What have you been listening too?

I am still ruled by music. I seek new shit daily. Recently I feel that I've come to a place where I need to share to the masses. I just can't contain all this good stuff, I need you to know it exists. Kudos to you if you can make it through all of these videos. For the record, I know most of you will hate 90% of these, but give it shot, you never know.

Beach Fossils - Careless

Young Man - In a Sense

Robert Ellis - Friends Like Those (shitty video)

Laura Mvula - Like the Morning Dew & NPR music tiny desk concert

Wild Nothing - Nocturne

Mark Kozelek and Jimmy Lavelle (Tristeza, An Album Leaf) - Some How The Wonder of Life Prevails (An awesome song with no video, so just listen)

Clan of Xymox - Home Sweet Home (I know what you are thinking, but this band has not strayed from it's sound ever and that's gotta account for something. This song is from 2009. So good)

Miike Snow - Animal (Mark Ronson Remix) [This is little Op's favorite song]

Parquet Courts - Master of My Craft

TOSHIO HERO

My buddy Mike Kepka is an awesome photographer at the SF Chronicle, and if you live in the city or frequent sfgate.com you might be a fan of his column The City Exposed. If not, get with it. One of his latest is a profile of former Amnesia star and anomalous channeler of Jimmie Rodgers, Toshio Hirano. Get with this. Both of them, the real deal.

Music on Radar's radar

As I ponder whether or not I have time or the will to start a music blog as my input on this one has suffered drastically, I did want to share some of my latest jams with folks. I hop you guys like them.

The Amazing are a Swedish band that were members of a band called Dungen. This track is off their latest record.

Taken by Trees is another Swedish band that is basically on person, Victoria Bergsman. On this record she went to Pakistan to record.

Passion Pit's newest record is impossible for me to visualize making. This song is a great example. My brain just can conceptualize making this song. The video is distraction though.

Another goddamn Swede. Tallest Man on Earth.

From Oxnard CA, Catwalk are on the new up and coming label Captured Tracks. The label is pretty much a shoegaze revivalist record label. So, I love it.

Hope a track or two strikes your fancy.

DIIV

I can't get enough of this record. It comes out on Tuesday. It's times like these that I wish I still had a record store. Hope some of y'all can enjoy it.