Song obsessions are those songs that we listen to on repeat. I noticed that my obsessions are often a week long. I also thought that other people might have similar obsessions. I’ve collected a panel of a few like-minded individuals and gotten their “song obsessions of the week.” Quite often it’s easy to explain why the song is good; it’s much hard to explain why we’re obsessed. Maybe you’ll become obsessed with one of these.

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Adrian (me):
Adem - Loro (mp3) (pre-order)

I finally got to listen to Takes which I’ve been excited to hear. The album is a set of covers of Adem’s favorite songs.

When I got it I knew I had to listen to two covers of some of my favorite songs first: Pinback’s “Loro” and Low’s “Laser Beam”. I love both Adem versions, but “Loro” reminds me of the amazement I felt when I first heard the Pinback version. I had such a wide grin on my face listening to it for the first time in both cases. The grin stayed for the second time through…and the third…and the fourth…and….

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Keith:
Brendan Benson - Insects Rule (mp3) (buy)

Before Brendan Benson released a handful of highly regarded indie records (or teamed with Jack White in the Raconteurs) he had his own shot at the brass ring with Virgin Records in 1996. The resulting record was an unfortunately ignored infectious celebration of power pop teamed with deft and daring songwriting such as this tune about an infestation.

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Oz:
Black Diamond Heavies - Bidin’ My Time (mp3) (buy)

I’ve been spinning Black Diamond Heavies’ upcoming release, A Touch of Someone Else’s Class, for a few days now. This track channels Tom Waits and serves as a reprieve from the the band’s powerful, gritty blues style.

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As I mentioned, the Botticellis (myspace) came down to KZSU last night to do an in-studio session. They played a great set of tunes off of their recently released album Old Home Movies (which came out Tuesday on Antenna Farm Records) as well as some new songs and a cover.

Here’s their setlist and some exclusive mp3s from the session:

• I Feel Betrayed
• Table by the Window
• Stay with my Brother
• Old Home Movies
• Lucy Lucia
• New Room
• When I Call
• Up Against the Glass
  the Botticellis - Up Against the Glass (live at KZSU) (mp3, exclusive)
  
• Flashlight
  the Botticellis - Flashlight (live at KZSU) (mp3, exclusive)
  
• Awaiting on You All
  the Botticellis - Awaiting on You All (live at KZSU) (mp3, exclusive)
  

I think the sound turned out really well, thanks to Smurph, KZSU’s live sound engineer, and Alexi and the Botticellis. I’ve heard a lot of live sets at KZSU and none of them have sounded quite like this. I think it turned out pretty well.

The new tunes sounded great, especially the lead off tune, “I Feel Betrayed”, which I’ll be looking forward to hearing a studio version of.

You can check out my photo album for a few more shots of the band.

Make sure you tune in next week’s live session with Two Sheds.

This blog isn’t about taking up causes, it’s about music. But I will take this quick opportunity to plug the Bay Area Bike to Work Day which is tomorrow Thursday, May 15. I’d encourage you to at least consider it.

There will be energizer stations (read: free snacks) around the City and the region. Download a bike map if you want to figure out the best route.

Oh No! Oh My! - Bike, Sir (mp3) (buy)

Lymbyc Systym - Fall Bicycle (mp3) (buy

Jaime & Becky - Rusty Bike (mp3) (buy)

This is not my current ride that I’ll be riding to work tomorrow, but this sweet ride was my trusty stead for many a month in Taiwan. The seat left bits of itself on my pants and the kickstand was so rusted out that it wouldn’t always stay up while I was riding, but it (usually) got me from A to B.

Update: Rocketing down the streets of SOMA, I had two questionable interactions with buses slamming to a halt or cutting over to make a stop. But I’m as of yet unscathed and I will live to see another post.

Apparently, my mixtapes come out every month. This is what I’m told, at least. Oops.

You can download the zip file with the following:
1. mp3s of the songs
2. liner notes (pdf)
3. playlist files (iTunes txt file and an m3u file)

(for the iTunes file, simply import all the songs to your library and then go to File->import and then select the song list (the txt file). you should now have the 2008march-april playlist in your iTunes with all the songs in the correct order).

If you want to read the liner notes before downloading the whole thing, they’re here. This one was a long one in coming. I’ve listened to it a lot of times and I like it. There’s a mix of local (the Dodos, the Botticellis, Speakers), national (Deer Tick, Unwed Sailor) and international (Adem, the Rational Academy) bands.

