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So the lovely Autumn Ann has convinced me to make a playlist. Maybe I can make this a daily or weekly thing. Really depends on the amount of free time I have. We'll see how it goes. For now the songs will be just random, maybe I'll focus on a particular subject some days, idk.

Here is todays playlist,

The Cure - Pictures of You

If you don't know who The Cure are you've probably been living under a rock your whole life or you listen to Brokencyde too much. Without question, The Cure is easily one of the biggest and most influential bands ever. Pictures of You is a classic single from their gloomiest album, Disintegration. To me, this song is about a lost love and having to deal with the pain that has come with the loss. My favorite line from the song, "There was nothing in the world that I ever wanted more than to never feel the breaking apart."

 

Massive Attack - Paradise Circus

Massive Attack are an awesome Trip Hop band from the UK. They have collaborated with some of the biggest vocalists of today and yesterday including David Bowie, Madonna, Mos Def, and in this case, Hope Sandoval. This song is very downtempo, yet so erotic. The closing line, "Love is like a sin my love" says it all.

 

Radiohead - In Limbo

 

The Beatles - Michelle

 

Depeche Mode - Leave in Silence

 

 

Emancipator - Shook

 

U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

 

New Order - Dream Attack

 

Tones on Tail - Performance

 

Karen O & the Kids - Hideaway

 

Enjoy! Be sure to leave a comment saying what you think about the songs or post a playlist of your own. :D

Hope you have a lovely day.

LiveNation has provided Buzznet with 2 pairs of tickets to giveaway!

Show: Tricky with The Floacist and DJ Darren Revell of Big Sonic Heaven

Where: House of Blues Anaheim

When: March 24 Show

Details: All Ages Doors at 7 pm Enter now...

So I've been feeling sad and lonely lately.  I've been "single" literally since October of last year, and in a true and actual way (as in not spending almost every day with my ex) since early July, and lately I've been kind of lonely.  This is the longest I've been totally single, not sleeping with someone, not dating someone, not having any "potientals" since I was... 14 ish I think, so its been a damn long time.  And I'm sort of enjoying seeing who I am without a boyfriend, but its almost my birthday, and being reminded of my single-ness on my birthday is always a kicker to my suck birthdays.

Anyhow, for the last.... hour... ish... I've been playing with the Buzznet music player.  Anyhow, this has lead me to wanting to write up a "sad and lonely" play list.  So here goes.

(I'll put an * next to the ones which I was able to find on the music player)

* A Perfect Sonnet:  Bright eyes
* Break Your Heart: Barenaked Ladies
Hello Rain: The Softies.
*You Had Time: Ani DiFranco
* So Much For My Happy Ending:  Avril Lavigne
Everyday: Go Sailor
* Undenied: Portishead
* True Rulers: Common Rider
Boston And St John: Great Big Sea
* Where I Stood: Miss Higgins
* Sorry:  Maria Mena
* Goodbye To You: Michelle Branch
* The One That Got Away: P!nk
* Angel: Massive Attack
* You: Bad Religion

I feel the need to mention I was going with "single and sad about it" list and not a "single and doin' ok with it" list... yes...

Additions?  Suggestion?  Leave me it in the comments.

It Happened Last Night: Smashing Pumpkins Kick Off 20th Anniversary Tour
The reunited alt-rock legends skip fan faves and dedicate a song to "MILF" Sarah Palin at Cleveland tour-opener.

Editors' Blog: Why Led Zeppelin Shouldn't Reunite
What is and what should never be. SPIN's Steve Kandell on the supergroup's search for a Robert Plant replacement.

Chris Cornell Talks Led Zeppelin Rumors
The former Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman is the latest singer to discuss joining the Zep. Read what he has to say.

The Ramones Not Supporting John McCain for President
Deceased frontman Joey Ramone's brother engages in a war over the band's political affiliation.

Listen: Snoop Dogg and Massive Attack Collaborate!
Click here to stream the new song and get details on the odd political partnership.

Free Download: Brooklyn's Au Revoir Simone
Check out this dark ditty off the synth-pop trio's remix album, Reverse Migration, due November 11.

Sienna Miller Gets Bloody in Music Video
Watch the British beauty lose her marbles in the new clip from British duo the Hours.

Editors' Blog: Remembering the Death of a Motown Legend
Watch video! No singer in the history of pop music was more "intimately heartening" than Levi Stubbs, says SPIN's Charles Aaron.

Artist of the Day: Little Joy
Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti and friends spawn whimsical, tropical-tinged pop project.

Billy Corgan in Cleveland

Current mood: awake

Massive Attack has some great new tracks on their site, easing me into my workday. Thank you so much for sharing them...Live With Me Stripped and United Snakes are moody, insinuating, building goodness with attention-getting beats and mixes. I listen to a lot of dance, downtempo, house, techno and trance, and the more I hear, the more impressed I am when someone's work sounds very original and unlike everyone else's. That's Massive Attack.  They can be added to a genre but I don't think other groups "sound like Massive Attack."  That's what I like about them. ;)

In honor of Earth Day, José González is releasing the aptly titled In Our Nature Remixes EP. Continue.

Artist: Radiohead
Song: "Nude (Holy F--- remix)"
Sounds like: Massive Attack, Seefeel

We kid because we love, and nobody loves Pitchfork more than themselves, i mean me.

Thursday Pitchfork finally gave a pretty sweet review to Coachella. Not very long, not with many pictures, not with much detail, but it was a review, and it was about as glowing as the Fork can get with something that didn't involve Radiohead or the Flaming Lips.


As they say in the political blogs read the whole thing

Now that Coachella has wrapped, it's interesting to read the reports from the journalists who attended the two-day fest.

