portugaltheman:

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We’ll be broadcasting live via webcam at 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET tomorrow, answering your questions from twitter with the hashtag #AskPTM

hey, that’s me! (far left)

In which I review a concert: Sleeper Agent and Ben Kweller at Los Angeles’ El Rey

Alright, I’m gonna come out and say it: Sleeper Agent is hot.  They’ve recently released their first kick-ass album, Celebrasion, they just played Coachella, they’re in the middle of touring their sweet Kentucky faces off, and, thanks to the band’s ruthless energy, they make it seem pretty effortless.  Now that that’s out, I have another confession: I am (still) in love with Ben Kweller.  Since his first solo album Sha Sha came out 10 years ago (what?) to the recent release of his new album, Go Fly a Kite, it’s been pretty much nonstop adoration, and I am happy to report that is in fact still awesome and gorgeously talented.

“Psst…Tony…we’re so hot right now…”

Sleeper Agent and Ben Kweller made a great combination of acts.  Both bands have the ability to swing sweetly between minor-chorded, messy, loud garage tunes and major-chorded, earnest pop songs—all while somehow maintaining a single, cohesive musical identity.  Seeing this concert made me appreciate the unique fluidity that these bands have, and I can only assume the quality is a reflection of the artists’ open minds, laid back personalities, and insatiable curiosity.  

Click here to read the rest on Bestnewbands.com!

crushing HARD on

Nick Waterhouse.  He exists…in the present…in our present filled with things like “Snooki writing a book” or videos like this.

and he makes music like this…

*swoon*

see also: The Allah Las

Andrew McMahon of Jack’s Mannequin…casual…

The boys of fun.—lead singer/songwriter Nate Ruess, Jack Antonoff, and Andrew Dost—are back with their second studio album,  Some Nights, which drops today.  As a long time Nate Ruess fan, from his Format days, I feel qualified and obligated to review this record.  People who are just beginning to listen to fun. might be put off by this album—it’s, in a word, weird.  Besides the insanely catchy single “We Are Young,” songs flow in and out from polka-like operatics (nothing new for fun.) to…pop/R&B influenced autotuning?  The album can’t make up its mind between being a quirky, pop, Queen-inspired complement to 2008’s Aim and Ignite or some avant-garde-yet-somehow-still-radio-friendly angsty-youth soundtrack…

Click the link to read the rest and listen to the album stream!

(Source: dekes, via thespacesamidlove)

liveiseedeadpeoples:

GEORGE HARRISON, JOHN LENNON

SO EXCITED.

bestnewbandscom:

Album Preview: Portugal. The Man’s “In the Mountain In the Cloud”

(Source: bestnewbands.com)

New Creature Colony Singles. Noice!

Download it, fools.

If you have any semblence of a taste in music, you will like White Denim.

And you will like their new album, D.