Morrison Hotel - The Doors

In the everlasting purpose and quest of starting shit off right, I do implore you to start the summer off correctly by listening to and, or, having on hand, Morrison Hotel. If you're like me, you've got specific albums you listen to at certain points throughout the year, and this is my all time, gotta have it, summer album. Roadhouse Blues, Land Ho!, and Peace Frog are just a few of the amazing tracks featured on this 1970's album. If you don't have this, go get it. Blood in the streets of fantastic LA, damn!

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

I had originally intended to use this blog to complain about all the music I hate, which is most of it. But now I'm finding that it's more fun to talk about the music I actually like. That brings us to our next entry - Phoenix. Why won't this band go away? There is absolutely nothing special about this band. It's like the indie rock version of Maroon 5. On top of it all they named their album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. That's not even clever or funny. It's just dumb. Fuck these guys.

Varnaline - Songs in a Northern Key

Maybe it's a sign of getting older but my music choices have mellowed out considerably since high school. When I first listened to Varnaline's Songs in a Norther Key all I could think was, why haven't I heard this yet? This has everything I love about music right now. Acoustics, a whiskey soaked voice, the occasional distorted bass (!?) and a melody that gets you stuck humming it for days. If I was 16 I would hate this.

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