When I've already downloaded their stuff, I'll cross them off and write what I think of them next to the name. Some of these I only have two or three songs by, which doesn't count as checking them out, to me. Oh and most of these I found on Lastfm



Key:
RED = Really need to download. And soon XD
link = already checked outttt

Brand New
The Libertines
Dirty Pretty Things
We Are Scientists
The Wombats
The Rakes
Does ]t Offend You, Yeah?
The Futureheads
Arctic Monkeys
The Subways
Maximo Park
Interpol
The Young Knives
The Fratellis
Art Brut
Good Shoes
Doves
The Enemy
Hard-FI
Hadouken!
SHITDISCO
Test Icicles
Death From Above 1979
RAT:ATT:AGG
The Sunshine Underground
Milburn
The Rifles
The Maccabees
Little Man Tate
The Cribs
Boy Kill Boy
The Long Blondes
Modest Mouse (Love them. I even saw them in concert with R.E.M.!)
The Killers
The Ordinary Boys
Operator Please
The Grates
Little Birdy
These New Puritans
Kisschasy
Blood Red Shoes
The Walkmen
Be Your Own Pets
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (They're okay.)
The Dead 60s
The Coral
Nine Black Alps
The Music
Babyshambles
Head Automatica
The Zutons
Supergrass
The Rapture
LCD Soundsystem
Hot Chip
Klaxons
IMA Robot
Death Cab For Cutie
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Dandy Warhols
Louis XIV
Nada Surf
Dogs Die In Hot Cars
Delays
Idlewild
Trash Palace
Built to Spill
Orson
The Feeling
The National
Wolf Parade
Voxtrot
Okkervil River
TV on the Radio
Digitalism
Manic Street Preachers
Jet
Bishop Allen
Islands
I'm From Barcelona
Bright Eyes
Pete Yorn
Phantom Planet
Sufjan Stevens
matt pond PA
M. Ward
Beulah
Elf Power
The Essex Green
of Montreal
The Apples in Stereo
The Unicorns
Her Space Holiday
The Boy Least Likely To
Elliot Smith
Neutral Milk Hotel
Wilco
Iron & Wine (Pretty good, he's so relaxing.)
Rilo Kiley
Feist (Some of her stuff is good, but most is just ok.)
Eisley
Tilly and the Wall (They're a favorite.)
Jenny Lewis
Azure Ray
Mirah
Orenda Fink
Maria Taylor
The Smiths
The Polyphonic Spree
The Go! Team
Tripping Daisy
The Decemberists
The New Amsterdams
Owen
Stars
Mason Jennings
The Stills
The Dears
Elefant
The Walkmen
Ambulance LTD
Regina Spektor
Piebald
Further Seems Forever
Beck
Gorillaz

October 08-The Bloodstained Pavement

Tocotronic-Jackpot (Live)
The Fiery Furnaces-Single Again
Ash-I'd Give You Everything
Neutral Milk Hotel-Song Against Sex
The White Stripes-Let's Build A Home
Oasis-The Nature Of Reality
M. Ward-Big Boat
Phillip Boa & The Voodooclub-They Say Hurray
Tahiti 80-One Parachute
Iron & Wine-Woman King
Lykke Li-Let It Fall
Maxïmo Park-Graffiti
Broadcast-Corporeal
Chikinki-All Eyes
The New Pornographers-The Bones Of An Idol
Cansei de Ser Sexy-Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex
MGMT-Kids
MIA.-Kapitän
Aimee Mann-True Believer
Radiohead-We Suck Young Blood (Your Time Is Up.)
Blood Red Shoes-Doesn't Matter Much

