
favorite 30 songs // listen to the playlist on Spotify or on 8tracks [above] favorite 20 albums // top 5 albums favorite 10 eps favorite 10 videos favorite new artists
Dec 31, 2012 | Categories:film, music, video | Tags: 2012, a great design, album, albums, amanda marsalis, amber coffman, andrea estrella, animal collective, ariel pink, ariel pink's haunted graffiti, artists, autre ne veut, backseat kissers, beach house, becky & joe, becky and joe, becky sloan, believe, best of, black marble, bloom, brains, candy bar creep show, carnation, cass mccombs, century by century, chad valley, chairlift, child actor, chris chu, chris cohen, chris taylor, christopher owens, confess, counting, craft spells, d'eon, damien jurado, daniel oh, dev hynes, doctor dog, dr. dog, dreams, easy as all that, ekstasis, emily kai bock, empty promises, end of the year, end of the year list, ep, everything's embarrasing, favorite, favorite music, favorites, feels like we only go backwards, filmmaking, flying lotus, forever, foxygen, frank ocean, friends, gallery, get free, goddess eyes, grimes, haim, heavenly beat, how to dress well, ice choir, illusion, inc, inspector norse, io echo, joe pelling, julia holter, kahlil joseph, kristoffer borgli, kurt feldman, lemonade, list, live it up, live video, lonerism, losing you, lower dens, mac demarco, major lazer, maraqopa, melina matsoukas, melody's echo chamber, messiah, miniature tigers, ms mr, music, new life, nightlife, nocturne, nootropics, nowhere, oblivion, only real, pacific blue, poor moon, pop etc, port st willow, pretend you love me, pure bathing culture, remix, run my heart, running back, runningback, sebastian schuller, shuggie, silver shore's lake, sky ferreira, softkiss, solange, song, songs, sonny, sonny & the sunsets, sonny and the sunsets, sonny smith, stream, streaming, sweet life, take the kids off broadway, taken by trees, tame impala, teletrips, the place, the sunsets, todd terje, tops, twin shadow, twin sister, until the quiet comes, video, why won't they talk to me, wild, wild nothing, wild race, world tour, wrong opinion, yelena zhelezov, young hunger | Comments Off
![new music // Steezy Ray Vibes : "Empty City" [demo]](http://www.tastedshapes.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/casey_dan-150x150.jpg)
Dan Casey, aka Yalls, caught our attention with this demo—under the moniker Steezy Ray Vibes—that starts off in the realm of Cass McCombs before quickly moving into Wild Nothing territory. So, yeah, basically we love it a lot. // Empty City :
Apr 27, 2012 | Categories:music | Tags: cass mccombs, dan casey, empty city, favorite music, music, new music, new song, song, steezy ray vibes, stream, streaming, wild nothing, yalls | Comments Off

favorite songs favorite 20 albums top 5 albums top 10 eps favorite official videos favorite live videos favorite concerts
Dec 31, 2011 | Categories:music, video | Tags: 2011, 3, a silent planet, active child, album, alex, ancient eye, arcade blues, atlas sound, battles, beach fossils, believer, best albums, best coast, best songs, best videos, beth/rest, black up, blouse, bon iver, carter tanton, cass mccombs, caveman, celebrate by singing, channel pressure, christopher owens, circulation, claudia lewis, colin stetson, come to the city, county line, craft spells, cruel, crystal stilts, cults, dan bejar, demolished thoughts, destroyer, doe bay, dominant legs, dum dum girls, easy peesy, end of year list, Era Extraña, eric d. johnson, fail forever, fake pretend, far away, father, father son holy ghost, favorite albums, favorite music, favorite songs, favorite videos, fleet foxes, ford & lopatin, freaking out, freecloud, friends, fruit bats, games, gardens & villa, gary numan, geoffrey o'connor, girls, great life, gross magic, he gets me high, helplessness blues, here we go magic, holy ghost!, hoop of love, horrors, huichica, humor risk, hurry up, i'm his girl, idle labor, in heaven, in love with oblivion, inc, into black, invitation, january, joel ford, john maus, john pena, kaputt, karl blau, kelli schaefer, kelly, king krule, kurt vile, light black, live video, lopatin, m83, midnight city, millionairess, moving further away, music, my machine, neon indian, orange blossom, our deal, parallax, ponytail, proud, radiant door, ryan lynch, savage night at the opera, shabazz palaces, skying, slave ambient, smoke ring for my halo, son, song, st vincent, stop, strange mercy, stream, streaming, te amo, teen daze, teen jamz, the babies, the horrors, the paramount, the shrine / an argument, the space, the stars in his head, the war on drugs, thurston moore, top albums, top songs, top videos, toro y moi, tractor tavern, tripper, twelve roses, twin sister, underneath the pine, video, wall street, war on drugs, warehouse, washed out, we bros, we must become the pitiless censors, we're dreaming, when saints go machine, wu lyf, you are all i see, young dreams, zachary cole smith | Comments Off

