Walk The Moon broke my iPod.

Although this Cincinnati band released their first full length album, I Want! I Want! in 2010, I just found out about them... and from Esquire nonetheless. I should be fired. But, barring any veto of my blogging services, I wanted to make sure it wasn't another year until you, our wonderful readers got to experience them as well. May I introduce, Walk The Moon..

Foster the People nullify my Top 100 entry this week

I included a irrelevant quote to inspire you. You're welcome.

"I'm gonna kick until 

I need new shoes"

Foster The People is one of my current favorite bands. First of all, I enjoy that they want to foster us and that they are super delicious looking. I'm only human.  I also like that I can't quite put a finger on who they remind me of, and that they make me think of driving along the beach on a recent kick-ass vacation. Finally, it doesn't hurt that they inadvertently introduced me to Grouplove through their Mercury Lounge show (which also constituted my very FIRST blog post). I guess what I'm saying is that I'm a tad biased, so sue me. Either way I was super psyched when I sat down to write my top 100 (top 100 whenever the hell I feel like it, clearly) to see that their album Torches was at NUMBER 6 on iTunes. Our little boys are growing up!

So now that their concerts are going to go from 15 dollars to 30, the way I see it is you all must make it up to me by listening to their album, which is magical by the way. Also its 8 bucks, you spend that much on a beer (like a nice, micro-brew beer). Roll your windows down, stick your hand out, turn this on and get your ears drunk. You and your summer playlist will thank me later.



Warrant - Foster the People

Foster the People at Mercury Lounge

A few weeks ago I fell deeply in love with Foster the People's EP. The kind of love that makes you hate yourself because you listened to one song on repeat until your eyeballs rolled back into your skull and all your words came out in song. So, before I went to see them last Friday at Mercury Lounge, I had the pre-concert panic that the world of auto-tune and synthesizers would prove Foster to be just another shitty band with a really good production team behind them. The horror!


Thankfully for us, the rest of their tour stops, and the lucky bitches at Coachella this year, that couldn't be further from the truth. Their amazing energy transferred perfectly through the small setting at Mercury, one of those shows where you couldn't help but awkwardly bounce around your 11 inches of floor space. Equally entrancing, the boys penchant for trading instruments, including a few songs where they featured 2 drummers (one standing and focusing on the symbol). As you stood in the crowd and watched lead singer Mark Foster do the everyman-shoulder-dance you really just couldn't help but love them.  

check them out if you like: The idea of MGMT and Passion Pit 
having a love child

if you like them check out: Temper Trap, the band behind the 500 Days of Summer soundtrack killer "Sweet Disposition" and a band you will quickly discover, is my fucking favorite.

Foster The People - Helena Beat by The Clink