What's Spinnin' In My Player These Days. . .

It's always fun to be in a mood where it would seem that everything you encounter is great music that you want to absorb and enjoy.

This is what its been like the past few days. Discovering/re-discovering a lot of really neat stuff.

So what have we discovered?


Cake - Prolonging the Magic
Third album from funked-out fedora-touting hipsters who don't seem to care much about conventional songwriting - as long as you get to put a good bass line to it.


The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
Bizarre prog-rock's journey through the dreams of someone in a coma. Sounds like the perfect thing for a rock album, right? Complete the picture with a very unorthodox approach to recording and you have some of the most unique music to be released today.


John Mayer - Heavier Things
The sophomore follow-up by pussy-boy Mayer shows he wasn't a one-hit songwriter. This album is thoroughly enjoyable to put on and listen through. Kudos for anyone who's willing to dress up like a bear and insult his own music to his most die-hard fans.


Presidents of the United States of America - Self-Titled
This is reaching back to a by-gone era who almost predates the opaque gloom of Kurt Cobain and a the millions of offspring that were spawned. Devolved song-writing left the trio with a three-stringed guitar, a two stringed bass and as simple ingredients as the Presidents could think to distill themselves to.

Always good stuff. Always something new.

T.