Happy Independence Day!

I hope you are being appropriately lazy this Independence Day, enjoying nice weather, planning on drinking, etc.

MP3: Galaxie 500 - Fourth Of July

A Quick Hit of Bishop Allen

I was being lazy this 4th of July, watching the Comedy Channel and a commercial for Chase bank came on and the song accompanying the commercial was really familiar to me. As it turned out, it was an instrumental version of Bishop Allen’s “Rain” from the album The Broken String.

Anyway.

MP3: Bishop Allen - Rain

Modest Mouse Setlist

Here’s the setlist for tonight’s Modest Mouse show at The Pageant.

Dance Hall
Black Cadillacs
Satin in a Coffin
Here It Comes
Dashboard
Trucker’s Atlas
Education
Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
Bukowski
We’ve Got Everything
Wild Pack of Family Dogs
Float On
Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset
Unknown/cover?
The Good Times Are Killing Me
The View
—-
Bury Me With It
Fire It Up
Spitting Venom

Modest Mouse Tonight

Just a quick reminder that Modest Mouse is playing at at The Pageant Tonight. Read my review of their great show last November here.

It’ll be a good time.

Modest Mouse - “Dashboard”:

Modest Mouse - “Little Motel”:

Modest Mouse - “Float On”:

Modest Mouse - “Cowboy Dan” (live):

Modest Mous e- “Night On The Sun” (live):

Modest Mouse - “Trailer Trash” (live):

Mystery Mix Monday

MYSTERY MIX, VOL. 47

Here’s last week’s playlist:

Vol. 46

1. Sam Champion - Be Mine Everyone
2. The Impossible Shapes - Hey!
3. Stereolab - Three Women
4. Ryan Adams - Operator, Operator
5. Quiet Village - Circus of Horror
6. Seabear - Teenage Kicks
7. Computer vs. Banjo - Give Up On Ghosts
8. Tilly and the Wall - Cacophony
9. The Potomac Accord - Sunset on the Empire

Love Psychedelico

I don’t have much to say about this song because, frankly, I don’t know anything about this band at all, but I love the song and every time I hear it, I can’t help but think of Sheryl Crow’s “My Favorite Mistake” for some freaking reason. Anyway.

MP3: Love Psycedelico - Standing Bird

Sheryl Crow - “My Favorite Mistake”:

Ratatat at The Gargoyle on Aug. 30th

Ratatat is returnign to Wash U’s Gargoyle on August 30th. I missed them when they played here last year with 120 Days, so I will definitely try and check them out this time. The band’s new album, LP3 comes out in two weeks, on July 8th.

Ratatat - “Mirando”

My Music Atlas Tonight

So, in a bit of self-promotion, I thought I’d let you know that the band I am playing in, My Music Atlas, is playing tonight at The Underground at Red Sea on the Loop with Light Pollution from Dekalb, IL, and St. Louis’ Stars are Bullets.

MP3: mY mUSIc aTLas - Olivia Imperially
MP3: mY mUSIc aTLas - Frugal Traps And Happenstance

Mystery Mix Monday

MYSTERY MIX, VOL. 46

Here’s last week’s playlist:

Vol. 45

1. Duchess of York - 21st Century Slave
2. The Turn-Ons - Cold Boys
3. The William Blakes - The Secrets of the State
4. Lily Electric - Churchbells
5. The Idle Race - End of the Road
6. Great Lakes - Giants and Tigers
7. Moon Taxi - Mustang
8. Eef Barzelay - Lose Big
9. The Black Keys - She Said, She Said
10. El Ten Eleven - Jumping Frenchman Of Maine

Best of?

Hey, you know what? I never posted my “Best Albums of 2007″ list like a good blogger should. It’s only halfway through 2008. Oops. Silly me.

Here it is.

So, without further ado, here are my Top 15 albums of 2007.

1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
2. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
3. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
4. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
5. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
6. !!! - Myth Takes
7. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
8. Band of Horses - Cease to Exist
9. Radiohead - In Rainbows
10. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
11. Kings of Leon - Because of The Times
12. The National - Boxer
13. Imperial Teen - The Hair and the TV Baby and the Band
14. Dinosaur, Jr - Beyond
15. Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus!