Modern Minstrels

So Much Music Goodness

Lot's of music news for me today. Seems like music is mostly what I post about in this blog, but oh well. First up, new tour I just found out about: Fall Out Boy, Rufio, Mae, Motion City Soundtrack, and Northstar will be at the Grog Shop October 14th. I'm definitely going to this show, and I actually have mp3s or CDs of all the bands. Mae sounds a bit like Jimmy Eat World, and has several very catchy songs. Motion City Soundtrack I just found out about less than a week ago. Their song, The Future Freaks Me Out, has been getting a fair amount of play on my iPod. I have a couple Northstar mp3s, though I haven't listened to them much yet. Also, Saves The Day and Taking Back Sunday are at the Agora September 24. I missed Taking Back Sunday at least twice last year, so I'd kind of like to catch this concert too.

Something Corporate posted previews of two new songs, Space and Down, on their website today. Here's a direct link to the Real Media stream. There are also Windows Media streams available on their site, but you need to register to be able to listen to the streams from the site. I'm really looking forward to this album, which is supposed to be out Oct 21.

Finally, Mike has a bit of webspace for "songs of the moment". I reccomend everything there of course. :-) But if you have limited bandwith definitely grab the Brand New and Yellowcard mp3s first. The new Dashboard song, Hands Down, is also excellent. It's on the ITMS as a single, so I bought it the other week. I'd agree with Mike that it's my favorite DC song. The Hum song, is one Finch covered when they were on Jimmy Kimmel a month or so ago. Hadn't heard of them before, so I'm glad to hear the original version. Anyway, I think he's going to be updating it pretty regularly, so keep checking back for new stuff.

Ok, I lied that wasn't the last thing. I bought the new Thrice album, The Artist in the Ambulance, from the ITMS last night. Once again Mike was telling me how good it was, so I figured what the hell, I'm going to buy it at some point, so it might as well be now. It's a lot heavier than a lot of the other bands I've been listening to lately, so it was a good change of pace, and makes excellent biking music. Highly recommended.

That's the music news for today, at some point over the weekend I'll post about the Ben Folds concert.