
Cults // I Got Your Message [Hideout] [ft. Christopher Owens]
Dec 04, 2017 | Categories:music | Tags: christopher owens, cover, cults, favorite music, hideout, i got your message, madeline follin, music, Richie Follin, song | Comments Off on cover // Cults + Christopher Owens x Hideout : “I Got Your Message”

Christopher Owens // “Lysandre” : 2013.01.15 : Fat Possum : streaming in its entirety on Spinner and 3voor12 :
Jan 14, 2013 | Categories:music | Tags: 3voor12, album, christopher owens, coming soon, fat possum, favorite music, listen party, lysandre, music, new song, song, stream, streaming | Comments Off on listen party // Christopher Owens : “Lysandre”

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, avey tare, backseat kissers, beach house, becky & joe, becky and joe, becky sloan, believe, best of, black marble, bloom, brains, brian weitz, 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, danielle haim, david carriere, david portner, deakin, 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, geologist, get free, goddess eyes, grimes, haim, heavenly beat, how to dress well, ice choir, illusion, inc, inspector norse, io echo, joe pelling, Joshua Dibb, julia holter, kahlil joseph, kristoffer borgli, kurt feldman, lemonade, list, live it up, live video, lonerism, losing you, lower dens, luke temple, mac demarco, major lazer, maraqopa, melina matsoukas, melody's echo chamber, messiah, miniature tigers, ms mr, music, new life, nightlife, noah lennox, nocturne, nootropics, nowhere, oblivion, only real, pacific blue, panda bear, 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 on favorite music // 2012
![video // Christopher Owens [Girls] : "Back to London"](https://www.tastedshapes.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/owens_christopher-150x150.jpg)
Next to Macca, we believe Christopher Owens to be the most gifted and fluent living songwriter—we never fail to be impressed by his ability to toss off incredible songs so minimally, beautifully and naturally. Christopher Owens [of Girls] // Back to London
May 03, 2012 | Categories:music, video | Tags: christopher owens, favorite music, girls, live, live music, live video, macca, music, oh my love, paul mccartney, song, stream, streaming, video | Comments Off on video // Christopher Owens [Girls] : “Back to London”

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, alex frankel, 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, faris badwan, 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, ishmael butler, january, joel ford, john maus, john pena, justin vernon, kaputt, karl blau, kelli schaefer, kelly, king krule, kristin chavez, kurt vile, kyle forester, light black, live video, lopatin, luke temple, 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, tendai maraire, 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 on favorite music // 2011

Girls // Lawrence [tribute to Felt’s front man] : Dear Lawrence, I wonder who will be writing me in twenty years, and what they’ll be looking for. Don’t worry, I’m not writing to talk about the things I’m looking for in life, I’ll spare you that. I’m writing to FINALLY be able to send you […]
Nov 09, 2011 | Categories:music | Tags: christopher owens, favorite music, felt, girls, lawrence, music, new song, song | Comments Off on new song // Girls : “Lawrence”

Girls // “Father, Son, Holy Ghost” : 2011.09.12 : True Panther Sounds : streaming in its entirety here and here
Sep 06, 2011 | Categories:music | Tags: album, christopher owens, coming soon, father son holy ghost, favorite music, girls, listen party, music, streaming | Comments Off on listen party // Girls : “Father, Son, Holy Ghost”

Girls // “Father, Son, Holy, Ghost” : Honey Bunny :
Aug 23, 2011 | Categories:music | Tags: christopher owens, father son holy ghost, favorite music, girls, honey bunny, music, song | Comments Off on new song // Girls : “Honey Bunny”

First release from their forthcoming album “Father, Son and Holy Ghost” Girls // “Father, Son and Holy Ghost” : Vomit : [audio http://cdn01.cdn.gorillavsbear.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Vomit.mp3] [via gvsb]
Jul 21, 2011 | Categories:music | Tags: christopher owens, father son holy ghost, favorite music, girls, music, new song, song, vomit | Comments Off on new song // Girls : “Vomit”

Peter’s grandfather regularly remarks that he believes music continues to get better and better. Peter has to agree. Peter liked a lot of things in 2010. Mostly he liked the music. let me count the reasons: favorite songs favorite 20 albums top 5 albums top 5 eps favorite official videos favorite live videos favorite concerts […]
Jan 02, 2011 | Categories:music, video | Tags: 2010, 6669, abe vigoda, all around and away we go, archy marshal, archy marshall, ariel pink, astro coast, at&t park, avi buffalo, avi buffaly, beach house, before today, best, best coast, best of 2010, big echo, bradford cox, broken bells, broken dreams club, bruce haack, casual, causers of this, chris chu, chris taylor, christopher owens, color your life, congratulations, crocodiles, crush, deerhunter, don't look down, dr, dr. dog, drums, end of year list, excuses, expo 86, favorite, favorite albums, favorite concerts, favorite music, favorite songs, favorite videos, fever dreaming, fight softly, ford & lopatin, ford and lopatin, forget, fortress, games, gamh, gemini, girls, great american music hall, halcyon digest, haunted grafitti, hauschka, here we go magic, hidden cameras, independent, innerspeaker, joel ford, king of the beach, live, lockett pundt, lopatin, luke temple, macca, mgmt, mia dai todd, michel gondry, miniature tigers, morning benders, neon indian, new chain, no age, npr, odd blood, open your heart, out getting ribs, party machine, paul mccartney, pearl harbor, pigeons, pitchfork, play it strange, pop etc, puro instinct, put the day away, rickshaw stop, round the moon, royksopp, ruby suns, shame, sleep forever, small black, solitude is bliss, something about the chaparrals, spencer krug, summer camp, sun airways, surfer blood, tame impala, teen dream, that we can play, the drug, the fresh & onlys, toro y moi, twin shadow, twin sister, underage, wavves, what's in it for, wild beasts, wild nothing, wolf parade, yeasayer, you hid, yours truly, yourstru.ly, yourstruly, zoo kid | Comments Off on peter likes music // 2010

