Year of the Rat Music Project

Week 2ish.

On My Nightstand:

Mystery Train by Greil Marcus

New Music (for me at least):

Robert Johnson The Complete Collection by Robert Johnson

The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks

Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan

Bringing It All Back Home by Bob Dylan

Oracular Spectacular by MGMT

Online…

Some Bands I was poking around MySpace at: Obviously I’ve heard a couple of songs here and there by these bands, so seemed like a great idea to delve a little deeper, especially since most of them are based here in New York. I mention Vampire Weekend because they are the band that everyone insists on mentioning that they’re listening to. Well, you know what? They aren’t that great. “APunk”’s alright.

Most of these bands didn’t work for me, but that’s okay. It is, perhaps, unfair to base an entire review on a couple of songs on someone’s MySpace page, although shouldn’t that be their best songs? I liked Lightning Bolt and The Muggabears, Panda Bear and Blak Thor knocked my socks off.

New Moby

Blak Thor

Vampire Weekend

Lightning Bolt

Man Man

The Muggabears

Black Dice

Frances

Jealous Girlfriends

Some Articles I’ve been reading Online

The Grammys are Irrelevant (WWTTD)

Bands You Need to Hear (L Magazine)

Best Music of 2007 (The AV Club)

Videos:
This Bat for Lashes video is the cat’s pajamas-

The thrilling conclusion to this four-year-old interview (I’m not being sarcastic, Bob Dylan is hyper-entertaining to watch in an interview)-