No More Wishing / January 31, 2014 by E

Normally, I would try to skim over whatever reasoning I had for an awkward posting schedule, but your understanding of my moving around this week's schedule and then not following up with interviews or newer music has been so great that I feel you deserve a bit more of an explanation. My friend passed away Sunday morning and I am not handling myself as well as I would like to be. I apologize for the lack of a regular posting schedule for the last two weeks leading up to this one and, especially, for the overall lack of posts this past week. You deserve more music and more attention to said music and I am going to dedicate my day off tomorrow to getting a couple of different posts put together for you guys; so you have that to look forward to going into February.

"No More Wishing" Hayley Taylor

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Fix You / January 30, 2014 by E

If you want an amazing performance, see The Offspring perform live. They're the only band I've seen, aside from Tokyo Police Club and The Lone Bellow, where every member of the band was equally awesome and no one stood out from the others, only because they were so fantastic as a group (I love when bands don't throw out a singer as a front-man because it means that there's an emphasis on them being a 'band'). They were one of few performances where the music was even better live than it is recorded and, when you see them live, there is so much energy in those opening riffs that you're going to re-fall for their music all over again (seriously, "The Kids Aren't Alright" may, possibly, be in my top five best concert songs/experiences).

The Offspring is awesome; they've been together for years and their album tracks jump from songs you have to scream along with to those which really just need to be played while laying back with headphones on or while driving down the interstate. They can do pretty much anything in their genre perfectly and a lot of that is because they began while the alternative rock genre was still being molded so a lot of those great '90's alternative influences are still in their music; if you don't have a ridiculous amount of their music in your library, you should start working on that.

"Fix You" The Offspring

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Even If It Breaks Your Heart / January 30, 2014 by E

I'm still trying to get myself back together after the news I received Sunday morning which means that I have sunk down into listening to a lot of Eli Young Band's music (with some Mika, Camera Can't Lie, and Green River Ordinance thrown in for good measure). I'm working on getting back for you guys and you're awesome for being cool with 'New Music Monday' having been pushed to Tuesday this week so I'll work through it tonight and come back with a lot of good music and the return of interviews on the site and all of that other fun stuff that I've been pushing aside for the past two weeks. For now though (and even though I'm sure I've definitely made you listen to it before), this song is still pretty great.

"Even If It Breaks Your Heart" Eli Young Band

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Ways / January 29, 2014 by E

Ruby the RabbitFoot released the video for "Ways" off her forthcoming album, New As Dew (due for release March 18), yesterday and the song is gorgeous. The vocals are sweetly hypnotic and the swirling melody puts amazing lyrics like "I know you're probably thinking of ways, ways to be good to me, but let me help you spare your precious energy" and "I know that day I ran away, you ran away too, 'cause I came home, the coffee was cold and the cups were stained, the walls were thick with pain" in the spotlight.

"Ways" Ruby the RabbitFoot