This would be on the summer soundtrack, except it came out in 2010. I’m a little disappointed, from the sounds of this song The Boys of Summer should have been my favorite band for the past 2 years.

Amazon Spotify

Everclear. So Much for the Afterglow was the first CD, first anything, I ordered online. I loved the song Everything to Everyone so much I had to pre-order the CD. Some of their albums after I didn’t love as much, but this new song sounds like those old days and the high school me still inside instantly started rocking out.

The album, Invisible Stars, comes out June 26th. I was shocked that it’s their first in 6 years. Although SMftA came out in 97. I had both Volumes of Songs from and American Movie, but not much stuck. I don’t ever remember their two after that.

Found on Spinner

Anyway, following my blog rules: FNL clips + good song = post.

The Forecast album, “Like a Habit” comes out 4/17, they are streaming it on fb if you’re curious.

Found at AbsolutePunk.

Can a song be acoustic if you use a Power Pad? It’s certainly not unplugged. I have no problem with it, I know some people get upset when acoustic isn’t truly unplugged, so just laugh at them and use a NES.

I really like this album. Besides this song, My Way and Don’t You made my day-to-day playlist on Spotify.

Get/Listen to KABOOM!: Amazon Spotify

Found on AbsolutePunk.

What I didn’t know until writing this post is that this is a cover. I was shocked. How could the song sound any different? Oh, you must listen to the original by Trampled By Turtles. How did they even get from there to the cover? I still like the MCS version, but I have the urge to add Trampled By Turtles to Spotify. The name alone is awesome and this song has be uber-curious.

Motion City Soundtrack version links: Wait So Long Spotify

Max Bemis Confirms New Two Tongues
Max Bemis has confirmed that Two Tongues will release another album.

Of course you know, so this is just reminding you. Max Bemis is in Say Anything, who has their own album coming out in the spring. Two Tongues is him and Chris Conley, his usual spot is in Saves the Day. Both bands are awesome and together, the first Two Tongues album (Amazon Spotify) was pretty great.

What could be awesomer?

2gether Reunite. Joe Deandrea is Stoaked.
The MTV created boy band 2ge+her is reuniting with a huge TV special.

Everyone’s dreams have come true. I’m in, if only to find out if they can top Calculus.

Ok, a song songs, unrelated, but these have been in my queue to share for a while (and I couldn’t choose between these two) …

Before I figured out what was going on in this song I thought it was an attempt to see how many brands and products they could squeeze into one song. Once I figured it out, I was on board.

Also, they really remind me of MxPx in this one.

On Amazon
On Spotify

I don’t think I’ve ever seen these guys live. I’ve had the shot at least once and sadly didn’t take it.

Get it on Amazon

I’ve only listened to the new Blink 182 album once, but I kept thinking, as much as I love Blink, I think I’d rather have +44 for my Blink fix. And Angels & Airwaves too, but +44 is more in line with the Blink style.

On Amazon
On Spotify

I assume this was a first attempt, you’ll get better kid …
I downloaded the beta and added the last.fm app and … ugh. It offers a window into your account page. Gives you some album or track recommendations. A listing of your recent and loved tracks. When you are playing a song in Spotify, it will tell you some things similar to what you are currently listening to. Some of that is nice, but it isn’t at all what I was hoping.

The quick last.fm overview: it can track what you listen to. You can get an add-on to upload what you listen to in iTunes and on your iPod, and it is built in to Spotify (even with out the app). It then offers you some radio options. My favorite is the Recommendations Radio, which looks at what you like to listen to and plays songs it thinks you will like.

I was hoping for that last.fm Recommendations Radio feature but bolstered by the backing of the vast Spotify library. I’m not sure how many songs last.fm offers, but Spotify is much more in-depth. After getting that running inside Spotify, it would be easy to add the new tracks you find to your existing playlists.

It’s about time Spotify …
Today, Spotify finally added some recommended radio to the app, it has nothing to do with any of the app integration (or last.fm) that was apparently such a big deal. It works a lot like Pandora. Give it an artist or track and it will play similar songs. I like this. I tried it out for a while today and was pleased with the results.

I still have a request …
I only ask for one more step. Recommendations to add to Playlists. One problem with Spotify is the effort you have to put in when getting started to create the playlists that you want. Another problem is adding tracks to those playlists after you create them.

Problem: I have two main playlists. One of my favorite music that I hear about through various websites that I follow. I keep up with new stuff on my own. The other is a hits playlist that usually gets populated from new things I hear when listening to Sirius. With Spotify, I’m listening to less and less Sirius in the car and am thinking about ending my subscription. When that happens, how will I add new songs to my hits playlist?

Tips on how you discover new music would be appreciated.

A solution: Spotify figures out what is going on with your playlist and offers suggestions on what to add to the playlist, including new tracks. They have this recommendation radio now, it should be as simple as feeding all the tracks in a playlist into that and seeing what gets the most matches. A list is generated from there giving you a selection of similar songs to your playlist, and if you want it can give a little more weight to new songs.

Oh, and give me some recommended radio in the iPhone app.