Oh gOD!

I recently started to pay attention to some of the
many podcasts, blogs and such that I'm supposed to be paying attention to regarding music. On top of this, I recently participated in one of those mix CD swaps and it actually panned out with some pretty good stuff. I have to say, one was so bad (modern country, sad teenage crap with generic power chords) that I took it into my coworkers office and smashed it with the heel of my shoe. God it felt good. High School is fucking over. You CAN get your music outside of Target and Walmart...and guess what, it's good!!

Ok, sorry. My point being is I have come across quite a few good/great bands that are very new to me in the past couple of weeks. As I've told M before, I don't know shit about new bands even though i get tagged as a hipster and music snob often. I really don't. I just get things thrown at me occasionally and this time it poured.

So The Thermals, check 'em out. Out of Portland and I dig it. After listening to their latest album about the Bible (don't worry, i'm not proselytizing here and either are they) I found it pretty fuckin' rockin' for a concept album and I can tell they would pretty great live. In fact, they are coming to Chicago in February and I'm dragging Miso with me to check 'em out. If you like it too, come visit for a spell...

My favorite track so far is Returning to the Fold.

I won't put every band i've found these past 2 weeks in one long post. I'll let it stretch itself out for a while and ferment.

Enjoy!