Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist November 2009

1. (00:03:30) the Da Vincis - Paper Planes
2. (00:04:04) The Mantles - Don't Lie
3. (00:03:23) No Age - You're A Target
4. (00:02:58) The Very Best - Julia (Javelin Re-do)
5. (00:03:26) The Silent Years - Taking Drugs At The Amusement Park
6. (00:03:36) Switches - Snakes and Ladders
7. (00:03:52) Dr. Dog - Heart it Races
8. (00:04:00) PacoVolume - Cookiemachine
9. (00:04:03) The Kickdrums - Out To Get Me!
10. (00:03:53) Jon and Roy - Another Noon
11. (00:04:44) Pet Ghost Project - Wires From The Ceiling
12. (00:03:05) Nicole Reynolds - When We Meet Again
13. (00:04:46) Frankie & The Heartstrings - Fragile
14. (00:03:23) Kittens Ablaze - This Machine is Dying
15. (00:03:57) Lixian Hantover - Rachel's New Apartment
16. (00:03:12) The Submarines - You, Me & The Bourgeoisie
17. (00:04:10) Marina & The Diamonds - Mowgli's Road
18. (00:03:05) A Broken Robot - All Here
19. (00:04:36) Parts & Labor - Nowheres Nigh
20. (00:02:45) Ex Lovers - Just A Silhouette
21. (00:03:46) The Lovely Feathers - Lowiza
22. (00:06:44) Warpaint - Billie Holiday
23. (00:02:15) P.S. Eliot - Like How You Are
24. (00:04:01) New Roman Times - Smoke In Your Disguise
25. (00:02:02) Shai Erlichman - Origami! (Ft. Wes + Cas Kaplan)
26. (00:03:05) Evan Voytas - Give It Back
27. (00:02:52) Historics - Skin Orders
28. (00:03:28) Vampire Weekend - Horchata
29. (00:02:52) Washed Out - New Theory
30. (00:03:07) Freelance Whales - Generator ^ First Floor
31. (00:04:29) Their Planes Will Block Out the Sun - Teflon Kids
32. (00:02:44) Looking Glass - Ah La Ha
33. (00:03:13) Taken By Trees - My Boys (Animal Collective Cover)
34. (00:06:57) The Flaming Lips - Powerless
35. (00:03:26) Fol Chen - The Longer U Wait (ft. Simone White)
36. (00:02:26) Saintseneca - God Bones
37. (00:04:13) Candy Claws - Catamaran
38. (00:03:04) The Happy Hollows - Death To Vivek Kemp
39. (00:03:33) Drummer - Feel Good Together
40. (00:03:57) Alec Ounsworth - That is not my Home (after Bruegel)
41. (00:03:32) Hallelujah The Hills - Wave Backwards To Massachusetts
42. (00:02:14) Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk - Train Fuzz
43. (00:04:44) Kordan - Fantasy Nation
44. (00:03:30) The Yes Pleases - 70%
45. (00:03:29) Total Babe - Bearbones
46. (00:02:45) Bluejuice - Head Of The Hawk
47. (00:03:10) Jesus H. Foxx - I'm Half the Man You Were
48. (00:06:39) Serena Ryder & The Beauties - The Funeral (Band Of Horses Cover)
49. (00:02:09) Josh Rouse - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths Cover)
50. (00:02:53) Joshua Radin - Sesame Street (Joe Raposo)
51. (00:03:34) Brandi Carlile - Dreams
52. (00:05:03) The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
53. (00:04:28) Sea Wolf - Wicked Blood
54. (00:04:50) Jamie T - The Man's Machine
55. (00:04:09) Phantogram - When I'm Small
56. (00:04:16) Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard - One Fast Move Or I'm Gone
57. (00:03:18) Built To Spill - Aisle 13
58. (00:03:30) Glass Ghost - Like a Diamond
59. (00:01:49) Karen O and the Kids - Igloo
60. (00:05:10) Levi Fuller - Colossal
61. (00:05:18) Noah And The Whale - Stranger
62. (00:03:10) Orba Squara - The Trouble With Flying
63. (00:03:42) Pugwash - The Season Of Flowers And Leaves
64. (00:03:22) System and Station - Love Etc.
65. (00:03:24) The Whigs - In The Dark
66. (00:04:36) Throw Me The Statue - Waving At The Shore
67. (00:03:50) You & Yourn - Double Knots
68. (00:04:00) dios Malos - I Don't Want To Marry You
69. (00:04:44) Mont Lyons - Love Over Mind
70. (00:03:41) Ape School - Be an Encore
71. (00:02:22) Jay Reatard - It Ain't Gonna Save Me
72. (00:03:20) M. Bison - All Things to All People
73. (00:02:46) Hawnay Troof - And I
74. (00:03:55) Bird Talk - Avenue
75. (00:03:10) Windmill - Big Boom
76. (00:03:15) Women - Black Rice
77. (00:03:17) I Was Totally Destroying It - Come Out, Come Out
78. (00:02:54) Jane Taylor - Cracks
79. (00:03:10) Uninhabitable Mansions - Do You Have a Strategy?
80. (00:02:23) Call The Doctor - For Your Leisure
81. (00:05:46) Teenage Cool Kids - Foreign Lands
82. (00:02:39) Headlights - Get Going
83. (00:02:38) Lou Barlow - Gravitate
84. (00:03:23) The Joy Formidable - Greyhounds in the Slips
85. (00:05:12) Karen O and the Kids - Hidaway
86. (00:03:14) Tim Williams - I Hit Another Wall
87. (00:05:27) Au - Ida Walked Away
88. (00:03:34) The Swell Season - In These Arms
89. (00:04:11) dios Malos - It Will Feel Good...
90. (00:01:34) Sabia Sensive - June Salutes You
91. (00:03:24) Spring Tigers - Just Suggesting
92. (00:03:50) Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster
93. (00:04:12) Old Canes - Little Bird Courage
94. (00:04:18) Three Mile Pilot - Longest Day
95. (00:03:57) Numbers Game - Love Dreams Love
96. (00:02:41) Amy Millan - Low Sail
97. (00:02:49) When I Was 12 - Make believe hearts
98. (00:04:33) Dead Man's Bones - My Body's A Zombie For You
99. (00:05:27) The Swindlers - November First
100. (00:32:04) Ishi - Pastel Lights
101. (00:03:42) Chris Garneau - Pirates Reprise
102. (00:04:03) Colourmusic - Put In A Little Gas
103. (00:04:50) Bon Iver & St. Vincent - Rosyln
104. (00:06:35) Dan Deacon - Slow with horns / Run for your life
105. (00:03:02) Espionage Of The Loc - Start Again
106. (00:04:22) Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land
107. (00:02:00) The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - Tear Down The Opera House
108. (00:05:32) Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - The Sound
109. (00:02:55) Los Campesinos! - There Are Listed Buildings
110. (00:03:34) The Library - Tomorrow Is Better
111. (00:03:40) Rubik - Wasteland
112. (00:03:00) Emmy The Great - Where Is My Mind
113. (00:04:02) Sea of Bees - Willis

