BTW... aka bands to watch

Here I go again... waiting too long to write and forgetting to log all the bands and songs I'm obsessed with. It's been a little more difficult to keep tabs of new music since I moved. I listen to the radio all day at work and since I moved I can't turn the music up as loud as before. Oh well...

In any case, I've been purchasing lots of new vinyl. And when I say new, I mean vinyl from new/current bands. I just recently upgrade my record player to one that you can convert vinyl to MP3's! Totally awesome! So screw iTunes... I might as well by the vinyl and then convert it to MP3's! More bang for my buck :) So a few new albums I purchased I've been so excited about! Bass Drum of Death is one of them. Of course, I heard then one day listening to xmu and can't get enough. Finally I gave in and purchased their album. Man is it good, especially on vinyl! They are a cross between Ty Segall and Waaves... which are both bands that I love. Incredible garage rock with lots of raw beats. I think this band is from Mississippi or somewhere in the south and you can totally hear the southern 70's garage rock influence.

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I think these guys are really going to blow up. They played a show in Atlanta a few weeks ago but I didn't make it out.... I'm sure I will regret it in 3 months when they start to get some buzz.

Another album that I've been obsessing over is the new Kurt Vile. Unfortunately, I only purchased the MP3... I can only imagine how good it would sound on vinyl. I think the reason why this album is so good is the flow of each song into the next and the beautiful piano in each song. This album is pretty folky and sort of Wilco-ish. More acoustic and piano driven than I'm used to hearing from him. Each song is written so well with so much meaning in the lyrics and you can really hear it. Listening to the album all the way through, I find myself feeling so many different emotions and reactions. Some songs make me reminiscent of college, others incredibly happy, but there's one that makes me cry, "On Tour". I think this song sums up how I'm feeling right now in my life. I know I'm totally interpretting the song in my own way, but that's the magic of music. Sometimes a song meaning is what you make of it. Who cares what the song really means, what matters is how it makes you feel and react. I think that's why music means so much to me. Whenever I'm having trouble admitting to myself how good or bad my life is, all I need to do is listen to music, get lost in the beats, and let the feelings and emotions flow through...