hate what we've lost but love what we find.

You know when something just resonates when you hear it. It's like that perfect frequency, that perfect melody, that perfect bass. Paper Kites.
I've liked many a bands over the years, over the past few days... this one is the basis of this post.

The band that coined "We hate what we've lost but love what we find."
Remorseful and yet hopeful. Bitter and sweet. It's divine.

Woodland


Willow Tree March


Sink In

For the silence of the snow.

The Acorn - Restoration


The Middle East - Blood


Gram Rabbit - Lost in Place


Say Hi - November was white, December was grey


The Paper Kites - Bloom


The Paper Kites - Featherstone


The Paper Kites - Sink In (obviously I'm obsessed)


The Honey Trees - To Be With You


Maps & Atlases - Solid Ground


Avalanche City - Love love love (kind of popish but I can't deny it, big fan, Auckland New Zealand baby)


Avalanche City - You and I


Boy & Bear - Fall at Your Feet

Been so long! Sorry!

Hey wow! I haven't updated my blog in awhile. But check it out I've got some songs for you and some cool pictures.

So the first song is Coming Down by Dum Dum Girls


Die With You by Teens


Shyness by Thieves Like Us


The Sun by Casa del Mirto


So Fine by Telepathe


The Earth Plates Are Shifting by Young Empire

This Moment by French Horn Rebellion-


Swim Club by The Cavesingers


Open Season by High Highs


Friend Crush by Friends

an afterthought.

Canon Blue - Indian Summer


Faces on Film


The War on Drugs

Canoe.

Well back to the searching game. So many bands, so little time.

So I've been listening to the new Laura Marling cd due to my lovely new roommates, one from Durango, the other has been dubbed by many as the "ukulele girl". However, I know them as Chelsea and Hannah. As Chelsea and I spent 10 minutes trying to convince Hannah to name her band Canoe, I found a gal I quite like.
Nikki Lane.


In other news, Beirut's new album has been out for a couple weeks now (about three now) and here's a new song. I'm sure it's been heard but I'm loving on it.


HIYAAAAAA! I don't quite have Scottish slang down like Paige, but here's some Scottish music. You can really hear the accent.
Depths and Scatabrainz feat. Gasp


The Physics-


Memory Tapes - this band has been around since 2009, a compilation of Memory Cassette and Weird Tapes. After listening to their new work, I will say it's all kind of similar (the Al Green effect as I like to call it). This song is off of their first album "Seek Magic".

will you free me from the logic that i've known.

Moving forward is one of the hardest lessons I've learned in life. It took a lot of struggle to start looking towards the future and to let go of those who aren't a part of the future. There's so much importance in all that has happened in the past, and I couldn't fathom "turning my back". The phrase "going in different directions" used to scare me. And then a thought comforted me. After many miles alone, many hours in an OR, and a trip to Seattle, I realized I wasn't losing anything. I may be walking forward towards my future, but that doesn't mean I can't take a glance towards the receding road behind me.

All the memories and all the people wait there. They're in the music, in the photos, just waiting for that single moment when I want to be nostalgic. Every song reminds me of a certain person, a certain feeling, a certain moment in life. And those songs always exist and the person comes back into my head, burning clearly like a shooting star in the night sky. I've certainly had to walk different paths than some people and at one point wished that our paths would combine again in the future, but I find peace in the fact that I'll never truly forget even if our paths never converge again.

So here are the songs, the memories, the people that are my past, present, future... etc.

The Hush Sound - You Are the Moon


Streetlight Manifesto - A better place, A better time


Bon Iver - Blindsided


Miike Snow - Cult Logic


Radiohead - Kid A

could you run into me

Lasso - Phoenix


Broken Horse - Freelance Whales

This song was on repeat last October when traveling to Dartmouth and enjoying the changing of the leaves.

Fact or Fiction - Voxhaul Broadcast


Rotten Apples - Voxhaul Broadcast

mmmmhmm

Get People - Away


Get People - Careless


Here Go Magic - Fangela


Hooray For Earth - True Loves


New Bon Iver. It's been out for a month but I haven't been really paying attention. Here ya go.
My favorite band probably
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3ePlc3Gi_8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yf5L74ITSk&feature=related

heaven's on fire

I've had this song for awhile, but it's lovely and so if you haven't heard it then here you go.
The Radio Dept. - Heaven's On Fire


I don't know why I haven't yet posted Of Monsters and Men...
Of Monsters And Men - Little Talks


Roma di Luna - Before I Die


short posting...

daze

A summer's afternoon reading Shantaram.