Adrian’s March-April 2008 mix tape (rapidshare link [1])

If you like the artists or songs, I suggest supporting them by buying their music, going to a show, buying merchandise from them or at least telling other people about them.

[1] If you’re having trouble with the rapidshare link, here’s what you do, step-by-step. 1) Click on the link. 2) scroll down and click “FREE” 3) wait till the counter gets to zero 4) enter the letters in their graphic into the box 5) click “download”

What good is music if it doesn’t help you deal with your reality? Recent events have brought this song to mind.

Edvard Grieg - Funeral March in Memory of Richard Nordraak (mp3)

I played this piece many years ago, when I was a budding trumpeter in a brass ensemble in school. It’s stuck with me because it was both so somber and so beautiful. There is a fittingly agonized tone to it. It had been tucked away far in the back reaches of my mind until it was jarred by these events.

Song obsessions are those songs that we listen to on repeat. I noticed that my obsessions are often a week long. I also thought that other people might have similar obsessions. I’ve collected a panel of a few like-minded individuals and gotten their “song obsessions of the week.” Quite often it’s easy to explain why the song is good; it’s much hard to explain why we’re obsessed. Maybe you’ll become obsessed with one of these.

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Adrian (me):
Joe Pug - Hymn 101 (mp3) (free at the artist’s site)

I heard this over at hearya. Immediately I felt the same way the first time I heard Dylan’s “When the Ship Comes In”. Similarly, it has a certain timeless melody and lyrics that one can tell, even before one start processing the lyrics, that they have some well of depth that they’re drawing from.

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Keith:
the Katydids - Always (mp3) (buy)

This week on my favorites of the 90’s list @ #90 is the 2nd album from American singer/British pop-band hybrid Katydids. This particular cut is masterfully produced by pop auteur Ian Broudie, just listen to the sumptuous interlocking backing vocals in the chorus. This album was pure obsession for me in 1991, pretty vocals and glistening guitars were an irresistible combination.

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Oz:
Joe Pug - Hymn 101 (mp3) (free at the artist’s site)

I think I’ve listened to “Hymn 101″ about 101 times in the past week. Joe Pug is a relative newcomer to the Chicago music scene and a shockingly good lyricist for a songwriter in his early twenties. Listen to this song and you’ll see what I mean. It still gives me chills on my 102nd listen - “The more I buy, the more I’m bought. And the more I’m bought, the less I cost.”

His debut EP, Nation of Heat, is incredible from start to finish.

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Rob:
David Bowie - Sense of Doubt (mp3) (buy)

For the last few weeks basically every time I’ve found myself wondering what to listen to next I’ve been putting in “Heroes”. As has no doubt been noted before, the whole album is stellar and I had a
tough time picking one of the tracks. I thought about “Blackout” due to the slight edge that my mishearing the lyrics gave it (he’s under the Japanese influence of his mother’s estate?) but settled on “Sense of Doubt” for the sheer I’ve-never-heard-anything-else-quite-like-it factor; this song more than almost any other instrumental I’ve ever heard paints a definite picture in my mind, and it is at once more hopeful and more desparate than any song I can think of off the top of my head that tries deliberately to be one or the other. Really wonderful.

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Andy:
Kepler - Loose Ground (mp3) (buy)

Kepler was the best quiet band you’ve never heard. Beautifully clean guitars, half-whispered vocals, nicely reserved brushed drumming, and the piano from your parents’ living room hiding just below the surface. I first found Fuck Fight Fail while working in college radio- it immediately became one of my favorites. “Loose Ground” is one of my favorites from the record, along with the 9-minute “Upper Canada Fight Song”.

Since their breakup, Samir Kahn (who I believe sings on “Loose Ground”) has gone on to form Tusks, who are excellent as well.

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This is the first time two people have had the same song obsession in the same week. It’s kind of like two friends having a crush on the same girl. It’s pretty awkward. Not really–music’s not a zero-sum game like that. But if it were, Oz would have “dibs” as he found the song first.

Last night I went over to the the Bottom of the Hill to see Laura Veirs (myspace) and Liam Finn (myspace).

