http://yournewfavesong.com Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:44:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  When There's No Other Choice but to Believe I have been perhaps the most lax blogger in the short history of blogging. Blogging can sometimes appear analogous to the whole 'If a Tree Fell in a Forest" and no one was present to witness; what does it all mean anyway? Then ... http://yournewfavesong.com/2010/02/06/a-reason-to-live-a-reason-to-napear/  The Greatest Song Ever That I Can Never Play For My Class! I teach fifth grade. School begins in three days. Anxious stomach and headaches began three days ago. A teacher's comedown from the long sweet summer is a vicious withdrawl of its own. One could safely assume this withdrawl lacks ... http://yournewfavesong.com/2009/08/14/the-best-first-day-of-school-ever/   Four Times Ten = JTCJason Cassidy is the kind of guy that would give you the shirt off his back, the skin off his frame, the enamel from his teeth . . .you get the idea. The guy has never heard the word selfish. To be able to call Jason ... http://yournewfavesong.com/2009/08/08/the-porpoise-is-not-a-manatee/   Burnin' Up I cannot wrap my head around it. Earlier in the week I was reading the newspaper and noticed Thurston Moore's birthday amidst other celebrities as he was turning fifty-one. Unbelievable. But then again some might say it is also unbelievable how this band remains so vital in a cutlure ... http://yournewfavesong.com/2009/08/03/sonic-youth-hits-oaktown-on-a-not-very-hot-august-night/  The World's Finest Indie Rock Record Label Gives Us Something to Believe In My history with Merge Records is virtually as long as the the lifespan of the label itself. There was a time when there were a few labels out there such as Merge and Matador that could be counted ... http://yournewfavesong.com/2009/07/26/youre-still-not-old-enough-to-drinkbut-happy-20th-birthday-merge-records/   The Best Way to Spend One's Summer Fun Money In yesterday's post regarding Surrogate and their new album Popular Mechanics, it is one of those albums that as a record store clerk I would call a sure thing. A can't miss proposition. I guess if one's calling was Scandanavian Dark Metal ... http://yournewfavesong.com/2009/07/24/one-more-thing/  . . . And The Reason Dear, Is You  I would like to believe that though my body is showing signs of age, my spirit denies its slow inevitable march into the infinite black sea . . . but being that I just don't get out that often anymore to see ... http://yournewfavesong.com/2009/07/22/i-found-a-reason/  Sonic Youth: The MIchael Jordan of Indie Rock?Sonic Youth is so good at what they do at this point in their career it is difficult to discuss with each new album exactly how it compares to their vast catalog. Sonic Youth albums never disappoint just as Meryl Streep's acting never ... http://yournewfavesong.com/2009/06/08/sonic-youth-the-meryl-streep-of-indie-rock/  Mid-Week Power Pop Stop / Feedback Fridays / New Music!?! It appears that YOUR NEW FAVORITE SONGS are ten to twenty years old . . . Truth be told, I do feel there is much out there forgotten, or never truly celebrated in the manner deserved. Therefore I have been posting ... http://yournewfavesong.com/2009/05/29/what-goes-on/   Rocking Out and Having Fun I cannot imagine a more optimistic tune. No matter how hard eighties rock and roll production tried, it couldn't kill "Better Things" - taken from The Kinks brilliant eighties entry Give The People What They Want. The superficial sheen and sickly sick drum sound aided by ... http://yournewfavesong.com/2009/05/25/the-kinks-one-of-lifes-better-things/