Cocorosie - Good Friday

While I'm on this streak of French, I might as well run with it until I find a new theme to write to. Cocorosie is a duo of sisters Coco and Rosie, whose real names are Sierra and Bianca. These two American sisters came from a turbulent home, where they were seperated as children. By now you're probably wondering where the French part comes in... Well, Sierra went study opera at the Paris Conservatory, while Bianca studied Linguistics and Sociology. Bianca grew impatient with her life and watned to travel, so she searched for her sister and decided to reunite with her. They spent the next couple of months in Sierra's bathtub, recording music and produced an album which they called La Maison de Mon Reve.

Cocorosie - Good Friday

This track is the fourth track off of that album and was also the first song I have ever heard by the band. I accidentally stumbled upon this song, while I was looking up new releases from one of my favorite record labels, Touch & Go, home to bands like Killdozer, Big Black, Slint, Pinback. Touch & Go heard the album after it was released by the duo and decided to rerelease it for them.

Cocorosie is also said to be associated with the New Weird America movement, which is basically folk music with some modern music elements such as noise, distortions and whatnot.

And just because I'm getting back into this band, I'm going to post a bonus track for all of you readers out there.

Cocorosie - Candy Land

Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie and Clyde

While the topic of French music is still fresh in your minds, I think I'll go ahead and post about another French artist. Serge Gainbourg is probably one of the most defining faces of French pop music. He has varied his musical styles over the years, so it has become really difficult to actual characterize him using one genre. Mr. Gainsbourg has done everything from directing to acting, and poetry to singing.

Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie and Clyde

This track by the multitalented artist features the French actress and renowned sex symbol, Bridgette Bardot. This song was originally released in 1967.

Below is the music video Serge picked for the song, which is actually also a movie of its own.

Emilie Simon - I Wanna Be Your Dog

Before you recognize this artist's name, you should recognize the song's name. Emilie Simon genre bended this song and covered it in a way I have never heard it being covered before; electronically and she did a damn good job at it. When the Stooges did this song, I don't think they ever dreamed of it being covered this way.

Emilie Simon - I Wanna Be Your Dog

Emilie Simon is a French artist who also did the soundtrack to the French version of the popular documentary, March of the Pengins. She only recently released her US debut entitled The Flower Book, which was basically a compilation of "the best" of the three albums that she released in France and Canada. It's really difficult to describe what type of music Emilie Simon makes; it's a mixture of electronic and dark pop.

I've also decided to let you in on the first Emilie Simon song I have ever heard, it was through the video below. Which was very well made, if I might add. Many bands tend to forget about the lost art of videomaking nowadays.

Explosions in the Sky - Yasmin the Light

Explosions in the Sky is a post-rock band hailing from Texas. If you like bands along the lines of Godspeed You Black Emperor! but find them too gloomy, then you're in luck! Explosions in the Sky provides a more optimistic interpretation of post-rock; one you can listen to without wanting to turn off the lights in your room and stare at the wall while listening to.

Explosions in the Sky - Yasmin the Light

This track is off of their Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever and this is their only release that has successfully caught my attention so far. I've yet to give the others a proper listen.

Luna - The Old Fashioned Way

Luna is a band that formed in the early 90's after Galaxie 500 broke up, but decided to go their seperate ways a couple of years ago. The track I'm featuring today is off Days of Our Nights, which is my favorite album by the band.

Luna - The Old Fashioned Way

Rolling Stone described Luna as the best band you've never heard of. This particular track is one of their poppier tunes.

Doug Cheatwood - Digging Up Dinosaurs

This is going to be a unique post. Today's band is a local-ish band that hails from Roanoke, Virginia. I have been following this artist's music for about three years now and I can't say that I have ever been disappointed. Bands like these make shows worth going to. After going to many many shows, I'd like to say that a lot of bands fall into two categories; live bands and recorded bands. Live bands tend to have bad recordings but amazing live shows, recorded bands tend to have pretty amazing recordings, but they also have the hardest time reproducing their sound live. It's really rare to find a band that can carryout both traits at once. But ladies and gentlemen, the music you're about to witness is just as amazing in person.

Doug Cheatwood - Digging Up Dinosaurs

This track is from one of Mr. Cheatwood's solo releases. However, the rad factor was amplified when he decided to recruit a full band for him to work with. Eventually, Doug Cheatwood & The Bastards of Fate came to life. The band, in its current formation, has been together for a little bit over a year now and still continue to evolve. I've been to every single one of their local shows and it has never been the same.

Their music has also been used as background music for videos done by famous athletes, as demonstrated in the video below...



The band is currently in the process of recording their first full-length album, for an anticipated release date in 2020. (Okay, I might have made up that last one).

Broken Social Scene - Cause = Time

Okay okay, you've made me feel bad enough already, this extra post is to make up for the post I missed yesterday.

This is the first song I had ever heard for Broken Social Scene, which I accidentally stumbled upon while trying to find a Social Distortion song. I have been glad to have made that mistake until this day.

Broken Social Scene - Cause = Time

The main thing that caught my attention was the percussion and the shivering guitars in the background. I've tried to decipher a lot of this band's lyrics, but I really had a hard time making sense out of them. They're either really deep or this band sucks at songwriting; I'd personally like to believe the former, so I will. On that note, you should too.

Broken Social Scene - Bandwitch

Before I start I would like to admit that I have been a bad blogger and completely neglected yesterday's post, sorry. But dear reader, I shall make it up to you with *twice* the post this time around.

Broken Social Scene might just be one of my favorite bands of all time. I mean, they have so much talent at their disposal and the whole band is just this everevolving fruit salad of catchy goodness. I have never really found a proper way to describe them, because they have fulfilled electronic, post-rock, ambient, acoustic, awesome and I'm pretty sure there are more genres I can't think of at the moment. Being in love with this entire band's discography doesn't really make picking one track for this post an easy task, but alas, it must be done.

Broken Social Scene - Bandwitch

Superconnected is a track from Broken Social Scene's second album, which was self-titled. I think this song ties this album to their first album (which was entitled You Forgot it in People) and the Beehives EP. It has the typical Broken Social Scene with multi-layered and overlapping tracks that aren't too overwhleming and seem to fit together in perfect harmony.

I made a reference to this band in an earlier post, where you got to hear an earlier incarnation of this band. Well, this is what they sound like now and you can probably pick up on how much they have evolved by comparing both songs.

Bedhead - Lares and Penates

Bedhead is one of the first really shoegaze bands that I have liked. I don't really know much about the band, except that they broke up (sometime in the late 90's)? I think shoegaze is a happy place between post-punk and post-rockm but moreso on the first side.

Bedhead - Lares and Penates

It takes a while to buildup, so be patient. It's worth it.

KC Accidental - Is and Of The

K.C. Accidental is the name that Broken Social Scene used to go by, before Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin finally formed into their current group. If you listen to K.C. Accidental, you will understand where Broken Social Scene started and what their current sound has stemmed from.

K.C. Accidental - Is and Of The

This track is off of the album Anthems for the Could've Bin Pills, which is more of a simple post-rock release rather than the busy and layered sound that the Broken Social Scene collective goes for nowadays. This release could have actually been an EP if the band had not added six whole tracks of silence. These six tracks doubled the tracklisting for the release, thus turning it into a full-length album instead of an EP. I suppose some things should be looked over with such great musicians at hand.

The Cure - Disintegration

The Cure is one of the oldest and best sappyass goth rock bands to have ever existed, in my opinion. Even though they fit under the New Wave umbrella, they're a lot sadder than most of their peers who belong to that genre. One of my favorite songs by the band is not considered one of their hits, possibly because it was so damn depressing.

The Cure - Disintegration

This song is the perfect breakup song. I really have nothing more to elborate on, because the lyrics are poetic enough to speak for their own selves.

However I would like to mention that Robert Smith did tour with one of my favorite bands, they go by the name Siouxsie and the Banshees. I will probably end up posting something else by them at some point, but for now I would like for you to revel in the beauty of the song I just posted.

Beat Happening - Indian Summer

The post-punk band Beat Happening has always been a summer band to me; catchy songs and youthful lyrics. My favorite album by this band is Jamboree.

Beat Happening - Indian Summer

Indian Summer is my favorite song off of the release and it was one of the first Twee songs I have ever heard. Beat Happening only continued my love affair with music released on K Records, which just so happens to be one of my favorite record labels now.

Soundtrack to my summer

Every blog deserves an introductory post, so here is mine. People have asked me to make music recommendations in the past, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to follow the music-blogging greats' footsteps and start my own. I happen to be be quite opinionated about music, so this would be a good venting space for me.

Happy reading, feedback is encouraged and appreciated.