East Coast Babies, Bye-bye.

I was gone! But I'm back. Hi, I missed you.

Downtown Chicago from Pilsen, thanks to Tabitha Butler
The Fall - Chicago Now

Magnetic Fields Love Forever And Always

AH! Somehow or another, I managed to listen to the upcoming Magnetic Fields album and it is serious love. I am in love! Of course I am. They could cheat on me and have someone else's baby but I'll keep on coming back. My two current favorite tracks are "Please Stop Driving" and "Too Drunk to Dream". Or maybe "I'll Dream Alone" and "Zombie Boy". Love!

They are coming through Chicago in March. Sold out. I don't have tickets. Do you know how bummed I am? So. Very. Bummed.

I have two other posts written up! They're coming soon.

Classics are totally like awesome for real.

Still cold out, still finals week, still sick. Well, not as cold, half way through, and worse. Also, rain. So much rain.

We're oh-so-serious, today! Seriously behind on an essay for Political Philosophy that was assigned three weeks ago. Or four. Or five. What, I'm a bad student, you expect me to count how long I've been procrastinating?

Buzzcocks - Everybody's Happy Nowadays
Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat

We Believe In Silent Sound; or, What's Up, Indie Rock?

It's cold outside, it's finals week, and I'm sick. My throat hates me. My nose hates me. I hate me. Everyone hates me. Wah wah wah. Plus, I have to go outside to pick up some more yarn. Bah!

Earlimart - Cold Cold Heaven
Herman Düne - Sunny Sunny Cold Cold Day (I love the way he sings, "This one is prrrecious.")
Times New Viking - Common Cold (From the split with Psychedelic Horseshit--both of whom I'm psyched on right now.)

Better and more posts when I'm not dead or furiously knitting(!) and writing to meet deadlines. Actually, what do you care? Oh, you, the Nobody There!

English Twee Bands Everywhere

Nope, not talking about the artsy drunk in this Hans Namuth photograph today.

I don't know much about Action Painting! other than what crops up on Google and I would assume that they've probably named themselves after, well, action painting. Blah blah blah stuff: they were from Brighton, had a few singles on legendary Sarah Records, Fierce Panda, and Damaged Goods, and they are somehow affiliated with something called Shampoo (I don't know why, but I keep on mixing up Shampoo with Squeeze in my mind). The following is the Damaged Goods release which seems to still be available and I urge you to buy it mostly because supporting indie record labels is good for everyone and the quality of the rips I made is not the best they could possibly be. It's also on pretty white vinyl and the single's not as twee as I am. Really. Not as jangly as you'd expect.

Action Painting! - Alice Power
Action Painting! - Laying the Lodger

ETA: So these links are dead. A few have contacted me about 'em. Feel free to send me an e-mail and I'll see what I can do!