Since it's Memorial Day here, I have to feature an American band! They're a local band from right accross the river, in Omaha, Nebraska: Tilly and the Wall. They're unique because instead of a drummer, they have a tap dancer, Jamie Pressnall. I wasn't sure what song to go with, so I just went with 'I Always Knew'. I hope you like it! [:
Today I'm featuring a band from a country I haven't featured yet: Spain! Today's band, Los Planetas is from Granada, Spain. The song of theirs that I'm featuring is 'Mil millones de veces'. I should probably know what that is in English, since I took Spanish for three years, but I don't. Sorry! I think it's something like 'A Thousand Million Times'? If you speak Spanish, let me know what it is! [: But I do know that Los Planetas means The Planets!
Lykke Li is my absolutle favorite! The only reason I haven't featured her yet is because I can't decide what song of hers to feature! I decided to go with 'Little Bit', because it's the first song of hers that I ever heard. It's from her 'Youth Novels' album. I hope you love it as much as I do! [:
More views from Russia! Awesome! :D Thanks a bunch to all of you out there who stop by and check out my blog! I'm featuring another Russian band to celebrate this! It's Moremoney, formed in Moscow in 2007. The song is 'Hate', one of their only songs I could find on YouTube that wasn't live. Thanks again for stopping by! [:
Today I'm featuring the first Canadian band to be on the blog! It's The Russian Futurists, and they're awesome. They're based in Toronto. I just discovered them, and I love them already! The song is 'Let's Get Ready to Crumble'. The picture in the video is irrelevant, lol. It's the best quality video I could find, though, so it's the one I used!
Today was the last day of my junior year of high school! Pretty crazy! this year went way too fast!
Anyway, today's song is by a British singer, Natasha Khan, better know by her stage name, Bat For Lashes. She's not obscure or anything, and this song has won awards and whatnot, so it probably isn't new to anyone. But even if you have heard it already, it's still awesome, so it won't hurt to hear it again!
I got a view from Russia! This is super awesome! I had to celebrate by featuring a Russian band, of course! [: The featured band is Everything is Made in China, from Moscow. The song is 'Held Back Clapping', and I seriously dig it. I hope you do too! [: Thanks for stopping by!
I'm sure all of you are plently familiar with Phoenix. You've certainly heard 1901 or Lisztomania on commericals or TV shows by now. But maybe you haven't heard this song, 'Armistice'. It's pretty dang awesome. [: Phoenix is from Versailles, France.
As promised, here is your Japanese song! It's not one of the bands I had planned on featuring, though. The band is Plastic Tree, and they are from Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Choosing a song was really difficult, because I love all of their stuff! I ended up going with 'Kuuchuu Buranko' (Trapeze), but Ghost and Sanbika came really close! I HIGHLY reccomend you check out the other two songs, they're great!
Whoa! I got my first visitor from outside the US! This is exciting! [: I'll find another good Japanese song to feature soon, since that visitor was from Japan. It'll probably be Chatmonchy or die!!die!!color!!!! or maybe someone like LM.C. I haven't decided yet.
I'd had this song picked out ahead of time, so I'm still going to feature it, because it's awesome! The song is 'You are Dreaming' by Shout Out Louds, from Stockholm, Sweden.
I haven't featured any German bands yet, so that's why I decided to go with Juli today! The song is 'Wir Beide'. They're from Gießen, Hesse, Germany. Their song 'Perfekte Welle' is available for download on Rock Band, I highly reccomend it! [:
I've noticed that I always menion 'you', like I'm talking to a reader I have or something. But I don't have any readers, so that's weird of me. lol. It's also weird that I'm even saying this, because I'm just talking to myself. OTL
I've been having a harder time picking songs lately. Today I just went with 'Beautiful Dreamer' by Mates of State, from Kansas. I like it a lot! [:
There's a good reason behind why I picked today's song! [:
When I had swine flu, all I did was lay in bed and listen to Dir En Grey. Nothing but Dir En Grey for four days, and I got over H1N1 and was back to normal. But I ended up giving it to my aunt, and then she had it for a week and a half! I am fully convinced that I recovered so quickly because of this band, lol. And maybe the fact that I ate nothing but chicken, couscous and cheesecake while I was sick had something to do with it.
