Polar Bear Club // Parked In The Parking Lot Of Your Heart

It's New Year's Eve and we are reigning it in with a little PBC

The Dirty Nil // Fuckin' Up Young

In case you have never seen a music video that takes place in a house party...

Heart In Hand // Life Goes On

Official music video from across the pond.

Trapped Under Ice // Pleased To Meet You

One of those songs that doesn't need an introduction.

The Notwist // Consequence

Off the album, Neon Golden.
This song is so mesmerizing.
Leave me paralyzed, love. Leave me hypnotized, love.
It's so dreamy.

Cancer Bats // Old Blood

This music video is exactly like most music videos you've seen.
Watch it anyways.

Teenage Kicks // I Get What You Give

I found these guys through Single Mothers.
They tweeted that they were playing a show with these guys and I knew I had to check them out.
AND they're good live, which is always the big plus.

Suburban Scum // Wall Of Stone

100th post!

Sending this one out to all the would-be broken hearts who just didn't give a shit in 2012.
CAVE BEAR NATION.

Kuro no Keiyakusha // Scatcat

Did I get this song from an anime? yes.
Does that make it not a worthy song? no.

This song was done for the OST of an anime called Darker Than Black
Composed by Yoko Kanno and sung by Mei Yamane
I base my posts on if it's a song that I would/have listened to on repeat,
and this song meets that qualification.

The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower // Drake The Fake

this band has since broken up, but they're still a good find. The stuff that they have put out is pretty good, but not strong enough to give you that "OMG I'm Obsessed" feeling that people like myself get with other bands.
Still worth a listen.

Not Ok // Untitled

Here is a band from Michigan. Keep an eye on these kids, because I'm hoping to see more from them in the next year.
The fact that their (very few) youtube videos all have less that 30 views is beyond me.

This is what Screamo is. Screamo isn't every shitty Hot Topic band that people shove under the label.
Of course this isn't pure Screamo and the Hardcore influence is pretty strong, some might even characterize them as Noisy Hardcore. But who gives a shit about labels anyways?

Listener & Dust // He Knows

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Braid // Please Drive Faster

and it's your number
she goes please drive faster
spoken like a champion
oh no, disaster

The Specials // Ghost Town

This is my childhood

The Specials were the background music for my childhood.
My Dad was deployed a lot, but whenever he was home we would put on The Specials and make up dances to every song. We'd memorize the dances, even though we weren't performing for an audience.
I remember sitting in the car, driving to the beach, my feet not touching the ground, and listening to The Specials on my little CD player.
Needless to say, this group has a special place in my heart.

I really don't listen to a lot of other 2-tone/Ska bands because no one is comparable to The Specials. The Specials started 2-tone...so how could anyone do it better than them.

If you have the time, listen to a few songs by The Specials. Won't regret it.

Tomihira // Mr. Disco

Everyone loves a cover. That doesn't mean that all covers are good.
I'm more of a fan of Tomihira's original music, but when a band can do a song justice then I have to give it props.
I'm not a huge New Order fan, but I really dig this cover. It's 'chill out' music.

Basement // Earl Grey

For me, this has always been the band that all my friends like and all say that I would like, but then my stubborn lazy ass is like...I'll check them out later.

Now they're one of the many bands where I am kicking myself because...Why didn't I listen to them sooner. Climbing my internal favorite bands ranking.

Best Coast // I Want To

In honor of her voice sounding just as good live as it does on the album.

Fireworks // X's On Trees

Everything that I currently listen to says that I shouldn't like this song,
but my inner angsty misdirected eight grader says YES.
I want to dance to this song and sing in the shower.
Essentially, this is a guilty pleasure song for me.

...oh yeah, and the album is Gospel.

Message To Bears // Wake Me

This song. This video. All of it, I want to put it in my pocket cause it's so damn great.
Also..anything with Bear in the title. You know how Cave Bear is about those Bears.

Haruka Nakamura // Faraway

Christmas has me in this Jazzy ass ambient mood. I'm sorry to all my heavy music lovers.

Balmorhea // Night In The Draw

This folk-style post-rock. Keep it coming.

Death Grips // Beware

Off the album Exmilitary. I don't normally post this kind of music on my blog, but I've been really digging Death Grips lately and I thought he deserved a nod.
I can appreciate any music that is lyrically sound like this.
This is where more rap should be.

