Mid week mix

Got my mind set on you by George Harrison (I'm a sucker for young George)

I get a kick out of you by Gary Shearston

Balitmore by Randy Newman

So fine - Electric Light Orchestra  

Black Mountain Rag - Doc and Merle Watson

Helplessness Blues

I spent last night lying on the couch listening to Helplessness Blues. It's been a long wait for the new album but I definitely wasn't disappointed. Would it make sense if I said it's the same but different? There's a new direction which is amazing but it's distinctly them. Ahh happiness.

You can stream the album on NPR.

Forget

Twin Shadow, super exciting stuff!

Monday playlist

Bros - Panda Bear

I don't want to get over you - The Magnetic Fields

Skinny love - Bon Iver

I am the cosmos - Chris Bell

Ballad of big nothing - Elliot Smith

Eternity - Jens Lekman

The red telephone - Love

Monday playlist

Vampire: Antsy pants

Autumn sweater: Yo La Tengo

Caring is creepy: The shins

Arne: Haruka Nakamura

Dreamin' man: Neil Young

sun, sand, sunscreen and sangria

The northern summer is sadly starting to fade, but luckily I have this song to remind me of the sun, the smell of sunscreen, the sand and the sangria.

Friday playlist

On and ever onward - Dirty Projectors and Bjork

Now that I know - Devendra Banhart

Dearest - Buddy Holly

Too young - Phoenix

Out on the weekend - Neil Young

A - Maybe not - Cat Power

More ear candy

The XX.
I'm addicted.

Ear candy

Swoon, deliciously sweet ear candy from M.Craft.
(sadly no music video but you don't need one it sounds so good)

I wish I could ...

Although it's been described as a 'gay Eastern European stripper dance' I still wish I could shimmy my hips like Friendly Fires lead singer Ed Macfarlane, I was recently lucky enough to witness the moving and shaking in the flesh at the Isle of Wight festival on the weekend and it did not disappoint! The man can MOVE!

Rainy day playlist

The 'knuckle-down-cull-stuff-clean-apartment-pack-my-bags' Mix Tape

I move to London in a mere three sleeps! therefore today is my knuckle-down-cull-stuff-clean-apartment-pack-my-bags day and this is my knuckle-down-cull-stuff-clean-apartment-pack-my-bags mix tape, unashamedly smashing some of my favourite bands repetitively.

Passion Pit/Foals/Minus The Bear/Friendly Fires/Two Door Cinema Club

'read more' for the list and the awesome videos

Girl crush

Florence Welch
{Florence and the Machine}

Natasha Khan
{Bat For Lashes}

Marina Lambrini Diamandis
{Marina and the Diamonds}

What's that sound?

My weekend in pictures

.. watching ..

.. reading ..
with much, much, much thanks to Gemma who sent me the worlds most glorious goodies bag!

.. listening ..
(click on the picture)

Nail biter

TGIF

It's friday, hoorah! And this is a completely pointless post featuring an a~z montage of my iTunes library.

Tuesday playlist

I spent many hours in the car this weekend, enough to test out playlist after playlist on a long suffering audience.

Rebel rebel - Seu George

This must be the place - Talking Heads

Boylife in America - Cody Chesnutt

I can't go for that (no can do) - Hall and Oates

Guilty pleasure

South Korea having been my home for over the last year now, it would be rude not to put a post up in it's honor, and it was only ever going to be a matter of time before I succumbed to the masses and developed an infatuation with K-Pop. I can't help it, they're like train wrecks, I can't tear my eyes away from fascination. Groups of carefully planned, picked and executed all singing, all dancing, all acting young entertainers (most of whom are often still in school themselves). The hair! The eyeliner! The over styling! The INTENSITY! Youth culture here is based entirely on two things; pop idols and computer games, you can't walk down the street, turn on the tv, go into a store, or hear a mobile ring tone without your ears or eyes being assailed by the latest K-Pop sensation.

Read more to indulge in some of my favourite K-Pop boy band viewing.