ihavebeenfloated

It’s been a while. My best music of 2006 (edit – this originally said 2005. what the hell!) list is coming. I swear. I’m working on that one in my head. I have no idea how I’m supposed to pick a number one. In a year of overwhelmingly uninteresting releases, the few decent ones were [...]

This is an order. A direct order. From God. You must listen to The Black Angels.

You can hear some of their songs on Their Myspace

And here are some live videos: Black Grease, Manipulation, some other song.

Seriously, if you are a fan of any of the following: The Doors, The Velvet Underground, general 70’s psychedelia, political [...]

I haven’t written about any music in a while. Just haven’t really been driven to write about anything lately. This year has been really weak as far as music goes. That’s really sad. There’s a lot of stuff I haven’t listened to but no releases have really excited me.

Until I found out that Cat Stevens [...]

Pitchfork updated their record reviews section with a new look.

Only problem is… well, two problems.

1.) It’s kind of ugly and confusing looking.

2.) They’ve removed the rating of the album from the listings.

So, my old—and slightly embarrassing—process of going through Pitchfork and making a list of albums that got high ratings and reading the reviews of [...]

Eels are playing at the Sunset Junction festival on August 26th. Don’t forget this. $12. The Elected, too.

Marlinda took me to see Eels tonight. The show was unbelievable, way better than their With Strings CD would have you know. It was practically a Souljacker era show, but even heavier and more rock oriented. Hearing heavy versions of songs like I Like Birds and nearly a rock ballad version of I’m Going to [...]

Just a blurb.

The opening song for this album, “Goin’ Against Your Mind,” is one of the finest pieces of straight alternative rock I’ve heard in quite a while. At nearly nine minutes long, it’s by no means brief, and the best part of the song—the opening, before any vocals start at all—clocks in at about [...]

I’d already listened to this album due to the fact that they streamed it for free a long while back.

I finally got my grubby paws on it.

Ahh… bliss. There might be more words here later but I can predict they will consist mostly of: this is an excellent album that far surpasses everything The Essex [...]