Monday, December 14, 2009

AOTY

Will:
1. The Ballet - Bear Life
2. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
3. St. Vincent - Actor
4. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
5. tUnE-yArDs - BiRd-BrAiNs
6. Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
7. Sholi - Sholi
8. WHY? - Eskimo Snow
9. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
10. Micachu - Jewellery
11. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
12. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
13. The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away
14. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
15. Dan Deacon - Bromst
16. The Twilight Sad - Forget the Night Ahead
17. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
18. Röyksopp - Junior
19. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
20. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers

Best shows:
Dirty Projectors @ Bonnaroo
St. Vincent @ Bonnaroo
Juana Molina @ Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA
Yo La Tengo @ Wilbur Theatre, Boston, MA
Dan Deacon @ Middle East Downstairs, Cambridge, MA
Final Fantasy @ Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago, IL
David Byrne @ Bonnaroo


Andrew:
Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange
Röyksopp - Junior
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
St. Vincent - Actor
Atlas Sound - Logos
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Micachu - Jewellery
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

Concerts:
Deerhunter @ Turner Hall Ballroom, Milwaukee, WI
Cut Copy @ House of Blues, Boston, MA
School of Seven Bells @ Bottom Lounge, Chicago, IL
Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL
Final Fantasy @ Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago, IL
Micachu @ Schuba's, Chicago, IL
Beirut @ Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago IL
Sugar & Gold @ Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti @ T.T. the Bear's, Cambridge, MA

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Married to a C-Watch

Upcoming shows:
go home!

Today's playlist:
St. Vincent - The Strangers
Cocteau Twins - Sugar Hiccup
The Ballet - Rough Trade
tUnE-yArDs - Little Tiger
The Magnetic Fields - The Village in the Morning
Dirty Projectors - Thirsty and Miserable
The Kills - Black Balloon
The Good, the Bad & the Queen (or, apparently, "the unnamed alternative rock band fronted by Damon Albarn") - History Song
The Magic Numbers - Forever Lost
Deerhunter - Dot Gain
These New Puritans - Elvis
The Presets - Yippiyo-ay
Late of the Pier - Focker
Cut Copy - So Haunted
Animal Collective - I Think I Can
Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running
Sufjan Stevens - Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!
Metric - Grow Up and Blow Away
Neon Indian - Ephemeral Artery
Psapp - Dad's Breakdown
Panda Bear - Comfy in Nautica
Pencilgrass - Girl on Curb
Sugar & Gold - Sex in the City

More fun with hair:


KBAI GUYZ C U IN DA SPWING.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Married to a Shrimp / Intern / Westboro Baptist Church member

Upcoming shows:
Spoon, Phoenix, & Passion Pit @ Orpheum, Friday, December 4th
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists @ Middle East Downstairs, Saturday, December 5th

Today's playlist:
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain
Fuck Buttons - Space Mountain
Pretty & Nice - Nuts & Bolts
Akron/Family - Ed is a Portal
Infected Mushroom - Heavyweight
Pendulum - Prelude
Pendulum - Slam
The Presets - This Boy's in Love
At the Drive-In - Metronome Arthritis
The Darkness - Friday Night
Mew - Am I Wry? No
Yo La Tengo - If It's True
Nobukazu Takemura - Wandering
Nine Inch Nails - The Warning (Stefan Goodchild Remix)
Big J & the Unkempt Hair - Natebro Goes to Tokyo
tUnE-yArDs - Jumping Jack
David Axelrod - Holy Thursday
Radiohead - House of Cards
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Home
Best Coast - When I'm With You
Coconut Records - West Coast
Donovan - Mellow Yellow
M. Ward - Never Had Nobody Like You
Blood, Sweat & Tears - You've Made Me So Very Happy

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

ThanksGAYving

New releases:
Beak> - Beak>

Upcoming shows:
Melt-Banana @ The Middle East Downstairs, Tuesday, November 24th

Today's playlist:
Yo La Tengo - By Two's
Tegan and Sara - Hell
Themselves - Roman Is As Roman Does
Built to Spill - Planting Seeds
Midnight Juggernauts - Nine Lives
Sonic Youth - Candle
Arcade Fire - Une année sans lumière
Hot Chip - Take It In
Orange Juice - Rip It Up
Talking Heads - I Zimbra (12" version)
The Ballet - Chinatown
tUnE-yArDs - Hatari
The Books - Thank You Branch
Beirut - Forks and Knives (La Fête)
Fugazi - Give Me the Cure
Deerhoof - Family of Others
Dirty Projectors - Useful Chamber
Broadcast - Poem of Dead Song
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Shy
The Ballet - The House on Fire
Lightning Bolt - Nation of Boar
The Ballet - Murder at the Discotheque
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Body
The Spinto Band - Oh Mandy
The Virgins - Teen Lovers
Islands - Creeper

So I just saw The Ballet and I can't stop listening to them. Deal with it.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Married to a Linguist