I’d seen Liam before, at the same venue, in fact. The set was quite similar, as was my reaction: I liked some of his loop-heavy songs and disliked others and many of my favorites were his more straight-forward songs.

One notable new happening: he ended one song with a solo on an odd instrument. After the song he announced his new “toy”, a Stylophone. To a fan’s cry for “more Stylophone!”, he said “ok”. His next song, his last of the night, was completely improvised and built around various loops of Stylophone along with drums and vocals. It was pretty impressive.

Veirs came out with just her guitar. It was just her, that guitar and looping pedals all night (with one exception, see below). She started with “Pink Light”, one of my favorites of hers. After that first song, the appreciation from the crowd was obvious–this was a very receptive crowd. She even noted it: “Wow, it’s nice to hear that, especially on a Monday night”.

The talented Ms. Veirs continued the entire evening, playing a great selection of songs from her “five good albums” (the last one is “bad”) skillfully. Additionally, she played two traditional songs that influenced her greatly, like Mississippi John Hurt’s “Spike Driver’s Blues”

She brought out the banjo for one song, Cluck Old Hen. She played it deftly in clawhammer style. Here’s a teaching version of that song, first slow and then full speed.

Laura Veirs - Cluck Old Hen (mp3, via stereogum)

Song obsessions are those songs that we listen to on repeat. I noticed that my obsessions are often a week long. I also thought that other people might have similar obsessions. I’ve collected a panel of a few like-minded individuals and gotten their “song obsessions of the week.” Quite often it’s easy to explain why the song is good; it’s much hard to explain why we’re obsessed. Maybe you’ll become obsessed with one of these.

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Adrian (me):
the Botticellis - Awaiting on You All (mp3) (unreleased, artist’s website)

This George Harrison cover has been a slow burner for weeks. It’s got a unique and great sound that gives me pause every time I come across it.

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Keith:
Toulouse - Know Better (mp3) (buy)

I made the mistake of casually namedropping a Red House Painters record as “one of my top 100 of the 90’s” to a musically erudite friend, who subsequently challenged me to come up with the rest of the list. So after an afternoon’s worth of research on favorites both past and present I impulsively formed the list. At #97 is their debut album The Way The City Stretches by Boston/Chicago shoegazer group Toulouse, whose first record was a swath of blissfully meaty noise. They put out one final lp on Grimsey which is also very fine, though more in a French pop vein.

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Oz:
Justin Townes Earle - Lone Pine Hill (mp3) (buy original, hear live session)

I try my best not to submit anything from our live sessions for Song Obsessions, but sometimes you just get blown away by hearing the raw talent in someone. Justin Townes Earle released The Good Life on Bloodshot Records in March and he not only has the pedigree (his dad is Steve Earle), but he has mastered his craft. It’s hard to call it alt-country. It’s straight on country music, but it’s a throwback sound that reminds me of Hank Williams.

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Natalie:
My Morning Jacket - Wordless Chorus (mp3) (buy)

I was late catching on to these guys, but if there was any doubt in my mind about how good they are, their set on Sunday at Coachella dispelled it. They were amazing live, especially this song. I am almost convinced that Jim James is not human - no human can have a voice like that. Seeing them on play on the main stage on the last day of Coachella while the sun was setting was just one of those perfect moments in time.

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Scott:
Mount Eerie - Domesticated Dog (mp3) (buy)

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Dave:
American Analog Set - She’s Half (mp3) (buy)

Only AmAnSet could make four chords and minimal words interesting for over four minutes.

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Song obsessions are those songs that we listen to on repeat. I noticed that my obsessions are often a week long. I also thought that other people might have similar obsessions. I’ve collected a panel of a few like-minded individuals and gotten their “song obsessions of the week.” Quite often it’s easy to explain why the song is good; it’s much hard to explain why we’re obsessed. Maybe you’ll become obsessed with one of these.

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Adrian (me):
James Hunter - Hand It Over (mp3) (out in June, artist’s website)

I got sent this album and I popped it in. I was pretty skeptical, but actually he seems to do new-music-that-sounds-old really well. The production on this track was really catchy. I like the horns, strings and percussion.