Seapony came out with a record LP with 3 songs earlier this year. This song, Blue Star, is off the album Go With Me and newly released as of May 31st. Basically they can be explained by this quote
"Seattle’s Seapony sound like they could have been on a cassette the cops found locked away in Phil Spector’s vault when everything started going wrong. Luckily, this is not another time capsule band produced at gunpoint. The sunny and sad, jangle- ‐pop romance bundled inside “Dreaming” gives the track a foggy, delicately scuffed nostalgia reminiscent of the breezy, honeyed hits of bygone days." – Altered Zones 





Ganglians - Valiant Brave
Description: It’s a chorus of voices, a lot of reverb echo, some electronics of the messed up cheap variety, or toy pianos. It’s far away…a little underwater. A lot of noise and yelling, a garage a thon, sounds recorded live in that way that most live stuff doesn’t come close to. 





Monsters of Folk - the Right Place
Monsters of Folk is an American supergroup, consisting of Jim James from My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis from Bright Eyes, and M. Ward of She & Him. Look them up on Wikipedia to learn more! Alright!





Rainbow Arabia - Without You
Hey these guys are cool! They've been dubbed 4th World Pop due to their representation of various cultures and eras in their music. 

In the Summer summer...

Summer Songs as of right now!

Crystal Fighters - In the Summer


Miami Horror - Sometimes


Foster the People have now come out with their whole album.... I think... but here's a good one.
Foster the People - Color on the Walls (Don't Stop)

the british stuff.

So I used to have this obsession that still kind of holds true. It has to deal with my love for Great Britain... a  place I have yet to see, but I'm sure I'll love it. hahah

Anyways, British bands por toi.

Mystery Jets - Diamonds in the Dark


The Rumble Strips - Boys and Girls in Love


Larrikin Love - Happy As Annie


The Maccabees - Toothpaste Kisses (Paige showed me this one)


The Boy Least Likely To - Be Gentle With Me


Yes I realize a lot of these sound the same. But they are very happy songs. So listen and be happy.

had it planned out on a silver screen.

Austra - Beat and the Pulse


The Generationals - Greenleaf


Beat Connection - Silver Screen

If it's quiet....

This one is different. These are all songs that are pretty well known except maybe Walkabout, which I just found out was collaborated with Panda Bear. Who knew? Just found out that I liked Panda Bear from the weekends at Chase Ct. and apparently I heard a taste of them early in September.

Anyways this blog is themed towards that feeling. It's a common feeling that revolves around the want to wander. I just couldn't get to sleep, thinking about road trips in the summer, or flying somewhere, or hopefully going to India/Asia within the next year. I just started to feel antsy with the fact that I feel so stationary going to school.

Over winter break I was able to hike, watch surgeries, run, just spend time finding bands, and I didn't want to go back to school in the slightest. I feel most at peace either in nature or running towards a future destination, or just running in general. So it gets just frustrating studying and studying when I want to just meander up a mountain and make a day of it, sit by a lake, make a makeshift raft to hang out on. So this is for that feeling. These songs will get me through the next four weeks when I got sick of school about the first week of winter quarter.

Modest Mouse - the world at large


Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day & For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti




Atlas Sound - Walkabout


The Dodos - Jodi

Tell your story before old age kills your plans

The blog is centered around When Saints Go Machine. The song posted is Fail Forever. This band is from Copenhagen and coincidently enough if you like them on facebook, you cannot read a single status they post because it is in another language. I don't know much else really.



Grouplove - Colours. Yes they spelled it the British way, but they are however an American band that formed on the Greek Island of Crete while doing an art residency....? residency? I thought that residencies were reserved for surgeons and dentists, but apparently artists can do them too. Anyways, they've been touring with Florence and the Machines. Cool.



Caribou - Odessa. Good shit. Caribou used to be Manitoba but was threatened to be sued by the Dictators frontman who liked to call himself by that name. If you're wondering, yes I did get all this information from Wikipedia. I decided to put some effort into this blog.