Anyway, the reason I picked them is because I'm home sick today, so I figured I'd feature the band who got me through my last big illness. The funny thing about this band though, is that I absolutley adore their Gauze album. It's one of my favorites of all time. But I absolutley loathe their new music. It's just not my thing. It makes me sad, because their old stuff was SO good. ;__;
okay, whatever. I'm talking to much. Here's a great song from their first album, Gauze, released in 1999. It's called 'Yokan'.
You've probably already heard this song, but I like it a lot, so I'm going to feature it anyway!
The song is 'Sweet Disposition' by a band from Melbourne, Australia, named The Temper Trap. Their music is in a ton of stuff including the movie 500 Days of Summer, the the TV shows Greek, Chuck, The Vampire Diaries, etc. I hope you like them!
Two weeks straight? Whoa! I promise I won't always be able to update this so often, but it's pretty cool that I've been able to do it this much so far! [:
Today's feature is one of my favorite bands ever, The Cure. And it's my favorite song by them too! This is 'Disintegration'. It's an old song, (the album it's from, also titled 'Disintegration', was released in 1989) so some of you guys might not be into this sort of thing! haha. I hope you like it, though. [: The Cure is from Crawley, West Sussex, England.
Today's song is Database Corrupted by Dealership. Maybe you've played it on Rock Band before? I kind of adore this song. They're from Berkeley, California.
This was the only video I could find that wasn't of someone playing it on Rock Band. OTL The background is really distracting, sorry.
You've probably already heard PB&J before. Their song 'Young Folks' was pretty popular a few years ago. The song I'm playing today isn't 'Young Folks', it's my favorite song of theirs, and it's called 'Up Against The Wall'. Peter Bjorn and John are from Stockholm, Sweden.
There isn't much online about today's featured band, which is sad, because they're great! I've had this song on repeat quite a bit latley, it's definitley my favorite of my recent downloads. The song is Make Out Point, by The Young Friends. They're from Arizona!
Okay! Today's band is The Kissaway Trail, of Odense, Denmark! The song is SDP from their latest album Sleep Mountain. They're awesome, so make sure to check out their other songs!
I listen to a lot of j-rock, but I haven't included any of it yet, until now. This is also the first song that isn't in English! Fun!
Today's song is Hakanaku mo Towa no Kanashi by UVERworld, from Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Any anime fans out there might recognize this as the opening of the second season of Mobile Suit Gundam 00. Their songs have also been in Blood+, D. Gray-Man and Bleach. Enjoy!
I think that maybe if I include the band name in the title, songs will be easier to find later or whatever. I'll try to start doing that now. [: Prom is today, so I don't have much time to post! I'll make this quick.
Today's song is 'Lightspeed' by Twin Atlantic of Glasgow, Scotland. It was a free song from Zune a while back, and I really like it. Hopefully you will too! [:
I had a hard time picking today! I eventually decided to go with 'Cars' by Now Now Every Children. I like a lot of their songs, so it was hard to pick. 'Friends with My Sister' and 'In My Chest' are really good too, so if you like this one check them out! They're from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
I've somehow made it three days in a row! What a miracle! Let's see if I can keep it up even longer!
Today we have a song from Beach House, an awesome band from Baltimore, Maryland, made of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally. This song is my current favorite of theirs, 'Norway' off their Teen Dream album. I hope you like it as much as I do!
Seeing as it's Cinco de Mayo, I was going to play a song by a Mexican band, but I don't really have anything good from Mexico. Any suggestions?
Anyway, today I decided to go with a song by Working For a Nuclear Free City. I picked up their album 'Businessmen & Ghosts' at the public library a few months ago and totally fell in love with it. They're from Manchester, England.
Picking a song was hard, because I absolutley adore both 'All American Taste' and 'Quiet Place'. But I ended up going with the first one. (You can hear Quiet Place here, btw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlFJeZ9rars)
irrelevant pictures in the video are irrelevant, haha. [:
We have to start things off with something good! I decided to go with 'Bolero' by Honey is Cool. It's my favorite song by them. The vocalist is Karin Dreijer Andersson, who you might recognize as the vocalist of The Knife! They were together from 1994-2000, and they're from Sweden.
