Tag: 2012

March 3rd, 2012

I’ve been trying to understand Fine Tune Friday

fieldmusic

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 [...]

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February 24th, 2012

Show Fine Tune Friday what you’re made of

sleighbells

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, [...]

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February 17th, 2012

Fine Tune Friday won’t remember

catelebon

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, [...]

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February 3rd, 2012

You can blame Fine Tune Friday on your circumstances

tennis

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 [...]

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January 27th, 2012

For every Fine Tune Friday with a problem

firstaidkit

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 [...]

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January 13th, 2012

You wonder why Fine Tune Friday makes no sense

tanlines

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 [...]

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