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April 27
Listen: Local Natives 'Wide Eyes', Beach House 'Better Times', No Age 'You're A Target', Real Estate 'Basement', Damien Jurado 'Cloudy Shoes

Ok. Start by downloading Girltalk 'Lover With An Attitude (Lover's Mix)' from iTunes.

April 20
Listen. The Strokes 'Taken For A Fool', Cut Copy 'Need You Now', Surfer Blood 'Catholic Pagan' Le Loup 'Forgive Me', No Age 'Glitter'

Coachella

Sooo I don't even know what to say about Coachella. I couldn't accurately describe the sets listed below even if I tried so I won't. I'll say these are those shows I saw and I had a GREAT time and great really doesn't cut it. Much like my lack of words I also have lack of visual proof because I've started to become one of those people who doesn't see the value of interrupting a moment in a desperate attempt to forever encapsulate it. So I have few words or photos to share but I have a ton of memories. The bands, the people, the desert, the drive, the food, the drinks, the clothes I have it all. If you wanna know about it go and do it.

Friday
Odd Future
Lauryn Hill
Cold War Kids
Brandon Flowers
Cut Copy
Black Keys
Kings of Leon
Robyn
Chemical Brothers
Boyz Noize

Saturday
Two Door Cinema Club
Erykah Badu
Yelle
Mumford and Sons
Animal Collective
Arcade Fire

Sunday
City and Colour
Wiz Khalifa
Nas and Damian Marley
Best Coast
Foster the People
The National
Ratatat
Chromeo
The Strokes
Kanye West

Coachellaaaaaaa Prep

In preparation for Coachella I'm trying to investigate as many new bands as possible because the only thing worse than missing your favorite bands show is missing you new favorite bands show because they weren't you're new favorite YET!
Friday
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12th Planet
Afrojack Listened. Pass.
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Listened. Pass.
A-Trak Heard of em. Curious. Listened. Leaning toward Pass.
Beardyman Listened. Pass.
Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears Listened. Undecided.
Boys Noize Heard of em. Curious. Listened. Pass.
Brandon Flowers Know em. Like em.
Brandt Brauer Frick Listened. Pass.
Breakage Listened. Pass.
Caifanes Listened. Pass.
Cee Lo Green Know em. Like em.
Cold Cave Listened. Like em.
Cold War Kids Know em. Love em.
Crystal Castles Heard of em. Curious.Listened. Pass.
Cut Copy Heard of em. Curious. Listened. Pass.
Emicida Listened. Pass.
Erick Morillo Listened. Pass.
Excision Listened. Pass.
Flogging Molly Listened. Pass.
Gayngs Heard of em. Curious.
Glasser Listened. Pass.
G.Q.
Hurts Listened. Like.
Interpol Listened. Pass.
Jakes
Kele Listened. Pass.
Kings of Leon Know em. Love em.
Kyle Hall Listened. Pass.
Magnetic Man Listened. Undecided.
Marina and the Diamonds Listened. Undecided.
Miguel Listened. Undecided.
Monarchy Listened. Undecided.
Mount Kimbie Listened. Pass.
Moving Units Listened. Like.
Ms. Lauryn Hill Know em. Love em.
Nosaj Thing Listened. Pass.
OFWGKTA Listened. Undecided.
Omar Rodriguez Lopez Listened. Lik-ish.
Ozomatli Listened. Pass.
Robyn Know of em. Undecided.
Sander Kleinenberg Listened. Pass.
Sasha
Scala & Kolacny Bros. Listened. Pass.
Skrillex Listened. Pass.
Sleigh Bells Listened. Lik-ish.
Tame Impala Listened. Pass.
The Aquabats
The Black Keys Know em. Love em.
The Chemical Brothers Heard of em. Curious.
The Drums Heard of em. Curious.
The Morning Benders
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Rural Alberta Advantage
Titus Andronicus
Warpaint
YACHT Know em. Believe I saw them open for Yeah Yeah Yeah's. Pass.

Saturday
Alf Alpha
Andy C
Animal Collective
Arcade Fire Know em. Love em.
Big Audio Dynamite
Bomba Estereo
Bright Eyes
Broken Social Scene Heard of em. Curious.
Cage the Elephant Know em. Like em.
Chuckie
Cults
Daedelus
Delta Sprirt
DJ Hype
DJ Kentaro
DJ Marky
EE
Elbow
Electric Touch
Empire of the Sun Heard of em. Curious.
Erykah Badu Know em. Love em.
Fedde Le Grand
Foals Heard of em. Curious.
Francis and the Lights
Freelance Whales
Gogol Bordello
Goth Trad
Here We Go Magic
Jenny and Johnny
Joachim Garraud
Laidback Luke
Lil’ B The Based God
Mariachi El Bronx
Mary Anne Hobbs
Mumford & Sons Know em. Love em.
One Day as a Lion
Paul van Dyk
Phosphorescent
Raphael Saadiq Know em. Love em.
Ras G
SBTRKT
Scissor Sisters Heard of em. Curious.
Shpongle presents The Shpongletron Experience
Steve Angello
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down
The Felice Brothers Heard of em. Curious.
The Henry Clay People Heard of em. Curious.
The Joy Formidable
The London Suede
The Kills Heard of em. Curious.
The Love Language
The New Pornographers Heard of em. Curious.
The Radio Dept.
The Swell Season
The Tallest Man on Earth
The Twelves
Trampled by Turtles
Two Door Cinema Club Heard of em. Curious.
Wire
Yelle

