Another Post About How Much I Love Y Lime?

This blog has a weird history of me gushing about girl singers and posting videos of awesome songs.
It's been a hot minute since I've done that.

Today I had my iPod on shuffle to help me plow through the snow with my taurus and get to the library, and a Y Lime? song came on.
Obviously it was great.
So I decided to listen to my favorite of their albums in its entirety.
and...bam. Now I'm probably going to be super into them again.

Which is totally cool.
Their stuff is all online for free if you go here.
So you can get super into them too.

This feels like it's an old video, but it's the video I watched to get pumped for when they played at my house, and it's one of the best sounding videos of them on youtube.


If nothing else, you have to appreciate the fact that Emily is pretty cute.

GJB

My friend's (plural) band got reviewed for the Madison Decider when they came through here on tour. Check it out:
Grizzly J Berry review

Then go to their myspace and listen to every song 100 times.
Then buy their cd.

Yo Dawg. I heard you like blogs, so we put a blog in your blog so you can blog when you blog.

Now that it's over I can describe my busy weekend.

On Thursday some friends on tour came here. I was going to have them play in my basement, but we ended up going to Harmony instead. They played open mic and it went really good. Dudes sold mad CDs. Afterwards we hung out on the ave and Matt put together a bike for this girl he was trying to get with. I got home early enough to get 30 minutes of sleep.

Friday I woke up at 3a.m. to work. I don't remember working at all. I got home and we headed downtown to meet up with Matt and Brandon, since they stayed at that girl's house. They were supposed to roll out and play in Milwaukee on Friday night, but opted to chill in Appleton for another night and ended up getting a show at Harmony. The whole day was spent in downtown Appleton. After much Herberts&Gerberts and a failed attempt to get into the Houdini Museum, we kicked it at Heid's music for what seemed like hours (because it was hours.) That night they kicked the shit out of Harmony with a set that included just a little bit of scat. There was a hot girl working at Harmony and we went with her to a fire. My friend Steve was here from Madison and I watched him play piano like Randy Newman for a while. Mike was there smokin' his pipe as well. All the girls left the fire super early and Matt got completely lit. In the van he told everyone how much he loves us.

Saturday was a sleep catch-up day. I had basically been awake for 36 hours straight. The guys showered and got ready to drive down to Rockwell, IL. There was a minor van problem and they had to buy a new battery. The next thing I know it was 5:00 p.m. I ate and went down to Harmony (again) to see my friends from Madison play with Billy Rayson. The show was real good. I totally hated shows for a while, but this weekend may have pulled me out of that. After the high school reunion of a show, we walked around college ave, at one point breaking into an awkward rendition of "White Christmas." I got home and found out that my dress shoes stained the fuck out of my socks though.

It was a fun weekend. This week will be pretty tame. Having coffee with some people and then maybe a party on Saturday. Check out my friend's bands:
http://www.myspace.com/grizzlyjberry
http://www.myspace.com/weareavocados
http://www.myspace.com/billyraysonmusic

Avoca Dos

If you're looking for a new band to listen to, check out my friend's band:
Avoca Dos

Avoca Dos Myspace

They're from Madison and pretty amazing.

Bright Eyes

Conor Oberst is only going to do one more album under the name Bright Eyes.
His label says he's going to record it the first half of next year.

I'm starting to lose faith in him a little after 'Outer South.'
There was only like, 2 good songs on that album.
And after hearing the first Monsters Of Folk song,
"Say Please"
I'm even less impressed.

Is Conor Oberst growing up, or am I?

Goodnight, Goodbye

Finally got "Goodnight, Goodbye" by Ivory.
It's as good as you would think.
Kind of proves that Appleton isn't a shit-hole and good things can actually come out of here.
IVORY
Go buy that shit on iTunes, yo.

Name Ten Things

Every Saturday I'm going to be putting up a list from now on.
I guess I'll call this "Name Ten Things"
Here's the first try:

Ten Albums I Can't Stop Listening To Right Now:
1) The Rural Alberta Advantage - "Hometowns"
2) Harlem Shakes - "Technicolor Health"
3) Plants And Animals - "Parc Avenue"
4) Alanis Morisette - "The Collection"
5) Discovery - "LP"
6) Bowerbirds - "Upper Air"
7) Cymbals Eat Guitars - "Why There Are Mountains"
8) Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground - "s/t"
9) Phoenix - "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix"
10) The Unicorns - "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?"