Holy cow, do I love me some Mumford and Sons. I was a bit late to jump on the band wagon, but my iTunes has basically had “Sigh No More” and “The Suburbs” on repeat for weeks so what I lacked in promptness I think I’ve made up for in repetition.   Hailing from the [...]

I know, I know, I know. Everyone is talking about Arcade Fire’s new album The Suburbs.  And I wasn’t ever going to bring it up in a MTCT post because it just seemed too obvious and cliché.  But…I can’t stop listening to this album.  I think I’ve listened to it at least once every day [...]

One half of me is upset that I’m just now discovering Miike Snow, but the other half of me is falling in love with them so fast that it feels like we’ve been friends forever.  ”Animal” was my first introduction to the band via a free download on Amazon Mp3 and immediately made it’s way [...]

I feel like it’s a bit insulting to tag an album as “great background music”.  No musician creates with that in mind.  They are passionate about they’re craft, and want the listener to be passionate as well.  But as a person who constantly has music playing, I appreciate an album that can be sonically pleasing, [...]

I usually work to keep things light hearted and neutral here on the blog (You know, don’t talk about politics or religion.  Unless you’re a political or religious blog I suppose.)  But today my heart is heavy and I’m just feeling the need to be real and share my heart.  Apologies in advance if I [...]

I feel like pop music gets a bad rap by critical music listeners these days. I mean granted, Lady Gaga is crazy, Ke$ha spells her name with a dollar sign, and Katy Perry makes me vomit in my mouth a little, but I can only listen to so much introspective-afro-acoustic-shoe gazer-alt country-electro surf rock before [...]

A couple months ago a friend that knows my music taste well mentioned she had seen Local Natives the night before and that I should check them out.  Later that week my Paste Magazine music sampler arrived featuring “Sun Hands”, Local Natives first single from “Gorilla Manor”.  From there I feel like I’ve been hearing [...]

Until now, The Black Keys have, for some reason, stayed on the periphery of my musical vision. I know of them, I’ve heard of them, probably have a few of their songs in my iTunes from Paste Samplers but I’ve never made any real connection to their music until recently with their latest release “Brothers”. [...]

Coney Island Beach by Depuis We’ve all got a song that within the first 15 seconds of hearing it, we’re immediately taken back to Summertime.  This week on the Relevant Podcast (a weekly must listen) they were talking about creating the ultimate summer playlist.  I took this challenge on for myself and have put together [...]

I picked up Damien Jurado’s latest album Saint Bartlett on Amazon a couple weeks ago for $5 (Have I mentioned how much I love their monthly 100 for $5? Oh, I have?).  Listening to Saint Bartlett for the first time felt like putting on a new pair of shoes that were suspiciously well broken in. [...]