Going Out This Weekend

If you're like me, you're just going to listen to the new Beyonce record until you have to go back to work on Monday, taking breaks to sleep. If you're feeling a bit more ambitious than that, there are several rock music events that could be worth leaving the couch for. Possibly.

Tonight Shivery Shakes celebrate the release of a new 7" with a show at The Owl. Arrive early enough to catch a set from Grape St.


Shivery Shakes - Stay Young video via YouTube

Saturday night you could re-watch this week's Nashville from your DVR or you could see Cat Power at Antone's but those are pretty much your only options. Also, if you don't go to this show they'll probably move Antone's again before the next show you want to see there.

Oh, you know what? Frightened Rabbit is in town Saturday night too. Both the Cat Power and Frightened Rabbit shows are solo gigs. You'll find Frightened Rabbit over at the Mohawk.

Sunday night I don't usually go out but Perfect Pussy will be at the Mohawk and I really want to check them out. All I really know about this band is that they are very buzzy, which is really all a hipster like me needs to know.


Perfect Pussy - 3 video via YouTube

Read more!

Bloggy's Favorite Releases of 2013

Here it is, my favorite releases of 2013 list. You'll notice I said releases. That's partly because I snuck a few EPs in this list and partly because I like the suggestive nature of the word, "releases". These aren't the best, nor the worst, they are my favorites. I feel like the number one record set the tone for my year. I am really excited about R&B and indie colliding and I think my favorite stuff reflects that this year.

Incidentally, it was Dan at End of an Ear who turned me on to my number 1 record this year. How do you like that? In 2013 with everything that's changed about the music industry, the owner of my neighborhood record shop introduced me to something I was totally unaware of and it became my favorite record of the year.

In this list clicking the artist's name takes you to their Facebook page, clicking the album title MOSTLY brings you to the record on Spotify so you can preview before purchasing at your favorite local record shop. Enough words, we all know you just want THE LIST!


Brazos - Charm video via YouTube

50. Brazos - Saltwater
51. Local Natives - Hummingbird
52. Glasser - Interiors
53. Cults - Static
54. Darkside - Psychic
55. Widowspeak - Almanac
56. Pusha T - My Name is My Name
57. Minks - Tides End
58. Caitlin Rose - The Stand-In
59. Elephant Stone - Elephant Stone
60. Heavenly Beat - Prominence
61. Milosh - Jetlag
62. Suuns - Images du Futur
63. Kanye West - Yeezus
64. Toro y Moi - Anything in Return
65. Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
66. Haerts - Hemiplegia
67. Danny Brown - Old
68. Hiatus Kaiyote - Tawk Tomahawk
69. Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
70. Tristen - Caves
71. CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
72. High Highs - Open Season
73. Quadron - Avalanche
74. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
75. Young Dreams - Between Places
76. Washed Out - Paracosm
77. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
78. MS MR - Secondhand Rapture
79. Empress Of - Systems
80. Charli XCX - True Romance
81. Braids - Flourish//Perish
82. Savages - Silence Yourself
83. White Denim - Corsicana Lemonade
84. Disclosure - Settle
85. Mikal Cronin - MCII
86. Active Child - Rapor EP
87. Giraffage - Needs
88. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
89. Rhye - Woman
90. Blue Hawaii - Untogether
91. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
92. Ex Cops - True Hallucinations
93. Haim - Days Are Gone
94. Caveman - Caveman
95. Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe
96. Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety
97. Teen Daze - Glacier
98. Diana - Perpetual Surrender
99. inc. - no world

inc. - the place video via YouTube

Read more!