music is my imaginary friend

Wednesday 3 October 2007

Thursday 6 September 2007

Rilo Kiley - Albums

Saw them last weekend at electric picnic - absolutely brilliant! (even if all the men in the crowd were there purely to oogle Jenny Lewis in hotpants...)

Monday 27 August 2007

recent lack of posts...

...is due to the fact that i'm currently living in an internet free flat...hopefully all will be sorted out again soon and i'll be back in business!

Monday 13 August 2007

Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things

Wednesday 1 August 2007

Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Banana Phone

Oh yea its that annoying Banana Phone ringtone but apparently its actually a song that was realised in 1997, see wikipedia. Niall this is especially for you - i hope you have a phone that takes mp3s?

The Silent League - Of Stars and Other Somethings

Monday 30 July 2007

Saturday 28 July 2007

One of the reasons for my lack of recent posts has been the new Harry Potter book (which I've finally finished) so an appropriate time to mention Harry and the Potters! You can downlaods some of there songs from their myspace or their website...

Tuesday 17 July 2007

Grizzly Bear - Yellow House

Husky Rescue - Ghost is not Real

Monday 9 July 2007

Au Revoir Simone

Bright Eyes - Cassadaga, Digital Ash, Four Winds, Wide Awake, Lifted and Motion Sickness

Saw him life at Southside a few weeks ago - absolutely brilliant! Played my favourite song - "The calender hung itself" from Fevers and Mirrors, which surprisingly isn't here...

Wednesday 20 June 2007

Holidays...

I'm off to Southside Festival in Germany this weekend and then to Barcelona for a week so I won't be posting anything for the next two weeks...woo!

Interpol - Our Love to Admire (Advance)

Traveling Wilburys - Volume 1

Surprisingly, I think this album is great! I listened to it non-stop when I downloaded it first - contains the original of "Handle me with Care"- see here

Final Fantasy - NEW LINK

It was announced today that Final Fantasy will play the Foggy Notions tent at Electric Picnic, all together now - yippee! New link in comments for He Poos Clouds and also has a good home link courtesy of Pascals Country Sounds...

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show your Bones

Monday 18 June 2007

The Shins - Oh, Inverted World

Monday 11 June 2007

Elliott Smith - New Moon

From beyond the grave...

Thursday 7 June 2007

The Gossip

Sorry about the recent lack of posting, i was in London for the long weekend and have been catching up on otehr stuff since...link in comments as usual!

Tuesday 29 May 2007

Montag - Going Places

Snow Fairies - Volia!

They put their album Volia! up on the web so fans can download it for free - it's fun happy summery music- get it here...

Monday 28 May 2007

Belle and Sebastian

And probably one of the best single B-sides ever and a great kids song from the "Colours are Brighter" CD:

Meat and Potatoes

The Monkeys are Breaking out of the Zoo

Go Team!

Wednesday 23 May 2007

Battles - Mirrored

I'm not sure I get the big deal about this band - might have to give the album a few more listens to be sure - but see for yourselves...The Observer Music Monthly's kindly made a list of the "25 Acts to see this summer" and these guys were number 24...

Monday 21 May 2007

Feist - The Reminder

David Kitt

Two early albums from one of my favourite Irish singer/songwriters - David Kitt.

Sunday 20 May 2007

Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds

Awful name, brilliant album...

Friday 18 May 2007

New Spoon

Oh, I am looking forward to listening to this...

Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm

I think this might just be my favourite Arctic Monkeys song...

Wednesday 16 May 2007

Apples in Stereo

Three Apples in Stereo Albums here - thanks to indiesurferblog. They're playing Whelans, Dublin tomorrow night with support from Fight like Apes. Now to decide between this and Fountains of Wayne...???

Tuesday 15 May 2007

Architecture in Helsinki - Heart it Races

Get it over at no.datta.blogspot - because my laptops a little too full at the moment and i cant do anything uploady untill i sort it out so it's deleting time...

Spoon - Gimme Fiction

and two random Spoon mp3s that i've fallen in love with:

everything disco

my first time volume three

Wolfparade

I love this album and they're brilliant live - i saw them in whelans last year. They're supporting the Arcade Fire in Canada soon, can you say best. gig. ever?

Niel Hannon - Our Euro-hero?

I think they just might be right, especilly if there were some girls in glittery short skirts danicing around in the background, they always pull in the votes, right?
http://blogorrah.com/is-this-man-our-eurovision-savior.html