On Repeat

"Photojournalist" by Small Black

CMYKiller

"More filters than a T-Pain album."

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On Repeat

"Marathon" by Tennis

On Repeat

"Odessa" by Caribou

On Repeat

"Mirror Ball" by Crayon Fields

Dueling MP3 Birthday Greetings

DAD
(tracked down a childhood classic, personalized)


VS


JOSH
(original composition)

On Repeat

Cuuuuuuuuuute song!

"Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Enjoy!

LOL Musics

Flavorwire has issued a list of stereotypes about who listens to which indie bands. It's cute, k?

Some fav lines:

Micachu and the Shapes
Chicks with bad teeth.

Joanna Newsom
People who have considered befriending a squirrel.

Vampire Weekend
Bros who try to make out with girls at concerts by relating to them via old Nickelodeon shows. “Remember Pete & Pete??”

She & Him
People who hate Ben Gibbard.
[Editor's note: Doesn't everyone hate Ben Gibbard?]


Read the full list here!

Via my ex's twitter account, not that I still read it or anything.

Street View Fame

Musician Nate Heagy of the band Fear Salesman promoted his band by stalking the Google Street View car in Saskatoon, Canada.

via Gizmodo

File Under Toldyaso

Remember when I told you that the band Girls is about to blow up? Well, lookie-lookie, guess whose LP was just added to the Urban Outfitters inventory. Done and done.

GaGa for Christopher Walken

Chris Walken gives the Will Shatner reading of Rocket Man a run for its money?

The Long Count

Are you going tonight, too?

Piano Stairs

While we're on the subject of piano videos on youtube...

Talking Piano

EPS ESP

Prediction realized! As you may recall, I suggested recently that Fanfarlo is about to "blow up." Lo and behold, their music was featured on the season premiere of Grey's Anatomy this week. Booya!

Not So Far Around the Bend

The National wished for it, and it came true! SPIN reports, "After speculation circulated online yesterday, Matador Records made it official today: Indie pop groundbreakers Pavement will reunite for tour dates 'around the world' in 2010."

Bands I Think Are About to Blow Up

...or at least who should, because they are awesome.

1) Girls
All-male band of San Fran junkies who have been playing for years but just signed to Matador.
Sounds like: Cass McCombs, the soundtrack to Ryan McGinley photos, Nirvana doing an Elliott Smith impression with Elvis Costello on vocals (is that even possible?)
Watch their new video here.
Album drops September 21 on Turnstile.

2) Phantogram
I don't know much about them, but they were recently featured as a KEXP song of the day. They have two shows coming up in BK over the next month, hoorah!
Sounds like: Portishead, Sneaker Pimps.
Listen to "When I'm Small" on their MySpace page.

3) Fanfarlo (kinda already did)
Sounds like: Beirut minus the brass, plus the singer from Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah.
Watch the video for "Harold T. Wilkins" here.

4) Foreign Born
Sounds like: a perkier Here We Go Magic
Listen to "Vacationing People" on their MySpace page.

5) Circulatory System
...which is really just an Olivia Tremor Control reunion, shhhhhhh! These Elephant 6ers release their album on September 8.
Sounds like: Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fleet Foxes plus Yeasayer.
Check 'em out on MySpace.

6) Holiday Shores
Okay, so maybe a friend of a friend of a friend owns their record label. But seriously, bright future ahead of 'em! They made it onto an Urban Outfitters compilation, and if that doesn't forebode success, I don't know what does.
Sounds like: a beachier Dodos with a higher voice
Listen to "Phones Don't Feud" here.