Make love to inanimate objects!

Music related news falls into seasonal trends almost as consistently as sports. During the summertime, news of festival performers, reunion tours, and pop-hook driven, hand-clap laden albums floods the Internet headquarters (otherwise known as your computer). As leaves begin to shade themselves like a paint-by-numbers, evergreen trees remain the same colour, and college-bound douche-bags whip out their acoustic guitars, we tend to get wordof folk-inspired Americana, of Dylan Thomas sweaters and ruffled hair, coupled with some minor chords and an amateur harmonica player. Besides those that continually break this seasonal mould, who may be just as monotonous as those who don't, we generally know what to expect of the blogosphere each season, and therefore, we have started to draw unnecessary comparisons between what an album/song sounds like, and the time of it's release. There is, thankfully, a time between. As I suffer from an obsession with all things delicately placed between A & B (I'd like to think of them as infinity!), it seems that many of my favourite artists do as well. So, while the music world takes it's much needed, but never heeded. break from the cavalcade of early September releases, andthe hectic releases that occur between Octoberand early December, those of us who aren't held by the great metaphysical cinder block that is high school (or who just don't do their homework) rejoice! Like hibernating bears, or just really strategic fat kids, we have hoarded our music like food. Alas! The time has come for us to lift up our fictitious paws/the loose floorboard near the closet and reveal the berries/Snicker's bars that we've been caressing all summer long. Enjoy yourselves!

Apparently, Geography class has lied to us all regarding the reason why there are mountains! It's a good thing none of us paid attention to that lesson.

In the depths of a foreign exotic land (known to the locals as Staten Island, New York), a group of brave and thoughtful young men decided to do what brave and thoughtful young men (usually with the accompaniment of a cute Asian keyboardist) do best: start a band. And start they did! The brain child of guitarist/voxman Joseph "Ferocious" D'Agostino and drummer Matthew Miller is called Cymbals Eat Guitars. I'm almost positive that I've ranted and raved about these men on the internet, but after finally hearing their self released debut, Why There Are Mountains, they have cemented themselves with superglue into my best new artists of the year list. Honed chops definitely peak through on this near-perfect album, mixing beautifully distorted guitar riffs with the most... fun? screaming verse that I have ever heard. Listen below!

Wind Phoenix (Live on WOXY) - Cymbals Eat Guitars

My Girls! My Boys? My gender-confused song titles?!

Imagine yourself as a burgeoning hipster in the year 2006, and your current musical obsession is a little Swedish group known as Peter, Bjorn and John. Now, imagine your shock, and utter dismay, at the fact that their hit single "Young Folks" because just that... a hit single. After completely detaching yourself from this newly dubbed "mainstream" piece of pop perfection, as well as rushing to purchase the new Jens Lekman album, you never did bother to learn whose charming, slightly lisp-afflicted, female voice that was singing on that song, did you? The name of this delightful young songstress is Victoria Bergsman (under the guise Taken By Trees), former lead singer of The Concretes. But, dear reader, how can you keep listening to her amazing music while still keeping up your pretentious front? Wait, what's that? She's covered Animal Collective on her new album? No fucking way!

My Boys - Taken By Trees

Relevant news of the universe... the Campbell's Condensed version!

- Pavement Reunite! Kid's with thick rimmed glasses shit their tight jeans!

- Weezer is releasing a new album that will most likely sound like Make Believe!

- Kanye West remains hilarious!

- Andrew Bird and St. Vincent embark on a megatron tour!

- So many fucking albums are released that I feel I must bring everyone up to speed with tomorrow's post!

- One of these albums is the highly anticipated Vampire Weekend album, which will probably still sound like the first Vampire Weekend album.

Until tomorrow?!

Keep your naked flesh under your favourite dress.

Hello, good evening, grand audience, and welcome to the Looks Like Coffee, Tastes Like Juice cabaret! Today, we have a very exciting (unless you don't find it exciting, in which case, it's not exciting) post, which will feature a new St. Vincent song, I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business, and a little message from our friends at Interpol. So, put a helmet on, get yourself a glass of water, and prepare your mind for this weeks edition. Enjoy.

A Message From Interpol?

"It's been a long time. We shouldn't have left you...

After the touring for OLTA came to an end, we all dispersed to tend to our individual personal lives.
...And to get our ducks in a row.

Now the band has reconvened, and we are rehearsing new songs.

We find ourselves marveling at the tremendous focus
that has defined our early rehearsals for this, our 4th effort.

All kidding aside, we feel like a new band.

Once again, we have no concept to this batch of song-writing.
(We are often asked about our intentions when we set out to write music.)
There is rarely any intention to this process.
We just make the music.

And without going into too much detail, the songs sound vital.

It's as though we've hit upon a balance between our urgency and
our calm. And true to our better work, this is music that unravels over time.

We anticipate that, once it's done, you high-minded folks will welcome the music...
into your bedrooms...to swagger and breathe...

It's still early, yet, though. We will keep you posted.

In the meantime, a couple of us have kept ourselves busy with extra-curricular activities. Carlos has made a film called My Friends Told Me About You and Sam has released a record with his band Magnetic Morning.

And we hope that you're all weathering well the turmoil of the age.

Lovingly,

Interpol"

Is anyone besides myself looking forward to that album an insane amount? Probably not.

St. Vincent's Actors!

St. Vincent, the clever moniker for Ms. Annie Clark, is back with her sophomore album this May, entitled Actors. Ms. Clark wrote/arranged the 11 songs and sings, plays guitar, bass, and keys, but brought on some additional players like Hideaki Aomori (Sufjan Stevens), Alex Sopp (Björk, Phillip Glass), and increased the rhythm section with Midlake's McKenzie Smith and Paul Alexander. There's also French horn, violin, sarongi, bass, and percussion. I definitely felt inadequate after reading that list as well, so don't feel bad. '

Do I have the tracklisting for you? Of course I do.

01 "The Strangers"
02 "Save Me From What I Want"
03 "Neighbors"
04 "Actor Out of Work"
05 "Black Rainbow"
06 "Laughing With a Mouth of Blood"
07 "Marrow"
08 "The Bed"
09 "The Party"
10 "Just the Same But Brand New"
11 "The Sequel"

I also have the first song off the album, entitled "The Strangers" to share with you as well.

The Strangers - St. Vincent

They Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business?

The Best Happiness Money Can Buy - I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business