Yep. Fall is here. Gone are the sunny pop songs of spring and summer. In come the introspective, calm-but-questioning sounds of autumn.

Change is afoot.

1. Jakob - “Pneumonic” (Solace)
2. The Velvet Underground - “Who Loves the Sun” (Loaded)
3. Radiohead - “There There” (Hail to the Thief)
4. M83 - “Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun” (Before the Dawn Heals Us)
5. The New Pornographers - “These Are the Fables” (Twin Cinema)
6. Joshua James - “Today” (The Sun Is Always Brighter)
7. dan le sac vs. Scroobius Pip - “Letter from God to Man” (Angles)
8. Neko Case - “Look For Me (I’ll Be Around)” (Blacklisted)
9. Joshua James - “Winter Storm” (The Sun Is Always Brighter)
10. Neko Case - “I Wish I Was the Moon” (Blacklisted)
11. mewithoutYou - “Carousels” (Catch For Us the Foxes)
12. TV On the Radio - “Crying” (Dear Science)
13. Jay-Z - “Renegade” (The Blueprint)
14. Hammock - “We Will Say Goodbye to Everyone” (Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow)
15. Ingrid Michaelson - “The Way I Am” (Girls and Boys)
16. Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile - “The Farmer and the Duck” (Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile)

P.S. If you get a chance to, go see Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile live. I saw them last weekend in Irvine and was thoroughly impressed. It’s a beautiful thing to see modern legends collaborate so well with each other. And if you don’t get a chance, at least pick up a copy of the album.

Sample of Radiohead’s Planet Telex? Check.
Catchy glitch-pop melody? Check.
Social/religious commentary? Check.
Cute kid in a dinosaur costume? Check.

I think we’ve got all the bases covered.

Tonight is the night I see Radiohead. (And Liars!) It’s also the night I get to hang out with Leah and commemorate what would be the birthday of JD Rhea. We’ll both have goosebumps and tears for more reasons than can be counted.

The best part of all this, aside from having the potential to be the most memorable night in recent years, is that there’s a rumor buzzing that video of the show is going to be broadcast online. That means that, by next week, I’ll be able to find a professionally-shot video of the most significant concert I’ve ever attended that I’ll be able to keep forever. Now that’s cool.

If you care to get a play-by-play, you can be watching my Twitter for updates.

This is shaping up to be a wonderful day.

Oh hey, it’s April. Time flies when you’re having… a busy month. Or something.

So for those of you that don’t read Buzzgrinder — which, according to my highly-detailed traffic metrics, is 100% of all two of you — it might be worth noting that I didn’t get Radiohead tickets despite staying up all night for that sole reason. Still looking for an outlet for my anger. Someone buy me a punching bag. Or, even better, Radiohead tickets. (Preferably ones where I can actually, you know, see the band without binoculars.)

March was more dub, a few ambient discoveries and rediscoveries (Stars of the Lid and Brian Eno, respectively) and remembering a bunch of stuff was good that I hadn’t listened to in a while. Oh, and sometimes watching TV influences my music listening, oddly enough. That’s where Yael Naïm and José Gonzalez came from.

1. Marilyn Manson - “The Reflecting God” (Antichrist Superstar)
2. Dub Trio - “Awakening Dub” (Exploring the Dangers Of)
3. Envy - “A Will Remains In The Ashes” (A Dead Sinking Story)
4. Brian Eno - “1/1″ (Ambient 1: Music for Airports)
5. Bloc Party - “Banquet” (Silent Alarm)
6. Gorillaz - “Dracula” (Gorillaz)
7. Boys Like Girls - “The Great Escape” (Boys Like Girls)
8. Nickel Creek - “Doubting Thomas” (Why Should the Fire Die?)
9. He Is Legend - “(((louds” (Suck Out the Poison)
10. Public Enemy - “Son of a Bush” (Body Of War: Songs That Inspired An Iraq War Veteran)
11. Bright Eyes - “When the President Talks To God” (Body Of War: Songs That Inspired An Iraq War Veteran)
12. Yael Naïm - “New Soul” (Yael Naïm)
13. Rogue Wave - “California” (Descended Like Vultures)
14. Stars of the Lid - “Even If You’re Never Awake” (and Their Refinement of the Decline)
15. José Gonzalez - “Killing For Love” (In Our Nature)
16. José Gonzalez - “Teardrop” (In Our Nature)

I just noticed that my last entry was my 100th post. Sweet deal.

