Get Right For The Weekend Playlist #17.

So stoked for April's Coachella...here's our fourth of (many?) Coachella inspired playlists to get your weekend a-rockin' and a-rollin'...starring Coachella 2014 artists from Capital Cities to Daughter! More great electronica and our band du jour...CHVRCHES! #Enjoy

Coachella Love Volume 1. | Coachella Love Volume 2. | Coachella Love Volume 3. 
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Get Right For The Weekend Playlist #16.

So stoked for April's Coachella...here's our third of (many?) Coachella inspired playlists to get your weekend a-rockin' and a-rollin'...starring Coachella 2014 artists from Bicep to Calvin Harris! Loving all the solid EDM, and I'll officially go on record to declare my love for Broken Bells (and Cage the Elephant...and Bryan Ferry...and old school Calvin Harris...and new school Calvin Harris). #Enjoy

Coachella Love Volume 1. | Coachella Love Volume 2.

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Get Right For The Weekend Playlist #15.

So stoked for April's Coachella...here's our second of (many?) Coachella inspired playlists to get your weekend a-rockin' and a-rollin'...starring Coachella 2014 artists from Arcade Fire to Beck! #Enjoy

Coachella Love Volume 1. 

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Get Right For The Weekend Playlist #14.

So stoked for April's Coachella...here's our first of (many?) Coachella inspired playlists to get your weekend a-rockin' and a-rollin'...starring Coachella 2014 artists from A$AP Ferg to Anti-Flag! #Enjoy

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Get Right For The Weekend Playlist #13.

Here's what the folks at Clutter are rockin' out to this weekend. #GetYourMindRight

Get Right For The Weekend Playlist #11.

This is what we're listening to this weekend (and in preparation for New Year's Festivities!!!!):

Get Right For The Weekend Playlist #10.

We're getting ready for Christmas with some of these classic JAMS...Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays!

Get Right For The Weekend Playlist #9.

We're listening to a LOT of The xx this weekend (and always)...here are some AWESOME b-sides, remixes and covers (and some xx original stuff) to get you in that cool, kick-back vibe this weekend!

Get Right For The Weekend Playlist #8.

It's the WEEKEND! Here's what Clutter's listening to get our minds right!!! 

Get Right For The Weekend Playlist #7.

It's the WEEKEND! Check out what Clutter's listening to in order to get your party started right!!! {Kind of an international list this week!! #FUN}

Get Right For The Weekend Playlist #6.

We are jamming to some killer live music right now in store and thought we'd share some of our faves (including two banging full-length live shows by Ellie Goulding and Two Door Cinema Club, and two SICK covers). Hope this helps you get ready for a great weekend!

Get Right For The Weekend Playlist #5.

Get ready for Halloween with some of these funky funky songs! #HappyHalloweenY'all! (We couldn't find a long version of "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah" from 30 Rock...but the Warren Zevon live fully makes up for it!!)

Let's Review: Mechanical Bull

Kings of Leon return with the triumphant, rambling, Southern rock of Mechanical Bull and have never sounded better.  From the first track, the charging, energetic "Supersoaker", KoL howl like they are back in that 2003 vibe, circa the game-changing album, Youth and Young Manhood. 

Caleb Followill has truly mastered his growl on Mech. Bull and you'll want to listen to the album in total over and over (and try to wail along, if you dare).  Songs sound familiar and new at the same time (especially "Don't Matter" which sounds like a KoL track of yore); and whether the Followill boys are riffing about nights spent half in the bottle or declarations of love and gunshot wounds to the head (the exquisite "Temple), you'll be hooked on the first listen. 

Best Tracks: "Temple", "Beautiful War", "Supersoaker"

Get Right For The Weekend Playlist #4.

The music we're rocking to get ready for the weekend!! Happy Columbus Day, y'all!

Get Right For The Weekend Playlist #3.

It's the weekend...and that means you need the right playlist to get you in the right state of mind.
Check out what we're listening to this weekend, download it/find it on Youtube/request it on every radio station and you're sure to have a G-R-E-A-T end of the week...kind of a mellow-summer-jam list!

 



"hold on" - alabama shakes

"we can't stop" - miley cyrus

"stars" -  grace potter & the nocturnals
"swim until you can't see land" - frightened rabbit
"mountain sound" - of monsters and men
"we used to wait" - arcade fire
"obvious bicycle" - vampire weekend
"summertime sadness" - lana del rey
"royals" - lorde

 

                                                

Get Right For The Weekend Playlist #1.

It's the weekend...and that means you need the right playlist to get you in the right state of mind.
Check out what we're listening to, download it/find it on Youtube/request it on every radio station and you're sure to have a G-R-E-A-T end of the week...

