Thanksgiving Playlist

Happy (canadian) thanksgiving..here are some songs (and videos) to be thankful for.

AMANDA PALMER does HELL by TEGAN & SARA in NYC from Amanda Palmer on Vimeo.

Amanda Palmer is amazing. This song by Tegan and Sara is amazing. This video is amazingly amazing. I have watched it around 1000 times over the last two weeks.


Gangsta by Tuneyards is great. Hopefully she records it sometime.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN LENNON!

Keren Ann always does the best covers. Search up her versions of Life On Mars and Hallelujah (a song I thought I could never listen to again).


Freshlyground are great and this is my favorite song off their new album. For whatever reason I'm really fond of music with clapping in it so..yeah, this is my fave.


This is a really fun and creative video for a song by The New Pornographers.


this song is a song by Florence + The Machine which (despite appearing in the trailer for Eat Pray Love) is awesome and cheerful.


This is one of the most powerful pieces of music I've heard. It is used beautifully in 120 Hours (which you all should see when it comes out.)

Hope you enjoy the music. Happy thanksgiving.

New Records

I just bought the new Belle and Sebastian album on vinyl (more on that album later) so I thought I would do a post on why I buy new records. I find the biggest problem with ITUNES and CDS is that you lose the feeling of music as an object. When I buy a CD or MP3, I don't get the feeling of ownership, I just get a feeling of having appropriated another few songs to my itunes library.
When I buy vinyl, I get something. You can look at the cover art (once, in the case of My Maudlin Career by Camera Obscura, the beautiful cover art gave me the final push to buy the album) and you have to a feeling of an object. When I buy a record I have something that will keep and is worthy of keeping for a long time.
Due to the current price of records I only buy ones that I want to own. I own records that date back to the 30s, so I can say truly that they endure. I always like to think that I will keep my collection of new records for a long time and am buying a core collection of music for if I could have no more then this.