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on March 6, 7, 8:

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bands to see live

I've been to a lot of shows that I really liked in the past semester, and some of us have been thinking about which other bands we would like to see.

So here's my list:
Metric
Okkervil River
Portugal. The Man
Sigur Rós
The National
Fleet Foxes
The Decemberists

These are the ones I would definitely go see. Okkervil River has been disappointing in their newer albums, but I think I would still go see them in case they play any of their awesome old stuff. I think Modest Mouse has moved beyond playing anything from Lonesome Crowded West, so I doubt I'd see them.

I am definitely going to see Stars again. Hopefully they'll come close though, so I won't have to be traveling or anything. All the bands I've seen this semester I would see again (Broken Social Scene, Of Montreal, Murder By Death).

Also I'm learning to bend notes on the harmonica. It's not an easy process unfortunately, but it's a necessary one if I'm supposed to become at all proficient.

updateish

Listening mostly to older things like The National and BSS, and some instrumental stuff like Sigur Rós. My roommate and I are going to share music, so I put a lot of cool stuff on a hard drive. I think his stuff is also pretty cool, though the stuff we listen to is pretty exclusive.
So I added:
Okkervil River
Animal Collective
Beulah
BSS
Handsome Furs
Metric
PTM
Of Montreal
Neutral Milk Hotel
Stars
The National
Wolf Parade
Sigur Rós

If anyone thinks of anything I should add feel free to add suggestions

damn

It's been a while. So I've been listening to a bunch of stuff recently. I don't exactly remember the last thing I posted about, so I'll go back a bit.

For about a week I listened to Modest Mouse, about 95% of which was from the album Lonesome Crowded West. At first I listened to some of the new albums, then Lauren told me that they were shit, because the singer had lost a bunch of emotion from his voice. I thought that was a bit odd, since all the posts on last.fm were debating about whether or not Modest Mouse had gone emo. Later on I figured out that while the music and melodies had indeed grown more "emo", if we must use the word, Lauren was right and his voice had become pretty boring. Not exactly a good trade-off in my opinion.

Then after that I listened to The Mountain Goats, which was very interesting. The lyrics are pretty intelligent and the songs often allude to figures and events in history. For example, "Sax Rohmer #1" alludes to Sax Rohmer, the writer. Sept 15 1983, which discusses Israel, was the date that Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigned. Babylonian gods, crater lakes, and fictional characters are all included.

After The Mountain Goats I listened to a LOT of Regina Spektor. For about a week straight. Not as intensely as Stars, but you get the idea. I started listening a long time ago, but only really got into it recently. So now I've played Regina 400 some odd times. Which means that according to last.fm She's my second most played artist. Craaaazy. I didn't even realize I was listening that much.

And this week I am on to playing something different. I think this structure of listening to music is better, even though I don't listen to a lot of stuff. One of my biggest complaints about finding new stuff was that I never really got into anything. Well now listening to an artist for a week at a time allows me to become better acquainted with the artists.

It was a pretty hard weekend for me, and The National helped, cause it's so soothing. So then I realized how good The National was, and it's off to a few days of that. Of course it's not going to be religiously like Stars, but a few days of mostly The National can't hurt!