Come A Little Closer - Cage The Elephant

Come A Little Closer is a classic to me. It's a sweet mash up of sound with an interesting voice. It doesn't just follow the same feel and varies it up. The chorus is just all too inviting to try and yell the lyrics as well as  but we all seem to fail in approaching the same level of talent as Matt Schultz. Please don't even get me started on this video. It is just so crazy and psychedelic and gives it an old feeling. I'm excited to see these guys at Firefly Music Festival in June. I've read things about their performance there in the past and the only complaint I see is that there are a ton of crowd surfers. If that's the case this year, I volunteer as tribute if anyone sees me.

To learn more about Cage The Elephant, visit their website: http://www.cagetheelephant.com

Fairly Local - Twenty One Pilots

A new Twenty One Pilots song was released last week called Fairly Local and it is great. The song intro is amazing yet gives off a slight oriental feeling but this song is spooky. It has a phantom feeling. The lead singer, Tyler Joseph, has a great tempo that breaks down into a deep-voiced rap that just invites us to make this song popular enough to be played on the radio just to ruin those lyrics. This music video is interesting. It may revolutionize teenage girls from singing into their hair brush in their bedrooms and instead sing into their lamps and light bulbs. I've had to basically recite Fairly Local's chorus before but usually whenever I get people lost in the local tourist city that I never actually go to.

To learn more about Twenty One Pilots, visit their website: http://www.twentyonepilots.com/fairlylocal

Modest Mouse Album Release

Strangers to Ourselves was just release this week! Go out and get it while it's hot!

To learn more about Modest Mouse, visit their website: http://modestmouse.com

Smallpools Album Release

Smallpools released their album Lovetap! Go ahead and enjoy!

To learn more about Smallpools, visit their website: http://www.smallpoolsmusic.com

Album of the Week - American Beauty/American Psycho - Fall Out Boy

Fall Out Boy keeps to their promise and continues to make music that is relative to our time and still makes it hard to sit still. It's constantly progressing and keeping up with what is cool. Or maybe anything they make is just cool at any time. They do a wonderful job of using old music samples such as the Munsters theme in Uma Thurman. Their music easily gets itself stuck in your head but the good part is that you're not going to be all that pissed or annoyed about it replaying in your head. While this album isn't exactly rainbows and sunshine, it still has the energy to lift you up out of the dumps. Even on those days where your catch phrase seems to become a sarcastic "smooth" that you say after all twenty times of dropping your phone, and on those days when your friend stops answering your texts but keeps reading them because apparently their phone had been stolen and you've just been texting their robber this week. For particular songs in the album to listen to besides the singles that had been released earlier, I suggest listening to Novocaine, Fourth Of July, and Jet Pack Blues.

To learn more about Fall Out Boy, visit their website: http://falloutboy.com

Knock Knock Knock - Spoon

This is a song from Spoon's newer album. They have a fail rely consistent style so of you're a fan, you obviously know what you like. The popping beat is a great mix up underplaying their acoustic sound in this song. Although there isn't a ton of different overlays, this song does give me the feeling that it is a mindfuck. In a good way.

To learn more about Spoon, visit their website: http://www.spoontheband.com

Angel of Small Death and the Codeine - Hozier

This song has such strong lyrics that it belongs in prayer books. Hozier puts meaning into his songs. I haven't found any covers but I assume it's because Hozier has the type of voice that makes anyone jealous. This Irishmen has one hell of a voice.

To learn more about Hozier, visit his website: http://hozier.com/us/

Skulls - Bastille

Skulls has an amazingly catchy echo tune throughout. That may be the part that pulls you in but the lyrics are dark. We're all going to die. But at least this song sounds awesome.

To learn more about Bastille, visit their website: http://www.bastillebastille.com/badblood_outnow/

Are You Who You Want To Be? - Foster The People

This song starts off as an already cool yet drowned out song and builds on top of it to the awesomeness you hear throughout. The lyrics are sung in such a way that my brain just gives up on trying to interpret it and writes it down as Spanish that I don't understand. I don't know why. The most clear lyric is "Are you what you want to be?" That may be because it's the song title though. Foster The People always seems to deliver with awesome synth based sound that makes me just want to rock out.

To learn more about Foster The People, visit their website: http://www.fosterthepeople.com/