 



"closer" - tegan and sara

"call your girlfriend" - robyn

"f*ck tha dj" - tha ski boyz
"swimming pools (drank)" - kendrick lamar
"waiting by the telephone" - bleached
"running up that hill" - cameras
"heavy cross" - gossip
"come and get it" - selena gomez
"power trip" - j. cole

 

                                                

Clutter Top Ten: Summer Songs (All Time)

We had such a blast compiling our TOP TEN Predictions for Summer 2013 Jams, that we thought we'd throw it way back and highlight Clutter's TOP TEN Summer Songs of All Times...there's some oldies and some goodies, some about summer, some that rocked the radio waves during summer, and some just plain fun below! Which Summer Song is your favorite?! What did we leave off?!

Clutter Top Ten: Summer Songs 2013 (A Prediction)

These are our picks for Top Summer Jam Predictions of Summer 2013...including the bound-to-be-summer-party-starter, "Cruise" by Florida Georgia Line, Icona Pop's crazy "I Love It" and so much more...

Clutter Top Ten: Georgia Bands (All Time)

We love lists. We love music. We love lists about music. So here's another one. Clutter's Top Ten this week features the best all-time Georgia bands...take a listen!

1. R.E.M. Athens' coolest band of all time (hands down) is the Michael-Stipe-fronted, R.E.M. Now in their fourth decade of making music (although they half called it quits in 2011), R.E.M. has been a hit machine, a band of activists and humanitarians, and consummate trendsetters.

Clutter's Favorite Songs: "Nightswimming", "Everybody Hurts", "Shiny Happy People"

2. Outkast. "I'm from Atlanta, baby / He's from Savannah, maybe / We should hook up and get tore up and lay down, hey we..." raps Andre 3000 of Georgia funkiest hip-hop duo, Outkast. Big Boi's a hometown legend in SAV, and Dre is one ATL's finest lyricists. 

Clutter's Favorite Songs: "B.O.B.", "Ms. Jackson", "Humble Mumble" (anything on "Stankonia").

3. The Allman Brothers Band brought us Southern rock and made Macon, Georgia the home of one of the greatest, hard rock-ingest groups around. Their music is as relevant (and cool) today as it was in the 70s...you can hear ABB's influence in every Kings of Leon song!

Clutter's Favorite Songs: "Melissa", "Midnight Rider", "Ramblin' Man", "Jessica".

4. Sugarland's rocking mix of musicality and Jennifer Nettles' amazing voice is inspiring, fun, quirky, and always interesting.  That rare country duo....thankfully Sugarland came along so Big & Rich and Brooks & Dunn weren't winning all the Best Duo awards.

Clutter's Favorite Songs: "It Happens", "Baby Girl", "Stay".

5. Of Montreal is Athens' quirkiest, hippest, rad-est, best live band around. Their music even inspired an amazing Outback commercial!!

Clutter's Favorite Songs: "Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse", "Suffer For Fashion", "Requiem for O.M.M. 2"

6. The B-52s are cool as hell. Enough said.

Clutter's Favorite Songs: "Roam", "Rock Lobster", "Love Shack" (of course!).

7. The Dahlonega based Zac Brown Band is a cool blend of country, Southern Rock, and something extra...like if Jimmy Buffett was an Allman Brother, or if Kenny Chesney had hair...

Clutter's Favorite Songs: "Colder Weather", "Chicken Fried", "Keep Me In Mind".

8. Neutral Milk Hotel is yet another Athens group, by way of Louisiana, who has influenced everyone from Arcade Fire to Bon Iver to The Decemberists. NMH was our go-to, hipster jam in college...because we were trying to be cooler than we actually are...(waa waa).

Clutter's Favorite Songs: "Holland, 1945", "The King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. One".

9. When I was in high school, I wanted to be the fourth member of TLC.  I thought maybe T-Boz would add a 'B' (for Brooke) and let us change the name to BLT-C...but then people might think we were a sandwich...with cheese...but I digress.

Clutter's Favorite Songs: "What About Your Friends", "Creep", "Waterfalls", "No Scrubs" (SO MANY!!!).

10. The Cusses are Savannah's hippest, lady-fronted, world-smashing, life-changing band you ever heard. Part punk, part elevated rock a la Yeah Yeah Yeahs, part creepy-cool alt rock, the Cusses are the real deal. Follow them on Facebook, tell your friends about them, and get ready for them to blow up...BIG TIME!

Clutter's Favorite Songs: "Purses", "Don't Give In", "Worst Enemy".

