11.08.07

Jacob: last.fm/USER/moravscik/ - I like your top neighbour.

Zoey: oh wow, I didn't even notice that. on either count. good to see my music taste has expanded since the last account, haha. can we be last fm friends too?
ps-no way you listen to andrew bird

Jacob: Yeah, my last.fm tends not to be terribly accurate because I am usually either listening to CDs or my iPod, neither of which get scrobbled. Andrew Bird is awesome, latest is probably one of the top ten for the year.
We only have medium level matching for music. Alas.
Oh, your last.fm link is still wrong. he he.

Zoey: mine's also pretty off,especially since my little brothers use my laptop more than i do... so maybe in real life, our musical similarity is more than medium, though i gotta give you indie props -- you have bands i've never heard of.
and yeah i'll fix the link.

Jacob: Miracle Fortress and Taken By Trees - both artists, though established elsewhere, have their debuts under those names this year and both are in my top ten for 2007 so far. You should check them out if you haven't.

Anything I might not have heard that I should be listening to?

Zoey: if you like sufjan, you might like my brightest diamond and shapes and sizes, which are also on his label. a band called half handed cloud is also not bad... though all of those bands are a little more twee than what you generally seem to listen to. page france is another band to check out.

you might like final fantasy. both 'he poos clouds' and 'has a good home' are awesome albums. if you're a huge rilo kiley fan, then you've probably heard jenny lewis and the watson twins, but if not then you should. the whitest boy alive are a lot like midlake. so is sparrow house, kind of.

are peter bjorn and john good? i've only ever heard that one song.


Jacob: Well, as a preamble, this wasn't a ploy so I could act smug and superior, exclaiming, "ha ha, I know those bands already!". . . but I do. :D

I don't really like most bands on Asthmatic Kitty much, I'm not sure it's a twee thing though. I used to self-identify my taste as being twee, but most of it was early twee except for Boy Least Likely To, or The Like Young.

I used to have a music blog that was had some level of minor recognizability, with around 5k hits a day. I had a short thing on what I think is the genesis of twee (without being anachronistic).

We had an interview with Owen Pallett too. I never really got into the first album, but I like "He Poos Clouds" a lot. I love Rilo Kiley's second and third album, but the upcoming one is brutally disappointing. Jenny Lewis's solo was a bit too country-gospel for me, but the Traveling Wilburys cover was insanely good.

Zoey: alas. how humiliating.
i downloaded the newest rilo kiley today, i can't say i'm a huge fan either. i also got the new weakerthans which i really like! it's hard to top what they've done in the past though.

wow, i didn't realize that not only do you sell warranty like a motherfucker, you talked to owen pallett. i'm duly outdone.

Jacob: Ha ha.. I actually didn't talk to Pallett, that was one of the guys that came on my site later from Ottawa. He still runs it as a promotional company. He's put on a lot of shows now and one festival with lots of good indie names.

I downloaded the Weakerthans new album about a week ago, but I still haven't gotten around to listening to it. Which is weird, since I thought Reconstruction Site was really good. Where do you download music from? If you use torrents and aren't on Oink, I can send you an invite.

Very nice movie picks by the way.

... and I suck at selling warranty, our dept gets false numbers since our only sales are warranty sales.