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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Los Campesinos!, “By Your Hand” find it on Hello Sadness (2011) It’s a stressful time for us music obsessives. The end of the year means a sudden panic of trying to catch up with the music of the last year before the next year’s new releases start flowing in. And while most of what I’ve [...]

Lana Del Rey, “Video Games” find it on Born To Die Remember the episode in Parks and Recreation where Leslie gives Ann a bunch of books to research and includes Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom only because “I’m dying to talk to someone about Patty”? That’s kind of how I feel about “Video Games”. It’s a song [...]

AlunaGeorge, “You Know You Like It” find it on You Know You Like It (2011) Okay. Now this is more like it. Dubstep with a purpose, neosoul that’s really just neo, and top-shelf, quality pop without the unnecessary sugar. There’s at least four solid hooks in here, and while the vocals verge dangerously close to [...]