I KNEW I forgot some more albums I was looking forward to.
Spinnerette
Their album will be out sometime in 2009. I believe they are releasing it themselves. I bought their Ghetto Love EP off their website and it is pretty sick. It came with a few songs and a great music video made by Liam Lynch.
St. Vincent- Actor
May 5, 2009
If you look down a post, you will see that this artist has quite recently piqued my interest. And lucky for me, she has a new album coming out in a couple months.
I love when this happens.I was wandering around the interwebs last night at 1am, and I was utterly lost and spent on life for that day. I wandered over to Vimeo.com and checked out the Staff Picks, and I found this charm:
I ran to iTunes after watching this whole thing and took a listen to her album. I was put off at first because it wasn’t acoustic like this performance, but a little longer of listening showed me how awesome the album really is. I officially bought it over iTunes. I usually NEVER buy over iTunes, but CD’s suck and she is possibly not on a selfish label. She deserves the money, and THAT is how you make it in today’s music “industry”. You deserve it.
Her album “Marry Me” has been on repeat on my iPod all day. I tried to listen to something else, but I couldn’t get away from it when I tried.
Buy it at iTunes
The countdown had hit “HAPPY NEW YEAR!” and I foresaw a mediocre year ahead. January brought no hope either. Then as February moved forward, 2009 became a giant anticipation beast full of many treats ahead. A plethora of entertainment and knowledge. A multiple orgasm experience.
Blink-182
I can’t talk about 2009 without mentioning the continuation of Blink-182. Up until the announcement at the Grammy’s my hope for such a thing was at rock-bottom, or even forgotten. I became a teenage girl again and blasted Blink-182 songs for a week straight.
I spent my days from ages 14-18 listening to Blink, and when I got out of high school and hit real life I expanded, grew. I realized that I should not keep my musical tastes so narrowly focused. Bands that I had shunned for no other reason than they weren’t Blink were suddenly on my radar, and I loved them. I stopped deciding on music for political reasons, and started listening to music because it was GOOD music.
When Blink-182 came back, I faced a dilemma. This dilemma lasted about 30 seconds: Do I ignore this? Just act like I think it’s cool, but I’m so past this? or; Do I go apeshit and jump and scream like a little girl, and fully embrace my true Blink obsessed roots? I chose the latter, and immediately ordered a Blink-182 six-arrow logo shirt and sweatshirt.
2009 Albums
Little did I know the many albums that I would be looking forward to.
Green Day- “21st Century Breakdown”
Another epic masterpiece rock opera to follow up the epic masterpiece rock opera called American Idiot.
New Found Glory- “Not Without A Fight”
I have been listening to New Found Glory for many years now, since their second album. They kind of had a down slope with their past two efforts, but seem to be going back upwards.
Stephen Lynch- “3 Balloons”
One of my favorite comedians. I know there are some singing comedian haters out there, but the guy is fucking hilarious. The first song I heard from this guy was “Special Olympics” and I was in the 6th grade. I got to see him perform 10 minutes from my house this past summer. I’m nervous about this album because they decided to record in studio as opposed to the usual live set-up. There seems to be a lot of extra bells and whistles that I fear will be distractingly dumb for something like this.
The Avett Brothers
I just found this band a month ago and absolutely love them. They are unlike anything I usually listen to, sporting all acoustic songs usually involving banjo. They are finishing up their new record to be released this year.
They are in the studio right now, and will be touring in the summer. The album will probably be released in the fall. I was reading an interview that AP did with Mark Hoppus and he was talking about how they haven’t even played as a band yet. The way the record is they all have song ideas and they put them together BEFORE actually playing them. I think it is a cool method of making songs, and hope it is their best album yet.
Dane Cook- Isolated Incident
Dane Cook’s new comedy album should be an interesting one. He performs for 20-30 people at the laugh factory, and might possibly be funnier than his last mediocre effort. I think it is now a good time to go back to his other albums that I have laid to rest for a year or so, maybe.
The White Stripes
They are planning a 2009 summer release. Fuck yes, anyone?
So that’s the music portion of my 2009 anticipation. I haven’t even gotten started on the films yet.
Last night I am sitting idly at my computer. My phone rings, “Josie” by Blink-182 is the ringtone, and my friend Ian says “RYAN BLINK-182 IS BACK TOGETHER!! TURN ON THE GRAMMY’S”. Now at this moment here’s what went through my head:
1. Ian loves to play pranks.
2. The Grammy’s are on?
3. I am an internet nut and find everything out before everyone else, HOW could i miss this?
So I flip out and turn on my TV to the Grammy’s (thank god the analog signal is still up, I’d have been screwed) and ON my FUCKING TELEVISION is MARK, TOM and FUCKING TRAVIS!
I never got the chance to see Blink-182 on tour, during their prime era of the self-titled album. And now I get to see them on a fucking reunion tour with a new album. HOLY FUCKING SHIT! Sorry, the outbursts will happen. First thoughts are that this new album is going to kick fucking ass, because these guys KNOW there is no way they can afford to screw this up. And they also know that they can afford a LOT now, this will be the most money they have made in their entire career.
I can’t even describe the fucking joy I have right now. I grew up with these guys, and then I moved on and grew up a little. But I’m saying fuck growing up, Blink-182 is back!
I have obviously gone and bought two brand new Blink-182 peices of merch:
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