Tags of the week - June 9, 2010

As with everything else around here, it's been over a week since I last posted some tags, but it's been a little hectic around these parts lately.  There are so many songs tagged in my phone right now, it was like narrowing it all down and weeding out the most relevant this time around.  I'm not sure I'll ever be short on tags to post.  Now that May and my 30 day challenge is over, it's like I forgot how fun it was to blog (almost) every day.  Anyway, without further ado, here's five songs that are hitting me this week, and why.

1) Fanfarlo - Harold T. Wilkins, or How to Wait for a Very Long Time.

I love this song. Part of why this made the list this week is because Fanfarlo is playing a free outdoor show in Providence this Friday evening. Waterplace Park, 7:30 pm. I'll be there, will you?

2) The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition

Okay, I confess that I didn't actually tag this song, but I love it, and my friend M just sent me a text about it, so it's fresh in my head. You can thank M if you're into the tune.

3) Against Me! - I was a Teenage Anarchist

This should have been in the last round of tags, it's been in my phone for so long, and it's been tagged more than twice. It has just the right mix of fun and angst. I love it.

4) Coheed & Cambria - Here We Are Juggernaut

Love. I know C&C aren't anyone new, and I don't know how new this song is, but I'm really into it. It's a little more harsh than some of the other stuff I've been listening to lately, but awesome nonetheless. We were stupid we got caught . . .

5) Bushwalla - I Raise Up

OMG. BW is playing house shows on the east coast this month, and I can't afford to get him at my house. Nor can I count on enough people coming through to chip in to be able to afford to front the money myself. And he's available when I am and everything; I already checked. I could totally do it if I could only justify the cash outlay. BUMMA. B-U-M-M-A. I absolutely hate that I have this opportunity, and can't take advantage. I love his style and his music SO much, and I really and truly want to introduce him to more people that I know would feel the same way. He's also playing a show in MA (an hour and a half away) at the end of the month, and I need to go to that. Seriously, you guys, he's so awesome. New album came out this week, and even though it's not on the radio and capable of being tagged, this is the first single. I couldn't not promote my boy. Check. Him. OUT!

Shazam! Tags of the Week - May 19

On my old phone, I used to use VCast from Verizon to identify songs that I liked on the radio.  When I switched to an android phone, I lost VCast.  But I gained Shazam.  It's a fabulous music identification app, for all kinds of phones.  You just push "tag now" and hold the phone up to the speaker, and it tells you the song title, artist and album.  I love it.

So, I've decided that I'm going to start posting some of my weekly (or bi-weekly, at the rate I manage to update my blog) favorite tags.  A top 5 of whatever tags I have in my phone, I guess.  I generally know nothing about a lot of the bands that I'll be posting about, these are just radio songs (mostly college radio, some just random rock radio) that I've discovered in the past week or so, and sort of fallen in love with.  Some might be brand spanking new, some might be sort of old - I have no idea.  Chances are, once I have some more time, you'll be hearing about a lot of these bands again, though.  This is installment number one.

1) LAY ME DOWN - Dirty Heads feat. Rome

I'm starting to wonder if I could ever get sick of this song.  It reminds me A LOT of Sublime, but maybe a little more rap-ish, and yet happy and fun at the same time - almost a cross between Sublime and Citizen Cope.  It's effing great.  Based on this song alone, I might need this album very soon.


2) MOUNTAIN MAN - The Crash Kings

I've tagged this a few times.  I always think of it as the "afterlife song," because I never remember the name of it (hence the multiple tags).  It's modern rock, along the same lines as Cage the Elephant, I guess.  Good stuff.

3) THE HIGH ROAD - Broken Bells

This is sort of unique, sort of electronic and ethereal at the same time.  I don't know- it caught my ear.


4) SPACESHIP - Puddle of Mudd

Puddle of Mudd is obviously not a new band, but I don't know how old this song is.  All I know is that I've tagged it about 4 times in the past couple of weeks, because I keep forgetting who it is, and I want to save it in my phone so that next time I go hunting iTunes for new stuff, I remember to buy it.  I think it's pretty standard PoM, but it's so catchy, and somehow sort of hot at the same time.

5) LETTERS FROM THE SKY - Civil Twilight

This is sort of haunting, sort of beautiful - it reminds me a little of Radiohead/Coldplay, I think, but maybe that's just the singer's voice.  Either way, it's a pretty great song.

Enjoy, and stay tuned for further random Shazam recommendations!