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Keith:
Victorian English Gentleman’s Club - My Son Spells Backward (mp3) (buy)

So I’m not trying to shill for emusic (ahem, uh, my id is zaxxon25), but I’ve come to enjoy the process of browsing through their stacks for import or small label stuff that I just wouldn’t connect with otherwise. One fine find is this effort by the Victorian English Gentleman’s Club. The full-length combines an overdriven bass/spindly guitar sound borrowed from late 80’s US alt-rock with a nervy art-punk vibe out of the early 80’s UK scene. That leads to deceptively complex yet quite catchy confections like this winner.

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Oz:
Port O’Brien - Close the Lid (mp3) (pre-order)

Port O’Brien’s upcoming release is the best album I’ve heard this year. This song will burrow into your skin. That’s all I’ve got - I think my wife is going into labor…

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Natalie:
The Silent Comedy - Daisy (mp3) (not available buy other merch)

The vocals at the end of the song remind me a lot of Bon Iver. And really, that’s about all you should need to recommend this band to you, and to explain my obsession with this song.

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Andy:
Fionn Regan - Black Water Child (mp3) (buy)

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Rob:
Hugh Masakela - Stimela (Coal Train) (mp3) (buy)

I heard this wrapping up on KZSU a while ago and it stopped me in my tracks (da-dum chiiih;) the drums’ sound particularly grabbed me — especially the building 8th notes that morph across whatever bell(s) are being used (I would love to know, what a great sound!) — but Hugh Masakela’s vocals are of course the highlight. The amount of emotional intensity he puts into the last quarter of this song is fantastic, especially as it is somehow perfectly blended into and build out from the rest of the track’s early-nineties noir loungyness.

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Song obsessions are those songs that we listen to on repeat. I noticed that my obsessions are often a week long. I also thought that other people might have similar obsessions. I’ve collected a panel of a few like-minded individuals and gotten their “song obsessions of the week.” Quite often it’s easy to explain why the song is good; it’s much hard to explain why we’re obsessed. Maybe you’ll become obsessed with one of these.

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Adrian (me):
French Miami - Science Fiction (mp3) (not available? label’s site; artist’s myspace)

Just a well put-together song. The guitar part is ace. The keyboards, drums and vocals all work really well and add to the song. The breakdown/ slowdown pulled me in. I was fully obsessed with this for most of the week.

Me (again)[1]:
Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd St. Band - Movin’ On Up/ I Can’t Turn You Lose (mp3, originally from this Soul Sides post) (buy)

I’ve written about how much I love this tune. The groove is tight and the song is fun, but what makes me obsessed with it is the 30-or-so seconds of “People Get Ready” and specifically the insane vocals during that section. I like the Impressions song and various other versions, like Curtis Mayfield’s and the Chamber Brothers, but this is unlike anything I’d heard before.

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Keith:
Bess Rogers - Undone (mp3) (buy)

While I’d like to think I judge each song/album based on merit, truth is I’m just as susceptible to manipulation as the mainstream music listener. But it’s not plastic surgery disasters that positively manipulate my attention. No, it’s the geek girl. Perhaps Bess Rogers would object to my objectification of her as a nerdy girl, but I’m afraid those sexy librarian photos on her latest CD (there’s even more of them on the website - I checked) have only one interpretation in my lecherous mind. Oh yeah, the songs are quite fetching as well.

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Oz:
Motel Motel - Coffee (mp3) (buy)

Last week I mentioned an unsigned band named Gringo Star. Today I have another unsigned act out of Denver by way of NY called Motel Motel that describes their sound as “shwag rock.” These guys are working on releasing their debut LP, appropriately called New Denver, in the coming months. Until then, get shwaggy.

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Natalie:
Frightened Rabbit - Backwards Walk (mp3) (buy)

would put all of The Midnight Organ Fight as my song obsession(s) for this week, if that were allowed. Since I downloaded it on Tuesday, I’ve probably listened to the album in its entirety at least 8 times. With this song in particular, I love the line “You’re the shit/and I’m knee-deep in it.”

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[1] This is totally cheating. I’ve never let myself or anyone else have more than one song obsession in a week, but what was I supposed to do? Five days were dominated by “Science Fiction” but in the last 48 hours I haven’t been able to stop listening to the Charles Wright song.

Adem at the Cafe du Nord, 3/29/07

Great UK home-spun folkie Adem (formerly bandmates of Kieran Hebdan aka Four Tet in Fridge) has an album that reportedly comes out May 12 but no word from his (former??) record label Domino on that point. Takes is a covers album of songs that Adem has loved from 1991 to 2001. How’s that for a fairly arbitrary theme?

