Chasing the Essential

"Feeling two-foot small. I hide within these walls. I do not speak the truth" - Elephant Stone Future Clouds and Radar Wooden Soldiers Kelly LaMay & Eric Payne I Appreciate You Alex Dezen Randolph Tonight Plasticsoul Little Jewel Greg Freeman Indu Michigander Good Things Brian Fallon Fading on Me Translator Everywhere That I'm Not Marshall Crenshaw Monday Morning Rock The Anderson Council So S...

"When I was down on my luck, lost in my ways, spinning out of control, losing my mind a little everyday" -  Marc Carroll  Foxboro Hot Tubs 27th Ave Shuffle Hawaii Mud Bombers Birds and Bees Plasticsoul You're So Money Star Collector Overblown Marc Carroll Crash Pad Number Billy Thermal Didn't See It The Gypsy Moths And You Know I Do Johnny Marr It's Time Ash Girl from Mars Westside Cowboy Worried...

"When I'm with you, I'm trying to do the best I can" - Chrissy Amphlett Plasticsoul (She's Got) The Move Westside Cowboy Paperchains Green Circles Undecided The Pretty Flowers Ocean Swimming Kelly Jones Fire Escape The Cars Keep On Knocking Michigander Taxi Rooney Popstars Dramarama Anything, Anything (I'll Give You) Baby Scream 5 - 21st Century Bullshit Cheap Star Happy As The Time XTC Playground...

"This indecision's getting more than I can take. Play it again so it don't look like a mistake." - The Strumbellas Cheap Star Unhappy Now The Summertimes Luminous Michigander OH GOOD! Elvis Costello Less Than Zero Greg Freeman Loser's Prize Cal Everett & Zip Six I's The Strumbellas Skin Of My Teeth The Anderson Council Cable Car Vampire Weekend Cousins Life In Film Get Closer The Caesars Fun &...

"I met a guy who wasn't real. His checkered past was just an act ... or just a style ...or just a lie" - The Bongos The Anderson Council Meet Me At The Melody Greg Freeman Decade The Half-Cubes When the lights are out Marcy Playground Bang Bang Bang The Jack Rubies Witch-Hunt In Lotusland Pete Yorn Murray Parthenon Huxley Beautiful The High Dials Silas, Please Come Home The Bongos The Beat Hotel T...

If someone wrote a story about my life, would I even bother reading it? - Michigander 13th Floor Elevators You're Gonna Miss Me Green Pajamas The Lucy Parade Todd Thibaud Three Words Steven Wright-Mark Projector Michigander Starting A Band The Strumbellas Take Me Down The Summertimes Save You Now Aztec Camera Still On Fire PJ Harvey Down by the Water Glen Phillips I Was A Riot Langhorne Slim &...

"The bell rings . . .It's a decade past my decadence." - Jim Carroll Plasticsoul J'adore The Drams Unhinged Spoon The Fitted Shirt Pete Yorn Life On A Chain Brian Fallon Nobody Likes You in NYC Gary Calamar featuring Robyn Hitchcock Who Are We Gonna Be Today? (featuring Robyn Hitchcock) The Connells Scotty's Lament Duncan Sheik On A High The Jim Carroll Band Work Not Play John Larson The Answer To...

"Here we are in our summer years, living on ice cream and chocolate kisses" - Billy Bragg Billy Bragg Greetings To The New Brunette R.E.M. I Believe Ramones My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg) The Go-Betweens In the Core of the Flame Joe Jackson Survival The Housemartins Happy Hour Talking Heads Wild Wild Life The Smithereens Blood And Roses BoDeans She's A Runaway Big Country...

"Women around the world at work, working, working" - Martha and the Muffins matt pond PA Endless Summer Primal Scream Invisible City Lucy Show Shame The War on Drugs You Wreck Me Sugar Keep Looping The Lemon Drop Gang Wreckless Eyeballs twisted teens Guided Thunder Psychotic Youth Back To You The Flaming Lips Turn It On The Chelsea Curve Never Come Down Kelly LaMay & Eric Payne Get Back On Tha...

"He was tied to a job selling miracle drugs from his home" - A.C. Newman The Half-Cubes The Mighty Quinn Uncle Green That Must Be the Way Rainy Day Saints Lookout Squeeze Third Rail twisted teens Why Did You Miss It? The Eyetraps 20xOver 54•40 Little By Little Squeeze Take Me, I'm Yours Tim Curry I Do The Rock Calhoun Breathe Buzzcocks Heavy Streets Dodgy In A Room (Full Version) Translator Favori...

"Remake the world under yellow skies, cover your nose and open your eyes" - Superchunck The Chelsea Curve Rally 'Round Squeeze Why Don't You Mark Ward Caught The On and Ons Meet Me In The Morning Shazam, The The Stranded Stars Wakeland Falling Again Spygenius Cnut The Monkees Last Train To Clarksville Love and Rockets No New Tale to Tell Courtney Barnett Same The Pretty Flowers Never Felt Bitter (...

"Got my hands at ten and two. Got my eyes on my peripheral view" - Trashcan Sinatras Spygenius Watch Like No One's Dancing Wolf Alice White Horses The Coathangers Perfume The Sunshine Boys Don't Keep It Inside Icecream Hands Her Swan Greg Williams Through My Hands  Librarians With Hickeys 1972 (Single Version) Josh Rouse 1972 The Wonder Stuff It's Yer Money, I'm After Baby Michael Penn Free Time T...

