Random Recommendations

I was a little distressed to find Bill Simmons' latest online chat featuring recommendations of Bloc Party and Arcade Fire. Those are both good bands, but a little 2005 at this point if you know what I mean. Which inspired me to offer my own outdated recommendation that various people and impersonal computers have been telling me that I would like Mirah for some time now and it's true -- I do like Mirah, or, at least, Advisory Committee. Will have to examine her other albums. What's more, several readers had recommended The Thermals to me and I get good results with that. Better, however, is The Blow and their album Paper Television a simply awesome, awesome thing. The Clipse record is good, too, but I'm so ignorant of hip-hop I hesitate to speak on these matters.

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