Tigers Jaw // Plane Vs Tank Vs Submarine

If you like my blog...you (hopefully) like Tigers Jaw.
If you like Tigers Jaw..You like the second track off of their 2009 album which shares a name with the band.

As for me, this is the song in my headphones when I'm walking around campus with an angsty/angry look in my eyes, and everyone is like "What's wrong with that girl..why is she so angry?" and I'm just all like, "Shove off, I'm actually REALLY happy because I'm listening to this great band."
Yea.

Citizen // Tracking Time

Off of the Acoustic EP

Brave Bird // Whittle Down The Days

Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck // Orphans of A Storm

Weee, What better to listen to while wrapping Christmas presents!

Joan of Arc // A Picture Postcard

Everyone loves a cover.
Here is Joan of Arc covering The Promise Ring

Glocca Morra // Deep Pocket

This is the last track off of the EP, "An Obscure Moon, Lighting An Obscure World
I found this in your coat.

I really wish I had more bands like these guys on my playlists. I have no other way of describing this music than..Earthy and a lot of Emotion. Which is exactly what music should be.

Japandroids // The House That Heaven Built

Dowsing // Amateur Cartography

This music video makes me want to be friends with Dowsing. Like so badly.

The Menzingers // Mea Culpa Cabana, My Friend Chris

So, this is two songs. around 1:20, My Friend Chris starts playing, which is the real reason I am posting this.

Maybe Kafka was a writer, but I've been living like my name was Samson

The Sea and Cake // Inn Keeping

I command all of my friend's bands to try and top this song.

Look Mexico // I Like Being a Millionaire. You Will Too, Believe Me.

From their album, This is Animal Music.
Released in 2007.

All I got to say is that I wish I listened to this kind of music in 2007.

Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) // Everything Is Connected and Everything Matters (A Temporary Solution)

when you came back to michigan, you would walk with words you did not speak and dress yourself with an air we couldn't reach.
so when you go back to maine, i hope that you stay (where you cornered truth and beauty). and each borrowed refrain you sing, you sing, you sing will sound the same to the lonely, lonely sea.

Fall Of Efrafa // Pity The Weak

Off the album, OWSLA.
What's better than a band whose lyrics are based off of Watership Down.
If you are unfamiliar with the novel Watership Down, it is an anthropomorphic tale about a group of rabbits who escape the destruction of their burrow and seek refuge and a new home.

This isn't your typical Winnie the Pooh -esque animal tale and seems to catch you up just as much as novels like Mossflower and other Redwall novels.

This band definitely knows how to pay tribute to the novel and highlights on the grim aspects of the book. In other words, from the sound of the music, you wouldn't know that it's about rabbits.

El Ten Eleven // My Only Swerving

That fantastic feeling when you spend a good 30 minutes racking your brain for a song that you vaguely remember hearing a few days ago, and that only in hindsight have realized the greatness of said song.
Well I found it!

and What a glorious feeling it is!

Tigers Jaw // Thank You, Noah Lowry

I've been putting so much into my poetry lately that I feel like I have no energy to write about the music that I am posting. So Sorry for the fact that I am posting purely music, but It's good music so who fucking cares?

Laura // We Are Mapping Your Dreams

This Town Needs Guns // Adventure, Stamina, & Anger

The guitar plucking in this...Key.

Merchant Ships // Sleep Patterns

I still cannot listen to this song without crying by the end of it.
If you like La Dispute's Here, Hear albums, then you'll enjoy this.

Suis La Lune // Remorse

Aficionado // Stir Like Hell

This is what it sounds like when I am done with school for a month and I go on a posting spree after spending two weeks too busy to post
AHHHHHH!!!!!!

Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) // With Your Greatest Fears Realized, You Will Never Be Comforted

This feeels very fitting to the week in review.
Everything is in the title.

Hop Along // No Good Al Joad

Philadelphia is always pumping out good bands.
I don't think I would have gotten through finals with this band.
I can't think of anyone to compare them to..so if you can think of someone other than Metric, let me know.
She really is my ideal vocalist, if i had those lungs then I'd be long gone.

You are my favorite because you're a long shot, You are my enemy because you forgot

Pale White Moon // The Wolf Peach

Most of us are familiar with the track, Heirloom.
This one is a little different, but just as haunting.