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Taking the place of the former Pop Tarts Suck Toasted, sort of and in a limited way, with some posts about music, some Instagram photos, and some other crap few people will ever care about. Welcome to my world. //
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Ever the givers, Okkervil River have released an EP of covers available for free from their website! You may remember the band doing the same thing back in 2007 following the release of The Stage Names. Back then they named their freebie Golden Opportunities, this time they’re going with Golden Opportunities 2. Not very original, but then neither are the songs since they are all covers.
Anyway, it’s very solid, it’s very free, and it can be yours just by clicking on over to the band’s website. Go do it!

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Now Listening: Warm Weather Dances EP
&lt;a href=”http://warmweather.bandcamp.com/album/dances” _mce_href=”http://warmweather.bandcamp.com/album/dances”&gt;dances by warm weather&lt;/a&gt;
My iTunes always seems to get cluttered up with music that has a grand total of 0 listens. Every once in a while I comb through the jam packed library listening to these tunes and deleting at will if they don’t strike an immediate chord with me.
I’m sure most of you have similar songs taking up valuable megabytes of space on your hard drives, courtesy of the countless blogs and e-mails you get telling you to download this, listen to that. Of course there are only so many hours in the day, and we have favorite songs and albums to listen to, Turntable.fm rooms to impress our friends in, WFMU’s to listen to, and TV shows to watch.
Today I was going through my library listening at will to stuff that had never been played when I came across the band Warm Weather. Considering the perfect weather hovering over NYC right now it seemed like the perfect time to press play on their EP Dances. Sure enough the music has that tropical and joyous feel to every song, making it the perfect soundtrack to a perfect summer day.
Despite my best efforts it’s kind of hard not to compare these guys to other bands that frequently get played here at the Pop Tarts HQ. Bands like Dinosaur Feathers and Ruby Suns, maybe even a bit of Vampire Weekend, all of whom use tropical vibes to lull us into their songs. Most of the tunes a short and sweet, offering gentle, warm breezes of music to the ears.
It’s good stuff and definitely worth downloading and not neglecting for a few weeks! Seriously, their album is available for free at their Bandcamp page right now, go hit download and press play shortly after that! You won’t regret it.
(Props to My Old Kentucky Blog for posting about them about a month ago!)

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