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wild eyed, you’re still flying…

June 9, 2012 by MD

Just came across Went Away- a warm, uplifting song from the Maccabees’ latest album, Given to the Wild. They are playing Webster Hall (NYC) on June 13th. I can’t wait. They make me feel better about life. The video for Went Away is kind of bland, but check out the short film above, it’s quite powerful. The video for Can You Give It is quirky and endearing, while Wall of Arms and Empty Vessels are both pretty heavy. I vaguely remember a […]

Categories: Heart Kickstart • Tags: Beautiful, heartfelt, Maccabees, Uplifting

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we’re working and we’re so much better for it…

June 9, 2012 by MD

Godwolf just might change your life. I don’t remember how I stumbled across “Another Me,” but I instantly fell in love. And then it only got better. Their music strikes this sublime balance between tenderness and rage that is nothing short of earthshattering. “We like the idea of blending the ethereal with the vicious: the ambient with the aggressive: the God with the Wolf.” I can guarantee that these five will knock your socks off. Absolutely. Brilliant. Godwolf – Another […]

Categories: Audio Benzo, Heart Kickstart, Music, Run for Cover • Tags: amazing, Beautiful, cover, Godwolf, Jose Gonzalez, moving, powerful, remix, Urbantramper

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these are hard times for dreamers…

June 9, 2012 by MD

Awesome new video and track Hurricane from sneak attack favorites MS MR. Everyone I have played it for is like “who IS this?” in a way that I don’t even have to ask if they like what they hear. While the new track is pretty amazing, for me it still hasn’t surpassed Bones, which remains one of my absolute favorite songs. Their cover of Patrick Wolf’s Time Of My Life is also very impressive. Something tells me they are like […]

Categories: Heart Kickstart, Music, So Rockstar • Tags: amazing, cover, MS MR, Patrick Wolf, powerful

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I need you to be rough…

May 30, 2012 by MD

Check out Poliça. I love the way this Amongster rises and falls so much that it didn’t even bother me that I could barely make out a goddam word she was singing for most of it because she has this sort of female Thom Yorke thing going on with her vocals and the video is sort of like Planet Earth meets soft porn. Something about the way that snail is raising it’s nonexistent eyebrows tells you a boner (or clit […]

Categories: Heart Kickstart • Tags: ambient, Beautiful, cool video, moving, Poliça

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may the God of me protect my soul…

March 28, 2012 by MD

I had all but given up on this blog after a brutal round of finals and a winter break full of hospital visits, but after watching these videos I am sufficiently inspired to give it another go. iamamiwhoami is the best thing I’ve seen in years. Take the Knife, Bjork, and Roisin Murphy, and give them all a whopping dose of the hallucinogenic mandrake root, and this is what they might come up with. The videos are totally mesmerizing. Even calling them […]

Categories: Audio Benzo, Dance Party, Heart Kickstart • Tags: brilliant, dance party, iamamiwhoami, moving

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Worth a thousand words…

October 23, 2011 by MD

Or frequent flyer miles? Listen, just because I couldn’t come up with a decent title for this post, doesn’t mean you aren’t obligated to check out Pictureplane. I first heard his track Goth Star one day in Opening Ceremony and was like HARK?! What sound…?!? Anyway yea so I’ve been wildly into the song ever since (it’s fantastic when you need to get in the right state of mind as you’re on your way to a party). But I always […]

Categories: Dance Party, Flash in a Pan, Heart Kickstart • Tags: dance party, electro, Fleetwood Mac, parties, Pictureplane, rock out, Stevie Nicks

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Antlers are the new black.

October 15, 2011 by MD

That was the thrust of a NYT Style section article I found really amusing, but it seems the same is true for the band. Seriously, everybody loves these guys right now. The Antlers’ 2009 concept album, Hospice tells the story of a relationship between a hospice worker and terminally-ill patient. The band has been somewhat reluctant to explain to what extent this was autobiographical, but the product was unequivocally a very moving record. Kettering and Two were my favorites. Their new Album, Burst Apart, was […]

Categories: Heart Kickstart • Tags: Antlers, heartfelt, love, Magnetic Fields, Weekend

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let this part of me remember how lovely we were…

October 14, 2011 by MD

Watch this video and try telling me you don’t want to be her best friend. Go ahead, just try. I love Lucy Rose. She has a delicate voice, melancholy yet hopeful sound, and her simple honest lyrics always seem to resonate. Scar (above) and Middle of the Bed are out as singles on iTunes, and she’s made the (excellent) songs First and Night Bus available for free download through her website, but my personal favorites are the as-yet unreleased Bikes and […]

Categories: Audio Benzo, Heart Kickstart • Tags: Beautiful, heartfelt, Lucy Rose

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wild eyed, you’re still flying…

we’re working and we’re so much better for it…

these are hard times for dreamers…

I need you to be rough…

may the God of me protect my soul…

Worth a thousand words…

Antlers are the new black.

let this part of me remember how lovely we were…