Currently on tour with War on Drugs and Purling Hiss, Carter Tanton exudes inventive singer-songwriterness in his own rich veign similar to (but oh so different from) Cass McCombs, Dan Bejar, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen…you know. His new album “Freecloud“—a Bowie nod—is an exciting patchwork narrative of fuzzy guitar, late summer sun, big ideas, small [...]
Oct 29, 2011 | Categories:music | Tags: bowie, bruce springsteen, carter tanton, cass mccombs, dan bejar, david bowie, fake pretend, favorite music, freecloud, marisa nadler, murderous joy, music, new music, new song, paul mccartney, purling hiss, song, war on drugs | Comments Off

The Feelies‘ subtly gorgeous (as usual) new album Here Before is streaming in its entirety on Spinner. Cass McCombs‘ subtly gorgeous (as usual) new album Wit’s End is streaming in its entirety on this site.
Apr 12, 2011 | Categories:music | Tags: album, cass mccombs, coming soon, favorite music, feelies, here before, listen party, new music, the feelies, wit's end | Comments Off

One part McCartney + one part Wichita Lineman = best new song of 2011 thus far . . . Cass McCombs // County Line :
Jan 28, 2011 | Categories:music | Tags: cass mccombs, county line, favorite music, music, my love, new favorite song, new music, new song, paul mccartney, song, wichita lineman | Comments Off

I don’t feel complete unless I’ve compiled a list ranking my favorite music of the year (too many NYEs spent up late listening to the top 100 countdown on the headphones.) So, here goes: favorite 30 albums top 5 albums favorite 20 songs favorite 10 videos
Dec 31, 2009 | Categories:music, video | Tags: a place to bury strangers, abe vigoda, air, animal collective, atlas sound, bat for lashes, bjorn, bjorn yttling, blind man's colour, bradford cox, camera obscura, cass mccombs, chris taylor, christoph hochheim, christopher owens, cymbals eat guitars, dan deacon, daniel rossen, deerhunter, dirty projectors, discovery, drums, end of year list, fang island, favorite music, fever ray, fleet foxes, girls, grizzly bear, jj, jonathan johansson, jorge elbrecht, jorge elbrecth, karin dreijer, karin dreijer andersonn, kurt feldman, little dragon, lockett pundt, memory tapes, natasha khan, neon indian, nite jewel, peter bjorn + john, phoenix, real estate, rostam batmanglij, royksopp, small black, song, spencer krug, st vincent, sunset rubdown, swan lake, the horrors, the pains of being pure at heart, the very best, video, violens, washed out, wavves, wild beasts | 1 Comment »
Ever feel lonely in a crowd? How about the summertime blues? This song is touching, haunting, bittersweet. The video is remarkable in its lo-fi simplicity and beautiful in its original spirit. Follow the back of the head of one sad punk through a hazy summer street fair crowd and finish with with some electrical light [...]
Jul 23, 2009 | Categories:music, video | Tags: cass mccombs, favorite music, new favorite video, song, video | Comments Off
Ever feel lonely in a crowd? How about the summertime blues? This song is touching, haunting, bittersweet. The video is remarkable in its lo-fi simplicity and beautiful in its original spirit. Follow the back of the head of one sad punk through a hazy summer street fair crowd and finish with with some electrical light [...]
Jul 23, 2009 | Categories:music, video | Tags: cass mccombs, favorite music, new favorite video, song, video | Comments Off