Beach Slang - Future Mixtape For The Art Kids

Stick your heart on your sleeve
If it breaks, stitch it on to me
Bash it back into shape
You might be cracked, but I won't let you break

Beach Slang's 2015 The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us felt like a return to some of my favorite music of the past. It's raw, yet accessible, loud and energetic, cool and challenging and all the things that make great music great. Beach Slang captured my imagination right away and I listened to everything I could find. We saw them live, featured one of their early tracks here and generally felt like I found a new favorite band.

Which is awesome. Because a few months later they released a follow-up: A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings. There are lots of great tracks to choose from, and I couldn't really pick one so I just decided to go with the high-energy and aptly titled opener, "Future Mixtape For The Art Kids". Speaking of which, they made an awesome "mixtape" which is well worth a listen too. Check out this cover of "Anything Anything" by Dramarama.

RIYL: The Replacements, The Cure, Japandroids, Cloud Nothings, Cayetana, The Psychedelic Furs

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Mutemath - Changes

Stay where you like
They won't care
You pay for the right
But what is there?
When every place in the world
Is all built up
Every space in the herd
Is all filled up

So yesterday Kerri covered one of our favorites, TøP, and although she didn't pick the song I would have ("Ode To Sleep" FTW) she did a great job. With one teensy, weensy, oversight: she missed the great collaboration that dropped the night before. TøP teamed up with their tour-mates Mutemath to reimagine some of their hits. It's wonderful and you can read more about it here. It also sounds like they had a great time on tour. If you've never seen TøP or Mutemath, do yourself a big favor and do it, they're both amazing live. Seriously, I can't really think of two better live acts.

I've been a fan of Mutemath from the beginning, and have listened to them grow and change over the years. They've covered a lot of musical ground and have done it with style, talent and a unique polish that works like steel thread that ties it all together. They're latest work has swung towards the electronic and groovy, but still sounds like Mutemath, as is clearly evident in today's MIS "Changes".

RIYL: Joywave, Minus The Bear, Pinback, Colony House, Manchester Orchestra

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Sun Club - Tropicoller Lease

I can’t decode this shit
AH AH!! 
But when it comes it really comes
And I can only feel this way with some
and it might sound dumb, 
but it’s kinda fun. 

Let's kick off Monday with some fun from Sun Club. If you like your indie rock with a liberal dash of pop and some well-timed jangle, then "Tropicoller Lease" is right up your alley. Their latest album, The Dongo Durango is a lot of fun and their debut, Dad Claps at The Mom Prom is definitely in the running for best album title of 2014. Both are packed with a lot of enjoyable feel good music and putting them on blast is a great cure for the dreaded Mondays.

RILY: Little Comets, Fidlar, Diet Cig, Los Campesinos!

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Cayetana - Black Hills

We featured Philly-based Cayetana's terrific New Order cover a few months ago, and ever since I thought I should share one of their originals. Here's "Black Hills" off of Nervous Like Me. They've got a new album coming out soon-ish, so have an ear out for that, or, if you want to hear more now, you can listen to "Trails" their latest and the first off the upcoming record here.

RIYL: Camp Cope, Slingshot Dakota, Hop Along, Pity Sex, Waxahatchee

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The Walkmen - Heaven

Our children will always hear
Romantic tales of distant years
Our gilded age may come and go
Our crooked dreams will always glow

A day or so ago I received an email from Spotify telling me about my listening habits in 2016. It came with an AWESOME playlist that had much of what you'd hear on our TMIS playlist (you totally subscribe to that, don't you?) Of course, we can't get to everything, and we've been focused on the new and fancy, so a few heavy rotated oldies are bound to fall through the cracks.

At the top of that list is this gem from The Walkmen, who are, sadly, on hiatus at the moment. "Heaven" is one of those new classics. It came out in 2012, but will be around for years to come. It's fresh, but also feels like a throwback to some of the best rock to come out of the 80s and 90's. Think Billy Bragg, James, The Pogues, The Replacements, etc.

RIYL: The Replacements, James, Spoon, Titus Andronicus, Nada Surf

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