Sunday, January 24, 2010

Be Your Own Pet (BYOP)

The band from Nashville, Tennessee formed in 2003. Be Your Own Pet makes music that's as frenzied as it is catchy. Summer Sensation, a collection of Be Your Own Pet's demos and EP tracks, became the band's first widely distributed U.S. release and arrived in spring 2006, just before Adventure was chosen as the lead single from Be Your Own Pet, which was issued that summer. The band returned to the studio in summer 2007, and returned the following spring with Get Awkward, a heavier but still mischievous set of songs inspired by punk, new wave and girl group pop.

The Shins

"The Shins will change your life!" That kind of proclamation is loaded with expectations when it's just one friend talking up a band to another, but it's magnified a thousandfold when Natalie Portman says it in a hit movie.
The Shins were formed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but are now based in Portland, Oregon. "Wincing The Night Away" is their third studio album and they take their sound in different directions.