The Useless Critic 2.0

an Euro-centric music for a Monday: "Song For No One"- Miike Snow (Swedes! this band was pretty big last year and I just did not care. but this? this is a good song. "Heatwave"- Alphabeat I find it's hard to stay in a bad mood while listening to Alphabeat. so- energetic! so happy! Lady Gaga loves these Danes! so should you! "Airplanes"- Local Natives I've heard these guys described as a lesser Fleet Foxes. not necessarily true! they're good! "Love Is All"- The Tallest Man on Earth this is the Swedish Bob Dylan, right here. "The Next Time Around"- Little Joy Fabrizio from the Strokes' new band!!!!! I'm not sure what to think of most of their stuff, but this is not bad at all. "Things Will Never Be the Same Again"- Jj more Swedish goodness!!!! so enjoy your Monday or try to. also, RIP Brittany Murphy's husband. p.s.:

Matthew and I traveled several hours out of the way to see JOANNA NEWSOM in the FLESH in Columbus yesterday. We didn't get back til 5 this morning. damn! :( (I'm still quite tired from this) Columbus is a big, clean, boring city, from what I could deduce, in the few hours I spent in their downtown. Not a lot to write home about, but certainly no Cleveland. We snuck around the hotel next to the theater trying to catch a glimpse of the goddess in the flesh. The goddess that has the deluded notion that Andy Samberg is her life partner or something (seriously! Bill Callahan, why DID you let her go!). No signs of her but we did get to see a few members of her eclectic little band in the lobby. and oh my god! SO MANY HIPSTERS! it was like an American Apparel exploded on us or something. Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes fame was the opener. He wasn't bad at all- that guy can sing! It was all solo stuff though. I wasn't familiar. And then, after a HUUUUUUUUGE break (I started to f...