2008 will be awesome!

I'm very excited for 2008 musically. Two of my favorite bands, Oasis (the first love) and Stellastarr* are in the studio. Oasis are in the process of mixing their 7th studio album in Los Angeles. Well, that was last week, anyway. I think they might still be at it. Dave Sardy, who worked with them on 2005's "Don't Believe The Truth" is back on board, so I'm very excited about that.


This came up in my stellastarr* Google Alert. Oh man, I am psyched. I think it would be safe to say that stellastarr* is my 3rd favorite band, although they do scuffle with Oasis for that 2nd spot. Which---they probably do occupy, but I haven't accepted that Oasis are falling further down...

Anyway. According to the article, stellastarr* are working on 14 songs, one named "Zombie Prom." Interesting. Warchild (which I haven't heard yet) is on there as well.

Ah, I'm just psyehed.

In other news...Jack Johnson is headlining Coachella on Friday night. O RLY? That's....weird! It'd be fun to go to, but quite frankly, I guess I'm a little surprised.

Here's who's playing: (carried over from Interpol Online)

FRIDAY, APRIL 25

Jack Johnson, The Verve, The Raconteurs, The Breeders, Fatboy Slim, Tegan and Sara, Madness, Swell Season, The National, Animal Collective, Slightly Stoopid, Mum, Pendulum, Sharon Jones, Stars, Battles, Aesop Rock, Midnight Juggernauts, Does it Offend You, Yeah?, Minus the Bear, Spank Rock, Dan le sac vs Scrombium Pin, Diplo, Adam Freeland, Santo Gold, Jens Lekman, John Butter Trio, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Architecture in Helsinki, Sandra Collins, Busy P, Cut Copy, Black Lips, Datarock, Professor Murder, Reverend and the Makers, The Bees, Porter, Rogue Wave, Modeselektor, American Gang, Lucky I AM

SATURDAY, APRIL 26

Portishead, Kraftwerk, Death Cab for Cutie, Cafe Tacvba, Sasha and Digweed, Rilo Kiley, Dwight Yoakam, M.I.A., Hot Chip, Cold War Kids, Stephen Malkmus, Devotchka, Flogging Molly, Mark Ronson, Turbonegro, Scars On Brodway, Islands, Enter Shikari, Calvin Harris, Boyz Noise, Junkie XL, Cinematic Orchstra, Jamie T, The Teenagers, VHS or Beta, Garbon/Silicon, Erol Alkan, Yo Majesty, Little Brother, Bonde Do Role, St. Vincent, Akron Family, MGMT, Institubes DJS, Surkin, Orgasmic, James Zbiola, SebastiAn, Kavinsky, Dready, The Bird and the Bee, Grand Ole Party, New Young Pony, 120 Days, Yoav, Electric Touch, UFFIE

SUNDAY, APRIL 27

Roger Waters, Love and Rockets, My Morning Jacket, Spiritualized, Justice, Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, The Streets, Metric, Danny Tenaglia, Simian Mobile Disco, Booka Shade, Murs, Dimitri From Paris, Autolux, The Field, Lintop Kwesi Johnson, Les Savy Fab, The cool Kids, Sons and Daghters, Sia, Holy Fuck, Black Kuls (if it's a typo and they're actually Black Kids), Black Mountain, The Animals, Kid Sister feat. A-Trak, Mon Man, Duffy, I'm From Barcelona, Manchester Orchestra, Deadmau5, The horrors, Austin TV, Shout Out Louds, Plastiscenes, Brett Dennen


Nice.

Anyway. That's it for now.

As far as what I'm listening to at the moment...Stars. I got their album "In Our Bedroom After The War." Brilliant. I've also got The New Pornographers' "Challengers" album. That title track is great.

Data Entry Entertainment

Haha, except I don't have a my own desk

Data entry provides me with the opportunity to listen to cds that I haven't to listened to in their entirety. Right now the Ipod's headphone jack is slightly messed up, as I can only hear out the right side. So, back to cds I go.



-The Matador at 15 collection is nice with Cornelius' "Drop." Highly addictive and almost gets me to start dancing in my chair. For that cause I can't play it much, b/c it also causes me to type slower...and compared to most of the others I'm slow. Yo La Tengo's "Don't Have To Be So Sad" is lovely too...the whole first cd for the most part is lovely. Second cd I put in and it starts off with The New Pornographers' "Graceland."

Considering that work took longer than expected last night b/c of the system being down, I expected to be in a slightly off mood. Listening to Graceland over and over remedied that. I was going to put it in my Myspace profile, but the person didn't upload it right, so no Graceland.



But I did put on stellastarr*'s "Love and Longing." Listened to their "Harmonies for the Haunted" cd like 3 times last night. Was going to put in Damien Rice, but never got to it. I think that's when I decided to listen to the Matador comp and Graceland came on.



The Muse album 'Black Holes and Revelations' is rich. Love that. I thought, at first listen, it didn't sound like it had that urgency like Absolution(I seem to remember that it had more head down piano bits, so I guess I thought it wasn't as charging), but on second listen, it's still there. Absolution is on my iPod, but I can't find the cd. Dang.



Oh and Antics. Been listening to Interpol's Antics too. Don't know where my TOTBL cd is. Do I even have a TOTBL? It's on my iPod...but I could've sworn....hmmm.

Oh well, another fun night of listening will be had.