All the Good Times Past

What do all of these bands have in common? Not only are they excellent, but they also make it so easy to revive sweet memories of the good times we've all had.

Letting Up Despite Great Faults is currently playing shows in Los Angeles area, and if I were living there, I'd definitely see at least one.

I'd also try to catch The Mary Onettes. Their set yesterday at Union Hall in Brooklyn was awesome! It felt completely unreal, like I am not living in 2009, but instead in some wonderfully fictitious John Hughes-like film setting. And this song "God Knows I Had Plans" that I heard first yesterday sounds like it can totally change someone's life.

All The Good Times Past (click to download)

1. Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Our Younger Noise [Letting Up Despite Great Faults, 2009]

2. Reverie Sound Revue - Arrows [Reverie Sound Revue, 2009]

3. The Radio Dept. - We Climb the Higher Fences [Pulling Our Weights EP, 2005]

4. The Mary Onettes - God Knows I Had Plans [Islands, 2009]

Resurrection

My return to music.

Resurrection

1. The xx - Intro [xx, 2009]

2. Reverie Sound Revue - You Don't Exist If I Don't See You [Reverie Sound Revue, 2009]

3. The Durutti Column - Sketch For Summer [The Return of the Durutti Column, 1979]

4. Kings of Convenience - Mrs Cold [Declaration of Dependence, later in 2009]

And my great thanks to those who have made this summer my most expensive and most satisfying one yet.