Also liking similar artist Speaky…I mean, take a look at this picture:

Soooopercute!

Song of the Day: “Dance Dance Dance” – Lykke Li

You can also hear it – AND get a 360-degree view of various pairs of skinny jeans – here.

Find more clips of those silly guys here.

I’ll admit it: I’m an “indie” blogger who is totally obsessed with, um…um…

Ok, enough with the suspense, you’ve already guessed the punchline from the title.

I lurve Sara Bareilles.

Yes, I know, there’s really nothing too embarrassing about liking “Love Song.” Even my oh-so-musically-kewl friends like to, well, pretend that that song is by Feist so they can enjoy it guilt-free? (“Umbrella”: also by Feist.) Hey – it doesn’t say much for Sara, but it’s a nice compliment to the song!

BUT diving fearlessly into the rest of her album? “Her” being someone who has played on the Today Show, is no stranger to the top of the iTunes charts, and gets regular facetime on MTV/VH1? Please. Even her snazzy myspace page screams record label corruption.

I’m straying from my roots, and I don’t like it one bit!

However, she does have a good voice, and writes her own songs, and OH MY GOD I think everyone knows by now that “Love Song” was written as a sassy retort to an overbearing label (ahem, Epic) so it’s not like I’m suddenly a big fan of Miley Cyrus.

Well, now that the secret’s out, I might as well share one of her already-overplayed songs with you:

mp3: “Fairytale” – Sara Bareilles
 

Enjoy!

“Young Folks (Peter Bjorn & John Cover)” – The Kooks

“Rich Girls” – The Virgins (left)

“Gravity Rides Everything” – Modest Mouse

“Agoraphobia” – Deerhunter

“The Book of Right-On (Pocketknife’s Scowling Owl Remix)” – Joanna Newsom 

Songs of the Day worth getting exclamatory about!

“Death to Los Campesinos!” – Los Campesinos! (above)

“Yadnus” – !!!

“Doing it Right” – The Go! Team

Video of the Day: “No One’s Gonna Love You” – Band of Horses

Lately I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One has cycled its way back into my cd player (yes, I still listen to cd’s.)  Anyhoo it got me thinking, again, about how coolio YLT still is, even after all these years, AND how that 1997 album really exemplifies all of their sooper qualities. Actually when I bought I Can Hear… (for $4 at a giant used-cd store in LA) the multi-pierced alternachick cashier told me it was a “great album.” Score! 

So, in honor of Yo La Tengo’s ability to make me look cool in front of multi-pierced alterachicks, here are two mp3′s:

“Sugarcube” – Yo La Tengo

“My Little Corner of the World” – Yo La Tengo

Wondering how Yo La Tengo got its funny name? Go here.

A non-Pharmaceutical Ted Leo does the NPR thing. All things considered, it was most likely an excellent show.

Gossip Girl: “Mind-blowingly inappropriate,” says the Parents Television Council. Um, have you read the books? This show is kid stuff. The guys at Gawker, who give Blair, Nate, Chuck, and the others more press than possibly every other media outlet combined, have the story on the new ad campaign.

Santogold and Diplo made a little mixtape. Enjoy one result here:

mp3: “Starstruck (Diplo Remix)” – Santogold

Conor Oberst’s self-titled SOLO ALBUM is coming out soon! It’s funny, since I thought he always was solo, and “Bright Eyes” was just a stage name. Whatevs, guess not. Here’s one of the new songs:

mp3: “Danny Callahan” – Conor Oberst