Get On The Bandwagon

I have been listening to a lot of the new tracks that have been popping up here and there from all the hip bands all the kids are listening to. On the top of my list right now is the new Modest Mouse song, "Dashboard" from We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank. It's poppy, catchy, and extremely parasitic. I want to be driving cross country sweating in an old junker blaring this song through the radio, windows down with the car packed to the gils.

The new Shins album, Wincing The Night Away is worth the wait for those of you that haven't heard it yet. The first single "Phantom Limb" delivers what you would expect from the "New Slang" guys. Whenever I see James Mercer or read something about him I begin to understand how depressed that guy is. He looks like that quite kid in high school that always had something to say but was quashed by the rest of the class.

If you didn't know that The Arcade Fire are playing 5 shows at a church in New York City you can forget about even trying to go. Unless you have a really good friend or close to a thousand dollars you aren't going to get in. I was lucky enough to get two tickets to one of the shows, thanks tickets.com. When it comes to concerts that popular I really think they should be run on a lottery or something. There are a few tracks running around from Arcade Fire's forthcoming Neon Bible. You can probably track down Intervention, and Black Mirror, everything else has been taken down.

All the cool kids have been listening to these guys for years. Are you cool?