Coachella 2012 Lineup!

10/18 guesses plus one of my wish list items? I would not have guessed that Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg would be performing but then again, half of the artists listed would not have been my first guess. Either way, the line up look decent and I am more than ready for my desert dance party.

Friday's Fun List:
-The Black Keys (I missed them last year and still regret it.)
-Arctic Monkeys
-Tim Armstrong (Operation Ivy, please?)
-M. Ward
-the Rapture

Saturday's Happy List:
-Radiohead
-the Shins (I thought they broke up.)
-Miike Snow
-Jeff Mangum (This will probably be as close as I'll get to Neutral Milk Hotel.)
-Feist
-Childish Gambino
-Laura Marling
-the Vaccines
-Buzzcocks

Sunday's Super List:
-At the Drive-In
-Justice
-Florence and the Machine
-Santigold
-Wild Flag
-Metronomy
-Girl Talk

Sets that I might meander through:
Pulp
M83
Cat Power
the Horror
Dawes
Other Lives
EMA
Bon Iver
SBTRKT
Kasabian
Beirut
Grace Potter
the Hives
the Weeknd
the Growlers
First Aid Kit
Le Bucherettes

Guesses for Coachella 2012

Some haphazard assumptions:
M83
Florence and the Machine
Prodigy
The Belle Brigade
Blind Pilot
Das Rascist
Keep Shelley in Athens
Plaid
Holy Ghost!
The Rapture
The Head and the Heart
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
The Horrors
First Aid Kit
Other Lives
Tune-yards
The Vaccines
Two Door Cinema Club

Wishlist:
Childish Gambino
Little Dragon
Bowie
Baths
Vincent James McMorrow

Mid April Love

What is this warmth radiating from the sky? And forcing me to find my spring dresses amidst my winter coats and long sleeves shirts? Though TS Eliot will never have me forget that April is the cruellest month; so let's not forget. Let's coast on through from its painful grasp and follow melodic footsteps towards jubliant sunshine in the following form:

The Antlers - Every Night My Teeth are Falling
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
Ratatat - Loud Pipes
Yeasayer - Madder Red
Menomena - Killemall
Cat Stevens - Wild World
LCD Soundsystem - Home

Confession

Okay fine, I'll admit it: new Pains of Being Pure at Heart? Growing on me.

Well, just the the title track "Belong". It's a step away from their debut, which was a homage to the Field Mice. But the Field Mice were rifting off Factory Records' The Wake. So everything's cyclic and few things are new. Anyways, the new album Belong is a lazy version of the Stone Roses who were a less fuzzy version of My Bloody Valentine. Didn't I say things are cyclic? In other words, it's soft dreamy pop music over synths, a barely there bass, a shoegaze wisp of vocals, and a bit of lazy drumming.

But the more I listen to it, the more it grows on me! How infectious! Stream it at their website.

"In hospitals, in shopping malls with heavy heads and locker walls. An empty street at 3 a.m., you told me you’re not one of them."

We just don't belong.

(Now off to Coachella!)

First of many marriage proposals

Dear Brent Knorf,

Can I please marry your vocals? Just them, nothing else. I don't need your physical body, although it might help to have when I ask you to improvise a song for me. You might need your fingers then to play the piano, guitar, watercups, or glockenspiel.

Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Me

Summer time mix

After Coachella, things became harried and I didn't have a life outside of work. That and the music scene lacked substance. So here's a summer happy go lucky, yee haw in the haystacks mix. Hopefully come this fall, I'll be able to find the time to write biased reviews. Or maybe I'll pull a Bon Iver and lock myself in my room with Kid A on repeat. Oh, speaking of Kid A, let's start this list.

Jigsaw Falling into Place - Radiohead (In Rainbows)
Russia - Ramona Falls (Intuit)
Ghosts - Laura Marling (Alas I Cannot Swim)
Say Hello to the Angels - Interpol (Turn on the Bright Lights)
I Can Change - LCD Soundsystem (This is Happening)
Tightrope - Janelle Monae (The ArchAndroid)
The Underdog - Spoon (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
Floating Vibes - Surfer Blood (Astrocoast)
Rebellion (Lies) - Arcade Fire (Funeral)


As always, if there's something new and good on the horizon, drop me a note.

Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane are normally not my go-to band when I'm making a visit to the HeartBreak Hotel. (Not that my heart is broken or anything near that metaphor. After all, Germany won their match today and now I'm trying to devise a plan to see how I can marry Lukas Podolski and Thomas Muller. Polygamy is legit in Deutschland, right?)

But sometimes we forget how amazing the musical world is until one leaves their itunes on shuffle. Wham bam, thank you ma'am, and we are reminded. I think the world has forgotten Jefferson Airplane for its musical talents and instead credit the downfall of music to "We Built this City on Rock n Roll." I will not battle anyone on the merits of that song, but let's rewind to the days of Jefferson Airplane and let the Starship part be a distant future.

"Coming Back to Me" is an instigator of bedroom tears. If I were a 15 year old girl with a severe case of broken heartitis (which sounds like a demented case of hepatitis), then this song would be my anthem. Curtains drawn and lifeless body sprawled on my bed, I'd let Marty Balin tell me "I saw you, I saw you, I saw you comin' back to me." Insert a choked sob. Cross out "CB + JG = 4eva." And curse the torturous world of love. Oh, to be 15 again. "Crown of Creation" marches Grace Slick's vocals  on par with Pat Benetar. "Embryonic Journey" is a drift on some interesting guitar finger picking. On the same plate, we've got "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" but those are the one-hit wonder type of songs that tend to pave over the genuine talent of a band.

Anyways, that's your blast to the past moment.