HAPPY NEW YEAR

The Breeze - Dr. Dog


2009
This year, concerning music, I have made many discoveries of great bands and I am thankful for the people who have guided me to some of them as well.

Bands and artists which I have seen live this year are; Alesana, Sonic Youth, Anti-Flag, Tiger Lou, Timbuktu, Promoe (x2), Gavin Degraw, Unearth, Throwdown, CHIMAIRA, Dååth, Joey Degraw, Lazee, Robin Bengtson, Mandio Diao and Svenska Akademien.

2009 has been extremely lucky for me, when it comes to meeting band members and artists. I have met Sean Zatorsky (Vocals-Dååth), Mark Hunter, Matt DeVries, Rob Arnold, Jim LaMarca, Andols Herrick, Chris Spicuzza (All members of Chimaira), Denis Lee and Shane Crump (vocals+bass-Alesana)and Gavin Degraw. All artists I have set out to meet; I've met! I count myself very lucky.

As for the song of today Dr. Dog's "The Breeze", I actually only found this song today, the last day of the year. And I really like it!

As mentioned, 2009 has been filled with great concerts, musical discoveries and meeting of great artists, and
hopefully 2010 will be just as great in this sense, if not better! :)

Jim LaMarca & Me :)

Chimaira & Me :)

Gavin Degraw, Caroline and I :)

Dennis Lee, Shane Crump and I :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR

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YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips are acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne's signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he traverses the audience. In 2002, Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die".
I most definitely want to see them live:)
This video is very entertaining to watch as well as a great song to listen to.

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SUNSET RUBDOWN

The Mending of the Gown - Sunset Rubdown
Along with Elf Power, Sunset Rubdown are becoming a personal favourite of mine at this moment in time. I could go on to list dozens of their songs that I recommend, but will instead just advice you to listen to any song you can find by them, because they are, without doubt, all amazing songs.
The songs are filled with rich, metaphorical images, surreal or mythological characters and heroes, and fantasical or oblique storylines.

Shut Up, I Am Dreaming of Places Where Lovers Have Wings:



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CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - White Corolla
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (CFTPA) is the musical solo-project of musician Owen Ashworth from California.
Ashworth started CFTPA after he dropped out of film school in 1997. He has toured with other similarly acclaimed indie artists like The Donkeys, The Papercuts, Cass McCombs, Kill Me Tomorrow, P:ano, The Dead Science, David Bazan, The Rapture, and Xiu Xiu. All of which are very good.
The musical style is characterized by the use of electronically produced beats, cheap keyboards, and slow, frank lyrics. On Etiquette, Ashworth widened his musical horizon and added more analog instruments and an overall more organic sound.

Another good song;

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Toby, Take a Bow:

ELBOW

Buttons & Zips - Elbow
Good song
Neat video

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ELF POWER

The Naughty Villain - Elf Power
The song(s) that I really wanted to link on here by Elf Power are;
CIRCULAR MALEVOLENCE
&
DRUG STORE
but since youtube did not have any videos including those songs, I could not link them.
Anyway, this song is good too.

The best album, in my opinion, by Elf Power is their debut album: Vainly Clutching at Phantom Limbs [1995]. They have also self-released two cassettes before that in 1994.

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Does It Offend You, Yeah?

Does It Offend You, Yeah? - The Tales of the Chameleon

WINTER BREAK STARTS NOW.

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Suburban Kids with Biblical Names

Suburban Kids with Biblical Names - Rent a Wreck

Great song.
Adorable band members.
Cute video.
Nationality: Swedish.
Interesting band name; comes from a lyric in the song "People" by the Silver Jews.

Silver Jews - People:



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who's da boz

BRING THE PAIN - MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE

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Cause I Came and I Saw, I Conquered All

VENI VIDI VICI - BLACK LIPS
Interesting, good song.

Story about the early days of the band:

The band formed in 2000; and consisted of:
Guitarist - Cole Alexander
Bassist - Jared Swilley
Guitarist - Ben Eberbaugh
Drummer - Joe Bradley

Unfortunately, days before a tour was to begin in December 2002, Ben Eberbaugh was driving a car that was struck by a drunk driver going the wrong way while he was parked at a toll booth. He was killed but the band carried on, believing that Eberbaugh would want them to continue.

Ederbaugh was replaced by Jack Hines, who was eventually replaced by Ian Saint Pé.

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TUB RING

I COULD NEVER FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU - TUB RING
I like it.

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STUMBLED ACROSS....

AGAINST ME! - STOP!
I came across this song when I was watching OTHs7. It caught my attention because the whole song is basically consisted of the band members singing "Stop! Take some time to think, figure out what's important to you" a hundred times.
It's good though :)
Another song by them I recommend is: A Brief Yet Triumphant Introduction, Cliché Guevarra!

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QUASAR WUT WUT

PULLING YARNS - QUASAR WUT WUT (LIVE)
Good song. Not too good live on this video.

Also check out: Geggy Tah (Greg Kurstin) - Century Plant 2000, but this video is not on youtube.

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ELI, THE BARROW BOY

ELI, THE BARROW BOY - THE DECEMBERISTS
Good song if you're in that mood. Video created by some kid as a school project. I think it works really well with the song.
I just realized that I really must write another concert review soon considering that was my original purpose of this blog, along with obtaining some CAS hours.
Soon I will write one for Alesana and definitely Chimaira.

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IT'5

IT'5 - ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI
Long time, no blog.
All I wanted to mention in this one is that I miss my best friend.
A lot.
I really do, and it sucks we never speak, but tbh I know we won't drift apart or ever completely stop talking.
I just know.
She will always remain my best friend.
When we do meet and speak; I am always assured that she is. ♥

And now to the song; I love it. It's interesting and cute in its way.

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