You can call me cliche or hipster or both. It doesn’t change the fact that I love those bands to no end.

The bands I post are popular for a reason, because they are GREAT bands. Stop with your pretension that people listen to Sigur Ros, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, or etc because they want to be “popular” or accepted. Fuck that, good music is good music. You might think it’s shit or overplayed or mainstream or whatever bullshit adjective, but I don’t think that. I genuinely love this music, because it inspires me, brings joy to my heart, and gets me through the worst of days. And besides the music, I admit that I love the hipster scene. Hipsters are awesome in every way. I have a blast every time I get drunk on PBR in a concert in Willamsburg or get high in a Bushwick loft party and discuss the genius of The Smiths with red-flannel-wearing bearded friends. So stop judging, bro. If you love Justin Bieber, I ain’t going to hate on you for it, he’s popular for a reason too. If you love some obscure chillwave band only ten people have heard about, I ain’t going to hate on you because you think it’s dope music and that is all that matters. Fact is people only listen to music they like. Even if they are listening to fit in. It’s great to listen to music in order to connect with friends more or to enter a new community or dive into a new scene. Music is both a personal and communal experience.

So in conclusion, just shut up and enjoy the music.

Michicant - Bon Iver

Between God and bearded lumberjacks, there is Bon Iver. His music is a lifetime of sorrow, beauty, and joy poured into every note and lyric as it stirs the soul in all the right places. Congratulations Bon Iver for winning the Grammy of Best New Artist, you truly deserve it.

“Love can hardly leave the room with your heart.”

Holocene - Bon Iver

There is someone out there in the world you are suppose to be with. Someone who would love you for everything you are and would never want to change you. Someone who wants to be wrapped in your arms and wake up to your warm smile every morning. Someone who wants to be your everything because you’re their everything. Someone who wants to go on endless adventures to revel in all the world’s beauty with you. That someone might be miles upon miles away, but it doesn’t matter because you grow closer to each other, you will find each other and forever be with each other. All of our lives are love stories in the making.

“Someway, baby, it’s part of me, apart from me.”

Winter Has Arrived And All I Need Is You (8tracks Playlist)

In the dead of winter when the world is in a slumber as it’s blanketed by the snow, all I need is you wrapped under my arms. All I need is your warm soul touching mine. All I need is your smile to light up the grey skies outside. All I need is you and only you.

Track Listing:

1. Perth - Bon Iver
2. The Plains/Bitter Dancer - Fleet Foxes
3. The Funeral - Band of Horses
4. We Won’t Need Legs To Stand - Sufjan Stevens
5. Easier - Grizzly Bear
6. Sé Lest - Sigur Rós
7. Lakehouse - Of Monsters and Men
8. Minnesota, WI - Bon Iver
9. Yellow Light - Of Monsters and Men
10. Detlef Schrempf - Band Of Horses
11. The Past And Pending - The Shins
12. La Noyee - Yann Tiersen
13. Avril 14th - Aphex Twin
14. Fuck Me - Yann Tiersen
15. Horchata - Vampire Weekend
16. Generator ^ First Floor - Freelance Whales
17. Mykonos - Fleet Foxes
18. Fine For Now - Grizzly Bear
19. Smoke - Moddi
20. Armchairs - Andrew Bird

“One kind word can warm three winter months.” -Japanese Proverb

Perth - Bon Iver

Justin Vernon, you have bypassed every wall I have ever put up and speak directly to my soul. Your music moves me in unspeakable ways and has become my source for solace in this mad world. From long train rides home as I stare out the window, deep thoughts looming over, to the strolls I take on snowy nights as I venture forth while all the other lost souls are in a winter slumber. For all those times of hardship and happiness your music has always been there for me. It has been my guiding light, the soft whisper that warms my heart. Your music is divinity incarnate. Thank you for everything.

“Still alive for you, love.”

Wash - Bon Iver

Life is what you make of it. The only limit is your imagination. You decide how far to go and how high to reach. Don’t inhibit yourself from what you always wanted because hushed dreams rarely soar.

“I’m growing like the quickening hues.”

Calgary - Bon Iver

All you need is a single instant and you can see all the beauty in the universe. That instant is when your eyes meet with someone you have loved for a long time. It might seem insignificant, but that is how most beautiful things in life are, the smallest things that mean the entire world to you. A split second of pure connection between two lovers, a split second of heaven on Earth, a split second of the most intense joy you’ll ever experience. It’s better than any drug can make you feel. When the windows to your soul meet with the one that holds the key to your heart is a moment of divinity. Bon Iver’s Calgary is that exact moment in music form, a peek into the entire beauty of the universe in less than five minutes of audible poetry.

“You pinned me with your black sphere eyes.”

Urban Dreams #3 (8tracks Playlist)

I believe there is peace in the chaos of our wild city landscape. The city is one of the few places you can be alone while surrounded by people, a place where you can always find a venue to channel your tranquil vibes. The mixture of Indie with Hip-hop captures this feeling perfectly, it’s an amazing culmination of the best of both worlds in this busy urban landscape.

Track Listing:

1. All Things Go - Chiddy Bang
2. Sing From Dream - Sin Fang
3. Skinny Love (Das Kapital Rerub) - Bon Iver
4. Two Weeks (Tomato Remix) - Grizzly Bear
5. Cudderisback - Kid Cudi
6. Breathe (Feat. Bob Murat) - Blitz The Ambassador
7. Lovers Remorse (Feat. Rick Bartlett) - Blitz The Ambassador
8. Good Soldier - Flobots
9. Dear God 2.0 (feat. Jim James & Monsters Of Folk) - The Roots
10. Shempi - Ratatat
11. David - The Radio Dept.
12. You’ve Got the Love (The XX Remix) - Florence + The Machine

“We make the best of what we have.”