Wesafari - Matchbox. Wesafari started in Boston with Rick Wright and then moved to a Seattle group when band members were met. They're chill.



So Made In Heights - All the Places. This song is from album Winter Pigeons (songs to raise your dead spirits). I guess that's all I'm going to say about that.



Last one. This is by a Welsh band called Friends Electric and the song is Golden Blood.

music players.

I have no idea but the music players really only align right if you click on an individual blog. If you try an click on 2011 or an archived month... everything is all screwy... je ne sais pas!

Baby, won't you show me warmth again?

Some local Durango boys. 2Dubaii. 

 Prestigious Journey by 2DUBAII 

Some CU Boulder boys. Common Ties. 

 Shoofly by Common Ties

Oh man. Snowball music festival. There was not a single act that I was not completely stoked on for the two out of three days that I went. This band, Local Natives is not new or anything but I just saw them live and I'm stoked. Local Natives - Sun Hands
Basically download Gorilla Manor. You won't be disappointed.




This band is from LA and they got me into the show! Thanks to the great house of Chase Ct for offering them some Pabst, I got a free artist pass for the whole weekend and so here I am promoting this band who is touring with Local Natives and playing a show with Foster the People (another band I am very fond of). Superhumanoids - Cranial Contest. You can check them out on Soundcloud or facebook!




Big Gigantic was another favorite from Snowball. Who would have thought an electric band with a sax solo could tear it up like that? Literally blew my mind. I don't think anyone in the crowd wasn't just as pleased as I was with their sick jams. This Boulder band is getting huge, better jump on the bandwagon before its uncool. Big Gigantic - Black and Yellow Remix




Well it's now finals time at DU so here's some slow ass music to go with my mood about tests. But they'll be done soon and then nothing but sunshine! awww yeah!
Lord Huron - The Stranger

Voxhaul Broadcast. All about this band.

The Radio Dept - David


Sub Swara - Speak My Language



Tapes N' Tapes - Badaboom



Best for last.
Voxhaul Broadcast - Leaving on the 5th




That's all

a boy meets girl and girl meets boy. got a nasty habit called rock n' roll

Oh Valentine's Day. So basically here's a mix of all songs good that I listened to yesterday. There were others as well, but I haven't transferred them from my iPod to my computer yet, so sorry... Anyways, these songs are really just the best of the best. I would say I was feeling the Sounds the most yesterday, and of course Tennis because when am I not listening to them. But here are some others. My Valentine's mix. Like a mix tape, but I mean less cool because it's not a tape, this is a blog. Duh. And for once I'm using pink players. Damn I really know how to work a theme.

And this is pure love

Tennis - Long Boat Pass


John Mellencamp - Hurt So Good. Obviously.


Bittersweet - The Mating Game


Black Joe Lewis & The Honey Bears - Bitch, I Love You


G. Love & Special Sauce - Gimme Some Lovin'


AWOLNATION - Guilty, Filthy Soul


The Sounds - Rock N' Roll, Tony the Beat




Rilo Kiley - Portion for Foxes


And there is no Valentine's Day without a classic. Atmosphere - Don't Ever Fucking Question That

what's in the silver locket?

Best Song Ever! Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band


For Real - Okkervil River


Neva Dinova - Will The Ladies Send You Flowers


The Fresh and Onlys - Waterfall

In Our Talons

There has been a lot of 80's style coming back. And I'm all for leotards, neon colors, sweat bands, and rubik's cubes. So this band is Twin Shadow. I usually do a blurb but I'm just too lazy. Listen and enjoy. That's about it. The song is Castle in the Snow.


This next band has an accordion and accordions are cool, so I love them. Obviously. Bowerbirds is the name, accordion is the game. In Our Talons by Bowerbirds.


Black Mountain really kind of has a lot going on I would say. The song is Wucan


This next song makes me not want to listen to my other songs, it's that good. Foster the People- Pumped Up Kicks. Thank you Alex Meyer.


Yacht- Psychic City


This next band is from Chicago and is doing great things. More on the Indie side, so fantastic. This is off their current album, Dye It Blonde. There I finally wrote a little background information. This is the Smith Westerns - Weekend

And every day I waited for you, and every day, on the top of your car.

