Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra - Some Velvet Morning

I’ve become slightly obsessed with this song  I have no idea what it’s about (probably nothing), but the sound is haunting.

Favorite Albums of 2011

Here are my top five albums of 2011.  As my life gets crazier I find myself listening to fewer and fewer full albums.  Also, I think online services like Spotify, Rdio and Grooveshark actually make the situation worse, allowing me to sample an album for a short time before being distracted and moving on to another one.  

These are the albums that I found time to listen to and stuck out as ones that I wanted to come back to again and again.  Missing are some favorite bands of mine (Radiohead, The Decemberists, Wilco), but a great part of being music fan is discovering new music.

Without further ado…

  1. Bright Eyes - The People’s Key
  2. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
  3. Radical Face - The Family Tree: The Roots
  4. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
  5. The Head And The Heart - The Head And The Heart
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  • Open Your EyesArcher Avenue

Archer Avenue - Open Your Eyes

Before Richard Edwards started Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s he was in a small Indianapolis band named Archer Avenue.  The guy can’t miss. So talented.

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  • Antonia JuneLightning Dust

Lightning Dust - Antonia June

Typhoon - “The Sickness Unto Death” and “The Honest Truth” from NPR/SXSW

Two Gallants - Threnody (Live)

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  • The Honest TruthTyphoon

Typhoon - The Honest Truth

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  • TragedyOkay

Okay - Tragedy

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  • My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze ArtistThe Decemberists

The Decemberists - My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist

Devendra Banhart - Sight to Behold (Jools Holland)