Week 13: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacriledge

Back to the grind after a nice stint to the land of music.

Although it's depressing back here in Canada, back in my office at 7 AM to start making up the work, and back to not seeing my lady except through a screen - there is reason to be joyous! SO MANY MUSICAL REASONS! Let us count the ways...

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Karen O of YYYs doing that thing she do.

Have you looked at the list of bands putting out albums this year?! I keep going over it in my head and it still fills me with absolute joy every single time it crosses my mind cogs. Not sure what I'm talking about? Well see if any of these names will get your feet itching:

Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kings of Leon, The Strokes, Babyshambles, MGMT, Suede, Eminem, David Bowie, Atoms for Peace (Tom Yorke from Radiohead), The Horrors, The Klaxons, Queens of the Stone Age, Vampire Weekend


It's really all quite ridiculous. All I'd need is another Kills album and maybe something with Jack White featured heavily on it (I wouldn't count that out either considering how much he works) and I'd be spitting rainbows. Not to mention that there are some very exciting lesser-known bands putting out potentially huge albums (some debut, some sophomore, some further along..):
 
 Wild Beasts, Tribes, PEACE, Palma Violets, White Lies, Warpaint, Howler, HAIM, Savages..

It's all very crazy. I will delve farther into the big names in later weeks.

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I've spent a lot of money on shows already. I'll put the full list up soon, but the fact that I have Foals, Bloc Party, Broken Social Scene, BRMC, a couple of punk legends on acoustic guitars and more is enough to get my mojo running.

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I don't want to say too much because some folks (ahem, Halifax lads) may still be a bit sensitive to it... but the NME Awards Tour gig that T and I went to in Bristol was pretty fantastic. Loved the age-mix and excitement of the crowd. LOVED Palma Violets and Django Django (although Miles Kane isn't all he's cracked up to be). I'm still high off this beautifully English experience.


So after all this blabber, how does one pick a song of the week?! Well, although I'm being weighed down by the amount of amazing music coming out (haven't even had a chance to listen to the Bowie album proper) there is one track that spellbounded people all over the globe upon its release Tuesday. Give it up for those New York art-punks:

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacriledge