and Dainon – helps kinda make up for missing them live?

Thanks for sharing your passion for music with us here. As a musician/songwriter, I found myself strangely being distanced from music because my eclectic tastes just weren’t getting satisfied anymore by what I was hearing on the radio. I was lucky to find 1 or 2 new artists a year that really touched me and I couldn’t figure out why. I assumed my 44 year-old brain was depleting itself of dopamine or seratonin and that life was just getting flatter because, over time, we might just get “used” to things…

Finally, I realized that radio doesn’t let a lot of amazing music through, and that I had to hunt it out for myself. Your blog was one of the first places I discoved a tasteful introduction to new music that’s out there, and that was a big part of my being introduced to some bands I really love now (i.e. Nada Surf). Thanks!

I dunno if it true that it’s about his grandmother – http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858671147/1/DESC/ – but if it is then the songs all the more special.

Great review by the way, I think you’ve really captured their lack of cynicism, which is so refreshing with all the cooler than cool bands that exist these days.