The Pains of Being Pure At Heart

Their sound isn't the most original, but they do it well. The video for "Young Adult Friction" makes me nostalgic for times I never had, and some of those vocals make for a heck of a Morrissey impression.

from The Pains of Being Pure At Heart (2009)
Young Adult Friction
Everything With You

Caribou's "Melody Day"

This song is not new, but it is to Yousuf, so all of you can enjoy it again (or for the first time if you haven't heard it either.)

from Andorra (2007)
Melody Day

and...
Melody Day (Four Tet Remix)

Wolf Vs Pig

Papercuts

from You Can Have What You Want (2009)
A Peculiar Hallelujah
Future Primitive
You Can Have What You Want

Like a Boss and Phoenix

from Incredibad by The Lonely Island. The following video for "Like A Boss (ft. Seth Rogen)" was shown on SNL this past weekend. Enjoy.



P.S. Phoenix was their musical act that episode. Here's "Rally" from their album It's Never Been Like That (2006).

The Walkmen

from You & Me (2008)
Dónde Está la Playa
Seven Years of Holidays

from Pussy Cats (2006)
Subterranean Homesick Blues (Bob Dylan)
Don't Forget Me (Harry Nilsson)

from A Hundred Miles Off (2006)
Louisiana
Another One Goes By (Mazarin)

from Bows + Arrows (2004)
The Rat
Little House Of Savages

from Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone (2002)
Wake Up
Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone
Revenge Wears No Wristwatch

The Walkmen have released five studio albums (the fourth, Pussy Cats, is a song for song cover of Harry Nilsson's 1974 album Pussy Cats.) I'm kinda partial to their first two albums as well as their latest. Idk, 2006 just wasn't their year in my opinion, not to diss the song "Louisiana" (the highlight of that album).

Policemen and Planes

This song is old news, but I don't think anyone ever heard the news. I remember trying to find this to download after hearing it on Pandora when I was still going to the Univ of West GA.

Favorite Covers... Clem Snide/Aguilera

Clem Snide's cover of Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" can be found on their Beautiful EP (2003). If anyone is really begging for an mp3, leave a comment.

The Vacant Lot

The Vacant Lot was a short-lived comedy sketch show that ran in 1993 and 1994. This sketch, The Head, is the only one I can remember watching when it actually ran on Comedy Central back then which is probably a sign of how badly it disturbed me as a child.

Foxhole

They're currently working on an album that they hope will be ready for release this summer.


from Push/Pull (2006)
Forgiving Monarch

from We The Wintering Tree (2003)
The End of Dying

Cymbals Eat Guitars

from Why There Are Mountains (2009)
Wind Phoenix (Proper Name)
Living North

The Late Great Sam Kinison

Sam Kinison was one of the great ones that died relatively young. I personally remember him as my favorite part of Rodney Dangerfield's, the MC here, Back to School.

WTF Happened To Them? Denali

While they did perform a few reunion shows last year, Denali called it quits back in April of 2004 after just two albums. Unfortunately for me, by that time I had still only heard the mp3 I've provided below "Hold Your Breath." Everything about the song sucked me in: the guitar work, the dark female vocals, the strong rhythm...

from The Instinct (2003)
Hold Your Breath

"Normal Days" performed March 5, 2004 at The Echo Lounge in Atlanta.

The Soft Pack

The Soft Pack used to go by the name The Muslims.

from the Parasites/Walking With Jesus single (2009)
Walking With Jesus (Spacemen 3 cover)

from The Muslims (2009)
Future Rock
Bright Side

The War On Drugs and Kurt Vile

Kurt Vile is in The War On Drugs



from Wagonwheel Blues (2008) by The War On Drugs
Arms Like Boulders
Taking The Farm

from God Is Saying This To You? (2009) by Kurt Vile
My Sympathy
My Best Friends (Don't Even Pass This)

Harlem

Isn't it weird when you see the same word pop up around the music scene in album titles or band names?

from Free Drugs ;-) (2008)
South of France
Beautiful & Very Smart
Red Herring

...and just in case that picture from the Austin Chronicle didn't scare you, here's their cover of Q Lazzarus
Goodbye Horses

Holy Fuck vs. Radiohead

Holy Fuck's contest winning remix of Radiohead

Nude

(The above photo is of Holy Fuck from a 2007 session)

Dylan Moran on the subject of Germany

his third major tour, Like, Totally (the entire show can easily be found on YouTube).

Chad VanGaalen and Women

Chad VanGaalen and the band he's in Women.



from Soft Airplane (2008) by Chad VanGaalen
Rabid Bits of Time

from Women (2008) by Women
Cameras
Group Transport Hall
Black Rice

Pomegranates

from Everybody, Come Outside! (2009) by Pomegranates

Corriander
Everybody, Come Outside!