For weeks now, I've been trying to figure out just exactly how I feel about this album, and I think I've finally arrived at a conclusion that I'm satisfied with - I enjoy it a lot but there's still that underlying sense of disappointment that'll keep me from ever liking it as much as their other stuff, so I hope that's what comes across in this review. It's definitely wordy and might not flow very well, considering I wrote a paragraph for each song as they came to me over the course of a few days, but it makes sense,…

I finally got around to this review after putting it off for no apparent reason except me being lazy. I tried not to be as wordy as I usually am, but it's still pretty long. Oh well. Next up is Rilo Kiley, hopefully. I'm sure that one will be about three times as long considering how much I've been analyzing every damn second of that album in my head since I first heard it. Anyway, for your reading pleasure (or displeasure, depending on your attention span), the review:

Eisley
Combinations
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With its whimsical melody, sweet vocal harmonies and lyrics…

Mon 27 Aug – The Hush Sound, Mobile, Carawae

So, for the longest time, I had it stuck in my head that I couldn't like The Hush Sound because of the artists/label/genre/whatever they're associated with, even though I never thought their music was bad. Obviously, this was pretty stupid of me. The important thing is that I finally got past that and became obsessed with them, so when I found out they were touring around here, I just had to go.

The two openers were pretty standard emo-rock fare, which I'm not really into at all. They were listenable enough,…

I've been meaning to write this for awhile and finally got around to it. I realize it's ridiculously long but that's just how I am; I have to analyze things until I can analyze them no further. Also, I noticed this also kind of makes it sound like I don't like So Jealous, but I really do - it's just that The Con is so much better. Now, onto the actual review…

Tegan and Sara
The Con
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With The Con, the duo's fifth album, Tegan and Sara Quin have created their most mature, creative, and experimental piece…

Wed 8 Aug – Eisley

I just got back from the wonderful 3-hour drive between here and Detroit and I'm tired as fuck, but I figured I'd better write this while all the details are still fresh.

I've been a casual Eisley fan for quite a long time and it wasn't until I heard their current single, "Invasion", and fell in complete love with it that I became a bigger fan. From there, I quickly developed major love for the rest of their catalogue as well. So, naturally, I had to catch them on this acoustic tour to promote the…

Well, it's my two-year anniversary of being obsessed with Last.fm now. Honestly, I feel like I just wrote my one-year entry a few months ago, but I guess the time has come for another one already. I'm going to do the usual "let's talk about my top artists" thing, but I decided to go with my 12-month chart instead of my overall, since it makes more sense to see what I've been listening to the past year than since I joined. As always, be forewarned that it's pretty lengthy. And here we go…

1. Rilo Kiley (1,995 plays)
They're even…

Here's my insanely in-depth analysis of "A Man/Me/Then Jim" that I did for English class. It's one of the few school-related things I actually enjoyed doing and since it's also music-related, what better place to post it than here?

The lyrics to A Man/Me/Then Jim, written by Jenny Lewis (and performed by her band Rilo Kiley), may seem confusing and incohesive at first, but the more time spent with them, the more their complicated and interweaving story is revealed. Using such techniques as repetition, multiple narrators, and a non-chronological order, Lewis connects three seemingly unrelated vignettes into one…

Fri 27 Apr – Patty Griffin

Alright, so, I saw Patty Griffin last Friday and it was all kinds of amazing, of course. Here's a review, accompanied by some crappy pictures. Shitty photographer + shitty camera = shitty pictures. I took like 70+ but only ended up with 20-some that were decent. Oh well.

After the opening act, Terremoto, it seemed to take forever for Patty to come out. When she finally did, the crowd erupted in applause and she got the hugest smile on her face. Cute. She started out solo on the piano with "J'irai La Voir Un…

I'm bored out of my mind and rather than getting something more important done, I've decided to procrastinate and write a journal in attempt to cure it. Yay, procrastination!

Sometimes, it is really important to be patient. I realized this because a lot of my now favorite music, I either hated at first or took a really long time to fall in love with. I've had to give some artists three or four tries over a long period of time before they finally click. Just imagine if I would have given up after that first listen… they would've never become…

So, there's these two girls who call themselves Agent Ribbons and I've been completely obsessed with them this past week. And I'm telling everyone reading this to check them out because they don't have nearly enough listeners on here. As far as their sound, their songs are country-inspired but in a very tongue-in-cheek and playful way. The vocals fit somewhere right between Jolie Holland and Jenny Lewis, a non-annoying southern drawl with a big dose of attitude. The music could be called a more-countrified Rilo Kiley or Neko Case with a lot more humor in the delivery and lyrics.…