My Taste in Music

Songs of the day, albums of the month, and why I like them

indie

  • Sorry for the lack of post yesterday, to make up for it today will feature two songs. The Bold Arrow of Time – Tame Impala & The W.A.N.D – The Flaming Lips The Bold Arrow of Time In an album (Tame Impala‘s full length debut) with heavy, and I mean, HEAVY, Beatles influence, “The Bold Read more

  • Silver Lining – Mt. Joy Mt. Joy is a five-piece indie band out of Philly who have been making the festival rounds and touring as a supporting act for a while now. I’ll admit, this is one of only two songs that I know by them, but I feel like I see their name everywhere, Read more

  • Pictures of You (Feat. Kate Bollinger) – Drugdealer Drugdealer is a cool little project from the mind of Michael Collins, and the album Hiding In Plain Sight draws heavy inspiration from a late 60s, early 70s sound that was coming out of the West Coast. If you’ve ever seen the outstanding “Documentary Now” show from Read more

  • Swimming – Flawed Mangos I’ve been feeling pretty under the weather so far this week, and haven’t been listening to music as in-depth as I usually do. I’ve been listening to a ton of chill stuff that is easy to get lost in, in particular, an artist who goes by “Flawed Mangoes.” Flawed Mangoes is Read more

  • In The Room Where You Sleep – Dead Man’s Bones Happy Halloween! Long before he was “just Ken“, Ryan Gosling actually dropped a pretty fun rock album with collaborator Zach Shields under the name “Dead Man’s Bones” in 2009. I’ve always liked Gosling as an actor, I consider A Place Beyond The Pines as one Read more

  • BULLDOG – Laundry Day I was introduced to Laundry Day in college through the busted and blown-out speakers of a ’94 Geo Prism by one of my best friends before we really became close. Looking back, it may have actually been the first time we drove somewhere together outside of work. I do remember asking Read more

  • Musta Been A Ghost – Proxima Parada Proxima Parada’s song “Musta Been A Ghost” is a great song for the days ahead, with summer winding down. Upbeat and soulful, this is a great song to welcome in the weekend or maybe even say goodbye to one on a Sunday afternoon. Lyrically, I think this song Read more

  • Kathleen – Catfish and The Bottlemen Catfish and the Bottlemen are another one of the groups that I listened to all the time in college, an indie rock outfit hailing from Wales. If I remember correctly, I first heard “Kathleen” while I was in high school. I really liked it but for whatever reason never Read more

  • It’s called Freefall (Live from Athens, Georgia) – Rainbow Kitten Surprise It’s really hard for me to pick just one song by RKS, so much like 49 Winchester, there will most definitely be some in the future. I think if I had to choose the artist or group that was the largest contributor to the Read more

  • Almost Automatic – Good Looks Happy Friday! I was introduced to the outstanding indie group Good Looks by a good friend of mine, who showed me this song almost a year ago, and since then, it has been in regular rotation for me. Not exactly a country song, but these fellas are from Texas, and Read more