Gold Lion 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Song: Gold Lion
Artist: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Album: Show Your Bones
Link: Gold Lion
Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
Mood: fiery, feisty, infectious
Description: On Gold Lion, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs simply rock out. It starts as a plodding (in the tempo sense, not the mood sense) rocker, and slowly builds into a wall ...
Oxford Comma 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Song: Oxford
Comma
Artist: Vampire Weekend
Album: Vampire Weekend
Link: Vampire Weekend
Genre: Indie Rock, Indie-pop, and a hint of African rhythms
Mood: lighthearted, bubbly, playful
Description: Vampire Weekend is brand new; their self-titled album was released in February. They seem to combine indie-pop with African-ish influences (though it's harder to tell on ...
Such Great Heights…and Such Great Heights 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Song: Such Great
Heights
Artist: The Postal Service
Album: Give Up
Link: Such Great Heights
Genre: Electro-pop, Alterna-pop
Mood: hopeful, on edge, thumping
Song: Such Great Heights
Artist: Iron & Wine
Album: Such Great Heights - EP (or Garden State (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture))
Link: Such Great Heights
Genre: Acoustic Rock, Folk-Rock
Mood: hushed, drowsy, mellow
Description: For English class ...
July, July! 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Song: July, July!
Artist: The Decemberists
Album: Castaways and Cutouts
Link: July, July!
Genre: Indie-pop, Indie Rock
Mood: anthemic, cheery
Description: Between the sophisticated lyrics and the brash indie rock, July, July! really rocks out. But not in that hard rock kind of sense; they are more the thinking person's troubadours ...
That Was a Crazy Game of Poker 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Song: That Was a Crazy
Game of Poker
Artist: O.A.R.
Album: The Wanderer
Link: That Was a Crazy Game of Poker
Genre: Jam Band, College Rock, Alternative Rock
Mood: infectious, meandering, reminiscing
Description: This song demonstrates that O.A.R. is a master of the extended jam. I think that it even goes so far ...
California 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Song: California
Artist: Rogue Wave
Album: Descended Like Vultures
Link: California
Genre: Indie-pop, Indie Rock, Acoustic Rock
Mood: rainy, drowsy, moody
Description: On a very different tempo than recent songs, California is a pretty (but sad) acoustic ballad that integrates the singer's drowsy voice and acoustic guitar vey well. It's a fairly bare-bones song, ...
Song 2 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Song: Song 2
Artist: Blur
Album: Blur
Link: Song 2
Genre: Britpop, Alternative Rock, Pop/Rock
Mood: playful, raucous, woo-hoo!
Description: Blur is one of the defining bands of Britpop, but the band quickly diversified to form a much more eclectic sound than other Britpops like Oasis. One such diversification is Song ...
Baba O’Riley 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Song: Baba O'Riley
Artist: The Who
Album: Who's Next
Link: Baba O'Riley
Genre: Classic Rock
Mood: triumphant, bold, anthemic
Description: Simply put, this is the definitive Who song. By the way, this song's name is not "Teenage Wasteland," as is commonly believed, and in fact never will be. This song ...
Birdhouse In Your Soul 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Song: Birdhouse In Your Soul
Artist: They Might Be Giants
Album: Flood
Link: Birdhouse In Your Soul
Genre: Alternative Rock, College Rock
Mood: happy, silly, touching
Description: They Might Be Giants is curious in that they split their appeal in half between a modern alternative rock audience and a much much younger audience. ...
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Song: In the Aeroplane
Over the Sea
Artist: Neutral Milk Hotel
Album: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Link: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Genre: Indie Rock
Mood: warbled, wailing, dirge without excessive depression
Description: More and more, Indie rock seems to me as the successful integration of traditional rock with disparate ...
The Comeback 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I'm back. After an extended hiatus, the Tunatunes is back in action, with a slight caveat: Five days a week, every week, is clearly too much for my busy and lazy self. So therefore, updating whenever I can, first up is The Comeback (get it? get it? ...
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