New Tunes – Chris Bathgate
The theme of a lot of the therapy I’ve been doing for myself lately is getting to a place where I embrace my emotions instead of feeling guilty about them or shoving them off to the side so that they don’t cause problems. My therapist is like, feeling crazy? Go crazy. Feeling sad? Cry. Reclusive? [...]
New Tunes – Gotye
Oof. This song just shoved me down a flight of stairs. Gotye (pronounced “gore-ti-yeah”) is a Belgian-born Australian artist named Wally De Backer. Give it a chance at least until 1:35. (Many thanks to Leslie for the heads up.)
New Tunes – Apparat
Yesterday I told you that I workout to Enrique Iglasias and you broke up with me. I understand. Maybe you’ll reconsider when I send you a love letter with the help of Sascha Ring, an artist out of Berlin who goes but he name Apparat (he looks exactly like what would happen if Thom Yorke [...]
New Tunes – When Saints Go Machine
This is a four-man electro-pop group from Copenhagen. I can’t find much information on the band, but I guess it doesn’t matter when this music is this damn fun. Here’s the video for the same song:
New Tunes – Youth Lagoon
Youth Lagoon is one Trevor Powers, a 22-year-old college student from Boise, Idaho who spent most of 2010 writing songs about the things in his life that he found it difficult to talk about out loud. He suffers from extreme anxiety, and the process of writing this music helped him articulate what he was feeling. [...]
New Tunes – College
Jon and I caught a showing of the movie Drive (starring Ryan Gosling) this weekend, and whoa. Whoa is the only thing I (or Keanu Reeves) will tell you about it. Well, one other thing: the soundtrack is insanely good, a total homage to the Eighties. I want to go see this movie again and [...]
New Tunes – The Kooks
These guys are a four-piece indie pop band from Brighton, England, and that fact alone means that had they been around when I was in college I would have plastered their posters all over my walls. They released a new album called Junk of the Heart a couple of days ago, and this song is [...]
New Tunes – The Rapture
This New York City-based band fall into a category called dance-punk (when you hear this song it will totally make sense). Influences are disco, dance music, funk, but I think my favorite part of this song is the piano, something really urgent and wacky about it. Their latest album In The Grace Of Your Love [...]
New Tunes – DCR Music
Ok, so this is just rad, pardon my Eighties. Damon Albarn (he who occupies a spot on my list) traveled to the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo and spent five days with local musicians and performers to put together an album called Kinshasa One Two. All proceeds from the album go to Oxfam [...]
New Tunes – Bon Iver
My favorite song off of the new Bon Iver album (and it was hard just choosing one, the album is so, so lush), is called Holocene: They recently released a video for this song, too …and at once I knew I was not magnificent strayed above the highway aisle jagged vacance, thick with ice I [...]
