwind
- Silversun Pickups - Carnavas : Distorted guitars, driving songs, what’s not to like. Sounds a little like Smashing Pumpkins during the glory days. Essential Tracks : Little Lover’s So Polite , Dream at Tempo 119
- Yeah Yeah Yeah’s - Show Your Bones : Karen O & and company rock it out. Solid aggressive rock and roll. Essential Tracks : Gold Lion, Phenomenon
- Girl Talk - Night Ripper : Mash up’s aren’t exactly my cup o’ tea but this one is so all over the place it is really a work of art. Mixing in The Breeders, Smashing Pumpkins, Kansas and assorted hip hop, it makes for some good listening. Plus, I read in Wired that he still works a 9-5 cube job! Essential tracks… Just let it play.
- Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me : Definitely a sadder and more grown up album then either Deja Entendu or Your Favorite Weapon. Still very intense. Essential Tracks: Sowing Season, Degausser
- Evergreen Terrace - Writer’s Block : A album of all covers, by a metalcore band. What else needs to be said? Brilliant! Essential Tracks: Maniac , Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Clutch - Robot Hive / Exodus - One of my favorite bands, Clutch sounds like the love child of Grand Funk and Mastodon. A rock and roll tent revival is the best way to describe it… Essential Tracks : 10,000 Witnesses , Gravel Road
Plus my my April ITunes playlist (…and yes that is the Geico Cave Man song) :
- Black Wave/Bad Vibrations - The Arcade Fire (Neon Bible)
- Dream At Tempo 119 - Silversun Pickups (Carnavas)
- Arc of Time - Bright Eyes (Digital Ash in a Digital Urn)
- When The Sun Goes Down - Arctic Monkeys (Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not)
- Gold Mine Gutted - Bright Eyes (Digital Ash in a Digital Urn)
- For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti - Sufjan Stevens (Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State)
- Out the Window - Violent Femmes (Add It Up (1981-1993))
- No Cars Go - The Arcade Fire (Neon Bible)
- Phenomena - Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Show Your Bones)
- Remind Me - Röyksopp (Melody A.M.)
- O Valencia - The Decemberists (The Crane Wife)
- Parting Of The Sensory - Modest Mouse (We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank)
- Blues From Down Here - TV on the Radio (Return To Cookie Mountain)
- Dashboard - Modest Mouse (We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank)
- Last Stop: This Town - Eels (Electro-shock Blues)
- History Song - The Good, The Bad & The Queen (The Good, The Bad & The Queen)
