I got around to picking up a copy of this album off iTunes the other day and here is my one-week impression.

Damn. I missed the boat on this one! haha. The songs that have been in high-rotation on my local independent radio stations are good, but they dont bring the sense of cohesiveness that listening to the whole album provides. Go buy it now if you haven’t already

Seriously go…

We can wait…

(”let’s make some music, make some money, find some models for wives”)

You may have already heard, but we just found out. A great musician has passed today, and we will honour him with the only means available to us.

Isaac Hayes: musician, activist, southpark character, scientologist.

But to most people, the guy who wrote the shaft intro.

For more on his life: Wikipedia Entry

He will be sorely missed

Hey guys, Here are some tunes I have been road testing (as in literally listening to in the car, not some sort of metaphorical road-test):

Thanks to WeLikeItIndie.com for hosting these two tunes by Bayside.

Bayside-Duality

Bayside-Carry On

Both of them are post-punk/punk tunes with hooks that just keep on coming. Bayside have had some ups and some downs, the story of how they lost their drummer Beatz contrasts their successes (number 4 Top on Independent Albums, number 75 on the Billboard 200). Maybe you have heard of them, maybe not. But take a moment either way to check out those two tracks.

cemusic say basia bulat is pretty effing great… but I can’t agree, the songs are good, but they just didn’t grab me in the way the rest of the tracks on this road test did. Maybe they will speak to you, but they didn’t to me.

This track on the other hand is WEEIIIRD (FreeIndie.Com provide the music): Head over to FreeIndie and listen to HaHa by Mates Of State. Two very awkward looking but extremely talented musicians joined together to create something that just shouldnt work, but does anyway. It bounces around genres, meter and most probably your head, for days and days. Listen to it but dont blame me when you have it stuck in your head. Blame them

I found Black Mags by the Cool Kids totally forgettable, though full disclosure: not the biggest fan of the genre. Even so I usually can enjoy a song a few times, but in this case after the first listen I couldn’t help but skip past it. (more…)