Great bands that never made it #1- Rushing with Apathy

I was sitting in a nero coffee house last week when one of their tracks came on and it got me to remembering when I first got their 4 track demo CD at a battle of the bands night when I popped to bournemouth uni for a bit. I decided to listen to the whole album and then I decided they deserved an entire post on my blog. They were that good.














Rushing with Apathy

Here's my original review of them- "So at my first university I used to smoke with this guy in the student village a few doors down, we did that and headed to the student union to drink and there was a battle of the bands on. These guys came on and it was like a proper concert, killer tunes, everyone digging it, talented as hell and holly who shares lead vocals was shaking it like a pro, they brought the atmosphere, her vocals were icy and gothic like an atheist amy lee and the guitars were metal without being jarring. The band are done now, it's over, I really thought they were going to be mammoth they had endless great reviews around the area hyped up to hell. Ah well good memories. And just picture this chick (actual pic from the gig) grinding her ass off for the last two minutes of this track."

I did think they were going to be huge, in reality they have less listeners and plays than MY last.fm page lol. There is one particular period of their history that lead to their downfall, letting holly leave, I have no idea what happened but apparently it wasn't particularly acrimonious none the less they should have chopped off their nuts, given her all their money, anything to get her to stay, she was what made the band great, they were nothing without her, obviously considering they split later on. It's not just that though, it's like after she left they erased any record of her being in the band, off their myspace, website everything which is fucking lame I mean grow up maybe? After that I was like fuck them and just appreciate that period in time when they really were special, Holly and Rushing with apathy.

Maybe it's just nostalgia or looking back at things with blue sky eyes, but I'd love to know what other people think so please, leave a comment let me know. Hopefully a few people will dig this, there's some really great tracks but fuck that- here's the whole album :p

Title Track
Let Down
Things in life
Cracks in my skin
Don't judge them
Don't know why
Memento
A way out
Thankyou