Black Keys - Strange Times

Few bands are cooler than the black keys. I could have taken the door guy's advice at a Drowningman concert 5 years ago, but i decided against it (probably because of the hype from a certain Nate Briggs). Finally i got off my ass last year and started listening to them. man was I a prick. they are so cool. and, they are great live to boot. They will be at the State Theater a week from thursday. Please consider seeing them with me.

They have a great music video for this. They were playing laser tag with these 10 year olds, but they had real lasers. it was pretty funny. But, it has apparently been yanked from youtube. it seems like a lot of videos have been pulled from youtube recently. i don't get it.

Here's a pretty funny homemade video someone made for it.

Matt and Kim - Daylight

In september BJ and I, among many other people, saw the High Strung play. Bri made a great point - their guitar player had gone from 'charmingly sloppy' to a legitimately good guitar player. We had both loved his playing before, but it was definitely 'charmingly sloppy'. Ever since Bri said that i've noticed more and more songs that fall under that category.

Although this song doesn't necessarily fall under that category, everytime i hear the piano part at the start i think 'charmingly sloppy'. This is such a fun song to me. Their first album is an obvious first album. it was cheaply produced and isn't that great. Then they released this song as a single last summer. I've been listening to it multiple times a day since then. they new album comes out tomorrow. i'm looking forward to it.

James Maskill said to me at a recent My Dear Disco concert, "My cousin said he couldn't figure out if the singer for My Dear Disco is hot. I said, 'She's in a band, of course she's hot!'" This theory applies to Kim.

The Gaslight Anthem "'59 Sound"

I couldn't find any videos for any of the songs I really like by these guys off their older LP Sink or Swim, so I put this video up. This is from their new album and is the title track. I really like these guys and especially the singer's voice. He does sound a little like the lead singer of Archers of Loaf sometimes, so that's a good thing.

I just listened to this song for the first time and I got so excited I decided to put it up here.

P.S. I found out about these guys through and he already has had this album for awhile, so he might have a song that he likes off of it even better, but for now I'm putting this song up.