I have nothing else to say today, so I thought I should subject you to what I’ve been listening to lately.
Alcest - Souvenirs D’un Autre Monde
Shoegaze Black Metal is the description, I think. I’m not sure why I love this album so much, but it’s just really damn good.
*Shels - Sea of the Dying Dhow
Yes, […]

The “it’s been ages since I’ve done this” edition.
Blackfield - Glow
The Dresden Dolls - Me & The Minibar
Evergrey - End of your Days
Agalloch - Falling Snow
Porcupine Tree - Stars Die
Pink Floyd - San Tropez
Anathema - Make it Right
Minsk - Wisp of Tow
Impaled - We Belong Dead
Rachel’s - Expect Delays
Not that I typically post on Fridays […]

I came across this link a week or so ago. The top video is a very cool video for Rush’s Malignant Narcissism, off Snakes & Arrows. Enjoy.

Live Earth was this past weekend. I watched some it whatever HD channel it was on, catching RHCP, Keane (never heard of them), Metallica, and Alicia Keys. Alright, so technically I had to change the channel after a minute of whatever horrific piece of music Keys started off with, but those are the bands I […]

This place needs more music posts. There’s nothing like me recommending bands no one cares about to my three readers. So here we go, top 5 from the first half of 2007 (in no particular order).
Do Make Say Think - You, You’re a History in Rust
This has become one of my favorite post-rock CDs. The […]

So that’s twice I’ve seen Marriott ads with Andrew Bird songs in them. I’m all for better music on TV, but I wasn’t expecting that.
If you don’t know who Andrew Bird is, go here.

It just slips out occasionally:

So I just bought Dark Tranquillity’s Fiction (an excellent CD, by the way). There seems to be a problem, however: I can’t rip the CD. Well, I can, but it’s sort of odd. In Sound Juicer everything pops up and rips just fine, but there’s a crackling sound in the background of every song. Weird. […]

This is fascinating. Your musical preferences reflect your personality to a significant degree. Perhaps not the most surprising result, but interesting nonetheless.
The STOMP results were fed into a factor analysis, which yielded four factors, or dimensions, of musical preferences. Rentfrow and Gosling labeled these dimensions “Reflective and Complex,” which included the genres blues, jazz, […]

I’m trying not to listen to the two leaked Porcupine Tree songs on my hard drive. It’s working so far.
Obviously, I’m not holding out once the whole thing leaks.
If you think this is strange, check out PT’s lead on my top artists list and go listen to them here.