Billy Bird by Jared Mees And The Grown Children

Jared Mees And The Grown Children skirt very closely to the All Their Songs Sound The Same Abyss. It's a sort of canyon in the realm of creativity which lots of really exciting musicians fall into. Orba Squara fell into it. Sigur Rós dove headlong into it.

The Abyss is where indie labels go when they need new releases by British India and The Rakes and The Futureheads and The New Pornographers and Kaiser Chiefs. Et cetera.

The musical world is full of geographical locations, all named after common critiques.

Jared Mees And The Grown Children look down into this Abyss when they write music. They write music from near the top of Too Long Songs Mountain. This is a dangerous place from which to compose pop-inflected folk-rock ditties. Your trumpet might fall off the edge.

But that's OK. Jared Mees And The Grown Children are intrepid journeymen. They have left behind their trepidity and cruised down Boppin' Along Highway. They've been to Variedinstrumentationville.

They've climbed deep down into the Meaningful Lyric Caves, drank of the mineral waters in its depths.

Then they wrote this song.

MP3: Jared Mees And The Grown Children - Billy Bird

Bring It On music video by The Gaslight Anthem.

Don't say stage freeze just do it.

Waterworld.

It flooded very mildly in Kingsford yesterday. I needed to be on the other side of that street there. I ended up getting a cab three hundred metres up to my home. Apparently a couple of blocks from here someone had to get the SES to come get them out of their car. Waist high water and all that. Fifteen minutes after I took this I went around to Anzac Parade and water was coming up into businesses. Fun times.

So here's some flood music. The Strums used to be in a punk band. Now they play sweet sweet folk because that's where all the cred is.

The singer Jai (what a guy) Sparks had his riverside Brisbane home flooded in January during the Queensland inundation and put out a song about it. The video was filmed in the house after all the water was politely asked to leave.

Also single's the B-side is a pretty killer song.

MP3: The Strums - Gimme Some Hope

My Chemical Bromance.

M4A: My Chemical Romance - #SINGItForJapan

That's the actual name of the song, hash symbol and all. It wasn't a bad song to begin with and I don't think they've ruined it with their vaguely insulting cultural imperialism any more then did by licensing it that cash cow Glee.

Speaking of being a white douchebag interacting with Japanese culture, I just finished watching the first season of Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex. 2 1/2 stars. Too much dialogue written by eleventh graders, too confusing a plot for my puny Western brain to comprehend.

Anime producers would do well to sit down and watch a few shows on HBO and AMC. Hour long novelistic episodes and a 'Previously on...' introduction would really suit the medium. Just um just saying.

Also The Lonely Island has a new album.

MP3: The Lonely Island - Japan

Mac and cheese and cut up hot dogs by mc chris.

This is adorable. For anyone who doesn't know, this guy has done some voices and music for shows like Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Sealab 2021. This is from an EP of children's songs called marshmallow playground.

MP3: mc chris - mac and cheese and cut up hot dogs