Music News Explosion!

With everything that has happened today in my little corner of the music world, I can't help but feel compelled to get some of these feelings out. New Fall Out Boy track. Postal Service tour dates. New Relient K track. My head is spinning.

First and foremost, the thing I am most excited about-Postal Service is touring. With Jenny freaking Lewis. (that might not actually be her middle name, but it should be.) When the Postal Service announced that they were re-banding to play Coachella, I was hoping, against everything that Ben Gibbard was saying, that they would do a tour. And then I was directed recently to an article on Spin.com about my girl Jenny Lewis, in which she stated that she had a new album in the works, but that she needed to tour with one of her other bands before we would see its release. Could it be? I found myself waiting with baited breath to hear about her tour.

Imagine my excitement when I happened to check my Facebook feed today and see that my friend LB posted, asking if anyone wanted to go to Brooklyn with her, with a link to an article about the Postal Service.  I didn't even read the article. I figured it didn't say anything other than they were touring and the dates, but someone else commented "Jenny Lewis is on the tour, too?" and I about lost my stuff. I was actually sort of flailing around in my desk chair like one of those wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube men that one sees in front of car dealerships and the like. I am glad that I only had a few children left in the classroom and that they were busy working on puzzles and didn't see my reaction.

LB is off work when the tickets go on sale, and as the Brooklyn date is (at least as of right now) the only east coast tour date, I am hoping shes able to land these bad boys. I think its realistic to assume that a Philly date will be announced in the next batch, but I also don't trust that enough to risk not getting these ones. I will probably shed a tear if we aren't able to see this tour.

Next up, Fall Out Boy is back from hiatus and I can't say that I care. I am, though, peeved at a point brought up by someone on twitter, which was that this band has gone on and come back off hiatus before Brand New got off their asses and made new music. I am hoping for new Brand New sometime this year, but with Jesse producing one of Kevin Devine's new albums and Brian Lane being wrapped up (as far as anyone can tell) in this Shone business, I think its a long shot at best. But I digress.

Fall Out Boy has been trying to keep this under wraps for a week or so now, since it leaked over on Property of Zack but they haven't done a very good job, really. I mean, swearing up and down that you aren't back together yet having Jimmy Kimmel post your appearance on his lineup doesn't quite work, you know? There have been lots of (obvious) tweets coming from members of the band about a Skate & Surf appearance, all the while good ole Petey Wentz was trying to deny the whole thing.

Anyway, so the band made the announcement officially this morning, via a radio station in Chicago (of course) and also premiered a new song. It is awful. I just can't even.

Maybe I am just so far removed from today's popular music culture that I don't understand the appeal, but honest to God, every time Patrick screeches "FIIIIIIRRRRREEEEEE" I want to rip my ears off of my head. I also really don't understand the hype surrounding this 2Chainz fellow, and I really am fine with that. I am really disappointed though, because I expect a lot more from FOB, especially with Butch Walker  at the helm.

I am fairly sure that the Fall Out Boy tour is one that I will be skipping.

Thirdly, Relient K put out a new diddy today. Its not going to have a home on their next release; it was just something that they came up with messing around in the studio. I don't hate it, at least not as much as I hate the above-mentioned song, but its almost annoyingly poppy and I am in a bad mood today, so it did grate on my nerves a bit. The saving grace for this song is that it is literally a string of 90's pop music references (think "Taxi Driver" by Gym Class Heroes.) I think that, if i remember it exists, I am going to love the crap out of this song when the weather is sunny and 75 (see what i did there?)

One last note-WXPN announced today that The Lumineers are headlining the Xponential Festival this coming summer. This is worth noting because A) I am still obsessed with "Ho Hey" and B) I missed them last year at the festival because they played first (at noon) on Saturday. They have come a long way in the last year, and that is both awesomesauce and well deserved. You can bet that I will renew my membership so that I am able to see them this summer.

365 project "where is your boy tonight? i hope he is a gentleman."

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artist:fall out boy
album:take this to your grave

word on the street is that this album just turned 8 a few days ago. that seems crazy to me, but I'm not sure why, exactly. it makes perfect sense that its been out that long, as new music stopped existing for me like five years ago, and i know this has a little bit of age to it, but 8 just seems nuts.

i don't remember why i first heard fall out boy. i feel like it happened on warped tour, but it could have just been me falling in love with a song on the radio. i do know that i didn't buy this album until way after the fact, and even then i only picked it up at a festival because FBR was there and had most of their stuff on the table for 5 dollars, and i figured for 5 dollars, why not.

its really not a bad album. i have a soft spot in my heart for pop-punk, as we all know, and i really love the tonal qualities of Patrick stump's voice.

and who can deny the awesomeness that is "tell that mick that he just made my list of things to do today." i haven't spent a whole lot of time with this album, but I'm sitting here now listening to this song again and just laughing at the lyrics. i mean seriously, with lyrics like "As when you wrap your car around a tree
Your makeup looks so great next to his teeth" how can you not smile? well, if you have never had your heart broken or ever been betrayed, i guess this song wouldn't apply to you.

the only real story i have about this album is that i once lent it to my niece, and she had it for about a year. the only way i got it back from her was by buying her a copy for her birthday the following march. i loved that she had a good taste in music, but id just picked up that CD and i never had a chance to listen to it! oh well, all's well that ends well, i suppose.

365 project:"im falling apart to songs about hips and hearts"

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artist:fall out boy
album:from under the cork tree

i was never obsessed with fall out boy, but i always liked them. lately sugar, were going down keeps coming on the radio, so tonight when i was picking a CD to listen to on the drive to the mall, i decided to go for this one. i made a good choice, as I've been having a rather shitty day, and this CD perked me right up.

you might be surprised at the number of times I've seen fall out boy in concert. i don't have an actual number, though i could probably figure it out, but i know its more than a handful, quite possibly more than two handfuls. they seemed to tour with every other band i wanted to see for a while, play every festival i was attending, and of course it didn't help that i had a niece who was obsessed with them while i was able to score free tickets every time they came around in the summer.

i never saw a bad fall out boy show. i can never remember walking away after seeing them and feeling disappointed or let down. id say quite the opposite, in fact. they always put on a good show. they wrote catchy songs with great hooks and always looked like they were having fun up on that stage.

there was a fall out boy fall out and i just kind of fell off the bandwagon at that point, but i always loved this CD. i own it on vinyl. the actual record is really cool looking. maybe if i remember ill take a picture of it and post it, because if you haven't seen it, you might enjoy looking at it. one of my favorite things about vinyl is the artwork, and fuct is definitely no exception.

i don't know if I've talked about this at all in this blog, but i went through a few years where i was unable to do anything to my ipod. it was probably a good three years where i was just stuck with what was on there, and couldn't make any changes. fuct was one of the albums that i had on there, and was one of the very few that i didn't want to throw away after i was able to switch things up. as a matter of fact, these songs were some of the very few that i didn't skip.

whenever anyone says the word "dance" around me, i start singing dance, dance. i love to randomly sing lines from sugar, were going down. there are so many good one-liners within this album. it really is a pretty terrific album lyrically.

i used to fill the cooler at my old job while listening to this CD. it really is good "get up and go" music. and now i feel like I'm gushing, so ill stop.

i recommend that if you haven't listened to this CD in a while you pull it off of your shelf, dust it off, pop it in the player and give it a spin. it'll do your soul wonders during such bleak, dreary days.