Jenny Lewis and the various Jenny Lewis-related projects are like a recurring "sleeper" in my iTunes. I hated With Arms Outstretched until sometime over the past few months, and I'm pretty sure I didn't even like We Will Become Silhouettes (as Postal Service songs go) until later on. Maybe I'm going to have a resurgence of 80s and 90s sitcoms/films in my life, too.

anyways, I just wanted to keep this somewhere:

Lines I really like (if at least inexplicably) from Rise Up With Fists!!!

What are you changing?
Who do you think you're changing?
You can't change things, we're…

…my friend Kris
…western pitch delineation and the finitude it creates
…the Communists

My friend Kris once played Blame it on the Tetons right after The Bitter End to point out the similarity of chords and melody, and now I can't listen to one without following it with the other. So distracting.

(I haven't journaled in forever, and this is what I leave you?)

This shameless plug is overdue.

Matt and Isom
atmospheric electronic rock from Colorado
read the full interview // download their full album

A few favorite quotes and moments: (some were edited out)

"(Isom) We want people to have Thanksgiving dinner at our shows." "(Matt) Literally have Thanksgiving dinner." "Like, we have our own stains on our sofa and our own moldy cottage cheese but it's, like, ours, you know? We're still working towards that too, but that's what we want to do."

"Matt has looked, like, twenty-three since he was about fourteen, and he looks pretty much like exactly the…

tt Lester is my favorite band ever.
I can't get over it.

Fact #2: "Chariots of Fire" is a really epic way to start the day.

As some of you may know (not likely), a glorious thing did happen on the eighth of March, two thousand and eight, common era. It was a sunny Saturday morning in the suburbs of Denver when I was finally presented with my very first fully functioning record player.

Back in the day, my dad used to run the phonograph on Saturday and Sunday mornings, blasting John Philip Sousa at a volume not unlike if the marching band had been playing in our own home. It was kind of a cruel way to wake up the kids for church, but it…

I used to derile the notion that bass was meant only to be felt and never heard, that poor old Paul or Jaco or Andy Rourke was meant to be silenced, muted and left for only a physical role.

But now I get it.

And I finally understood it not from some funk record or jazz night or a deep house rave. I learned it from Explosions in the Sky traveling deeply up my calves and through my knees and over my stomach and into my strongest arteries.

Front and center. It was one of the most mind-blowing concert experiences…

I'M SEEING EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY LIVE. FOR MY BIRTHDAY.

NOT. KIDDING.

This is kind of a dream. They are on a short list of bands I absolutely must see live (only one other band immediately comes to mind), and it's ten days after my birthday, and it's on my spring break, and I am absolutely thrilled.

My brother bought me two tickets. It's my birthday present, since the Denver show is ten days after. I don't know who to take. I don't know who would really share my enthusiasm without annoying me. Does that sound awful? It probably is…

Monolith Festival at Red Rocks

Two weeks later…

If you've never heard a singer's passion echo off the mountains and into a crowd of 9,000, or felt the vibration of a bass seep through your feet and into geological history, or caught the Denver lights from a thousand feet above the mile high city, put Red Rocks Ampitheatre on your list of destinations before you die. On September 14th and 15th Monolith Festival made its Red Rocks debut with over 50 bands, including Cake, The Decemberists, Kings Of Leon, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Flaming Lips, Spoon, Art Brut,…

Well I wrote this a few weeks ago, but anyways…
As I'm in the middle of some reviews (and in the middle of some writer's block), I felt like venting about some of the things that have been annoying me with some Christian music.
-Bands that sound like: matchbox twenty, Train, Vertical Horizon, 3 Doors Down, Coldplay, Augustana…
-Bands that sound like bands that no one listens to anymore, such as matchbox twenty, Train, Vertical Horizon…
-The line "I've been here before" and things like it. Because I know my ears have too.
-Cue: epic strings, approximately 40% into the…

No? No one else going to Broomstock? Seriously, it's free, pizza's only a buck, there are booths and student art and thirty-three great local (Colorado) bands!

Line-up:
11-11:15 The Lasting Effect
11:15-11:30 Whaler
11:30-11:45 Mighty Minnesota
11:45-12 The Bloodshed Ensemble
12-12:30 Me Llamo Rosa
12:30-12:45 The Uninvited
12:45-1 The Great White Fleet
1-1:15 Auburn Avenue
1:15-1:45 The Contender Series
1:45-2 Jim Starr
2-2:15 Animal Crowd
2:15-2:30 Monroe
2:30-3 Animo
3-3:15 Run For Your Life
3:15-3:30 Aloft in the Sundry
3:30-4 Jason Vigil
4-4:15 The Decaying Process
4:15-4:45 Saving Verona
4:45-5 Kemper
5-5:30 Tickle Me Pink
5:30-5:45 Abiline
5:45-6 Reunion…