Here’s my playlist for February. Lots of familiar favorites because I wasn’t in so much of a discovery mood for a few weeks. Then there’s the obvious hey-I-finally-saw-Once inclusions from Glen Hansard. And the only really good song from Across the Universe that I recalled when I saw it for a second time (and then heard again when I tortured myself with an hour of the Grammys). Sublime showed up when it was raining, to remind me that the sun does actually exist. That spun me into a warm little pool of reggae and dub that will undoubtedly show up on the March playlist.

Also, no links. I’m lazy (sick again, actually) and there was no indication that anybody but me actually cared about them. I’m convinced these lists are mostly for me anyway.

1. Ryan Adams - “The Shadowlands” (Love Is Hell)
2. Radiohead - “How To Disappear Completely” (Kid A)
3. The Mars Volta - “Ilyena” (The Bedlam in Goliath)
4. Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - “Falling Slowly” (Once Soundtrack)
5. Glen Hansard - “Say It To Me Now” (Once Soundtrack)
6. Carol Woods - “Let It Be” (Across The Universe Soundtrack)
7. Tom Waits - “Putnam County” (Nighthawks At the Diner)
8. Ryan Adams - “New York, New York” (Gold)
9. Bright Eyes - “Poison Oak” (I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning)
10. Bright Eyes - “Road To Joy” (I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning)
11. Ryan Adams - “La Cienega Just Smiled” (Gold)
12. Balmorhea - “Divisadero” (Rivers Arms)
13. Sublime - “Badfish” (40 Oz. To Freedom)
14. The Used - “Dark Days” (Shallow Believer)
15. Vampire Weekend - “The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance” (Vampire Weekend)
16. MF Doom - “Vomitspit” (Mm.. Food)
17. The Velvet Underground - “All Tomorrow’s Parties” (The Velvet Underground & Nico)
18. Radiohead - “Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors” (Amnesiac)

This one is late for good reason. I’ve been sick all week and am just now beginning to see the end. Not only have I been busy resting, watching the entire Freaks & Geeks series, as well as several episodes of Six Feet Under, but the doc I went to looked at my ear, which is highly prone to infection after colds, and said I had a major tear halfway across my ear drum. Closer inspection indicated that wasn’t the case (whew) but neither of the doctors could figure out what was going on. “Cool ear,” one of them told me on his way out. Uhh… thanks?

Anyway, on to the music (which will be slightly garbled to me until I finish this course of double-strength antibiotics). Last month I finally started catching on to This Will Destroy You’s new one, I continued to fall in love with The Snake The Cross The Crown, I saw Ryan Adams live for the first time (yay, bootlegs!) and discovered Modeselektor thanks to Radiohead guest-DJing some BBC radio show I’d never heard of. Enjoy some tunes.

1. This Will Destroy You - “They Move On Tracks of Never-Ending Light” (This Will Destroy You)
2. The Snake The Cross The Crown - “Gypsy Melodies” (Cotton Teeth)
3. M.I.A. - “Hussel” (Kala)
4. The Snake The Cross The Crown - “Maps” (Cotton Teeth)
5. Michael Cera & Ellen Page - “Anyone Else But You” (Juno soundtrack)
6. Sigur Rós - “Hafsól” (Hvarf/Heim)
7. The Magnetic Fields - “California Girls” (Distortion)
8. M.I.A. - “20 Dollar” (Kala)
9. Circa Survive - “In The Morning And Amazing…” (On Letting Go)
10. Ryan Adams - “Shakedown On 9th Street” (Heartbreaker)
11. Collections Of Colonies Of Bees - “Flocks III” (Collections Of Colonies Of Bees)
12. Modeselektor - “The Dark Side Of The Sun (feat. Puppetmastaz)” (Happy Birthday!)
13. Modeselektor - “The White Flash (feat. Thom Yorke)” (Happy Birthday!)
14. Burial - “Prayer” (Burial)
15. Vampire Weekend - “Walcott” (Vampire Weekend)
16. Vampire Weekend - “Oxford Comma” (Vampire Weekend)