SEEN LIVE

AFI
All Missing Pieces
Altaria
Apostle of Hustle
Bishop Allen
Black Mountain
Blindside
Blitzen Trapper
Bright Eyes x3
British Sea Power
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
Datarock
De Dijk
Death Cab for Cutie
Doro
Durk Attaturk
Elbow
Emmy the Great
Fall Out Boy
Friska Viljor
Gym Class Heroes
Headphone
HIM
Iron & Wine
Jason Mraz
Korpiklaani
Land of Talk
Leaf
Live
Mala Vita
Maladjusted
Malcolm Middleton
MGMT
Miracle Fortress
Moke
Murder by Death
My Sister Harold
Nada Surf
Neva Dinova
Okkervil River
One Night Only
Rogue Wave
School of Language
Shearwater
Sigur Rós
Silkstone
Sky Larkin
Slagsmålsklubben
Sonata Arctica
space siren
Stars x2
Styrofoam
Tapes 'n Tapes
The Faint
The Flaming Lips
The Good Life
The Mother Hips
The National
The Sheer
Thrice
Tunng
Two Gallants
Van Velzen
Voicst
We Are Scientists
White Lies
Within Temptation

Seemed to be Iron & Wine's Beneath the Balcony.

I hate being broke. It entails missing out on a whole lot of stuff. No nights out at the bars, no new clothes, no music shows and, especially, no new music. I am no longer hailed with aplomb at the local music store. Instead, I am stared at blankly by the new salesperson as she rings me up for... a birthday card.

*sigh*

It doesn't help this past summer was blessed with wonderful new offerings for a smashing summer soundtrack, each one a rub of salt into the wound known as "wanting." CSS released something new? Damn it. Brazilian Girls, too? Aw, hell. And who is this Yelle I keep hearing about? And Jaguar Love? Was the new Mates of State really that good?

Phooey.

So, in lieu of money, I have been using something else in order to get my hands on new music. No, no, not THAT. I've been using my library card. Thankfully for me, the local library carries a good number of these releases I've been missing out on, allowing me to check them out in three-week periods (with two renewals!) for free. It's a sweet set-up that I am grateful for, because it allows me to listen to these albums and preview them before I shell out money to buy them. Which, with some, I would eventually like to do, if I only had some money.

Granted, there's always file-sharing, but it's illegal to download music you're not paying for. I would NEVER do that! Nope, not ever.

(:::proceeds to cover up her music listings on her computer's library:::)

So, let's take a look at some albums I've checked out from my friendly neighbourhood library that I've been too broke to buy.

Earlier this year, Seattle-based record label Sub Pop released a preview sampler CD, containing songs of artists with expected releases for 2008. Through this album, I was introduced to Fleet Foxes through their song, "White Winter Hymnal." The sweet harmony of the song, folksy and fun with a slight tinge of the bittersweet, was an enticing preview. Later in the year, I had heard of their release and pined with my little heart for it, but alas, so far, the money for it hasn't transpired.

Having checked out their album from the library (where I was much excited to find out it was part of the collection), I was able to listen to the entirety of Fleet Foxes' lush choral tunes, exemplified in the aforementioned "White Winter Hymnal" and also in "Ragged Wood" and "Heard Them Stirring," and the lonely, indie-folk earnestness of "Tiger Mountain Peasent Song" and "Meadowlarks." It's hard to pick a favourite track, because each incredible song has a slightly different mood, but if I were to introduce someone to Fleet Foxes, I would have them listen to "Blue Ridge Mountains" or "Your Protector" first, being two of the more powerful songs in this collection. This self-titled album is a sparkling offering for those fans of Iron & Wine, perfect for Indian Summers and the autumnal days and snow-lined nights that come after. Should I be lucky enough to find a twenty-dollar bill lying on the ground, I would immediately scamper to the store to buy this release.

An album I currently have checked out from the library is Partie Traumatic by Florida-grown band Black Kids. Containing newly recorded tracks from last year's EP, Wizard of Ahhhs, Partie Traumatic showcases more party-pop along the likes of MGMT (whose album I also checked out from the library earlier this year), mixing fun and irreverence with youthful energy coupled with vocals that are at times smooth and debonair, and at others urgent and fierce, but at all times utterly danceable. "I'm Making Eyes at You" is a prime of all these qualities rolled-up into a song made for throwing down on the floor; play it at your next party before it shows up on a VW commercial.

