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The Raveonettes - Lust, Lust, Lust
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The Long Winters track Scared Straight
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I did some driving today. And, oddly enough, driving is where I listen to old music. Yes I have a decent car. No I don’t have disposable income that would support an mp3 player and hookup to go with said car. Sad really. But it does allow me to listen to older tracks and albums while I’m driving about the countryside.Today I put a track on one song repeat and listened to it over and ov
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Johnny Cash
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I wondered what to title this post for the better part of this morning. I thought of adding something like “My Long Obsession” to the title, or some other such pale attempt to capture grandeur, but in the end I opted with just posting his name. Johnny Cash. If you count yourself a lover of all things music then this is one name that needs no subtitle (even if you do love his moniker The
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Vetiver - Tight Knit
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I’ve been listening all night to the latest album by Vetiver which is a breezy trip through slow down modern American indie folk. I know that sounds like a mouthful of adjectives, but that is really what this album is. Think of Vetiver as an even more chilled out version of Kings of Convenience that sometimes plays with Devendra Banhart. So yes, to answer your question, they are the quinte
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Knatterjack covers MGMT
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That’s right, no picture. Why? Because I honestly can’t find a single thing about this band/person/musician. I don’t even know who or what Knatterjack is. Deal with it.What I do know is that I finally got my internet working, my laptop has been delivered in the mail, and this is the very first song that I’m choosing to post after my long and protracted summer hiatus. Rejoice ye m
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TWF is Boring, I Know, But Here’s Why
My posts will be hit or miss the next few weeks here on TWF. This is partially because I’m busy, but more importantly my 8 year old laptop struggles mightily to run the programs that allow me to post. Hopefully by the end of June or early July I will have a new laptop in hand that can handle all that i need to continue making TWF a place to discover new music.And just for those who are inter
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Biz Markie - Just a Friend
I’ve been listening to some internet radio lately and I’ve one again stumbled upon this gem of a track that was first released in the glorious 1989. Yes, my friends, this track was released a full twenty years ago. But it’s still great. The story and advice still ring with truth and the chorus, well, the chorus is brilliant and requires everyone in the vicinity to sing along. To sing
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We Are Scientists cover Sigur Ros
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I havent’ had a chance to really fall in love with We Are Scientists but this cover they did just might work at changing my mind {and heart}. According to my sources this track hails back a long ways, but seeing as how I just discovered it this week I thought the least I could do was throw it up for everyone to enjoy. It’s not quite as, well, impressive as the original, but it just might b
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The Mountain Goats - This Year
My relationship with The Mountain Goats is in direct parallel to the type of images I upload onto my blog here. You see my procedure for processing these images which accompany every post seems to go in streaks. For a month or so at a time I’ll run the same set of tweaking the levels, increasing contrast, and essentially over saturating the colors. Then I’ll look at a new picture and rea
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The World Forgot Exclusive : Zach Williams - Story Time
I have long been a fan of Zach Williams and the sleepy indie folk music he creates. I know that I first discovered his music while traipsing through the ether of myspace over three full years ago. For awhile I was obsessed with putting tracks by Zach (he was then playing with a backup band called The Ramparts) on every mix album I put together. No matter what mood I was in the music of Zach
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Cloud Cult remixed by Man is Doomed
If you’ve been a regular around here for the past two plus years you’ve no doubt that I have a deep love for the kids who make up Cloud Cult. I also believe they’re one of the most under appreciated bands of all time. I mean honestly, their last two albums were out of this world brilliant, they care about the environment, drive a bio-diesel bus, genuinely love their fans, and do some ama
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The Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning
I first wrote about The Joy Formidable about 14 full months ago and back then I had nothing but words of praise for their clever indie rock sound. And although my words of praise haven’t change, at all, I would like to change the bands I think they sound like. At fist I thought they were a bit like The Dodos mashed up with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but now I must drop those parallels and say that the
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Weezer covers MGMT and Lady Gaga
The other day my brother passed along a link to a youtube video in which Weezer plays a live cover song of both Kids by MGMT and Pokerface by Lady Gaga. I’m not entirely sure how the two songs fit together {both ideologically and musically}, but in some way Weezer makes it work. And through some clever use of the internet {thanks google} I ripped the video, extracted the audio, and now you
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The Fray cover Kanye West’s Heartless
Well I received this track in my inbox this morning and I’m not entirely sure what I think of it. On one hand I really liked the Kanye original because at points during the song his voice would break down like he was literally reliving the heartbreak. On the other hand I didn’t really love the Kanye original because of the fact that, at least in my mind, Kanye should stick to what he does
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Gareth Pearson : instrumental cover of MGMT’s Time To Pretend
I’m not quite sure where I first heard Gareth’s cover of the now classic MGMT track Time To Pretend, but I stumbled upon it yet again today and I thought I would share it with anyone out there that has yet to hear it. The first time through the song I kept waiting for a voice to start singing, I almost needed to hear the lyrics. A strange thing happened to me though, the more I’ve heard
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Regina Spektor : new song : Laughing With
Regina Spektor has a new album, entitled Far (amazon), that is set to be released in a few weeks on June 23. Leading up to that date Regina has gone on a small publicity push that has included dropping the first single, the haunting and somewhat melancholic Laughing With, onto her myspace page. I personally enjoy this track a lot. It’s lyrically clever, the melody is haunting and fits Regi
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We Plants Are Happy Plants : new song : Apollo
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We Plants Are Happy Plants has deemed us worthy of a new track from a forthcoming album entitled Twilight of The Dawn. The track is entitled Apollo. Now whether or not he is referencing the Greek god, the Apollo series of space flights taken by NASA, or Battlestar Galactica is up for interpretation. Regardless of actual reference the common thread between those three possibilities and the tr
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Little Big Adventure : The Hateful Eye
I’m not entirely sure about his choice of press photos {is that a wink? is there something in his eye? is it really dusty in Sweden? does blue plastic wrap prevent communicable diseases like swine flu?}, but his choice in making music is top notch. Magnus Sätterstrom, also known as Little Big Adventure, will be releasing his debut EP on May 13th but I thought this song was good enough to
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Sufjan Stevens Apparently Not Dead and Still Somewhat Interested in Music : I Think
So a few weeks after I wrote a rambling letter imploring Sufjan Stevens to return to his fans and release a new album he has sorta, kinda, maybe responded by teasing us a little bit. On his blog {which is really just a slice of his label’s website, Asthmatic Kitty}, he occaisionally drops a stream of consciousness post about his past. On August 24th he talked about his name, how he tried to
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