tomorrowstoolong

well by this time you friend's season is probably over but for a girls volleyball team (or adolescent girls in general) phantom planet (always on my mind, cover of jackson browne's somebody's baby, california, etc) their brother band rooney, or sugar cult

snyths and keyboards? i'd recommend keane. (new album: hopes and fears)

psh that doesn't count as name dropping. if i were you i'd do it too. its enough that i got to semi-hang out with them on friday to keep me talking about it nonstop. but burn the maps is pretty awesome, i'd have to say my favorite so far. i can't find fitzcarraldo or dance the devil or (obviously) another love song here, so all i have besides burn the maps is for the birds and set list, plus the roads outgrown which was like a random thing they released here. i'm trying to order it from the internet for christmas though. oh and by the way my grandmother's family is from cork. kelly

are amazing. i've seen them twice in manhattan (south street seaport in july and joe's pub last friday) and it was awesome... they toured with damien rice (but they have a different-ish sound) last year and might be doing so again, i'm not too sure. they're from ireland though, where they're huge and don't come to the u.s. too often but they'll be here next year to promote their new album "burn the maps" (released in ireland in september, not release in the u.s. yet) and to otherwise be incredible. you can check them out on their website-- there are pictures, a message board, and mp3s that you can listen to on aol or with realplayer. ahh. i love them. the frames