a list of artists, musicians, etc. that i listen to & enjoy
if you listen, i hope you really listen...
- (sandy) alex g
- andrew jackson jihad (ajj)
- angel olsen "...if all the trouble in my heart would only mend / i lost my dream, i lost my reason all again..."
- arcade fire "...though my language is dead, still the shapes fill my head...
- attic abasement "...i cut all the ties that i've strung along..."
- beach house "...between the cities / between the thrills / there's something inside you / it doesn't sleep well..."
- boyracer
- bright eyes "...you'll be free, child, once you have died / from the shackles of language & immeasurable time..."
- car seat headrest "...heavy boots on my throat / i need something soon..."
- coma cinema "...may the world keep spinning until it spirals out..."
- the cure
- current joys "...it's all the same life wherever i go..."
- daniel johnston "...there's a man in me / i'm gonna destroy / and he will be no more..."
- the dead milkmen
- death grips "...where's it at?!?!"
- elliot smith "...i must make it through this afternoon (o.d. on easter afternoon)..."
- elvis depressedly "...we're crying out to feel something that makes sense / we're crying out for one simple wish: to be safely hidden / to be 21 and in diapers..."
- the everly brothers "...my race is run / beneath the sun..."
- fog lake
- foxes in fiction
- german error message "...i think of everything..."
- the (/los) growlers
- the gorillaz "...there were no screams / there was no time / (...) / there was only fire / and then nothing..."
- harley poe "...i just don't understand the reason why i sin..."
- jack stauber ('s micropop) "...heart wringing out / an infinite spout..."
- julian casablancas (+ the voidz) "...soft skin, weak chin / just walk me through it / tell me what to do, i'll do it..."
- the killers
- mac demarco "...a done decision / another creature who lost it's vision...
- mathew lee cothran "...i breathed in the water and i prayed just like you told me / yet i am still broken and my dogs, they are still hungry / why did you tell me there was an answer for my mysteries? / they ain't going nowhere..."
- mgmt "...forgiving who you are for what you stand to gain / just know that if you hide, it doesn't go away..."
- the microphones
- misfits "...give me a moment, give me a moment..."
- the modern lovers "...there's a lack of sweetness in my life..."
- modest mouse "...you say what you need so you'll get more / if you could just milk it for everything / i've said what i've said and you know what i mean / but i still can't focus on anything..."
- neutral milk hotel "...indentations in the sheets / where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore / and it's so sad to see the world agree / that they'd rather see their faces filled with flies..."
- pavement "...my heart's wide open truly..."
- pill friends "...i'm a prisoner locked behind xanax bars..."
- pixies "...gouge away / you can gouge away..."
- porches "...can you make it light? can you do no harm...?"
- pup "...we're wasting away bit-by-bit / everyone is gone and everything has changed..."
- radiator hospital "...i just stood there / bathed in the quiet..."
- ratatat
- sales "...it's not the way, they say / but it will have to do..."
- screaming females "...with love we sleep / with doubt, the vicious circle turns and burns..."
- sexton blake "...everybody's got a hungry heart..."
- sharon van etten "...i used to feel free / was it just a dream...?"
- shelf life
- the shins "...all my life, compromise on wings of resignation / big grey eyes staring from the sky / am i humble enough now? / i've always had something to hide / my skinny arms, my evil intentions..."
- shopping "...they say i have time but i had time and i've wasted it away..."
- slothrust "...everything is so unfamiliar now..."
- smashing pumpkins "...time is never time at all / you can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth..."
- the smiths "...see, the life i've had could make a good man turn bad..."
- strfkr "...never mine, never mine, never mine..."
- the strokes "...now my fears, they come to me in threes..."
- talking heads "...my face is a book / but it's not what it seems..."
- the teeth "...you can't stand yourself so you take a substitute..."
- together pangea "...and i know it'll come back to haunt me in the end / i know it'll come back to haunt me in the end..."
- told slant
- tops "...nothing in the sun, nothing in the run / no one left to say goodbye..."
- tyler, the creator
- the unicorns "...sword or switch-blade, any way you cut it / i'm not afraid / i know i'm going to get it..."
- the velvet underground "...watch out, the world's behind you..."
- violent femmes "...i take one, one, one 'cause you left me / and two, two, two for my family / and three, three, three for my heartache / and four, four, four for my headaches / and five, five, five for my lonely / and six, six, six for my sorrow / and seven, seven for no tomorrow / and eight, eight, i forgot what eight was for / but nine, nine, nine for a lost god / and ten, ten, ten, ten for everything, everything, everything, everything..."
- weezer
- why?
other things