Music. Quick!

Portugal. The Man - Dead Dog


The Drums - Down By The River


The Drums - Best Friend


Kleerup ft. Lykke Li - Until We Bleed


So I usually add more background and stuff... but I just don't have time. I'm going snowcat skiing this weekend and have tests to study for. I know wow, crazy life! Anyways, I'll be faster next round.

in between this ocean and mountainside

Oh hey. So as I'm sitting in physics looking at Calvin and Hobbes, I was told to update my blog by my roommate Sonia. So as always, you may have heard this songs and maybe not. Who knows? But I like these songs and I'll probably add a new blog during my radio show tonight. Hold tight.

The Dodos is probably one of my favorite bands. It has crazy instrumentals, some epic guitar and sweet sweet vocals and lyrics. All around it is just a pretty badass band that I enjoy listening to. The Dodos consists of Meric Long and Logan Kroeber and combines Long's training in West African Ewe drumming and Kroeber's metal influence to really bring out the guitar and drumming. Seriously will blow your mind. This song, The Season was pretty much the song I listened to whenever I had downtime in my stay in Seattle. If I was listening to music, I was listening to the Dodos. Duh.
Also check out, Jodi... well just every song really.



Aloe Blacc doesn't have much discography. He's signed with Epic for the UK and Ireland. Youtube, with all its links led me to clicking on his video for "I Need A Dollar" and really it's great. So take a listen. Some background info, he used to be in the group Emanon, but now he's not.



Beach House is a band from Baltimore, Maryland that is more of a chill band, along the lines of Band of Horses... I think. I found them at my radio show last year because we have to play 2 songs every hour from the rack of new cds. Basically epic. They have also been compared to that of Nico, which I know from "The Royal Tenenbaums" by Wes Anderson. Check out These Days by Nico. Listen below to "Norway" by them. The song Zebra is also one of my favorites.



This band, Tennis is just awesome. I myself like to enjoy a good game of tennis, but due to my lack of dedication I'm still just average. But whatever, my racket it badass and it's a good way to just kick it in the summer when I'm not doing research, running, or working. Hollah. Anyways this band actually has this perfect song called marathon, which is really perfect because I play tennis and I've ran a marathon. Check that out! So this band is actually from Denver, well started playing music in Denver. They sailed around, husband and wife, and wrote songs at sea. Basically epic and they are the new thing. I'm telling you.



The Young Coyotes are another Denver band. I'm about to go running so this is going to get short but just listen to them. I'm really pleased with this band. In fact I just used some of my iTunes gift cards to buy their music. This song is called "The Sun Continues to Reach Me"



And because I like all sorts of music, here's some french music for your listening pleasure! Tryo is a french reggae band. This info is copied from Wikipedia because I'm lazy now.


Tryo is a French language 'unplugged' reggae acoustic band, popular in Europe and in Quebec, with three French guitarists, a Latin American percussionist, and a producer: Guizmo, Christophe Mali, Manu Eveno, Daniel "Danielito" Bravo and Bibou.

Tryo are popular in France partly due to their politically charged lyrics, whilst also showing a fun side with a range of humorous songs, especially in live performances.

They take a left wing stance, criticising various French politicians such as Charles Pasqua (named in corruption scandals concerning suburban low cost housing or HLM) and Jean-Marie Le Pen and world leaders (George W. Bush, for example) in their music. The band has a "tolerant" view on cannabis, demonstrated by 'La Main Verte' from the 'Mamagubida' album. Drug references are reduced in their later albums.

Oh yeah check this out. His Orchestra "Attached" 

Oren Lavie was born in Tel Aviv and grew up in Israel. His video for Her Morning Elegance, song below, is fantastic. 

The Capitol Years is a group from Philadelphia that hit the scene in July 2001. That's really about all the info I have at this point. This song is "You Can Stay There" 

We drink our wine, and wonder why we're really here

So I'm not going to be giving that much info because really I have stuff to do not that I'm not on a six week winter break. Here's some good stuff.

This song is the basis for my blog. It's called Building and Mountains by The Republic Tigers.


Dreaming by Seapony


My friend Anna showed me the song Open Hearts by the Longcuts.


Original Sin by Geographer