I loved his first album Homesongs immediately and Love and Other Planets started good and has just gotten better over time. I’m pretty excited to hear Takes

Adem - To Cure a Weakling Chile (mp3, Aphex Twin Cover from Takes)

Adem - Launch Yourself (mp3, from Love and Other Planets)

NME has a live video of his cover of deus’ “Hotel Lounge”.

He has some UK dates coming up but nothing in the US as of now.

Pre-order it from the UK??

Song obsessions are those songs that we listen to on repeat. I noticed that my obsessions are often a week long. I also thought that other people might have similar obsessions. I’ve collected a panel of a few like-minded individuals and gotten their “song obsessions of the week.” Quite often it’s easy to explain why the song is good; it’s much hard to explain why we’re obsessed. Maybe you’ll become obsessed with one of these.

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Adrian (me):
J Tillman - Jesse’s Not a Sleeper (mp3) (buy)

I’ve been listening to this whole album, Minor Works a lot and a lot of it has been running through my head, so if it was at all reasonable, I’d post the entire album and call it my songs obsession for this week, but it’s not.

There’s something about the harmonic + melodic + lyrical turn that happens right at the line “Jesse try and get some sleep” that gets this song stuck in my head more than the others.

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Keith:
the Montgolfier Brothers - the World is Flat (mp3) (buy)

When flipping through the used cd section, have you ever discovered an insultingly cheap copy of a much beloved record? Soon followed by a crushing feeling of pity mixed with anger that such a life-changing piece of art is sitting in some dingy store with a price-tag less than a small
cappuccino? What do you do in those situations? Me, I buy the disc and force it upon a friend. Such was the case at Reckless Records a few weeks ago, when I happened upon The Montgolfier Brothers’ genius 2nd disc The World Is Flat. This title track follows the course of a relationship from the naïve joy over sharing routine events to the sad conclusion of legal intervention, all without ever changing its tone.

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Andy:
Denison Witmer - Little Flowers (mp3) (buy)

I found “Are You a Dreamer” at one of my local record stores, the one that’s notorious for pricing tons of excellent albums in the $1 bin. I’d known Denison’s name for a while, having bought a lot of stuff from Burnt Toast Vinyl, but I hadn’t really heard anything by him.

Little Flowers is the first track on the disc, and for the first minute or so, it’s pretty standard singer-songwriterish fare. Then the banjo (by guest Sufjan Stevens) kicked in, and that grabbed my
attention for sure. A few bars later, when the drums hit, I knew I was in love - it’s the brushed drumming with the ultra-loose snares, which I hadn’t really heard on any album since Stevens’ Michigan.

Of the 12 or so discs in my glove compartment, I keep coming back to this one, and this song.

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The lesson this week seems to be: go to used record stores and check out the bargain bins.

I was at Amoeba the other day and I was going through the oldies collections they had. They had a small section on “songwriter” collections, and as I love some producer/ songwriter-focused sets, I decided to flip through and check out what they had. I found Double Trouble: the Pomus and Shuman Story and checked out the track listing. I knew and liked some of these songs–”A Teenager in Love”, “Save the Last Dance”–and I knew many of the artists–Bobby Darin, Del Shannon, Elvis, Gary “US” Bonds, Barrett Strong, Ben E. King. Also there was a song called “I Ain’t Sharin’ Sharon”. I mean, with songs like that, how could I pass it up?

When I bought it, I didn’t know that Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman were a team of songwriters that were in the famous Brill Building[1].

I’ve been listening to the CD a lot and it’s really solid. There are some great familiar songs and some hidden gems (including that “I Ain’t Sharin’ Sharon”, “Angel Face” and the teenage-boy-giggle-inducing “All You Gotta Do Is Touch Me”). I’d thoroughly recommend it[2].

“(Marie’s the Name) His Latest Flame” is one of those songs that sounds familiar even if it isn’t; it’s feels comfortable with a classic sound. The guitar riff is classic, the vocals and solid and a bit endearingly showy and the keyboard is fun.

Del Shannon - (Marie’s the Name) His Latest Flame (mp3)

Elvis also recorded a version of “His Latest Flame”, but apparently Del Shannon’s version was recorded 5 days before Elvis’.

You can buy it at insound.

