I Have A Boyfriend

I don't want to brag but I totally have a boyfriend. The only problem is that he lives in Canada and I only know him on Twitter and he's not actually my boyfriend, but still, we're totes in love in less than 140 characters a pop.
He loves the Beatles and cool music and you'll never believe it but he's in a band. His band is Ketamines and they're really good. You may know some of their members from the awesome Myelin Sheaths, and both bands have releases on HoZac Records. Here's a pic of The Ketamines, my boyfriend is the dreamy one (I think, I don't know what he looks like, but don't worry it is true love).

But you should definitely listen to and support my new boyfriend's band, so he can become really rich and fly me to Canada and buy me diamonds and lots of rare records and elk meat or whatever it is Canadians eat...
Also, they play good music.

Ketamines -- Line By Line


Ketamines -- 1 yr v 2

Gold Bears Kicking It Old School

Let me tell you a story, it's not too long. About five years ago I met a dark, brooding noise musician who worked nights with me at my weird TV job. He had been the music director at V89, the FSU college radio station, in Tallahassee, Florida, before moving to the cold, hard city. He was so dreamy and I loved him and started spending every waking moment with him and his roommate Theresa (now the guitar player in Home Blitz) and listened to crazy power pop records all night long in their shitty loft.
Well, I developed a weird obsession with everything Tallahassee and everyone that had lived there. It seemed to be this weird pocket of indie that was just full of good people and good vibes. Now, five years later, I'm living the Tallahassee dream, I'm roommates with one of the best Tallys, one of the members of the ollllde indie band Plastic Mastery.

PlazzMazz has been over for a while, and my roommate Larry has been recording some solo stuff after his epic year long project of writing and recording a song every day that should be pretty exciting when it comes out.
But, his old band mate Jeremy has been recording with his new "twee punk" band Gold Bears in Atlanta. They have an LP coming out on Slumberland and an upcoming US Tour with PopJew friends Dream Diary.
Listen, I already said the words "twee punk" and "Slumberland" and "Tallahassee" to you, do you really need to know anything else? Trust me, you're going to like it. Here's a song (from a single) for you to enjoy before you can get your paws on the LP.

Gold Bears -- Something To Think About

all i wanna know is where do we go when this bar closes?

So listen. I'm unemployed and bored and pretty much all there is to do with my day is go to the gym, sit around my house, go to bars and get wasted. MY LIFE IS GLAMOROUS.

This song is not new, and I've written about Allo Darlin' before, but lately I have been jamming "Silver Dollars" on pretty constant repeat...

Sometimes a song just really speaks to you. Not only is "Silver Dollars" sweetly, inoffensively enjoyable, but it really captures the way it feels to be young and broke and just not want to give a fuck...

And tough I've got no money to burn I'm gonna burn what I got
And though this band is awful I like them an awful lot

I know, right? That's totally how I feel pretty much every day of my life. Love you Allo Darlin'.