I think it's called love.

That's it.  I've questioned myself long enough, but there's no more doubting.

The Radio Dept. is my favorite band.
Even if he can't sing live.

But I just love the records.  All of them.

Clinging to a Scheme, best album of 2010 material.  Because of it, my heart shed tears of joy today.

Winter Be Gone

I am looking forward to days that do not read "feels like below freezing point".

Winter Be Gone (zshare)

1. The Radio Dept. - Messy Enough [David EP, 2009]

2. Kent - Svarta Linjer [Rod, 2009]

3. Nujabes - Counting Stars [Hydeout Productions 2nd Collection, 2007]

4. Shugo Tokumaru - Rum Hee [Rum Hee EP, 2009]

On a completely other note, happy Chinese new year!  

via The Cool Hunter

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]