Sunday
Angus and Julia Stone
Axwell
Best Coast Heard of em. Curious.
Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77
Caspa
Chase and Status
Chromeo Know em. Like em.
City and Colour Know em. Love em.
CSS
Death From Above 1979
Delorean
DJ Zinc
Duck Sauce
Duran Duran
Eliza Doolittle
Ellie Goulding
Fistful of Mercy Heard of em. Curious.
Foster the People Know em. Like em.
fun.
Good Old War
Gord Downie Know em a bit. Curious.
Green Velvet
HEALTH
High Contrast
Jack Beats
Jack's Mannequin Heard of em. Curious.
Joy Orbison
Kanye West Know em. Love em.
Kode9
Jimmy Eat World
Leftfield
Lightning Bolt
Lorn
Los Bunkers
MEN
Menomena
Nas & Damian Marley Know of em. Very curious.
Neon Trees Know em. Like em.
New Pants
OFF!
Phantogram
PJ Harvey Heard of em. Curious.
Plan B
Ramadanman
Ratatat Heard of em. Curious.
Riva Starr
Roska
Ryan Leslie Know em. Like em.
Rye Rye
She Wants Revenge
Sven Vath
Take
Terror Danjah
The National Heard of em. Curious.Listened. Pass.
The Presets
The Strokes Know em. Love em.
Thunderball
Trentemoller
Tinie Tempah Listened. Pass.
Tokimonsta
Twin Shadow
Wiz Khalifa Know of em. Undecided.
Zed Bias

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03.13

Sunday listening. Tame Impala 'Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind', Gayngs 'Ride', Kurt Vile 'Baby's Arms', Beach Fossils 'What A Pleasure'

Rainbow Arabia 'Without You', Jimmy Cliff 'Many Rivers To Cross', The Rural Alberta Advantage 'Departing', Little Scream 'Your Radio'.

Last Minute Show

Last night I saw City and Colour at the El Rey theatre here in Los Angeles. As the title indicates it was a last minute show my friends Erica and Rhian had bought tickets way back in November or so when they went on sale but Rhian inadvertently scheduled a tattoo session for the same night and was ultimately unable to go. Erica who's a huge fan of City and Colour had introduced me to the band via the song Sleeping Sickness when I was in Detroit feeling depressed and I became obsessed, I'd listen to (on YouTube but it seems since the birth of Vevo it's no longer available in the US) it four or five times in a row. I had always meant to go investigate other songs and eventually the albums but it was just one of those things that kept slipping my mind. So last night when we arrived at the El Rey which although I've only been inside once before it's one of my favorite venues. We missed the first opening act and most of the second waiting to see if Rhian could still make the show. We arrive and I'm excited but I still really only knew the one song and lucky for me I didn't have to wait long because City and Colour's frontman Dallas Green opened with it! Hearing my song first put me on cloud nine and I stayed there the entire evening thanks to the abundance of pretty melodies and lyrics that pierce your heart with ease that Dallas sings them. The frontman put on a great show bantering back and forth with the audience and at one point leading a sing a long to his tune What Makes a Man. During this song he beseeches the audience to forgo their tweeting, texting, picture taking and youtube recording to just as he put it "have a moment" from my vantage point most if not all obliged and once the moment was over he was sure to remark how good that had to have felt us not holding things up in the air in an attempt to remember forever a moment we'd be missing out on by trying desperately to capture it. He kept the evening going and before long he finished the set came back from an encore then sent us on our way. I have to say it was such a great show and if you get the chance, say at Coachella go check out City and Colour.

P.S.
On an just a funny note while standing outside waiting for what seemed like an eternity for valet to bring my Erica car around we spy Carey Hart. My roommate sees him first and before she can really ask did I see him I answer in the affirmative with a smile. After a few moments of agreeing on how hot he is his very pregnant wife appears! Then I love what happens next the very diligent security makes a path for her by shooing Erica and I away from the valet stand as if were going to mob Pink! It just makes me laugh because they were as they should be taking their job seriously but the only thing I would have found exciting enough to jump on her at that moment would have been if she had pulled up in my roomies car so I could get off the streets of Los Angeles at midnight and get to my bed!

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02.19
The Joy Formidable 'Austere', Theophilus London 'Why Even Try', Jeff The Brotherhood 'U Got The Look', The Strokes 'Under Cover Of Darkness'

02.15
Listen. TV Girl 'It's Not Something', Warpaint 'Baby', Ricky Nelson 'Lonesome Town', Twin Sister 'Lady Daydream', Ghost Society 'Better Days

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02.07
Plane Songs. Lia Ices 'Little Marriage', Devotchka 'How It Ends', New Order 'Ceremony', Snowden 'Innocent Heathen', The Cure 'Plainsong'.

02.01
Listen. Best Coast 'Our Deal', Deerhunter 'He Would Have Laughed', Fitz & The Tantrums 'MoneyGrabber' LCD Soundsystem 'All My Friends'.

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