Clutter Top Ten: Albums of the Decade (2010's...So Far)

We fully, madly, deeply enjoy music.  And without claiming to be the next, or even a comparison to, Rob Sheffield....we compiled a list of O-U-R Top Ten albums of the decade so far.  Sure, we're only three years in, but that doesn't mean we can't take a jab at jams we determinedly believe will be highly relevant in another seven years (and beyond).  Especially in a trio of years so fraught with varied talent, from the rebirth of (English) soul from Adele to the resurrections of John Mayer and Fiona Apple.

Let us know what albums we missed, which are your favorites, and (maybe) which we gave you a peak inside for the first time.  Enjoy our Top Ten (technically eleven)!!

1. The Civil Wars, "Barton Hollow".  The Civil Wars pack enough soulful, country-infused, folk-rock into "Barton Hollow" to start a revolution.  Joy Williams and John Paul White have such beautiful harmonies and they look so damn cool doing just about anything (even collaborating with Taylor Swift).  Hitch your wagon to The CWs stagecoach because they'll be around for a long time.

2. Frightened Rabbit, "The Winter of Mixed Drinks".  With the slickest album title in recent memory, Frightened Rabbit hopped forth from the hoards of super-keen Scottish bands (Glasvegas, Franz Ferdinand, Belle & Sebastian) to make a name for themselves in 2010.  Sounding like Glasvegas' more refined younger brother, with some of Belle's lyricism and Franz's funk, Frightened Rabbit are a hugely refreshing sound out of bonnie Scotland.

3. Mumford & Sons, "Sigh No More" and "Babel". Two killer albums in the last three years meant we couldn't pick between Mumford's raging debut and their amazing sophomore follow-up.  In an era of throw-backs, they're truly revitalizing the folk-pop, jam band, real musician vibe and are in great company with new contemporaries The Lumineers and Of Monsters and Men.

4. Arcade Fire, "The Suburbs".  "Funeral" was brilliant, "Neon Bible" was so good, but "The Suburbs" was just such a beautifully executed rock opera you can listen to it from top to bottom or in chunks and still feel transported by Win's lyrics and Regine's haunting falsetto.  We live in the suburbs, but we'd like to move to The Arcade Fire's neck of the woods...or wherever they take us on the next album.

5. Vampire Weekend, "Contra".  "Contra" was not as well received as the band's self-titled debut, but who pays mind to critical opinion anyway?  VWs sophomore is a polished tour of steady electric beats, African influence, and Ivy League references, most of which go way over our heads.  And they made a video with Jake Gyllenhaal...so they're cool, guys.  Take our word for it. 

6. Robyn, "Body Talk". Robyn rocked this album. Speaking of resurrections, I'm pretty sure I jammed to Robyn (with a Y) in seventh grade and would still kick it with new school Robyn (still with a Y) any day of the week.  "Call Your Girlfriend" is the slickest track, but they could all be club bangers, or just pregame hype music for an epic evening.   

7. Broken Bells, "Broken Bells".  Zach Braff told Natalie Portman that The Shins would change her (character's) life in the classic, "Garden State". This was before James Mercer, lead singer of The Shins, teamed up with Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) to form Broken Bells and flip the script on all music, Shins or otherwise, in 2010.  Natalie, listen to Broken Bells...they WILL change your life.

8. Adele, "21".  Ok...duh. Adele destroyed it on "21". She is hands down the biggest musician of our time, and will likely make another album (maybe "23" or "25") and redefine music (again) in a handful of years.  Every song is brilliant, every note is the example of what singing should be.  She's a doll and we'd love to have tea with her, if she'd have us.

9. The Decemberists, "The King Is Dead". Ummm...so I guess The Decemberists spent most of 2010 rocking to Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers to pull off 2011's brilliant, "The King Is Dead".  Harmonicas, banjos, foot-stompin, hand-clappin, down-home music out of Portland redefining The Decemberists sleek, indie vibe of yesteryear.  They sound more like The Avett Brothers than the guys who made 2003's synth-y "Her Majesty".  We're loving the new vibe, guys! 

10. The Black Keys, "Brothers".  "Brothers" already won for greatest album cover of the decade (check it out) and this album equals the confidence of their in-your-face, here-we-are cover.  Another Danger Mouse honed animal (on "Tighten Up"), The Black Keys are equal parts rock, blues, funk, and even country on the baddest ass album so far this decade.

Honorable Mentions:

• Frank Ocean, "channel ORANGE"
• Florence & The Machine, "Ceremonials"
• John Mayer, "Born And Raised"
• Janelle Monae, "The ArchAndroid"
• The Lumineers, "The Lumineers"
• Fiona Apple, "The Idler Wheel Is Wiser..."