I’ve been lazy with the blogging as of late. It’s more fulfilling to post stuff like that on Buzzgrinder because people actually comment on it. So I’ll just link you to my top 10 list there and give you (who is “you” anyway?) 11 through 20 with no descriptions:

20. Panda Bear – Person Pitch
19. Eluvium – Copia
18. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works
17. Bright Eyes – Cassadaga
16. The Snake The Cross The Crown – Cotton Teeth
15. Band Of Horses – Cease To Begin
14. M.I.A. – Kala
13. Iron & Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog
12. Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
11. Daft Punk – Alive 2007

October brought a new Radiohead album, reminiscence of past autumns (hence the A Perfect Circle and Further Seems Forever songs), which then led to searching for more autumn-esque music (Neutral Milk Hotel, Neko Case, Amos Lee), a Briertone concert, me trying really hard to learn to love Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (I’d always found it boring), a few other new releases (Rogue Wave, Band Of Horses, Fiery Furnaces) and Rhapsody finally putting Sunn 0))) albums in their catalog/me making a Halloween playlist.

1. Neko Case - “Things That Scare Me” (Blacklisted)
2. Rosetta - “Red in Tooth and Claw” (Wake/Lift)
3. Emmylou Harris - “Red Dirt Girl” (Red Dirt Girl)
4. Neutral Milk Hotel - “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea” (In The Aeroplane Over The Sea)
5. Von Südenfed - “Fledermaus Can’t Get It” (Von Südenfed)
6. Amos Lee - “Night Train” (Supply And Demand)
7. Band Of Horses - “Is There A Ghost” (Cease To Begin)
8. The Fiery Furnaces - “Duplexes Of The Dead” (Widow City)
9. Briertone - “Cheers” (Sojourners)
10. Radiohead - “15 Step” (In Rainbows)
11. Radiohead - “Bodysnatchers” (In Rainbows)
12. Rogue Wave - “Lake Michigan” (Asleep At Heaven’s Gate)
13. A Fine Frenzy - “Come On, Come Out” (One Cell In The Sea)
14. Ray LaMontagne - “Jolene” (Trouble)
15. Jakob - “Malachite” (Solace)
16. Radiohead - “House Of Cards” (In Rainbows)
17. Briertone - “Strawfoot” (Sojourners)
18. Further Seems Forever - “Light Up Ahead” (Hide Nothing)
19. A Perfect Circle - “Passive” (eMOTIVe)
20. Further Seems Forever - “Make It A Part” (Hide Nothing)
21. Further Seems Forever - “All Rise” (Hide Nothing)
22. A Perfect Circle - “The Package” (Thirteenth Step)
23. Wilco - “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)
24. Sunn 0))) - “Bathory Erzebet” (Black One)

As though there weren’t enough stories about the new Radiohead album already, I thought I’d allay your fears and let you know that, yes, I’ve already pre-ordered my copy of the discbox.

It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan, so it will (hopefully) come as no surprise to anyone that I braved the first wave of rabid fans nearly taking down the band’s online store to put my order in well after midnight last night.

And before anyone tells me that I paid way too much for an album, I’ll remind you that, in all seriousness, this isn’t just about Radiohead. It’s also about showing the music industry that they look at the digital revolution backwards, bastardizing artistic expression in the process, and that artists may not need a corporation’s backing to succeed in the future.

Part two of four of my evil list-making scheme.

1. Sufjan Stevens
2. Explosions in the Sky
3. mewithoutYou
4. Radiohead
5. The Appleseed Cast
6. Nickel Creek
7. The Dillinger Escape Plan
8. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
9. The Mars Volta
10. A Perfect Circle
11. Andrew Bird
12. MxPx
13. AFI
14. Alison Krauss
15. Project 86
16. Tom Waits
17. Sigur Rós
18. The Faint
19. Chris Thile
20. This Will Destroy You
21. Mew
22. Iron & Wine
23. Coldplay
24. Cloud Cult
25. John Mayer
26. Opeth
27. Joshua Radin
28. Killswitch Engage
29. Incubus
30. Ryan Adams
31. Norma Jean
32. Robert Johnson
33. The Black Keys

Once again, thanks to Last.fm for making this list possible.