It's this hopeless itch.  I just wanna feel .purple yellow red and blue - Portugal, the Man The Call Blood Red (America) (Remastered) The Replacements Red Red Wine The Bluebells Red Guitars The Honeydogs Orange 8 Romeo Void Orange R.E.M. Orange Crush Portugal. The Man Purple Yellow Red and Blue The Music Machine Double Yellow Line Icecream Hands Yellow & Blue Love Spit Love Green Phil Yates &a...

"Do the promises you couldn't keep make it hard for you to sleep" - Gigolo Aunts Andy Bopp The Taste of Her Tears Shake Some Action! The Sooner The Better Minutemen Corona The Wonder Stuff Unbearable Flight of Mavis Gotta Get New Car The Morning Line Anhedonia (Start Again) GE Smith Nuns with Guns The High Frequencies Subterranean Homesick Blues Sinéad O'Connor Mandinka Caterwaul The Sheep's a Wol...

"... turn the record over. Hey hey, and I'll see you on the flip side" - Gaslight Anthem The Gaslight Anthem "45" The Godfathers This Damn Nation Greenberry Woods #37 [Feels So Strange] Green Circles Too Bright For A Monday The Go-Betweens Here Comes A City Gladhands Forget All About It The Grip Weeds Salad Days Gin Blossoms Hands Are Tied Gang Of Four I Found That Essence Rare The Germs Manimal G...

"Let's take the condom off the microphone, cause there's no one to protect, and no you can't spread disease, through profanities...or your intellect. - Marcy Payground Michigander Spitting Image Todd Thibaud Lonesome June Strawberry Alarm Clock Blow Your Mind The Kinks Sold Me Out Icecream Hands Shakespeare Always Band Of Horses Compliments Haircut 100 Raincloud Dari Bay The Joke The Cramps Tear I...

"Me and my friends, we used to fall apart and piece ourselves back together like a work of art" - The Format Time Will Tell 54•40 The Early Days Of Love Brigitte Calls Me Baby Very Good Year The Greenberry Woods Not Bad for New Jersey Brian Fallon King Without a Crown Mark Ward Coming On Strong The On and Ons I Used to Go to This Bar Joyce Manor Hollywood Forever Jesse Malin Shot In The Dark The F...

"So the dollar-shop shoppers broke the lock and they knocked you down" - The Decemberists Steve Earle The Revolution Starts... Michelle Shocked Hello Hopeville Todd Thibaud Lonesome June Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats S.O.B. The BoDeans American The Decemberists All Arise! Sierra Ferrell Dollar Bill Bar Biltmore Scenes From An American Highway Rest Stop R.E.M. (Don't Go Back To) Rockvil...

"These are the days of miracle and wonder, and don’t cry baby don’t cry" - Paul Simon The Pretty Flowers I Got You (Split Enz) The Bangles If She Knew What She Wants Dexys Midnight Runners & Kevin Rowland Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile) Ramones Little Bit O' Soul Laura Veirs Mr. Mingo (Bonus Track) Doug Powell Candy-O Real Estate Paper Dolls Jesse Malin Rudie Can't Fail Big C...

"It's funny how life turns out, the odds of faith in the face of doubt" - The Josh Joplin Group Jon Auer – Bottom of the Bottle Jon Brion – I Believe She’s Lying Josh Rouse – Directions Josh Joplin Group – Camera One The James Clark Institute – Phantom Girl Jim Trainor – Nothing Joey Sykes – Loveless Crowd Jenny Lewis – Head Underwater Jason Falkner – Eloquence Jill Sobule – Karen at Night Jellyfi...

"I didn’t grow up in the straightest line.  Crooked and bent like broken spine" - Alex Dezen Brigitte Calls Me Baby I Can Take the Sun Out of the Sky Deer Tick Mary Singletary Courtney Barnett Feat. Waxahatchee Site Unseen The Pretty Flowers Convent Walls Alex Dezen I Had a Band Fountains Of Wayne I've Got A Flair R.E.M. Welcome To The Occupation The Beths Out of Sight Beat Rodeo Just Friends Semi...

"I cave, like I was built to break" - The Beths CAKE Long Time Deer Tick Eyelid The On and Ons Coming On Strong Gary Klebe Invading My Space Violent Femmes Promise 54•40 It's a Rough Life Ransom and the Subset Meet You Again The Alarm Soul Town Ramones Somebody Put Something In My Drink The Contrast Believe Social Distortion Tonight The Stone Roses Made Of Stone Cliff Hillis The Square Route Futur...

"We are, we are, we are but your children, finding our way around indecision" - The Icicle Works  The Alarm Outlier Brian Fallon Not Bad for New Jersey Courtney Barnett Great Advice Pretenders Fools Must Die David Woodard Circle Of Friends Robert Hazard & The Heroes Change Reaction The Pretty Flowers Tough Love The Greenberry Woods December Boy Joe Jackson The Evil Eye Someone Still Loves You,...

"The city kids were lost for weeks, pushed out the door.  Searching for a better way, not to feel so torn" - Quilt Brian Fallon Better Before Death Cab for Cutie Punching the Flowers Mark Ward King Without a Crown Phoenix Lasso The Fleshtones Love Yourself Sleeper Inbetweener The Rallies This Time Sharp Pins (I Wanna) Be Your Girl Icehouse We Can Get Together Colman Gota Higher Calling Madness Rai...

"I wish I was a fisherman, tumblin' on the seas.  Far away from dry land, and it's bitter memories" - The Waterboys Bob Mould See A Little Light Elvis Costello Veronica The Posies I May Hate You Some Times The Stone Roses Elephant Stone The Call Let The Day Begin Concrete Blonde God Is A Bullet Hoodoo Gurus Come Anytime Michael Penn No Myth Joe Jackson Down To London Guadalcanal Diary Always Satur...