John Lee Hooker ... The Healer.

Blues is The Healer!

Budka Suflera live at Carnegie Hall. You gotta speak Polish to appreciate it though. well recorded.

I'm pretty sure I've seen them mentioned here before but Rodrigo Y Gabriella Live in Japan is my favourite listen at the moment.

The way they use their guitars as percussive instruments comes across magnificiently on my M3's! I'm still amazed when I can clearly hear whether a guitar is finger picked or an up or down pick with these axioms.

The xx

I'm liking them enough. Understated, but does invade your brain.

My sister had me listen to a few tracks from Kanye West's new album. I have to admit "Monster" is pretty fun, though I know rap doesn't get a lot of love here, and I imagine the tons of swearing in it wouldn't change anyone's mind. Ha ha. Never mind rap, people don't like Kanye anymore. The good thing is he was never on my radar, so it's all new to me, and I can have a sense of humor about him.

CV, I picked up XX from Amazon on Black Friday, but haven't had a chance to listen yet.

And, dude, last week I was thinking of getting a Kanye album. I really was.

Stop stealing my ideas!!

Well, because y'all were talkin' about The xx, and I was at my CD store today, ('cause they had a buy one/get one deal on all used CD's), I picked up the previous Kings of Leon CD (I'm still confused about their hype).

For my freebie (someone's watching over me) I p/u'd The xx.

Next to your HT rooms, do some of you have an opium den?????

It's such a droning drudge downer, that I would have to shut it off to commit suicide.

They can't play, write or sing. Sonic Youth, they're not. Ideas without the tools to realize them are nothing.

If The New American Snooze has become your thing, then check out The National ("High Velvet") and Deerhunter ("Halcyon Days"). Like The xx, neither will interrupt your sleep patterns.

Save yourself now, Sean!

But other than that, they were not too bad Bob?

Correct.