Peter liked a lot of songs in 2010. Here are the songs Peter liked the bestest. You can stream the list as a mix at my 8tracks account. (*note—there seem to be, hopefully temporary, technical difficulties on the 8tracks site currently . . . ) 20 // Niki & the Dove : Mother Protect There’s […]
Jan 01, 2011 | Categories:music, video | Tags: 2010, a place we like, abbey road, active child, anna, arcade fire, ariel pink, back to back, bang bang bang, best songs, blonde redhead, carolina, casual, cfcf, christopher owens, closet astrologer, end of year list, favorite music, favorite songs, fool's gold, ford & lopatin, ford and lopatin, games, girls, good intentions paving company, here we go magic, hooray for earth, i am not a robot, i'm in your church at night, joanna newsom, joel ford, kate bush, korallreven, little dragon, live video, lopatin, luke temple, marathon, marina & the diamonds, mark ronson, mgmt, mother protect, music, my plants are dead, neon indian, niki & the dove, panda bear, pearl harbor, puro instinct, round and round, ruby suns, siberian breaks, sleep paralysist, song, sprawl, stilyagi, taken by trees, tennis, truest faith, twin shadow, twin sister, video, wolf gang | 1 Comment »

Ready for some devestation? Possibly the most beautiful song I’ve heard in a long time. Apparently Girls have been playing it for years (note the date on the video below) but the version coming out on their forthcoming ep is absolutely incredible and can be streamed on Pitchfork. There’s a slow but dramatic change about […]
Nov 19, 2010 | Categories:music, video | Tags: abbey road, beach, beatles, bus, carolina, christopher owens, coming soon, favorite music, girls, here comes the sun, new favorite song, pitchfork, san francisco, she's so heavy, song, video | Comments Off on new favorite song // Girls : "Carolina"
![video // Christopher Owens [Girls] : "Oh My Love"](https://www.tastedshapes.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/owens_christopher-150x150.jpg)
Here’s Christopher Owens of Girls in his bedroom performing a new song Oh My Love—inspired by Dwight Yoakim and influenced by Taylor Swift. This guy’s got heart . . . Click here to watch videos of an interview shot the same day (potentially NSFW).
Jul 22, 2010 | Categories:music, video | Tags: christopher owens, favorite music, girls, interview, live video, song, video | Comments Off on video // Christopher Owens [Girls] : “Oh My Love”

Smith Westerns nobody Girls
Feb 15, 2010 | Categories:concert, music, photography | Tags: christopher owens, cullen omori, favorite music, from the crowd, girls, great american music hall, photography, smith westerns | 1 Comment »

Terrorism, war, recession . . . whatever. This was a terrific decade for music. These were the albums that gripped me and never let go and remain head-and-shoulders above the rest.
Dec 31, 2009 | Categories:music | Tags: album, animal collective, arcade fire, avey tare, blonde redhead, brian weitz, carey mercer, chris taylor, christopher owens, clinic, daft punk, dan bejar, daniel rossen, david portner, deakin, destroyer, end of year list, favorite music, geologist, girls, grizzly bear, interpol, Joshua Dibb, karin dreijer, karin dreijer andersonn, knife, m.i.a., modest mouse, noah lennox, of montreal, olef dreijer, panda bear, radiohead, silent shout, spencer krug, sufjan stevens, swan lake, the dodos, the knife, the strokes, white stripes, wolf parade | 6 Comments »

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, amber coffman, animal collective, atlas sound, avey tare, bat for lashes, bjorn, bjorn yttling, blind man's colour, bradford cox, brian weitz, camera obscura, cass mccombs, chris taylor, christoph hochheim, christopher owens, cymbals eat guitars, dan deacon, daniel rossen, Dave Longstreth, david portner, deakin, deerhunter, dirty projectors, discovery, drums, end of year list, fang island, faris badwan, favorite music, fever ray, fleet foxes, geologist, girls, grizzly bear, jj, jonathan johansson, jorge elbrecht, jorge elbrecth, Joshua Dibb, karin dreijer, karin dreijer andersonn, kip berman, kurt feldman, little dragon, lockett pundt, memory tapes, natasha khan, neon indian, nite jewel, noah lennox, panda bear, peter bjorn + john, phoenix, ramona gonzalez, 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, tracyanne campbell, video, violens, washed out, wavves, wild beasts | 1 Comment »