Musical Musings 1

(picture from weheartit. aren't they adorable?)

I love music, like... a lot. So I thought I might share with you some new music that I've found and enjoy greatly. This song is a free download that is available through the amazing Said The Gramophone for a short time. If you click the link it will play in your iTunes, or you can right click and save it to your desktop and keep it forevers!
So this is Troubles Will Be Gone by The Tallest Man on Earth. TTMoE (it's easier this way...) also does a song I love called "A Field of Birds". It's rather folky and Bob Dylan-ish, which is surprising because he's Finnish or something. Either way give the song a whirl, I think it's fantastic.

The rest of the downloads are from the blog Music For Ants, which you should definitely add to your blog reader because they consistently have awesome music and great downloads.

The first song is by Jónsi, who was in Sigur Ros, another freaking amazing band. Unfortunately Sigur Ros are on permanent hiatus, which is such a loss for the music world. If you're interested check out their song Gobbledigook. LOVE IT.
But the free download is called Go Do by Jónsi. (Once again click link to hear it, or right click to save it.) If you go to Music For Ants they also have another Jónsi song called Tornados.

Another great band discovered from Music For Ants is Local Natives. Music For Ants compares them a bit to Fleet Foxes (who I love) but with more spontanaity. Gotta love that. Here is a download to their song Wide Eyes, but there's also a download on Music for Ants of their cover of The Talkings Heads' Warning Sign, which is amazing.

So thats a rundown of some of the awesome free downloads of new/rising bands available right now in the blogosphere. (Keep in mind that sometimes artists contact the blogs asking for them to remove the songs, and the blogs usually remove them after a certain time period anyways, so those links will only be good for a short time!)

In other music news I'm still blasting Cloud Cult, Mountaingoats, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Andrew Bird like it's going to save my life. The other band, which I believe I heard of through Music for Ants (big surprise, huh?) almost a year ago is Slow Club, who are amazing. Here's a vid just to prove it: (yeah I just pulled out Battle School slang... top that.)


I hope my fellow Californians enjoyed their deliciously warm weather today (85 degrees F in MARCH!), I'm looking forward to day 3 of this heat wave tomorrow!
Have a lovely evening.