AFI (The Blood Album)

I love AFI and everything they do, so I'm mostly bias, but this new album is so good. I have to say Burials was not their best and they totally redeemed themselves! This album reminds me of their b-sides and I love their b-sides. Each song has a sound that you can connect to an earlier album. I admit I really like "old AFI" so "White Offerings" is one of my favorites, but I've liked everything else they've come out with too.

I could listen to the bridge of this song over and over. The breakdown and how he ends it with a idk grunt? is amazing.


A lot of the songs have that AFI chorus where you just want to sing along. "Dumb Kids" has a great chorus for a live audience to join in with.

My New Favorite Band Obsession!!!

I saw Blaqk Audio on their Material Tour (and I met them oh yeah be jealous) and their opening band was amazing. I'm usually not into opener bands and I wish I had checked them out before I saw them because I am now obsessed. The singer has beautiful hair and facial bone structure which reminds me of my love for long haired Davey, so obviously new obsession. Oh and their music's pretty great too.
Now get ready for the plethora of videos!!
It's Night Riots, guess I should have mentioned that.




Long hair! Not Davey Havok Sing the Sorrow hair, but longer than what he had and it makes a huge difference. Also there are repeat songs, but different videos to give a different experience.

The Sounds

I've really been into The Sounds lately. Maybe it's my already undying love for Metric that has attracted me to them.

Discover Weekly

I don't know how long Spotify has been doing this, but I just found it last week and it's amazing. They make a playlist called Discover Weekly and they update it every Monday. It's a playlist full of recommendations on the music that you already listen to. This first playlist was spot-on, all of the songs went well together, so here it is.





But the one I got this Monday, I don't think is as good. There are some good songs, like how they rewarded me with AFI, but this playlist doesn't flow well. All well playlists aren't always perfect. I still think it's pretty cool. I am discovering songs and artists I have never heard of and am now anxiously waiting for Mondays (Really, who says that?!).

Shows! Throwback Thursday

I saw Architects and Every Time I Die, but never put any of this up. I saw them in November '14.

Shows!

Aww I missed this blog. I just felt like I had to tell everyone that I saw a guilty pleasure last night. Does it make them a guilty pleasure if I'm "screamin from the top of the world" (hahaha) that I saw them last night and was totally into it? All well..



If you haven't already guessed or you know clicked on the link above, I saw Tokio Hotel.

BOOM!

It was amazing, alright?! There were foamy bubbles at the end. He made like four wardrobe changes which was all amazing in itself because he was wearing some elaborate clothes and he changed really fast. 

They are more electronic with their music now and some of the older songs didn't sound exactly right because of all the bass. That's one thing that I wished was different. There are bands that I just wish I could have seen earlier in their career because usually when they go on tour they play most of their new songs. This was one of them. Really, I'm just glad I saw them. I didn't think I'd ever see them.

So I took a video, but it got lost on my phone. I found this on youtube, which is from the same night I was there. If you go to this person's page, they have like four more videos from that night. Plus other nights, it looks like they followed them on tour. 

Pop Punk to Folk Rock?

From Good Charlotte to their side project, the music sounds different, but they still look like they belong in the rock band.
I like it. It's not "The Anthem", but it's got a cool sound to it. They were definitely exploring another musical side of themselves.