New releases:
eh

Upcoming shows:
Dirty Projectors & tUnE-yArDs @ Paradise, Tuesday, November 17th
Metric @ House of Blues, Friday, November 20th
Base Trip Records Showcase @ BU Central, Friday, November 20th
Devendra Banhart @ Berklee Performance Center, Friday, November 20th
Times New Viking @ Great Scott, Saturday, November 21st
Sonic Youth @ Wilbur Theatre, Sunday, November 22nd & Monday, November 23rd
Melt-Banana @ The Middle East Downstairs, Tuesday, November 24th

Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
The Toms - Think About Me
Ambulance LTD - Ophelia
The White Stripes - Acorn
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - The White Witch
Röyksopp - You Don't Have a Clue
Dirty Projectors - Time Birthed Spilled Blood
Final Fantasy - Furniture
Lightning Bolt - Funny Farm
Broadcast - Still Feels Like Tears
Xiu Xiu - Hives Hives
The Ballet - The Face of Everything
The Twilight Sad - The Neighbours Can't Breathe
Cold Cave - Life Magazine
Tegan and Sara - Arrow
The Flaming Lips - See the Leaves
Fuck Buttons - Phantom Limb
Novmenon - Daft Crunk
Devendra Banhart - Long Haired Child
Of Montreal - Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider
Broken Spindles - Introvert
Empire of The Sun - Swordfish Hotkiss Night
Mew - Apocalypso
David Axelrod - The Human Abstract
TV on the Radio - Mr. Grieves

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Married to a Massage Bearapist

New releases:
DOOM - Unexpected Guests
Lymbyc System - Shutter Release

Upcoming shows:
Dirty Projectors & tUnE-yArDs @ Paradise, Tuesday, November 17th
Metric @ House of Blues, Friday, November 20th
Devendra Banhart @ Berklee Performance Center, Friday, November 20th
Times New Viking @ Great Scott, Saturday, November 21st
Sonic Youth @ Wilbur Theatre, Sunday, November 22nd & Monday, November 23rd
Melt-Banana @ The Middle East Downstairs, Tuesday, November 24th

Today's playlist:
Fennesz - Château Rouge
Emperor X - Use Your Hands
Dirty Projectors - Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie
Portishead - Magic Doors
Low - Two-Step
Atlas Sound - Walkabout (w/ Noah Lennox)
Lightning Bolt - S.O.S.
John Legend - Maxine's Interlude
Final Fantasy - Spell for a Weak Heart
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Warrior
Amy Winehouse - Wake Up Alone
The Strokes - Soma
Air - Mer du Japon
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Zombies - Tell Her No
Enon - Natural Disasters
of Montreal - I Was a Landscape in Your Dream

*BONUS* Advice from Andrew's parents about how best to deal with a collapsed lung, along with information about the Philadelphia airport!

Belle and Sebastian - Funny Little Frog
Animal Collective - Who Could Win a Rabbit
M83 - Farewell / Goodbye
Modest Mouse - Blame It on the Tetons
Nick Drake - Which Will
Stars - The Big Fight
Devendra Banhart - At the Hop


Aaaaand this was Julia's hair today:


ALSO THE NEW MAGNETIC FIELDS ALBUM WAS JUST ANNOUNCED!!!!!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Married to a Plethora of Noodlebears

New releases:
Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
Morrissey - Swords
Themselves - CrownsDown

Upcoming shows:
Thao with The Get Down Stay Down @ The Middle East Downstairs, Tuesday, November 3rd
Islands @ The Middle East Downstairs, Wednesday, November 4th
Dan Deacon @ MassArt, Sunday, November 8th
Dirty Projectors & tUnE-yArDs @ Paradise, Tuesday, November 17th
Metric @ House of Blues, Friday, November 20th
Devendra Banhart @ Berklee Performance Center, Friday, November 20th
Times New Viking @ Great Scott, Saturday, November 21st
Sonic Youth @ Wilbur Theatre, Sunday, November 22nd & Monday, November 23rd
Melt-Banana @ The Middle East Downstairs, Tuesday, November 24th


Today's playlist:
Lightning Bolt - Sound Guardians
Broadcast - Pendulum
Atlas Sound - Washington School
Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton - Reading in Bed
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Our Change into Rain Is No Change at All (Talkin' 'bout Us)
Fugazi - Sweet and Low
Cat Power - Cross Bones Style
Frightened Rabbit - Floating in the Forth
Martha and the Vandellas - Jimmy Mack
Goldfrapp - Caravan Girl
Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimensions
The Smiths - Shoplifters of the World Unite
Björk - Human Behavior
Blur - Beetlebum
The Thrills - Big Sur
The Clientele - Bookshop Casanova
Micachu - Ship
Mr. Oizo - Steroids ft. Uffie
The Field - Everday
Justice - NY Excuse
MSTRKRFT - It Ain't Love
Röyksopp - Happy Up Here
Fanfarlo - Comets
Shakira - She Wolf
Fuck Buttons - Rough Steez