It’s becoming kind of weird how many times Amazon Mp3′s deal of the day introduces me to a great band recently. A week ago it was House Of Heroes who’s song “God Save The Foolish Kings” was easily the most overplayed song in my car’s cd player since the last time I gave up on terrestrial radio. But that’s besides the point.
Steel Train. That’s who we’re talking about now. Some sort of indie band who’s first track sounds surprisingly welcome to a House Of Heroes album, though the rest of the music has a dancey indie feel. I think these guys are made for fans of everyone. If you are a Chromeo fan, go for it. Hot Hot Heat? Go for it. Killers? yes. Just do it.
I really do love the first track on the album, but I think i’ll post the second track here because it explains their multiple personality thing a bit more.
Sufjan Stevens took the indie rock world by it’s skinny jeans and gave it a huge wedgie when he released Illinoise a few years ago. Songs like “Chicago” became instant folk lore and even Snow Patrol name dropped Sufjan in their epic “Eyes Open” album.
He disappeared for a while. But he’s back with an “EP”. Called a quote “ep” because it’s 60 minutes long, which is longer than the majority of full length albums released in the past 10 years. And it’s pretty sweet, though I think Sufjan describes the title track better than I could, so here it is, from his site:
“All Delighted People is built around two different versions of Sufjan’s long-form epic ballad “All Delighted People,” a dramatic homage to the Apocalypse, existential ennui, and Paul Simon’s “Sounds of Silence.” Sounds delightful, yes!”
Yes!
Enjoy and go buy it for just $5 at the ‘buy’ link below.
I’ve never seen a song get so much hype so quickly. Everyone from Perez Hilton to Bob Lefsetz to Fark is hyping this song. Insane. This will be hitting every club floor from today until 3 years from today. get ready to get sick of this awesome song.
from the land that brought you Phoenix, comes some other quirky french band called “Revolver”. Kinda cool old school french pop feel. definitely could belong in the Triplets de Bellville soundtrack.
Yesterday, the Amazon mp3 album of the day deal was a band called House of Heroes’ new album “Suburba”. I had never heard of House of Heroes but I gave the 30 second samples a few listens and I was quickly drawn in and needed to hear the rest, so i spent the whopping $2.99 to get the full songs. I had to skip lunch because of this purchase, but it was worth every last cent. I’m pretty sure this album is even worth the entire $9.99.
I see a lot of comparisons between them and Relient K, but I don’t hear that as much as some other bands. Like a harder rocking Jimmy Eat World, with moments of The Hold Steady, Coheed & Cambria, Weezer, 30 Seconds to Mars and lots of other influences, maybe even some Speedwagon.
This album definitely isn’t flawless, but there are more than a couple standout tracks that make it pretty spectacular. The greatest song of them all is the epic “God Save The Foolish Kings”. They practically summon a “Paradise By The Dashboard Light” Meatloaf in this song while getting some added vocals by a Carlos from Coheed sound-alike. Its a fucking awesome song. I’ve listened to it on full blast in my car and on my ipod at least 15 times today.
Sugarland and Jennifer Nettles in particluar have continued to blow me away with their song crafting skills, performaces and incredible incredible voice…and it looks like they’ve done it again.
This is down and out going to be the #1 country song within days and I wouldn’t be too surprised if it is a crossover success as well. Well done Sugarland. Well done.
The Plain White T’s have had a few singles, but they are and will forever be known by their big huge giant single, “Hey There Delilah”. They no doubt hate the fact that they will never come out from under the shadow of this song, but hey, it was a good song.
Here is their newest try at a soft love song. It’s nice. No Delilah, but nice.
Only Kanye west can be ballsy enough to name an album “Good Ass Job”, and of course, he is naming his upcoming album just that. He’s also the only one ballsy enough to have the cover of his first single be a painting of Kanye “king of the world” West’s head chopped off with a sword stabbed through it.
The art is better than the music, but the music ain’t too bad. At least he is back to rapping again. No more of that weird autotune stuff.
They are one of the newest rock bands to hit the scene. Well, no doubt they have been around for quite some time, but they just released a major label debut yesterday and I’ve been pretty obsessed with it all day long. They have this old school blues rock sound that is hard to not love. Skynyrd, Joe Bonamassa for daysssss, Creedence, and maybe a bit of Kings of Leon, but the older KOL. The cd is very tightly produced, but the few raging guitar solos that exist lead me to believe that in a concert these guys don’t have anything less than a 10 minute song. I am only posting the first track of the album here and it probably isn’t the best example of their killer tunes, but hopefully it gets you to go listen to it on myspace or something and download it.
Speaking of listening to stuff, i highly recommend a new site called rdio.com If you want an invite, email me.
so who wants to take Oct 15th off of work and drive to SF with me to see Manu Chao and then drive back for the Cal game on Satrday at noon.
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