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 [...]