This was the first song that introduced me to Mackelmore, but I don’t think it got anywhere near the time or attention it deserved. Plus the music video is pretty epic. (Yep, I said epic.)

I don’t listen to mainstream radio, so this song may already be big, but I just discovered it a couple of weeks ago. The farm girl side of me likes the country undertones, but the hipster side of me loves the dance beat. Enjoy!!

This weekend we spent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at Outside Lands, which is a music festival here in San Francisco. We biked there every day and stayed until after the last encore of the night. It was a pretty awesome weekend. Exhausting, yes. But, really fun.

Yesterday one of the bands we saw was Vampire Weekend, whom I love. Here’s one of their latest songs.

I’m not sure how this song hasn’t hit main stream, but I’m glad it hasn’t so that I’m the only one that can overplay it.

I realize this song isn’t new, but I’m finding not a lot of people have heard it. I love to run to it and to dance to it.

Tonight my KISA and I went to show at The Greek in Berkeley. He was really excited about the group, The Postal Service. I was less familiar with them and had only heard a couple of their songs. You know you’re getting old when you get to the show and realize that it’s stadium seating and you get to sit for it! Granted, it’s on a concrete slab, but I didn’t care about that minor detail.

It was a pretty exceptional show for not being able to sing to every word of every song, like I usually do. I’m sure my KISA appreciated that as well. So, there is this girl in the band, named Jenny Lewis. For one of the first times in my life I’ve realized I have the biggest girl crush on her. She has an amazing voice, good style, is gorgeous, and can play the drums, guitar, bass, keyboard, etc. really well. And, she can play the bass with her teeth. I realize it’s a little late in life for me to aspire to be like her, but I hope my daughters (yes, plural  – my KISA understands we’re only procreating if we have daughters) turn out just like her.

I don’t think any of the YouTube videos do them justice, but here is one of their songs I enjoy:

I’ve fallen in love with the group Radical Face. This is one of my favorite songs of theirs, called Always Gold. It has kind of a folksy sound to it. (Noticing a trend?) If it doesn’t start at 1:26, you can fast forward it. It’s a super long intro on the video for some reason.

Last Wednesday I had the opportunity to see Passenger. Pandora started playing his music about 6 months ago on my station and I fell in love with all his songs. When I learned he was playing in San Francisco I had to get tickets. My KISA was less than enthused to join me as he hadn’t really heard of him. By the end of the show he had a crush on him as well. Here’s one of his songs. It was tough picking just one.

My friend Jeni requested a long time ago that I also incorporate music into my blog with songs I love. Well, I’ve finally gotten on that.

The nice thing about living in San Francisco is that there are tons of concerts and festivals, so you’re exposed to all sorts of music. This is a song I was introduced to on Friday and I’m kinda obsessed with it. (I’m not sure if you’re that way as well, but I’ll listen to a song 100 times until I’m sick of it and then move on to the next one.) This song is totally different than most of Acivii’s other music, but I think it’s something most people can relate to. And, I’m not gonna lie – I love how it has a country sound to it.