Bats for Lashes - Oh Yeah

alex on October 10 2012

I get so uncomfortable on public transportation when people start dozing off... When the nodder offer is only centimeters away from sleeping on the shoulder of the person next to them - I just want yell "DONT DO IT, MAN!" Watching that shit go down is like the epitome of awkward. In other news: My girl Natasha Khan has a new album and it's stellar. I'd rather wait years for an artist to release a new album than have an artist drop an album every year that's only marginal.

Chvrches - The Mother We Share

alex on October 09 2012

This was my thought process when I heard this song on Indie Shuffle - "oh, this song is pretty sweet lets check out the band." So I find their soundcloud, no mp3 download here. "I'll go to iTunes and PAY FOR THEIR MUSIC" - what's that iTunes? the mp3 is only available in the fucking UK? Because a digital format shouldn't be available to all countries. I then Google some shitty music blog that has an mp3 download link and they get money from me seeing their crappy site and their shitty advertising. That's where I fucking ended up, not paying the artist ... instead some random blog spammer got a couple cents - do we see the problem here? The whole time I was making that like disappointing clicking noise with my mouth - you know the one. Where you make that click with your tongue on the back of your molars "tsk." That noise our parents would make when they found our bongs or porn stashes.

Van She - Jamaica

chris on October 09 2012

Modular People brings the noise. Love a good kickass small record label, like DFA and Secretly Canadian.

Mac DeMarco - Freaking Out the Neighborhood

chris on October 03 2012

I love when everyone is hung over and your aren't. It's like some sort of street justice is being served.

Jonathan Boulet - Dread Is This Place

alex on October 03 2012

A very old bearded Asian man (possibly Mr. Miyagi) Just came up to Athena (my pitbull) and me - pointed to her and goes "very strong!!" To which I replied "Don't be fooled - she's a wuss." Then a silence ensued while we made eye contact, aboout 4 seconds had passed when suddenly Mr. Miyagi burst out in the some of the hardest laughter I'd ever seen. So -to get to the point, I have a new best friend.

Woods - Bend Beyond

alex on October 02 2012

This song sure is swell! Let's bring it back.. that whole swell thing.

Craft Spells - After the moment

chris on October 02 2012

This album totally slipped my mind. I should have put this song up ages ago, and for that I apologize.

Rhye - The Fall

chris on October 01 2012

I swiped this from This Music Doesnt Suck. Smooth operator. Sick bass riffs, building vocals, drum fills, and trumpet suprises around every corner.

Tim Fitz - The Line

alex on October 01 2012

For some reason I'm really stoked for it to be Monday. Most likely due to the fact I get to work on LAR all week again. I tweeted Tim Fitz' band camp - go get his album for free or donate like I did --- because some people need donations to maintain a relatively free service but when their user base doesn't donate they have to redesign their website to support a boat load of ads. I've closed donations and those who were kind enough to donate (40 people out of about 15,000 regular listeners) will be recieving perks on V5 of left as rain. To everyone who has donated - we really appreciate it, youre good people.

Crystal Castles - Wrath Of God

alex on September 28 2012

On the off chance anyone is wondering how long I've worked on the new version of left as rain in the past 4 days - the number is 46 hours. One may refer to what I'm doing at the moment as slightly obsessive.... In other news: I make an angry face when I listen to this song - just because.