Welcome to Area 41

Do you consider yourself a music nerd? Music snob? Have you head-banged your glasses off your face on more than one occasion? Is it common for you to spend more than a few hours a day scouring the world wide web in search of new and epic tunes? Perhaps you're a musician like myself and you're just tired of sifting through the bullshit. Well, friend, today is your lucky day because I just graduated and I'm tragically unemployed. Know what that means? I've got nothing to do but waste time you don't have to deliver you the freshest jams and raddest licks around! For starters, let's play that game shitty hipsters love called list-bands-we-like-and-see-if-we-know-them-and/or-agree-to-liking-them.

We will get along if you dig:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Neutral Milk Hotel, The National, Pixies, Pavement, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Dandy Warhols, My Morning Jacket, Dr. Dog, The Black Keys, Wilco, The White Stripes, Heartless Bastards, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Spoon, Ratatat, Delta Spirit, Margot & The Nuclear So & So's, Grandaddy, Groovie Ghoulies, The Morning Benders, Florence & The Machine, The Dodos, Blitzen Trapper, Phoenix, Surfer Blood, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Haints, and The Avett Brothers; Or, if you're influenced by classics like: Lou Reed (with & without) The Velvet Underground, The Rolling Stones, The Talking Heads, Queen, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, The Guess Who, Crosby Stills Nash & Young and The Kinks.

The aim of this blog is to provide efficient means of pleasing your Primary Auditory Cortex, ie: rocking your world and bringing hassle-free happiness to your ears. It doesn't matter if you're so into music that you know bands that haven't even been created yet, or you (eek!) only listen to what's on the radio; we're here to keep you in the know and to hopefully expose you to some rad bands you haven't heard. If you're a hipster, prepare to curse us for knowing bands you haven't heard of; if you're a yuppie, prepare to think, "Wow, this is better than Dave Matthews Band;" if you're a bro, prepare to Vampire Weekend yourself out (yes, it's now a verb) and give the Blues Traveler record a break; if you're a hippie, prepare for our gnarly weekly 420 segment; if you're a tween, prepare to piss yourself, thoroughly; and finally, if you've ever said the phrase, "I love Nickelback," please leave.