Hello my little neglected music blog. How are things? Today I tried to add a little widget to you that counted down until the Radiohead concert August 12th but I couldn't find one I liked. I'm sorry that I don't write in you more often. I know there's not much of an audience here and I guess that makes it harder for me to get things down.



Lately I've been listening to this band Headlights a lot. Particularly the song, "Put us Back Together Right," which is just so kinetic. It's got an amazing build up and sort of crashes into this amazing flood of music. I love songs like that.



I'm still building mixes but I'm trying to take a break from it. It's hard. It's a way for me to reach out to people and share things I love and there's little more I love in life than music.



Hopefully I'll stop neglecting you music blog but right now I have a headache. Doesn't mean I don't love you.

A lot of bands that I love have this tendency to have a good debut album then an amazing follow up and then they just turn into shit. The slide into mediocrity might take a few albums, but it happens. Not everyone can be Radiohead.

Rilo Kiley's follow up album was amazing. The Execution of All Things is a fantastic album filled with everything I love about Rilo Kiley. Good Jenny songs, good Blake songs, strange interludes, and sarcastic lyrics. They've released two albums since then and have gone from amazing to mediocre to incredibly mediocre. Their last album, Under the Blacklight, is their most radical album to date mostly because of how much it deviates into the mainstream. Great for casual fans and the mainstream, but terrible for long time fans.