Bright Eyes - Four Winds EP

This is Bright Eyes (AKA Conor Oberst). He is from Nebraska. He is the Bob Dylan on this generation. His vocals are always pained and ripe with feeling. This is off his EP entitled Four Winds. It comes out in March 9, 2007. It is a six song teaser to get our mouths wet for his twelfth album which comes out later this year! And he is only 27! This EP reigns in his eclectic style and makes it a little friendlier for those not used to his style. He started putting out albums as a teenager so this album really is starting to show his late 20's side of his personality. If you like this song you will love the rest of the Four Winds EP.

Bloc Party - I Still Remember \ The Prayer

Wow. Ok I loved Bloc Party's Silent Alarm. And then Weekend in the City came out. And I sort of liked it. Then I listened to it again, and then again. This is not Silent Alarm. This is soooooo much more. This adds a whole nother depth to this band. Absolutely brilliant. Every song soars in epic waves and crashing drums. I highly recommend it. It seems to be a story of a guy that takes a trip to the city for the weekend to visit a lover. I only drool more when I found there are 12 other tracks floating around that didnt make the album. But they are available on the Japanese and Canandian imports and ITunes. Don't walk.... run! Go get the album you will nto be disapointed. This is the video for "I Still Remember". A great song about unrealized love.

Bloc Party has been together since 2002, with names such as Superheroes of BMX, The Angel Range, Diet, and Union, before settling on Bloc Party in September 2003. Band members Kele Okereke and Russell Lissack have formed the fulcrum of these various incarnations, and were subsequently joined by bassist Gordon Moakes who answered an advert in the NME, and most recently drummer Matt Tong. Lissack and singer/guitarist Kele Okereke first met in 1998 in Essex, where Lissack had grown up and Okereke attended school. Lissack attended Bancroft's School and Okereke attended Ilford County High School until 16 then Trinity School for sixth form. They bumped into each other again in 1999 at the Reading Festival and soon after formed the band Union.

In 2003 they changed their name from Union to Bloc Party. The name is a play on block party,[1] a name for an informal neighbourhood festival, which might hire a local band as entertainment. The band has said that the name was not intended to be an allusion to the Soviet Bloc or the Canadian political party Bloc Québécois; the absence of a 'k' is purely for aesthetics.

However, the band's bassist, Gordon Moakes, said on the group's official internet forum that it was more a merging of the eastern "blocs" and the western "parties", in the political sense. Moakes notes that the name was not driven by politics, but rather it "looked, sounded, seemed fine so we went with it."

Editors - Munich

Ok a little back story on this band. Found them like two months ago. I really didn't get into them too much. They were quite what I was looking for. Then last week I am going through all my music and I find this band again. As my finger hovered over the delete button I suddenly had the urge to hear them again. And surprise I found something pretty cool. I now have been unable to stop listening to them for the last few days. A lot of people have been comparing them to Joy Division and Echo and the Bunnymen. But since I never liked those bands or even listened to them, maybe that is why I originally wrote them off so quickly. So I can't compare them to those bands but I can say that I really am digging their sound and I DO compare to The Killers. They have a certain catchy pop to them that I found easy to listen to from track one to the last. Here is the video for "Munich" off their most recent album The Back Room.

Editors are an indie rock band from Birmingham, England, who met studying Music Technology at Staffordshire University, comprising Tom Smith (lyricist/vocalist/guitarist), Chris Urbanowicz (guitarist), Russell Leetch (bass guitarist) and Ed Lay (drummer). The band's debut single "Bullets" was released as a limited edition of 500 on Kitchenware Records on 24 January 2005; it quickly gained support from radio stations such as Xfm and 6music. As other singles were released their popularity and fanbase grew larger.

Their debut album The Back Room was released 25 July 2005, to critical acclaim.

Tell Them God Is Gonna Cut You Down - Johnny Cash

This is a great tribute video to the man in black, Johnny Cash. Here all the people he has influences through the years come together to pay a homage to the man who defined several generations. Can you recognize all the celebrities? Rick Rubin is the man in the beard at the end who throws the flowers off the cliff. He is a legend himself!

mewithoutyou

This band carries itself as "Christian". But in no way does this hinder their spirit or style. His vocals come off as a talking, almost preaching. But it suits the epic flows of the incredibly talented musicians in the band. They create a sound scape that ebbs and flows and allows front man Aaron Weiss to wax poetic about his feelings on life. I discovered this band after looking for bands that seemed to like to play music more than sing it. And this band as really hooked me. Usually I am not one for the Christian music, but this bands does it so well you forget all about that. Here is their single "Paper Hanger" off their album Catch For Us the Foxes.

The band consists of singer Aaron Weiss, guitarists Michael Weiss and Christopher Kleinberg, bassist Greg Jehanian and drummer Richard Mazzotta. Though hard to truly classify their sound, mewithoutYou's music is generally dominated by Weiss, who, rather than singing, talks in dramatic, varied tones and pitches. The band usually strays from typical song structures featuring effects-laden guitar, a very prominent and distorted bass tone and bombastic rhythms, resulting in a rather experimental style. Most recently the band has incorporated more varied instrumentation including various percussion instruments, accordion, and harp.

The band's Christian roots can be seen through the biblical allusions found throughout the songs as well as interviews with the band members. In one example Weiss calls Jesus his rabbi.