Album Lounge: Some Loud Thunder
Some Loud Thunder
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are heading off to Hollywood. The Brooklyn buzz band has won over the hearts of not only us, their adoring fans, but some major movie execs. Turns out CYHSY postponed several (5!) Midwest tour dates to jet off to Tinseltown so they could appear in The Great Buck Howard, alongside Oscar winner Tom Hanks, John Malkovich, Emily Blunt and Hank’s son, Colin Hanks. And, how cute... Hanks & Hanks get to play house in the flick, as the father son duo wil... MORE
Here's the playlist from my not-so-stellar radio show last night. But I felt compelled to not let another week go by without doing a show. You can stream it here. And there's podcast xml here if you want to subscribe to my show.
1. The Zambonis - Ode to a Minor League Mascot (Buddy'sMore Songs About Hockey and Buildings and Food
2. The Bats - I FallThe Law of Things
3. Andrew Bird - Dear Old Greenland... MORE
You know , the new Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! is quite good , it is quirky , groovy , fresh and refreshing . i really enjoy the singers voice and the band has a really unique way of building up then tearing down. In fact the more I listen , the more epic this album sounds. Its full of big sounds without sounding pushy or over produced. Songs like "Yankee go home" and "Satan said dance" have a jangly kind of vibe , and the song like "Emily Jean Stock" and others have a more tra... MORE
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February has apparently been designated as "Album Writing Month." The NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month -- http://www.nanowrimo.org) style competition has people writing fourteen songs in twenty-eight days for a daily creative mad-dash in a creative marathon.
And I will be creatively huffing and puffing at the end of it. Not to mention that my GPA will die a sordid death. Who's coming along?
(And, on a side note, "Underwater (You an... MORE
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adam judy of
i got my copy this morning. might review it after giving it a good listen through tonight. im super excited as im a big fan which happens to be the one thing putting me off of reviewing it as im inclined to be biased. as an interesting sidenote, i was once mistaken for a member of CYHSY by a boy out of bloc party. true story. now im gonna sink into my headphones.... MORE



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