It seems that lately music news is making me late for my second job every day. It is pretty frequently these days that something awesome comes shooting out of the interwebs just in time for me to have to leave, but of course I cant wait a few hours and have to know about all the things right away.
Anyway, I was at home between jobs, dealing with a situation (namely, i have a funky stomach thing going on and i really was very opposed to wearing pants today) and happened to be scrolling through my twitter feed when i noticed a tweet from none other than Ben Gibbard. It was a link you a YouTube video and something about a new PS song. I punched the wall in excitement, yelped because it hurt, and then yelped again because i didn't honestly think id ever be able to say "new postal service music" again, unless i was talking about things that would never happen, of course.
I texted my musical soul mate, LB, who was listening to it right at that very moment. OF COURSE i couldn't view the video on my phone and had to come back downstairs to hear the song. My life cant ever be easy. #firstworldproblems.
I was actually pretty prepared to hate the song. I mean, new stuff from old favorites has been relatively crappy lately (hello, FOB?) so i didn't really expect much from this at all. But i hit play anyway because i had to, and guess what? i freaking LOVE this song. L-O-V-E. Maybe it will be my valentine.
It is definitely poppier than most of Give Up was. or maybe its just more produced. i put on Give Up in the car this afternoon to compare, but driving stresses me out and i wasn't really paying attention. I have listened to the song about five times now and I'm confident in my adoration for it.
And what i think might be the best part of the whole thing is that subpop flat out said that this song isn't a left-over from Give Up, but rather its something that was "actually begun in 2006 and finished in 2012."
This gives me a teeny, tiny glimmer of hope that with this new tour and new song there just might be a new album. A girl can dream, right?
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'snew 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.