Those of you familiar with Ahhhs tracks like "Hurricane Jane" and "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You" will welcome the new songs on Partie. "Listen to Your Body Tonight" with its hand-claps, synthscapes and sassy delivery is an affirmation that, yes, Black Kids are from Planet Awesome, and they're on a mission to get that ass to shake.

So can I tell you how pouty I was when I didn't have enough money for the $12 ticket to go see this band live? Okay, it wasn't really a $12 ticket, more like $12, plus $8-10 for beer or Baby Cham, perhaps another $12 to get someone to go with me (all my friends are also in various stages of brokedom)... so yeah, I couldn't afford to see them live when they performed at The Social recently. Being Florida folks, I can only hope that Black Kids don't forget their peoples when they become super-big-mega-stars (if they aren't already), and come back to this sweaty state to rock with us once in a while. And can I mention they get points with me for mentioning grits, that classic southern/soul food breakfast dish, in their song "Partie Traumatic"? Seriously, grits are the bomb.

Another pick from Sub Pop, a label apparently determined to bankrupt audiophiles this year, Flight of the Conchords was a surprise to see at the library. Since there is no "clean" version of the album, I was able to listen to their eponymous album as intended, allowing me to enjoy the vast spectrum of hilarity presented in music tracks heavily-dosed with their inimitable humour and, yes, skilled musicianship. It's a perfect antidote to our respective bleak realities, whether your girlfriend left you, you lost your job, you're all out of cereal, or you're broke and living with an idiot president you didn't elect (holla!).

In Flight of the Conchords, some of their songs from 2007's The Distant Future EP are familiar features on this album, including the uber-popular R&B-drenched "Business Time" and the ballad "The Most Beautiful Girl (In The Room)," "in the whole wide room." Further comic delights are found in "Inner City Pressure," which sounds like something discarded from a Pet Shop Boys album, and "Bowie," done in an imitation of the icon with the discoloured lens of smirking humour provided by Flight of the Conchords. Needless to say, it's brilliant and spot-on.

With upcoming releases from TV on the Radio, Antony and the Johnsons and Deerhoof, I hope to have more money in my pockets for those releases when they drop. However, in all likelihood, I may have to keep a look-out for these releases at the library so I can indulge 2008's bounty of music for three weeks or so until the due date. I've got to return these CDs promptly--the last thing I need are overdue fines.

1.How did you get into no.29?
Jackson Browne
my mum and dad used to listen to him a lot when i was little, he's grown on me a lot recently.

2. What's the first song you ever heard by no.22?
Coheed and Cambria
i think it was 'a favour house atlantic', but i'm not completely sure.

3. Whats your favorite lyric by no.33?
Simon & Garfunkel
grief, i have no idea!

4. How did you get into no.49?
Coldplay
through my sister.

5. How many albums by no.13 do you own?
Slipknot
all of them, lawl.

6. What is your favorite song by no.50?
Cat Stevens
'how can i tell you'.

7. Is there a song by no.39 that makes you sad?
Richard Thompson
nope, i don't think so.

8. What is your favorite song by no.15?
Paramore
'that's what you get' or 'brighter'.

9. What is your favorite song by no.5?
The Dresden Dolls
'dear jenny'.

10. Is there a song by no.6 that makes you happy?
Pendulum
so many pendulum songs make me happy aha :D
'blood sugar' and 'granite' in particular :)

11. What is the worst song by no.40?
Iron & Wine / Calexico
i have no idea!

12. What is your favorite song by no.10?
R.E.M.
'half a world away'.

13. What is a good memory you have involving no.30?
The Doors
maaaan, the doors remind me of friendships mostly, like when me and rob were still bffs and when me, anna and jaclyn used to hang out in anna's kitchen, haha :3

14. What is your favorite song by no.38?
The Offspring
'self esteem'.

15. Is there a song by no.19 that makes you happy?
Blondie
haha, pretty much every blondie song makes me happy :)

16. Is there a song by no.25 that makes you sad?
A Perfect Circle
ummmm, nope.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
The Rolling Stones
i can't remember, lawl.

