Here are my top artists this week. I've been watching an extreme amount of Olympic wrestling over the past few days, which explains my lack of listens.

1		Margot & The Nuclear So and So's			14
2		Jakob Dylan			10
3		Arcade Fire			7
3		The Gaslight Anthem			7
5		The Tallest Man on Earth			5
6		Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin			4
7		Grizzly Bear			3
8		Talking Heads			2
8		Ben Folds			2
8		Fiona Apple			2

This song is like warm rain falling in the jungle or honey or something smooth and sweet. On repeat.

I've worked at the city pool all summer. A month ago I figured out I could hook my iPod up over the loud speakers. It helped my days go that much better. The only downside to that is everyone else wanted to hook their iPods up too. I'm going to sound like a snob, but I generally hate other people's music. I try to be accepting, but everyone (not everyone, but almost everyone) that played their music had at least a few Nickleback songs, Backstreet boys, blah, blah, blah, etc. etc. etc. The past few days have been especially grueling.

Taking Back Sunday is in my top 5 favorite bands of all time, so I was naturally excited (see: ecstatic, crying, in shock) when I found out that they are embarking on a tenth anniversary tour in honor of their album Tell All Your Friends. This album was the defining album of my youth or teenage years, I guess. My friends and I listened to it non-stop. One night, my best friends and I walked down Junipero Serra Boulevard and sang the whole album from start to finish. When most of our friends were at Warped Tour, two friends and I stayed home (not by choice) and listened to the album all day long. This album was and is very important to me; to me, this is an album about friendship.

In addition to that, I have never seen Taking Back Sunday's original line-up, as John Nolan and Shaun Cooper left the band in early 2003. The first time I saw them was October 2003 at the Warfield in San Francisco. Anyways, they all reunited a few April Fools' Days ago, making everyone everywhere who cared think it was a joke. This is a big deal. October 13th in Lawrence, Kansas.

1		The Gaslight Anthem			38
2		Bright Eyes			17
3		Desaparecidos			13
4		Bahamas			12
5		The Walkmen			9
5		Passion Pit			9
7		The Mountain Goats			8
8		Wilco			6
8		mewithoutYou			6
8		Sucré			6

Spin posted Norah Jones' new video for "Miriam" yesterday on their website. 
What happens in the video is really unexpected especially when you realize that this is the same person who sang "Don't Know Why".  It's "unforgettable" just as they said in the title of their post. Watch it below, it's pretty cool.
Her new Album, Little Broken Hearts, is also great. Listen to it on Spotify or just buy it.

I'm (not) sorry if you're tired of hearing about Bright Eyes. So, Conor Oberst used to be/still is in a band called Desaparecidos. They are a little noisy (in a good way) and pretty rockin'. I played air guitar non-ironically while listening to their first and only album Read Music/Speak Spanish in the car the other day. I was by myself, too. That's how great it is. Anyway, that album came out in 2002 and they kind of disappeared sometime after that.

They recently started playing together again and even recorded a few songs. One of their songs, "Marikkkopa," is about deportation and one mean county sheriff in Arizona. It's a good song. Conor Oberst plays a large role in Sound Strike, which is a group of artists boycotting Arizona because of SB1070.

(This isn't political, just music.)

The song won't embed, so click here to listen to it.