Long weekend usually = sick

and not in the normal legit way. Thanks to all the free time given to me by Columbus day, I managed to push my body too far and thus ended up sick. But that's what college life does to us all I supposed. My friend Steven, who supposedly writes for this blog, (he should have something up this week unless he's really lazy) traveled all the way up to Boston for a weekend of festivities. Jamie Lidell also happened to be in Boston the same weekend, but hopefully Steven will tell you all about that....

Originally I was going to write a feature about a hipster band, but I caught myself before posting thankfully. I shall attempt to keep myself from falling for their trendy hipness. Though I still hold that any band that can make date rape sound sexy and hip has some skills in my opinion. (For most of you who have a life and don't know what I'm talking about I'll post the song below.) 

Instead one of my favorite bands of the last couple of months. The Islands as everyone knows recently came out with a new album which kicks ass. If you haven't gotten a chance to listen to Arm's Way in its entirety I would strongly recommend putting whatever you are doing down and take a listen. In fact you should probably do that regardless of whether you have heard the album or not. Ready go. 

More recently however, Islands lead man Nick Thorburn and Jim Guthrie (former Islands member) put their heads together and out came Human Highway. The album is called Moody Motorcycle and features pop songs with light guitar and minimalist percussion. I've always love Nick Thorburns harmonies and vocals and you should too. Check it out. 

Human Highway - The Sound

Human Highway - My Beach

Islands - Creeper

And of as promised. A hipster song about date rape:

The Teenagers - French Kiss