Muse-ic Mondays: Issue 10

Current musical obsession:  

Sunset Rubdown

Sunset Rubdown is an experimental art-rock five-piece from Montreal.

A solo project turned four-piece and now five-piece, Sunset Rubdown has been around for over five years with two EPs and four albums already under their terry cloth robes. Truth is, I had never heard of them up until recently. But it was a fateful encounter and my ears are quite content to be catching up.

And that's the beauty of stumbling across an already-established band: If you like one song or album, you don't have to twiddle your thumbs until the next one comes out because you already have a plethora of tunes to sift through.

I'm really digging Sunset Rubdown's sound because it's more of an experience than background music. I wouldn't throw on a Sunset Rubdown album at low volume while multitasking, but I might blast it while chilling on the couch and absorbing each song's dense instrumental layers.

Really though, each song feels like an eccentrically epic tale with its grand arcs, fantastical storylines, rich metaphors, and overall dizzying melodies.

Yet I'm still having a hard time describing their sound because I feel it's both literally and figuratively 'out of this word': Am I waltzing in a castle? Floating in space with Bowie? Lost in a house of mirrors? About to avenge a murder? At times, all of the above.

I haven't gotten to their latest album, Dragonslayer, yet, but I did hear the following track from it and I'm really enjoying the gorgeous guitars:



I would love to see Sunset Rubdown live one day. Anyone 'been there, done that'?

Something hiding for us in the night

Hurray! The videos from The Wooden Sky's performance on MTV Live (which I previously blogged about here) have finally been posted.

Click here to check them out. Gorgeous.

I've been thinking about selling off every shirt I own

To stand naked out here in the cold

Just trying to make it out on my own 

Live baby jokes

Normally I'm not a huge fan of baby jokes (especially of the 'dead baby' variety), but I kept coming across these little strips on different websites and they gave me a quite a chuckle:

After two minutes of extensive, exhaustive research, I discovered the source of these photos: A book called Safe Baby Handling Tips by David & Kelly Sopp. Click on the pic below for more:

Enjoy!

Muse-ic Mondays: Issue 9

Last night, my older brother asked me if I liked "that 'dance 'til you're dead' song." I believe he said it was "pretty sweet."

I immediately knew what he was talking about and I immediately agreed. Indeed brother, that tune is pretty darn sweet. It's so sweet that it gives me a musical sugar high every time I listen to it. It's loud, catchy, edgy, and very danceable. I've even heard a few remixes of the song in different clubs and I must admit that they, too, were nothing short of 'pretty sweet.'

If you haven't guessed it already, the song is "Heads Will Roll" by the wonderful Yeah Yeah Yeahs:



Have a pretty sweet night everyone!

Muse-ic Mondays: Issue 8

OMG (Oh Music Gods), I think I've got the winter blues.

I'm in a funny mood. Maybe I just need a little sunshine, or maybe I'm anxious about the new beginnings that are about to unfold this month...

...or perhaps I ate too many of those red and green M&Ms over the holidays.

Luckily, I've got just the thing to help lighten the mood. Nope, it's not a hallucinogen. That's not my style. In fact, I can just watch Bret from Flight of the Conchords take one and enjoy the result instead:



I don't know how many times I've watched that video, but it always seems to cheer me up. I'm so glad music is my boyfriend.

Time to dust off my pretty party clothes and face the music.

So it goes

I haven't quite found

What I'm looking for

Not sure I'm even looking

In the right place

But it's never about the destination
Or so I've been told

It's the places you end up

While trying to find yourself 

Happy New Year!