Ah, XM. You never let me down. This time I am thanking XM50-The Loft for introducing me to Resplendent by Vigilantes of Lo. Yes, as perfect as XM satellite radio is, my CR-V’s audio display truncated the band’s name. Google told me that Bill Mallonee was the front man to the Vigilantes of Love, which set me off on a search for more of their alt-country goodness.
Think of Dylan’s storytelling, a healthy dose of John Cougar Mellencamp, and the southern[...]
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How did I not know about this? Music lover that I am, I was totally floored when I “Stumbled” on the FoxyTunes Planet just now.
FoxyTunes Planet is a music aggregator. You do a search for an artist, you get a page with a summary of the artist, all the YouTube videos by the artist, similar artists on last.fm, Google search results, music on Rhapsody, albums on Amazon, tunes you can listen to on the Hype Machine, Pandora radio, Flickr[...]
I can’t stop playing the new Kaiser Chiefs album, Yours Truly, Angry Mob. Yeah, the blogosphere seems to give it second billing to the Chiefs first album Employment, but I disagree. I think it’s better.
The rundown, song by song:
Ruby–Catchy, catchy, catchy, chorus. Love it, love it, love it, love it!
The Angry Mob–”We like who we like, we hate who we hate, but we’re also easily swayed”. What a great line. I had to go and watch A Clockwork Orange after[...]
Man, I can’t help but get nostalgic every now and again for the good ole days. Callin’ up the girlfriends, gettin’ ready, goin’ out to the club. If it wasn’t a weekend, we were at some local joint, but if it was a weekend…look out. Tearing through each other’s closets to put a new spin on an old outfit–man, we came up with some winners. I remember when we thought it was cool to go and see Rick James (some[...]
…and it is amazing! First, Sam’s Town is inspired by Bruce’s Born to Run, now, Brandon Flowers is finding inspiration in Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits. Long live late 70’s rock! I am so buying tickets to their concert if they come to town…
Romeo & Juliet was from the Dire Straits’ release Making Movies. R&J and my other favorite song from that album are down in the box.
Without further ado, The Killers doing “Romeo and Juliet”.