18. What's your favorite lyric by no.11?
Radiohead
'he used to do surgery for girls in the eighties, but gravity always wins.'

19. Who is a favorite member of no.1?
Hanoi Rocks
conny bloom or michael monroe :3

20. Is there a song by no.14 that makes you happy?
Incubus
ummm 'anna molly'.

21. What is a good memory involving no.27?
Bright Eyes
i dunno :/

22. What is your favorite song by no.16?
Devendra Banhart
'carmensita' / 'insect eyes'.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by no.47?
Led Zeppelin
i think it was probably 'stairway to heaven', but who knows really.

24. What is your favorite album by no.18?
Regina Spektor
'begin to hope'.

25. What is your favorite song by no.21?
L.A. Guns
'never enough'.

26. What is the first song you ever heard by no.26?
Juliette and the Licks
'sticky honey'.

27. What is your favorite album by no.3?
KISS
'symphony'.

28. What is you favorite song by no.2?
Kill Hannah
'new heart for christmas', 'welcome to chicago, motherfucker' and 'believer' :)

29. What was the first song you ever heard by no.32?
Turbonegro
'get it on'.

30. What is you favorite song by no.8?
Marilyn Manson
'last day on earth', the live version.

31. How many times have you seen no.17 live?
Shiny Toy Guns
twice :)

32. Is there a song by no.44 that makes you happy?
Fiona Apple
'across the universe' makes me smile. ^_^

33. How did you get into no.12?
Alexisonfire
i have no idea D:

34. What is the worst song by no.45?
From First to Last
no idea, haha.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by no.34?
Guns N' Roses
probably 'sweet child of mine' :/

36. What was the first song you ever heard by no.48?
Skid Row
'youth gone wild'.

37. How many times have you seen no.42 live?
The Distillers
none :(

38. What is you favorite song by no.36?
Mötley Crüe
ummmm
'kickstart my heart'.

39. What was the first song you ever heard by no.28?
Joshua Radin
'winter'.

40. What is you favorite album by no.7?
The Matches
'decomposer'.

41. Is there a song by no.31 that makes you happy?
Wicked
yeah, pretty much the whole soundtrack :D

42. What is your favorite album by no.41?
Johnny Cash
'at folsom prison'.

43. What is your favorite song by no.24?
Manic Street Preachers
'you stole the sun from my heart'.

44. What is a good memory you have involving no.46?
Killola
no idea.

45. What is your favorite song by no.35?
Amy Winehouse
'you know i'm no good'.

46. Is there a song by no.9 that makes you happy?
Iron & Wine
yeah, 'naked as we came' :)

47. What is your favorite album by no.4?
The Shins
'wincing the night away'.

48. Who is your favorite member of no.37?
Dizzee Rascal
well, i suppose it's dizzee rascal, ahah.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by no.43?
Sufjan Stevens
'for the widows in paradise; for the fatherless in ypsilanti'.

50. What is your favorite song by no.20?
City & Colour
'sleeping sickness'.

Apparently "England" is not a place according to Last.fm, it is the "United Kingdom" now and Scotland is a part of that. Am I insane or should they be on their own? Blah. I remember this being a big deal when I ran fanlistings too. LOL.

United States (56)
Tori Amos
Elliott Smith
Death Cab for Cutie
Rosie Thomas
Eisley
Cat Power
Madonna
Interpol
Neko Case
The Kills
The White Stripes
Joan as Police Woman
Azure Ray
The Submarines
No Doubt
Aimee Mann
Tilly and the Wall
Maroon 5
Matt Nathanson
Iron & Wine
Kelly Clarkson
Laura Veirs
Britney Spears
Fiona Apple
Self
Kimya Dawson
The String Quartet
The Hood Internet
Be Your Own Pet
The Postal Service
The Bravery
Ray LaMontagne
The Shins
Justin Timberlake
Lovers
The Bird and the Bee
Gwen Stefani
Fleetwood Mac
The Raconteurs
Sufjan Stevens
A Perfect Circle
Dashboard Confessional
Ashlee Simpson
Umbrellas
Jon Brion
Maria Taylor
The Pierces
Rihanna
Bright Eyes
Shiny Toy Guns
Garbage
Beirut
Alison Krauss & Union Station
Eminem
Panic! At the Disco
Vanessa Carlton

