When I Look At The World

fuckyeahsufjanstevens:

Sufjan Stevens - Happy Karma Christmas

themajesticshow:

You can’t climb a mountain without starting at the bottom. Johnny Solomon, the singer-songwriter of Minneapolis-based Communist Daughter, gave up on music a few years ago. After struggling with addiction and even spending time in jail, Johnny left his old band, Friends Like These, and moved to a small town in Wisconsin. The new surroundings didn’t fix the problems, and he began to write and record songs as if they would be his last. During this time he met a young singer named Molly Moore and she promised to work with him if he cleaned up. They released a critically acclaimed album in 2010, Soundtrack To The End, and then Johnny checked himself into rehab. Now he is sober, engaged to Molly and with the help of his bandmates is ready to give the world a brilliant new EP, Lions & Lambs, out July 10th via Grain Belt Records.

We shared the video for “Speed of Sound” and now we’re excited to introduce you to the first track on the EP. “Ghosts” is honest songwriting at its best. From the opening line on, you will hang on every word. Johnny is a storyteller and we all want to sit around the campfire and hear what he has to say. The band may tread a musical path similar to The Shins, Fleet Foxes, or Wilco, but they bring a heightened emotionality that sets them apart. Johnny had this to say about “Ghosts”:

“I wrote Ghosts while I was holed up over the winter in treatment in rural Minnesota. It snowed constantly. It was the definition of solitude. Just me and my thoughts. The song’s about saying goodbye to the life I thought I had to live. It’s about not letting the past own you. But its not about winning that struggle, its about beginning that struggle. Its all the dark nights in snow storms when your headlights are hitting snow flakes and making you dizzy. Oh, and its also just a song by a band in Minnesota.”

This is a band you will be hearing more about as the year progresses. Stream “Ghosts” above and pre-order Lions & Lambs here.

ohkillers:

Bono’s father, Bob Hewson, had die a week before this song was played in the Slane Castle concert. U2 had been prepared this gig for months because they were going to shoot a DVD out of it, and they did it. Bono decided to continue throughout the preparation and play the show, he said that was the best tribute they could do to his father.

This song, which is called ‘Out Of Control’ was the first song Bono wrote in his life, he was just 18, and was the first song U2 played as a band, in a talente show in Dublin, 30 years ago. 

The introduction Bono did in the Slane Castle gig was the same he did that first time. And in the middle of the song he had a remembrance to his father. Check it out:

Introduction, the same as the first time the song was played.

“I want to thank Phillip Lynott for letting us open the show. We’re a band from the north side of Dublin. We’re called U2, this is our first single. We hope you like it”

Monday morning 
Eighteen years of dawning 
I say how long / How long 
Say how long / How long

Was one dull morning 
Woke the world with bawling 
I was so sad / So sad 
They were so glad

Show my soul, getting out my soul
I’ve got big ideas I’m out of control

Boys and girls 
Go to the school, and girls 
They make children 
Not like this one

Show myself, yeah let go of my soul 
I’ve got big ideas I’m out of control

“On the bass, from Malahide, Adam Clayton 
On the drums, from the Artane Boys Band, Larry Mullen Junior 
And this is Edge, I don’t know where we got him…”

Sure now say it, out of control 
Big ideas I’m out of control 

Oh, my my 
Oh now, my oh my 

“There’s some big ideas…

Father, I need a lend of 500 pounds
Because, we’re gonna go over to London
And we’re gonna score outselves a record deal
And when we get our record deal we’re not gonna stay in London
We’re not gonna go to New York City 
We’re gonna stay and base our crew in Dublin
Cause these people, this is our tribe 

But I still need a lend of 500 pounds… what do you say? 
My old man, 500 pounds 
I want to thank my old man for that 500 pounds 
I want to thank Larry Mullen’s father for 500 pounds 
The Edge’s mother and father for 500 pounds 
Adam Clayton’s family for 500 pounds 
And by now you’ve probably all given us about 500 pounds each too 
So thank you”

I’m out of control 
I’m out of control 
I’m out of control 
I’m out of control

I fought fate 
There’s blood at the garden gate 
The man said childhood 
It’s in your childhood

One day I’ll die 
The choice will not be mine 
Will it be too late 
You can’t fight fate 

Show my mama that I got soul 
Got big ideas I’m out of control 

fuckyeahsufjanstevens:

Sufjan Stevens - Here I Am! (ft. Rosie Thomas)

fuckyeahatticusross:

Zoo Station - Nine Inch Nails

Produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Programming by Atticus Ross

Stonecutters

All: Who controls the British crown?
      Who keeps the metric system down?
      We do!  We do!

Karl: Who leaves Atlantis off the maps?
Lenny: Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
Alien: We do!  We do!

 All: Who holds back the electric car?
       Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
        We do!  We do!

Skinner: Who robs cavefish of their sight?
Homer: Who rigs every Oscar night?
All: We do!  We do!

Damien Rice - One (U2 Cover)

The new DJ Shadow album is fabulous!

liquidnight:

DJ Shadow

“(Not So) Sad And Lonely”

From The Less You Know, The Better

everythingcool:

Eugene Mirman. “Hello, Credit Card, Fidelity, Kids Say The Darndest Things.”

The Absurd Night Club Comedy of Eugene Mirman was so named because he wanted to recreate the crackly vinyl feel of old comedy records like The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart. He’s a man who loves comedy for comedy’s sake.