Field Music, “(I Keep Thinking About) A New Thing” get it on Plumb (2012) Ugh. Seriously? Saturday? We’re giving Fine Tune Friday a bad name here, people. We’ll need a new name for this Song of the Week biz, something that doesn’t…you know…LIE. Anyway, if you can get past the mishandling of your trust (not [...]

Sleigh Bells, “Comeback Kid” get it on Reign of Terror (2012) Moving is crazy. Watching someone else move, it’s something you just shrug off: one house to another, what’s the big deal? But when you do it yourself, it suddenly sinks in just what a complete upheaval it is. This is not my beautiful house, [...]

Cate Le Bon, “Puts Me To Work” get it on Cyrk That xtiandc is one unpredictable cat, most notably in that he’s a human and not a cat as the previous part of the sentence might lead you to believe. He’s climbed oceans and swum mountains and currently makes a living at the SW waterfront, [...]

Mull Historical Society, “Animal Cannabus” get it on Loss (2001) The real curse of being old is knowing that you’re destined to be old-fashioned. As the idiot Abe Simpson once said, “I used to be with it. Then they changed what it was. Now what’s it seems scary and weird to me.” Not exactly the [...]

Tennis, “Robin” find it on Young & Old (2012) Tennis is never going to win any awards for variety. They’ll play their la la shit for you anytime, and you’ll like it or…you won’t. But their new album has a little bit more of what the French call production, and said production comes from Black [...]

I wasn’t much into Saint Etienne before about 1998. I hadn’t yet developed a taste for treacly pop or learned how to forgive bluntly shallow lyrics, and the songs I’d heard of theirs like “He’s On The Phone” were more pop than I could take at the time. I can’t remember why I gave their [...]

First Aid Kit, “Emmylou” get it on The Lion’s Roar (2012) We first heard about First Aid Kit (didn’t we?) when the Swedish teenage sisters popped up on YouTube singing Fleet Foxes’s “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song” smack dab in the middle of the forest. Four years later, and we realize that these sisters still love [...]

Justin Townes Earle, “Harlem River Blues” find it on Harlem River Blues (2010) I was never a Steve Earle fan. His music always struck me as self-conscious as his politics, with every moment too carefully considered and dropped on you with a huge expectation that you’re supposed to respond to it in a certain way. [...]

Tanlines, “Brothers” Is it just me or has the internet had a lot of fun things to offer this week? It seems like every few hours, there’s some great link to a funny or horrifying story. 2012 seems to be picking up. With all the quality the internet was offering, it’s sort of surprising/no wonder [...]

My Morning Jacket, “Outta My System” find it on Circuital I have to say, it’s pretty refreshing to have someone look back on their life of crime and drug abuse gladly. I mean, I’m not endorsing it, but there’s something kind of ridiculous about people like, say, Motley Crue talking about how insane and fun [...]