Staff Recommendations (12/25/05)

[Caleb Cattivera]

Caleb: Check out my best of 05 right here (http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=103490). Do yourselves a favor and listen to House of Heroes (http://www.myspace.com/houseofheroes).
Drew: Listen to Thin Dark Line (http://www.thindarkline.com). Also listen to the bands I mentioned in my Best of 2005 list (http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?p=2269172#post226917 2).
Scott: Listen to Shook Ones, Paint it Black, Buried Inside, and most importantly, BANE.

[Grybo]

Name Taken - Hold On

This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb - Front Seat Solidarity

Limbeck - Let Me Come Home

[Fading Elysium]

Name Taken - Hold On

This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb - Front Seat Solidarity

Limbeck - Let Me Come Home

That Name Taken CD is awesome, and that new Limbeck just makes me feel good.

[kapler23]

House of Heroes! Good call! Big things from them in 2006....just wait!!

[byebyebeautiful]

music i got for christmas:
kind of like spitting - "in the red," "learn: the songs of phil ochs," and "bridges worth burning" (lp).
mount eerie - "live in copenhagen."
the decemberists - "picaresque" (lp).
pedro the lion - "god rest ye merry gentlemen" (7").
hush records - "mile compilation."

dvds i got for christmas:
scrubs - season 2.
monk - season 1.
return of the king (extended edition).

check this stuff out. it's good.

[quitmyscene]

patrick wolf (http://www.patrickwolf.com/)- acoustic indie goodness
a silver mt. zion (http://www.cstrecords.com/html/asmz.html)- ft. members of godspeed you! black emperor. mostly instrumental. amazing amazing amazing. look at the lyrics/listen to the spoken part of "built then burnt- hurrah! hurrah!"
jets to brazil (http://www.jadetree.com/bands/artist/jets_to_brazil)- four cornered night. they're no jawbreaker, but they were still good.
the academy is (http://www.theacademyis.com/)- so this band is getting huge,and fast. this is one of the only cds i can stay i've had since the start of the year that i still listen to on a daily basis and have not gotten sick of, at all.
circa survive (http://www.circasurvive.com/)- i think i forgot about this cd for a while. it's also really good. listen to "in fear and faith" if you need a reminder why you liked them.
the city on film (http://www.post436records.com/cityonfilm/)- bob nanna's newest project, for those unaware. released one of my favorite cds of the year, and also released a couple of eps. so so good.

and so on and so forth. it'd probably be better not to go through my best of list. i hope everyone has a merry christmas (happy holidays) and stay safe.

[Kelley Nicole]

i'm recommending christmas music, of course! bright eyes, belle & sebastian, sufjan, death cab's one song, rilo's one song, "arcade fire" (quotes because i know, i know. it's not actually them)


for non-xmas music, new pornographers and rogue wave, 'cause i'm seeing them on new years eve and really fucking excited.

[tambo41187]

Last Days of April.

And read and see the play Wicked.

[slickwataris]

http://astromagnetics.com/videos/secretlivesvideo.html

[ForeverInADay]

I recommend staying the FUCK away from my extended family members.

They're SO annoying. seriously.

[CorporateFish]

House of Fools > House of Heroes

[poppa Q]

i'm recommending christmas music, of course! bright eyes, belle & sebastian, sufjan, death cab's one song, rilo's one song, "arcade fire" (quotes because i know, i know. it's not actually them)


for non-xmas music, new pornographers and rogue wave, 'cause i'm seeing them on new years eve and really fucking excited.

Nice recs, as usual.