[1] The Brill Building was a building in NYC that housed many music publishing companies, songwriters and other music industry ventures. I wouldn’t normally point this out, but I’ve talked to some serious music nerds that didn’t know what the Brill Building was.

[2] But after you get Phil Spector: Back to Mono which is the must-have oldies/ early R&B set.

Two Sheds performing in Austin as a part of SxSW 2008

I loved their show at SxSW and I’ve been twice obsessed, so this post about the Sacremento/ San Francisco[1] band Two Sheds (myspace) shouldn’t be much of a surprise.

I’ve been listening to everything I’ve been able to get my hands on–which has been their album, Strange Ammunition and a split 7″ with the song “No Place”–and I’ve been really enjoying it. There are easy comparisons to be made on their sound, but let’s forgo those and try to get down to the nuts and bolts. Two Sheds do bluesy, folky rock music with some of appreciation of the slowness and spareness (and the tension created by those things) of slowcore all while being drenched in the deceptively simple melodies and gorgeous, breathy female vocals of Caitlin Gutenberger.

Almost two months after first hearing “It’s Hard” I’m still floored by it. It’s a slow, finger-picked tune with very simple percussion under it, but that’s all that’s needed to support the gorgeous, soulful vocals.

Two Sheds - It’s Hard (mp3)

“Undertow” is a rocker in the slowcore school, and while the guitars and music follow the down sentiments of that sub-genre, the vocals here show something more like cautious jubilation, like they’re ready to burst out of the song.

Two Sheds - Undertow (mp3)

Check out their myspace for more tunes and the Deli SF has another mp3 you can grab.

They have a few Bay Area dates coming up.

4/18 Elf Power, Flowers Forever, Two Sheds @ Bottom of the Hill, 10pm, $10, a/a
6/11 Two Sheds, Friday Mile, Geographer, and Marabelle Phoenix @ Annie’s Social Club, 8pm, $7, 21+

They’ll also be on KZSU from 9-10pm on May 21. I’ll be hosting this and I’m pretty excited about it. They also have plenty of Northern California and West Coast dates coming up. Their myspace page seems up to date on the tour info.

You can buy their album Strange Ammunition, out on Under a Cloud Records and/ or their Dame Satan split 7″ at Ghost Mansion Records.

Other local and I’m listening posts (newest-to-oldest):

• Lightening Bug Situation
• Nyles Lannon
• Or, the Whale
• Ian Fays
• Port O’Brien
• Beatbeat Whisper
• the Finches
• the Dodos

I’m Adrian Bischoff and I approve of this band.

[1] They’re not extremely local but they’re so good that other local blogs have decided to claim them for our own.

Song obsessions are those songs that we listen to on repeat. I noticed that my obsessions are often a week long. I also thought that other people might have similar obsessions. I’ve collected a panel of a few like-minded individuals and gotten their “song obsessions of the week.” Quite often it’s easy to explain why the song is good; it’s much hard to explain why we’re obsessed. Maybe you’ll become obsessed with one of these.

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Adrian (me):
the Dodos - Walking (mp3) (buy)

I’ve been listening to all of Visiter quite a lot, but this opening track and particularly the rattling guitar (at 0:03) is where I am getting hung up most. I hit that rattle and start to think about the interesting (and, for the most part, great) production choices and then I start to wander off and I need to restart the song and the cycle repeats.

This is sort of an atypical Dodos track, in instrumentation, having female vocals, and in the tone of Meric’s voice.

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Keith:
The Felice Brothers - Frankie’s Gun (mp3) (buy)

Sticking with last week’s theme of “Something I Purchased At Reckless While In Chicago” this selection is from the new Felice (not Pernice, Felice) Brothers release on Saddle Creek. Their lo-fi country vibe compliments the casual violence of this gritty song quite well.

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Oz:
Gringo Star - All Y’all (mp3) (widely available but not for purchase yet(?))

The last few obsessions I’ve submitted have been pretty serious tunes. It’s time to lighten up. Atlanta’s unsigned act, Gringo Star, have a street-party gem in their garage-rocker “All Y’all.”

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Andy:
Coastal - Northern (mp3) (buy)

A beautiful piece of reverb-saturated slowcore that I was obsessed with in college, and recently rediscovered. Whispered guy/girl vocals, brushed drums, and a great bass part. And, they’re Utahn, to boot.