Built to Spill - You in Reverse

The Wait

Chad Vangaalen - Infiniheart

Infiniheart is Chad Vangaalen's first album."Maybe this is just an American's projection onto our northerly neighbors, but I imagine Chad VanGaalen knows the cold very intimately. He hails from Calgary, where he busked street corners and subways for years, gradually building up a large catalog of original songs. Using a variety of instruments and equipment-- some of which he's fashioned by hand-- the relentless DIY'er has recorded hundreds of his songs in a makeshift studio in his bedroom, where you can imagine him retreating from a frigid evening."

Stephen M. Deusner, August 18, 2005 Pitchfork

1000 pound eyelids

Little Joy - Little Joy

Rodrigo Amarante( singer/guitarist for Los Hermanos ), Fabrizio Moretti( drummer for The Srokes ) and Binki Shapiro( multi-instrumentalist/female vocals ) are Little Joy.

Amarante and Moretti met at a music festival where both their bands were performing, they latter came up with the idea to start a new musical project unrelated to their respective bands. In 2007, Rodrigo Amarante traveled to Los Angeles to collaborate with Devendra Banhart on his Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon album where Amarante and Moretti met multi-instrumentalist Binki Shapiro through mutual acquaintances. The band was named "Little Joy" after a cocktail lounge not far from their house in L.A.

Their debut album was recorded with the help of producer Noah Georgeson, whom Amarante met during his sessions with Devendra Banhart. It was released by Rough Trade Records on November 4, 2008.


One thought, has me turning back
A dozen point the other way
We act upon desire
To reach your hand for higher
And patience isn't worth the wait

You've got knifes in your eyes
You would be happy not to change your mind
I can't defend you truly
When I worry about smoke instead of putting out the fire

And if we work it out
Chances are bound we'd be standing around
for no one's better sake
good-bye

What are we waiting for?
What are we waiting for?
What are we waiting for?
What are we waiting for?

What are we waiting for?
What are we waiting for?

What are we waiting for?

How faint might that light become
You focus 'bout miles away
Although my position
Just gives you ammunition
You're certain that I know my place

So is this how it ends
Oh with a whimper in the place of bang
I can't defend you truly
When I worry about smoke instead of putting out the fire

And if we work it out
Chances are bound we'd be standing around
for no one's better sake
good-bye

We would be friends
if we'd try again
I'd take second place
just to end the race
for no one's better sake
Good-bye

Death Cab For Cutie - Something About Airplanes

Classic! Best Death Cab in my opinion

Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life

2001 release from the Virginian multi-instrumentalist Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse). Also in this album Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, John Parish, Nina Perrson, Dave Fridmann and others. Mark Linkous usually records in a small room on his virginia farm but for this album he made an exeption and worked with other musicians, “I didn't want to play every instrument on every song,” “I didn't want to be behind the control console the whole time. I wanted to have other people's brains and input involved.” sayd Linkous, in an interview with Free Williamsburg Online Magazine. I've heard this a bunch of times, it never gets old.

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At the beach with vampire weekend

Vampire Weekend is the debut self titled album from this New York band. The album was released early 2008 and has had allot of respect, they toured the United Kingdom in november 2007 with the shins. To me they're a great band and i hope to hear more from them in the future.

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Horn of Plenty

Horn of Plenty is the debut album from the folk rock band Grizzly Bear. This album was re-released in 2005 with an additional disk of remixes from Solex, The Double, Castanets, Final Fantasy, Soft Pink Truth, Dntel and others. The album started as a solo efort of Ed Dorste, also in the band Daniel Rossen (songwriting/guitar), Chris Taylor (bass/woodwinds/electronics/vocals), Christopher Bear (drums/vocals).

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The Good, the Bad & the Queen a British rock supergroup

The band consists of:
Damon Albarn - Gorillaz
Paul Simonon - The Clash
Simon Tong - The Verve
Tony Allen - Africa 70

Enough said.

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