Music for the Weekend - Flight Facilities

This is a cute little song. Kinda cheeky. Happy Weekend!

Crave You (Featuring Giselle) by Flight Facilities

 

Snazzy Tunes - Radical Face

This came up on the ol' shuffle today and seemed like a fitting song as we transition into fall. This is one of those songs that I would consider a movie song.. you know in movies when some dramatic event happens and the main character is going through some moment of inspiration or realization? Like when a man realizes he let the girl of his dreams get away so he rushes to the airport to catch her before her plane leaves for Antarctica? This is the type of song that would be playing in the background.

Radical Face - Welcome Home

 

Music for the weekend - Grimes

In case you haven't heard of grimes then you should probably stop what you are doing right now and listen to her/wikipedia her.

My boyfriend, roommate, and I have some strange facination with her (Claire Boucher). I don't know what it is but she is so interesting! Her and her boyfriend built a wooden boat stocked full of chickens, potatoes, and a typewriter and sailed down the Mississippi river. How crazy is that?

Like I said.. Wikipedia her.

Her album "Visions" was released in January and it is by far one of my favorites of anything I've heard this year.

This is a video for her most popular song "Oblivion". Crank it up, dance to it, roll your windows down and get weird looks from people. It's great.

 

 

Next... check out the newest video for her song "Genesis". I could do without the weird metal suit/constipated face girl.. but I sure do love the song.

 

 

 

Snazzy Tunes - The Cinematic Orchestra

This isn't a new song for me but I have been listenening to it a lot this week. I first heard it in the movie trailer for Another Earth (great movie, I highly recommend it). I immediately had to search it out and figure out who sang it.

It is such a gorgeous song! Give a listen..

 

To Build A Home by The Cinematic Orchestra

 

Snazzy Tunes - The Drums

Note: This post probably spurns from the fact that I am still bitter about their show at Urban Lounge getting cancelled a couple weeks ago. I was pretty much devistated. Too sick to perform?? Pshhh...

I heard The Drums a while back and have adored them ever since. They have such an old sound which I love. Think Beach Boys gone indie + a little smidge of The Smiths.

They've gone through some major changes over the past couple years with the lead singer leaving the band. They have a few albums, the most recent of which is Portamento. I highly recommend giving it a listen.

The Drums - "Money"

For you fellow Utahns... You might recognize their "Lets Go Surfing" song from the lagoon commercial last year. I never knew Lagoon was so hip..

The Twilight Concert Series Lineup Announced

I have anxiously been awaiting this all morning.. the Twilight Concert Series lineup was just announced. Woohoo!

For those of you not in Salt Lake.. this is a series of  concerts that the Salt Lake City Arts Council puts on each summer in downtown Salt Lake. In past years the event has been free, but this year they have decided to start charging a nominal fee. I personally am okay with paying a few bucks for these shows... it will help weed out the idiots and transients.

This years line up:

July 5th - Beach House / The Walkmen
July 12th - Raphael Saadiq / JJ Grey & Mofro
July 19th - NAS/ Tinie Tempah
July 26th - Band of Horses / Lower Dens
August 2nd - My Morning Jacket / TJoshua James
August 9th - Passion Pit / Austra
August 16th - Iron & Wine / Kathleen Edwards
August 23rd - M. Ward / DeVotchKa
August 30th - Common / Aloe Blacc

Twilight Concert Series Website

Woohoo!!!!! Me and my roomie, Amanda, totally called Beach House and M.Ward coming... we are the best twilight detectives ever!

This will for sure be a good time.

Beach House - Zebra