New Countdown: Anonymity

Foster the People

Today is the start of the reclamation of the backlog of the countdowns. I have been feeling really behind, but NO MORE! Buckle up and get ready for the catch-up


Countdown #387

***Featuring***
Bastille
Beck
Desaparecidos
Foster the People
Imagine Dragons
lovelytheband
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
Panic! At the Disco
Sir Sly
Tinted Windows
Two Feet
Walk the Moon

New Countdown: Life Getting in the Way

Cage the Elephant

Ugh, things are so busy leading up to the holidays this year. But we're muddling through somehow! I'm really enjoying the bonus song plan that I have going leading up to the end of the year. I hope you're enjoying it too.


Countdown #273

***Featuring***
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Coleman Hell
Death Cab For Cutie
Desaparecidos
Elle King
Muse
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
Silversun Pickups
Speedy Ortiz
twenty one pilots
X Ambassadors

Desaparecidos News!

So, Conor Oberst's punk band Desaparecidos has signed to Epitaph records and will be releasing a new album in 2015. This is fantastic news!

Here's a link to my post about their one full-length, Read Music/Speak Spanish

One Year, 100 Albums: #91 Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish

Desaparecidos Read Music/Speak Spanish, 2002

When you hear about "Conor Oberst's punk band", I'm not sure you come up with the right image (or, like, sound image....what's a sound image called?). I really like Bright Eyes, but if you told me that there was a punk band led by the main guy behind Bright Eyes, I would be skeptical.

First, I would say that they're not a "punk" band. The sound they have is better categorized as "angry, political rock". And that might be splitting hairs, but they are hairs that need to be split.

Listening to Deseparecidos puts me in that bitter, angry, cynical mood that all good political music should put you in.

And it's LOUD. So loud, in fact, that I couldn't find any videos that weren't completely drowned out by the volume of the guitars and drums. Which is a good thing in a way, but in a "I want videos for these posts" way, it sucks.

So here are two songs that flow from one into the other on the album. The album is only 9 songs long, so this is like 22% of the album, right here.

Desaparecidos - Manana (which features one of my favorite intros/countoffs of all time)
Desaparecidos - Greater Omaha

You can by Read Music/Speak Spanish at Amazon, Amazon MP3, iTunes, and the Saddle Creek store

New Desaparecidos Songs!

So, Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) used to also be in this band called Desaparecidos (which is Spanish for "the disappeared") but then he became CONOR OBERST (BRIGHT EYES) and they decided to call it a day in 2002 after only 1 album and 1 single. The album Read Music/Speak Spanish (Buy from Amazon) (Buy from Saddle Creek Records) is fantastic. And far too short!

Well, this year, they are doing some touring and are releasing a couple new songs! You can pick up the mp3's or the 7" tomorrow at their website

Here's one of the songs for you to listen to, MariKKKopa

And you can listen to the other one, Backsell, here. But it might just be for today, I'm not sure.