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So school is over and our burgeoning blogocrew has been busy settling into its summering ways.

And because of this the blog has begun to feel a little stagnant. I can't speak for everyone, but I know there have been a few causes for my own relative silence.

NUMBER ONE May 12th brought about the last episode of the radio show which Fran and I host, and with it went one of my main impetusi (that should be the plural of impetus) for hunting down new music, which usually consists of scouring the same gaggle of music blogs which are like this one but update much more often. That's not to say I feel no impetus to search out said music independent of the radio show's demands, but after months of running through that exhausting gamut week after week it's nice to be able to chill for a sec. Just the fifteen minutes I spent today catching up on the HRO posts I'd missed was enough to leave me in need of a nap and a good square meal.

NUMBER TWO I'm not going to any sexy fucking music festivals this summer because festivals suck and you're going to end up disappointed anyway because they're not worth the money and festivals always end up being less sploogerific than the sum of their splooge-tastic line-up parts and I don't want to hear about which ones everyone's going to so don't bother telling me. That said, I am going to the Roots Picnic but only because a) they decided to call it a picnic and not a festival and picnics have an infinitely better connotation in my mind than festivals and b) because Dan's getting me in +1.

NUMBER THREE The Islands album is pretty good but it's not great and I already clogged about them and I'm afraid of turning into a pogger that only Molly-flogs about KanYe, Islands, the Roots, and Vampire Weekend. Go listen for yourself or let Pitchfork tell you where it should be filed in your personal Dewey Decimal library of indie rock.

Enough about me. Here are three wonderful songs that I have been bumping these pasts weeks.

Television - Venus (buy)
Toumast - Kit Ayittma (buy)
Chairmen of the Board - Give Me Just a Little More Time (buy or just check out the album cover) Continue reading...