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Welcome to the 3rd Installment of Thursday’s Tunes!

Again, here are 10 songs to get you through the week.  My hope is that they are songs that are either new to you or old ones you haven’t thought about it in a while.   Either way…enjoy them!

1. Vampire Weekend – Giving Up The Gun
2. Dan Black ft. Kid Cudi – Symphonies
3. The Dirty Heads ft. Rome – Lay Me Down
4. Sigur Ros – Hoppipolla
5. Mike Posner – Cooler than Me
6. Porcupine Tree – Lazarus
7. Brooks & Dunn – Play Something Country
8. The Drums – Let’s Go Surfing
9. N.E.R.D ft. Nelly Furtado – Hot n’ Fun
10. Deadmau5 – Ghosts n’ Stuff

Enjoy & Check Back Next Thursday for 10 More!

Music is an inspirational medium which has the uncanny ability to transcend one comprehension or one meaning and instead, allow for the interpretation to be completely flexible.  I think it is an amazing thing to listen to how notes and chords can strike me one way and make someone else feel completely different.  Post-Rock bands achieve this rythmic flexibility more than any other genre of music.  Their songs made up of beautifully woven melodies can inspire each one of us in different ways, they can create their own sense of nostalgia within each individual, and they can evoke many different feelings.   Some songs can be therapy…others can be overwhelming.  I find these songs beautiful because they are emotional in the sense that they contain the emotion of their authors and they can draw out so many different emotions from their listeners.  I love being able to jam out to a song where I know all of the words and all of my friends do too…the songs you can blast in your car or sing along to at the bar.  Other times, these Post-Rock songs are the perfect nourishment for me, they are exactly what I need at that time. 

One of my favorite things in the world to do, may sound a little strange, but I love to just go into my room turn off all of the lights and lay in my bed.  I turn on some music and I just lay there.  I let my mind wander.  I daydream.  I just go with it, kind of wherever the music takes me.  Sometimes, I may not think anything at all, I may just lay there and enjoy the serenade.  Other times, I play up a scenario and enjoy allowing my imagination to roam wild.  Try it one day.  It is a great form of relaxation.

Try out a couple of these Post-Rock Bands:

1. Sigur Ros
2. Explosions In The Sky
3. God Is An Astronaut
4. Mogwai

10 Songs to Get You Through The Week

1. Lykke Li – Little Bit
2. Santogold – L.E.S. Artists
3. Athlete – Tourist
4. Switchfoot – The Sound
5. The Roots – Don’t Say Nothin
6. Above & Beyond – On A Good Day
7. Alan Jackson – Country Boy
8. Florence & The Machine – Cosmic Love
9. Sigur Ros – Hoppipolla
10. Bloc Party - Ares (Villains Remix)

Enjoy! Check back next week for 10 more.

10 Songs to Get You Through The Week

(A Mix – Some old, Some New)

1. The National – Lemonworld
2. Bat for Lashes – Daniel
3. Florence & The Machine – Dog Days Are Over
4. Kid Cudi – Embrace The Martian
5. The XX – Stars
6. Billy Currington – Pretty Good at Drinking Beer
7. Nas & Damian Marley – As We Enter
8. Keane – Your Love
9. Discovery – Carby
10. Athlete – Superhuman Touch

Check them out & enjoy!

Be sure to check back next Thursday for more.

An awesome group with an awesome story.  Check’em out…

Bloc Party’s frontman just debuted his solo album (The Boxer) and it is good! Kele’s unique voice makes the album pop and it brings a bit more upbeat tempo than you may be used to if you follow Bloc Party.  Infused with a much more electronic vibe, songs like Tenderoni, Walk Tall, & Rise will definitely get your blood flowing.  Not to mention, the video for his first single, Tenderoni, is sick! Check it out…