New Music Monday: I'm Being Lame

Oh shit. It's Monday. I'm supposed to suggest something musical for you, because my taste in music is clearly superior to anyone else's (for the record I'm jamming to Battlefield by Jordin Sparks right now. Irony?) But, much to your dismay I'm sure, I have a test to study for and I can hardly keep my eyes open as it is. So you're just going to have to get by with this:

New Music Monday: Autumn and Pandora

The leaves are turning amber, the kids are stomping on crunchy leaves (ok, so am I) and I'd really love a pair of boots that look a sweater. That being said, here is my Fall Pandora station which I love love LOVE. Just click here.

{photos from here and here}

New Music Monday: Oh Mercy

Ok, I love these guys. I heard about them just last week and I'm probably a little late in the game compared to my Aussie friends. But never the less, I give you Oh Mercy. I only know three things about them:

1. The lead singer is increadibly dreamy in a completely average sort of way. His voice is beautiful and totally sounds like a girl's, just the way I like it. That may add to his attractiveness factor.
2. Frankie Magazine gives them their seal of approval
3. They are amazing.

The End.

Oh Mercy - Get You Back from Milefire on Vimeo.

Sleeping At Last- New Music Monday

New Music Monday Y'all!

Today, I have for your pretty little ears, the musical stylings of Sleeping at Last. Dear Lord they have beautiful lyrics. Every time I listen to them something new will pop out and stick in my mind. They are seriously poetic.

They have a new album out called Storyboards and it's streaming in it's entirety on PureVolume. I am listening to it as we speak... er, type. I love love LOVE their water color artwork. I hope you enjoy and let me know what you think!

New Music Monday

Hooray! First installment of New Music Monday.

This is Josh Ritter singing The Temptation of Adam. Oh how I love this song.

And here are the lyrics. What are your thoughts?

If this was the Cold War we could keep each other warm
I said on the first occasion that I met Marie
We were crawling through the hatch that was the missile silo door
And I don't think that she really thought that much of me

I never had to learn to love her like I learned to love the Bomb
She just came along and started to ignore me
But as we waited for the Big One
I started singing her my songs
And I think she started feeling something for me

We passed the time with crosswords that she thought to bring inside
What five letters spell "apocalypse" she asked me
I won her over saying "W.W.I.I.I."
She smiled and we both knew that she'd misjudged me

Oh Marie it was so easy to fall in love with you
It felt almost like a home of sorts or something
And you would keep the warhead missile silo good as new
And I'd watch you with my thumb above the button

Then one night you found me in my army issue cot
And you told me of your flash of inspiration
You said fusion was the broken heart that's lonely's only thought
And all night long you drove me wild with your equations

Oh Marie do you remember all the time we used to take
We'd make our love and then ransack the rations
I think about you leaving now and the avalanche cascades
And my eyes get washed away in chain reactions

Oh Marie if you would stay then we could stick pins in the map
Of all the places where you thought that love would be found
But I would only need one pin to show where my heart's at
In a top secret location three hundred feet under the ground

We could hold each other close and stay up every night
Looking up into the dark like it's the night sky
And pretend this giant missile is an old oak tree instead
And carve our name in hearts into the warhead

Oh Marie there's something tells me things just won't work out above
That our love would live a half-life on the surface
So at night while you are sleeping
I hold you closer just because
As our time grows short I get a little nervous

I think about the Big One, W.W.I.I.I.
Would we ever really care the world had ended
You could hold me here forever like you're holding me tonight
I look at that great big red button and I'm tempted

ps- I wrote this at exactly 11:11AM. <3

Sunday Funday

I've toyed with this idea in the past, a weekly installment featuring a new artist, song, or video. What do you think? I have some ideas building up for the first few weeks. No promises on them being so completely fresh you've never heard of a single one, but I can promise they'll be at least be talented and have a myspace page. I think I have pretty decent taste in music, or at least I know which guilty pleasures need to remain a secret.

I was a music business major for a while. It almost ruined my "everything" for music. My love, my passion, my everything. When you listen to a song and only see dollar signs, you start to get a little bitter. Or, at least I did. I have several friends that graduated the program that have no problem using art as a commodity. Not to say they shouldn't. It's only the was we can share what we create and earn enough revenue to keep creating. I just hope they do it well. Sitting in class with these innocent eyed students, proclaiming their love for the indie sector and denouncing the major labels, I think they just might.

But I digress. Moral of the blog, Mondays will be New Music Mondays. That title is totally overdone, I know, but I've been sitting here for an hour and it's the best I could come up with. Any other aliterated (my made up adjective from "alliteration") ideas are very much welcome.

Enjoy your Sunday you pretty things.