United Kingdom (25)
The Beatles
Muse
Coldplay
Bush
Patrick Wolf
KT Tunstall
Ladytron
The Libertines
Kaiser Chiefs
Imogen Heap
Portishead
Adele
Amy Winehouse
The Smiths
Depeche Mode
Belle and Sebastian
Mark Ronson
Oasis
Lily Allen
Trembling Blue Stars
Soho Dolls
Goldfrapp
Sneaker Pimps
Donovan
Laura Marling

Canada (10)
Feist
Sarah McLachlan
Stars
Metric
Tegan and Sara
Emily Haines
Alanis Morissette
Auf der Maur
Peaches
Julie Doiron

Ireland (2)
Damien Rice
Bell X1

Iceland (2)
Sigur Rós
múm

Sweden (2)
The Cardigans
The Perishers

Russian Federation (1)
Regina Spektor

France (1)
Daft Punk

Norway (1)
Maria Mena

Australia (1)
Ben Lee

SEEN LIVE

3 Inches of Blood
400 Blows
Abysmal Dawn
The Acacia Strain
Albert Hammond, Jr.
Amon Amarth
Ankla
Arch Enemy
Army of Freshmen
Art Brut
As Blood Runs Black
Behemoth
Beneath the Massacre
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Black Lips
Bleeding Through
Blue Man Group
Bob Log III
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Broken Social Scene
Cake (2x)
Cephalic Carnage
Chimaira
ChthoniC
Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire
Cyrusrex
Daath
Darkest Hour
Das EFX
The Decemberists (2x)
De Novo Dahl
The Devil Wears Prada
DeVotchKa
Diecast
Disturbed
DJ Starscream
DragonForce
Dream Theater
Dropkick Murphys
Dying Fetus (2x)
Elvis Perkins
Emmylou Harris
Every Time I Die
Fiction Plane
The Flaming Lips
Flobots
Flogging Molly
Fuck the Facts
Gaza
The Ghost Inside
Goatwhore
Gogol Bordello (2x)
The Great Redneck Hope
GWAR
Hatebreed
Heavy Heavy Low Low
Hella
Hemlock
Holy Fuck
Incubus (2x)
In This Moment
Into Eternity
Iron & Wine
James Taylor
Jessica Lea Mayfield
Job for a Cowboy
The John Butler Trio
John Prine
Kings of Leon
Kinski
K'naan
Lamb of God (2x)
Left To Vanish
The Little Ones
Lordi
Lords of the Underground
Louis XIV
Love and Rockets
Machine Head
The Manhattan Transfer
Marilyn Manson
The Mars Volta (2x)
Mastodon (2x)
Matt & Kim
Megadeth
Meshuggah
Ministry
Misery Index
Modest Mouse
Mouth of the Architect (2x)
My Brightest Diamond
My Morning Jacket
The National
Necrophagist
Nile (2x)
Nine Inch Nails
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
The Octopus Project
The Offspring
Operator
Opeth
Origin
Otto von Schirach
Overkill
Ozzy Osbourne
Paramore
The Police
Priestess
Primus
PsyOpus
Radiohead
The Red Chord
Redemption
Reel Big Fish
R.E.M.
Russian Circles
Sevendust
Shadows Fall
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
The Showdown
Simon Dawes
Skeletonwitch
Slayer
Slipknot
Sophie Milman
Spoon
Static-X (2x)
Stick To Your Guns
Suburban Legends
Suicide Silence (2x)
System of a Down
Tenacious D
Toby Keith
Tool (3x)
Tracy Bonham
Trans Am
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Underoath
Unexpect
Unsane
Veil of Maya (2x)
Venetian Snares
A Verse Unsung
Warbringer
War from a Harlots Mouth
Winds of Plague
Year Of Desolation
Yeasayer