So one of the issues with having my own music blog with that nifty little last.fm widget on the side means that sooner or later somebody is gonna see a guilty pleasure of mine pop up. For the most part I make no apologies for the music that I like, but... Every now and then we all have a lapse in hipster judgment and Nelly Furtado pops up. While building my latest mix cd I've been looking for good songs with strings and "I'm Like a Bird" has then at the beginning and then I caught myself and realized it would blast my hipster credentials to be adding such a song to a mix cd.

Here's some hipsterness to offset all of that mainstreamness guilty pleasures:

Los Campesinos! - Death To Los Campesinos!

The Los Campesinos! come out with their debut album soon and I am super pumped. They've got this wonderful mess of music. I love it. A lot of their songs take a few listens to really get into but it always seems to follow the same pattern:

"This is okay... Oh man, that part is awesome... Oh shit, this is great."

In any case, I imagine they are amazing live. I can't wait to see them.

So for those of you who don't know me (and I very much doubt there are many people reading this now who don't know me) I am a young writer who's great passion in life is music. I can't really play music but I'm hard pressed to figure out anything in my life that I am more dependent on. I spend nearly every moment of my free day listening to music. In fact, I'm listening to music as I write this. I decided to keep up a music blog mostly for the people who like to rely on me as a gateway to new music since I tend to make it my business to expose myself to more and more new stuff.

Right now I'm working on a project. A mix cd for a girl. It's called With Strings Attached and it features a variety of violincentric tracks. I love the violin way too much and she's a fan of it too. Last night I told her that I'd make her a new mix and she told me we're hanging out this week, so I suppose it's my duty to get to it. I haven't started a tracklist yet but I definitely know of at least one song that's going to make the cut.

Vampire Weekend - M79