Pita pizza!

I have it for a while today!

O. M. G. Kings of Leon just blew my mind way open. WAY open. Oh. My. GAUDD.

This is going to be the best album of the year without a doubt. At least for me, but most likely for a lot more people. EVERY SINGLE SONG is ridiculously catchy, with hooks that twist and turn and push and yank.

But that isn’t what is important about “Only By Night.” What really makes this album for me is the pure soul that fills every line of every lyric in every song. I would be willing to bet that this album is going to stretch across genres and tastes and identities and reach a huge audience, purely because of the emotion locked up in the melodies.

I saw them on Saturday Night Live the other night however, and they look like they got all did up. Not that image is everything, but ehh… it still kind of bums me out cause I liked how they looked before. It totally fit.

Whatever though, all that doesn’t matter cause the album is incredible. They are playing with The Stills and We Are Scientists at the Arlene Snitzer in a month but tickets are way spendy unfortunately.

So they are number one on my list. Number two on my list just so happens to be Metallica. They have been making crappy music for so long now ( 7 or 8 years) and pissing people off with their lawsuits against fans that I had counted them out for good. But I am a collector, and I have all the Metallica albums, so no matter how bad they get I have to keep buying them for my collection. I gave it a quick preview, and after about 30 seconds was about to turn it off and stow it away forever. Then as I was reaching for the stop button… BAM!! Out of nowhere here they come back, almost like old times. It is fast, very catchy, and every song on the album is like 8 minutes long. Its full off long, indulging riffs and licks and vocal melodies that totally get stuck in your head. I think the best part about this album is that it comes totally unexpected. So now I am intrigued with Metallica like I used to be in high school, and I went and rented the documentary “Some Kind Of Monster” which chronicles the making of their previous album St. Anger. It actually (believe it or not) made me hate Lars a little less watching that, mostly because he acknowledges that he is the most hated man in rock becasue of his lawsuits against fans. With the release of this most recent album, they let it leak a little ahead of time to try to gain some ground back with fans. Good on them. Glad they are learning.

Sidenote: All of these albums go against my snobby indie rock roots, but I’m trying to get over myself, and part of the process is admitting I like some mainstream bands. haha.

Finally, Glasvegas released their debut album a few days ago and you can only get it for 30 bucks, but it is totally worth it. They are an amazing band from Scotland with a hige sound. Giant drums make them sound like they are playing in a stadium but coming right out of your stereo speakers. Super duper catchy like, really straight forward, nothing you or I couldn’t do instrumentally really but they just make it sound really really good.

So there you go. The MGMT album came in a close 4th, check them all out. Trust me.

Me and my girls snugglin on the couch.

…little gals get things done.

Pop tarts just got a little cooler.

Flat bread with parmesan, oregano, bree, dates, apples, and goats cheese. Yum.

When it’s 10:30 and people are still sleeping out on the lawn…

Chase is excited!