A Dark Day

Hey Keegan, why do you get really grumpy when bands you like move to Major labels? Oh I don't know, everyone ever, maybe because major labels do stuff like this:

Punknews has informed me that EMI Group has begun informing small independent record stores that they will no longer be sending them new product. Because clearly the way to save the music industry is to only sell your cds in places frequented by music fans, like, you know, Walmart. I'm not going to say too much more about this lest I slip and spew bile and hatred across my keyboard but in closing, here is the list of bands you should no longer feel any compunction about downloading illegally (chalk that up to things I can say because no one really reads this).

Broken Social Scene - Major Label Debut

The Yarbles - Labels

Rise Against - Sometimes Selling Out is Giving Up (bit of irony there)

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Broken Social Scene
The Yarbles Old band from my youth in Vermont, this was the best I could do
Rise Against

Review: Lemuria - Get Better

A while ago I got my hands on the most recent album by the Buffalo, NY indie/punk (Wikipedia's words not mine) outfit Lemuria. If you'll recall, it was at around this time that I began seriously rethinking my ban on female fronted bands and this album had a huge amount to do with it. This was one of those albums where at first I really just liked the opening track, the soaring love song, Pants. But as I gave the rest of the album more of my attention I realized that I liked almost every song on the album.

It's tempting to call it straight ahead boy-girl vocals pop punk (the good kind), but with a little something extra whether that's the male harmony vocal on Buzz, the gender-bending lyricism on Lipstick or the poignant narrative of Wardrobe (can you tell I really like this album?). I would recommend this album for fans of The Smoking Popes, The Unlovables, and maybe the Mr. T Experience (but without quite so much whimsy). And yeah I threw The Unlovables in there partly because they have a female lead singer, but at least I didn't do one of those FFO lists like "Rilo Kiley, Rainer Maria, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Metric." Because I hate those.



Lemuria - Pants
Lemuria - Lipstick
Lemuria - Buzz

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Lemuria

Songs to Blow Your Mind Pt. 5

Let me start by saying that I am not a huge fan of Bob Marley and the Wailers (for one thing this is a Peter Tosh number). Nor am I that huge a fan of reggae in general. But good is good and I have had this song stuck in my head for days now. To me, this song has a lot of 60's Soul sound to it rather than straight ahead irie dub vibes.



Bob Marley and the Wailers - Stop That Train

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Bob Marley and the Wailers

Clash Tuesday

Look at this and then listen to these:

The Clash - London Calling

The Clash - Train in Vain (Stand By Me)

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The Clash

THE MAN WALL

This is horrifically unnecessary.

Bo Diddley - I'm A Man

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Bo Diddley

SSP (Short Second Post)

Two post day today. Paste Magazine has apparently created a children's alphabet book with indie rock bands and while a few of the band choices I don't really agree with (cough cough Pearl Jams sucks and was never good cough) I felt like it would be fun to link to and then provide a few mp3s for. Lotta music today. Also, not the pretty good shots they take at Weezer and Vampire.



Belle and Sebastian - Me and the Major

The Hold Steady - Ask Her For Adderall

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues

Weezer - The Good Life

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Belle and Sebastian
The Hold Steady
Joy Division
Tom Waits
Weezer

My Apartment Burned Down (a mix)

So the apartment that I was going to move into with Sean, Greg and Adam got set on fire and burned. It now appears that we have another apartment to move into and everything is going to be alright, so I thought now would be a good time to post a few fire related songs. Also, Adam has written a concept album about the fire that I haven't been able to listen to yet, but I'm told it is quite good.

Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire (kind had to didn't I?)

Braid - Fire Makes the House Grow

Jawbreaker - Fireman

Smoke or Fire - California's Burning

The Weakerthans - This is a Fire Door Never Leave Open

Talking Heads - Burning Down the House

The Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island, Burn

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Billy Joel
Braid
Jawbreaker
Smoke or Fire
The Weakerthans
Talking Heads
The Blood Brothers