The First Chord

So here is our blog on music and university music culture. I´m Liz, la americana, from New York. We decided to make this blog about music because it´s something that interests all of us, and we´re going to try and focus specifically on "university music"-- be it bands university students have formed, or what´s popular among univeristy students now (both in Spain and in the US). Hopefully we´ll all learn a lot about music and discover new bands to listen to!

I guess for now I´ll start with talking about a band that´s pretty popular in the US-- Modest Mouse. You´ll never hear them on the radio, but they´re big on the "indie" scene and have been around since the mid 1990s. With their second to last full-length album, "Float On", they started becoming more mainstream and gaining more notoreity. In August they released an LP of previously unreleased tracks. Below is a video for one of those tracks, called "King Rat", which got a lot of buzz this summer because it had been directed by the late Australian actor, Heath Ledger, who was friends with the band. The video is a little weird, but that´s Modest Mouse! They´re one of my favorite bands, so I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.