Heres one from the New York Times:

INDIO, Calif., May 1 — The concertgoers at the seventh annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which filled a polo field here over the weekend with nearly 60,000 people a day, did not go to be one with the music and get dirty. Nor were they sad, suburban metal teenagers being treated like liabilities, roped and cordoned and overmanaged.

This was an indie-rock festival, 94 acts on five stages, and the operation was delicate: a sleek round of commerce for the taste-making class. Yet Madonna and Kanye West played here this year, and they encountered even more love than the alternative-rock groups that are at the heart of this festival. And for all the famous discernment of these taste makers, one didn't feel much palpable reaction among them.

Until the final acts — including the prog-rock band Tool, the moody electronic pop group Depeche Mode and the French dance-music duo Daft Punk — offered an appropriate moment to loosen up and shout in the dark a little, the participants gamely absorbed and contextualized.

This is not an audience that wears T-shirts of its favorite band or beer. Two hours east of Los Angeles, in the golf-resort desert lowlands, the festival started off six years ago with a crowd that knew what it was traveling there for. Now it has inevitably become larger and more mainstream, but the audience is still largely mid-20's, white, upper middle class, educated: prize ponies for advertisers, who must tread lightly around them.

Coachella crowds are leisure mavens used to exercising choice, and they favor small designers, like Junker and NaCo, rather than Nike logos or keepsakes from old rock concerts. But exercising prudent choice is not the same thing as declaring love. Coachella is not a rock festival for communal bliss: it can feel almost like a trade show, filled with informed and fairly dispassionate consumers sampling a band, checking it off a list, moving on.

Often this was a peculiarly tepid response to brilliant shows. Several bands, including the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Duke Spirit, Animal Collective, Cat Power and Deerhoof, gave it everything they had, each staging remarkable, potentially career-changing performances. The sense of informed caution was everywhere but onstage.

What is a Coachella band, then? A band that has just reconvened, for one thing, or wants to give a teaser of a forthcoming tour. The original lineup of the Smiths was said to have been courted by the festival but turned down a $5 million offer to reunite. Instead, on Sunday, Tool, a band that hasn't toured in four years, devoted about a quarter of its set to songs from its new album, "10000 Days," with a stage show involving enormous sound and enigmatic, ponderous bad-dream films on the giant video screens. (Its brooding, riff-heavy music upped the festival's low testosterone quotient.)

Madonna previewed her summer tour, which starts in earnest at the end of May, with a 45-minute set of mostly recent songs from "Confessions on a Dance Floor"; she had a Les Paul strapped to her body, a phalanx of dancers, and a live backing band to play letter-perfect late disco. Being a Madonna show, geared toward the visual language of fashion magazines, it was reified on delivery, full of blocked and posed freeze-frame moments. She gave some decent action, however, by cursing at someone in the front row for spilling water on her stage, and mopping the spill herself.

Madonna was in line with another characteristic of Coachella bands: she is a clinical analyst of music from the 1970's and 80's. The Magic Numbers, My Morning Jacket, Bloc Party, Eagles of Death Metal, the Zutons, the Duke Spirit: they all carry deep marks of music from a long time ago. Kanye West, in his Saturday afternoon show, was no different. After performing his hit "Gold Digger," with its old Ray Charles sample, he played old-school D.J., giving the crowd a snippet of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," then Michael Jackson's "Rock With You."

"I'm going to play you one of my favorite songs," he then said. "I swear it's not a joke." It was "Take on Me," by Ah-Ha, one of the most fey radio hits of the 80's. Mr. West did a New Wave dance around the stage, looking as serious as he said he was, and the crowd — which may have been wondering what an emissary of true-blue pop culture was doing on its turf — appreciated the perfection of the counterintuitive cheesiness.

Mr. West used a string section to boost his live sound, and he wasn't alone. Sigur Ros used strings and brass in its dusk-hour set of rock songs fit for cathedrals, hovering for long stretches in the middle ground between crescendo and decrescendo. Gnarls Barkley, a new collaboration between the singer Cee-Lo and the producer Danger Mouse that treads the line between misfit indie-rock and freaky R&B, used samplers, a band and backup singers, with everyone dressed as a character from "The Wizard of Oz." And Chan Marshall performed songs from the new Cat Power album, "The Greatest," with a slick band full of Memphis studio musicians.

For a singer who has conditioned her audiences to shaggy, discontinuous rambling, this was a glaring act of professionalism. Ms. Marshall warmed to the role, pulling her hair back from her face, smiling, keeping the show brisk. At the set's middle, she went back to her strange old ways for a minute: she gave the band a break, sang with a cracking voice and some rudimentary guitar chords, and covered her face with her hair.

Animal Collective played a set of well-practiced, neatly arranged freaking out, using electronic sound samples, processed guitar and lots of wild, elastic, almost ecstatic singing: working under the afternoon's dry heat, the band seemed to be expelling demons and worked against the coziness and knowingness of the crowd, the I'll-blog-about-you-blogging-about-me energy. And Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs won the prize for most sincere response, looking genuinely moved and energized by the sight of a crowd that she said was the biggest she had ever played to.

Moving her long limbs slowly and imposingly, giggling and crooning and screaming maniacally, she was trying to feel something, and finally made the crowd feel something too. In the ballad "Maps," when she carefully sang the line "They don't love you like I love you," many women in the crowd turned to the men they were with and mouthed the lyric, making it theirs.

Joining Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, Tool, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, hassidic reggae star Matisyahu, and over 60 other acts will be the material girl herself Madonna, who will headline the "dance tent" on Sunday night at the two-day Coachella festival outside Palm Springs in April.

So now are you gonna come?