hendricksonart:

New track from Metric - Speed The Collapse

Emily invades my head even more. June 12th can’t get here fast enough!

And another new Metric song! I’m so excited for the new album you might as well imagine an over-ecstatic smileyface here.

Roger — the man on the photo below — introduced me to Kasey Anderson and the Honkies. This song is what I’ve been listening to today. Listening to it quite a lot,

Well, you’ve seen Steve Earle 47 times
and you can play Someday on your J45
but you don’t care about those communist lines,
you’d still be voting Reagan if that fucker hadn’t died.

You love songs about whiskey, rambling in the dark
black-haired girls breaking hard men’s hearts
You got a dog named Willie in your back yard!
I got a couple of cigarettes and a library card.

Since this is the first song on Let the Bloody Moon Rise, I don’t know if the rest is as excellent but I’m going to go out on a limb and say yes. Best damn album in a long while.

The video for CALLmeKAT’s “Sunny Day”.

rememberedsongs:

I heard songs from the first two Nomad albums live in 2010, the first had just been released and the second with songs of the late Vic Chesnutt was probably under selection and rehearsal. Listening to The Wilderness makes me a bit sad not to have heard any of these live, preferably with less audience and closer to both walls and the stage. The songs feel damn intimate, almost naked.

It’s the kind of songs you listen to on a turntable while sitting on the floor, quiet, and with a jug of hot cocoa/tea. Preferably there should be a fireplace too. But the floor and the cup, those are not optional extras. They’re required.

This is what I post at the music tumblr. And this has been the final warning. (Warning = last reblog for a while any way.)

Loosegoats — Drift From The Tracks

So far, Ideas For To Travel Down Death’s Merry Road is one of the best albums of the year. It has both infectious fun and sadness — the song For the Love Of is about Christian’s younger brother who passed on last year. This however is the opening track and it’s just as if the band hadn’t been on a hiatus since 2001.

It’s this kind of music that make me proud to be Swedish.

Warren Zevon - Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner (by miffomojen) That last chord…

The Flash Girls’ Banshee as a sort of soundtrack for a forthcoming drawing. I love the Flash Girls.

R.E.M. — Maps And Legends

Even though I as many others got sucked into R.E.M. with the Out of Time/Automatic For the People, the albums which I really love are those before that. I copied the Singles Collected to a tape and wore it out twice. (The walkman is sadly dead now.) And was their Unplugged show as good as I remember it? Don’t know. But anyway. Document and Fables are easily their best albums. Easily. Murmur third. Also easily. You don’t have to agree but then you’d be wrong. Sorry.

Skilla — Lantern.

From where I’m sitting, some people could need the comfort through music. But I know from experience that when you’re down, happy music feels more crap when flung in your face than faecal matter. So. I opted for this, it doesn’t bring happy but hope, hope that it will be better and hope in friendship. That’s my take on it. (I admit that I’m biased a bit, since I saw Skilla perform this song three times in 2010. It’ s hard not to be happy when they’re on stage and this might cloud my judgement.)

Right now everything is quite ok. I think I smiled for no reason today and I’m happy with the direction my arts taking and all that. Finding my way — slowly — to photography and while drawing existing people is still hard, it doesn’t lead to despair because of stupid lines that refuses to go into the right place.

And yet this week is the same as the previous one.

(Music: Drag the River — Caleb’s Grave.)

Rinoa — Memory

Hardcore Weekend! And I’m starting it with a for me new band too. Mina from Twitter recommended and as I’m a bit stuck in hardcore from the dusty halls of a Christmas past this was great. Need to find more new music.

Hüsker Dü — Don’t Want To Know If You Are Lonely

I need more Hüsker Dü vinyls. I need all of them! (Only have Warehouse at this time.) My birthday is in August sop you lot have some time to get it for me. Other things on the list are world peace, goodwill towards mankind, love, and cookies.

On the cosmology episode of the Infinite Monkey Cage they had this guest — apart from Alan Moore, Dallas Campbell and Professor Ed Copeland — who sang a song. It was such a wonderful one that I needed to hunt down and then post. Turns out Helen Arney has The Sun has Got His Huff On as a free download on her bandcamp. 

You treat me insignificantly
Name a tabloid after me
Synonymous with paparazzi
Just a backdrop for Brian Cox on TV 

The podcast is described as this by the Beeb: “Witty, irreverent look at the world according to science with physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince.” All true!

(The GEEK SONGS tag lives!)