Albums To Check Out: Coming Soon

Artist: Manchester Orchestra
Album: Simple Math
Release Date: May 10, 2011


Artist: Death Cab For Cutie
Album: Codes and Keys
Release Date: May 31, 2011

Artist: Frank Turner
Album: England Keep My Bones
Release Date: June 7, 2011

Song Picks for the Week: 03.28.11-04.03.11

1.  Song: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These)
     Artist: Emily Browning
     Album: Sucker Punch (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
 

2.  Song: Fire
     Artist: Childish Gambino
     Album: Sick Boi
 

3.  Song: Where Have You Been?
     Artist: Manchester Orchestra
     Album: I’m Like A Virgin Losing A Child
 

4.  Song: Approximate Sunlight
     Artist: Bright Eyes
     Album: The People’s Key
 

5.  Song: Kiss With A Fist
     Artist: Florence & The Machine
     Album: Lungs

Wanna check out pictures from the Hellogoodbye show? Here you go!

Pictures courtesy of Tim C. McLaughlin.



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Song Picks for the Week: 03.21.11-03.27.11

1. Song: Love Ire & Song
   Artist: Frank Turner
   Album: Love Ire & Song

2. Song: Nude
   Artist: Radiohead
   Album: In Rainbows

3. Song: Brooklyn Boy
   Artist: Kevin Devine
   Album: Put Your Ghosts To Rest

4. Song: My Manic & I
   Artist: Laura Marling
   Album: Alas I Cannot Swim

5. Song: Shell Games
   Artist: Bright Eyes
   Album: The People’s Key

Gold Motel
Summer House 2010
★ ★ ★ ★

Gold Motel is The Hush Sound’s Greta Morgan’s solo project and Summer House is their debut album. Worlds different from anything we heard Greta put out with her former band, Gold Motel takes themselves far less seriously than The Hush Sound ever did and with this debut album ends up creating something fun and carefree. The lyrics are light and with fun, upbeat indie pop music carrying them along the album glides on out of your speakers no doubt invoking a smile or two. Songs like “Summer House” and “Stealing the Moonlight” make it impossible to listen without wanting to spend the night sitting on the beach with friends watching fireworks off in the distance. It's the kind of music you find yourself wanting to turn up while you roll down the windows of the car and let the wind whistle by. Catchy choruses, toe tapping beats and killer tambourine, as well Greta’s undeniably unique vocals make it a debut worth checking out. The perfect LP to have for the coming summer months. 

Song Picks for the Week: 03.14.11-03.20.11

 1. Song: Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise
     Artist: The Avett Brothers
     Album: I and Love and You

 2. Song: Summer House
     Artist: Gold Motel
     Album: Summer House

 3. Song: Borne On The FM Waves of The Heart
     Artist: Against Me! Featuring Tegan Quin
     Album: Unknown

 4. Song: Sleep Alone
     Artist: Hellogoodbye
     Album: Would it Kill You?

 5. Song: Rise To Me
     Artist: The Decemberists
     Album: The King Is Dead

Hellogoodbye Set List; Slims February 28th, 2011 San Francisco

Finding Something To Do
Would It Kill You?
Getting Old
Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn
When We First Kissed
Baby, It’s Fact
Coppertone
You Sleep Alone
Dear Jamie....Sincerely Me
Oh, It Is Love
When We First Met

Encore

The Thoughts That Give Me The Creeps
Something Misplaced
Here [In Your Arms]

Hellogoodbye; Slims February 28th, 2011 San Francisco

Hellogoodbye step out onto the tiny stage at Slims and it's an explosion of beanies, glasses and plaid. As soon as Forrest steps up to the mic and the rest of the band take their places on stage it's clear that this show is going to be a personal experience, like friends playing for friends. You can tell that they appreciate us being there just as much as the girls screaming "I love you, Forrest" appreciate them being there. They start the show with "Finding Something To Do", a song off their newest album, Would It Kill You? Four songs in they bust out an old favourite, "Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn", and the crowd comes alive. You can almost feel the people standing there, turning back the clock five years and reliving the way it felt to be in high school, listening to this music, and having it get them through the day. Hellogoodbye is all about the fans, performing to us rather than around us. They are all energy and humor. Making us laugh between songs and pulling out all the stops when the music starts to play. It's nice, honest, the way a night watching a favourite band should make you feel. They're not here to take our money, they're here to spend the evening with us, make us smile, make us feel like we're with friends. Jokes are told, eyes are rolled, songs are played and tambourine is pounded fiercely.

Fourteen songs have been played, Forrest has used effects on his mic to talk to us like a tranny, Travis Head, the bassist, has drunkenly thrown a cell phone, he supposedly found in a toilet, into the crowd, Joseph Lemble, the hot British addition to the band, has been pushed off the stage into a swarm of girls I'm pretty sure violated him in some way or another and Joseph Marro, keyboardist and tambourine extraordinaire (seriously), has added his share of sarcastic quips to the onstage conversation. Most importantly, these guys played a kick ass show. Forrest may not have the most amazing vocals, and these guys may not play their instruments as cleanly and tightly as some other bands, but they have more energy than a group of Kindergartner's hopped on Halloween candy and they play with a whole helluva lot of heart and soul. By the end of the night it's clear, they love the crowd, and I've gotta say, we love them back.