New Music

Facebook embodies the best and worst of technological advancement and convergence. The worst of it is when I'm bored and get lost clicking around, engaging tons of useless data. It's great! Sometimes you find someone that you have an unexplainable mutual friend with. And sometimes you randomly find the name of a band and you decide to look them up. I found The Motorcycle Industry somewhere and gave them a listen. Great, fun pop-rock(/punk?-who the fuck knows) band out of the Bay Area/now-NYC/NYU. Just released an album called Electric Education.



"Jesse From The Program" is a killer track. The lyrics are modestly awesome.
"Five dollars for a whiskey/Please don't ignore me when we get to class on Monday, okay thanks/Ten dollars more for the door fee/Dude, this band I'd ignore in a heartbeat/So could you find it in your soul to evaluate whether you want to be friends with me outside of a really super duper shitty social situation?/'Cause fake friends are better than nothing at all/And fake friends will get you nowhere/'Cause fake friends go better with drugs and alcohol/And fake friends are there after all." Probably not completely accurate as I just transcribed the lyrics but whatever. Remember all those friends you added before freshman year to cope with the overwhelming amount of people in your class you'd probably never meet? Fake friends. I still have one or two. I keep em around.

Or "Everything Sounds Better With Drums"
"Dude, I just want to make ten dollars an hour so I can go to Amoeba records and buy colored vinyl that I'll never play. Or vintage t-shirts. Maybe some novels that I'll get halfway through. Or imported DVDs with subtitles too. I'm hitting on the same girl at the NYU Bookstore, oh my god, not again."

Fuck. Yeah you know EXACTLY what I mean.

All the songs are great. I'm going to buy it soon.

Check out this band, they have some NYC dates coming up.
http://www.myspace.com/themotorcycleindustry