Dave's Behind-The-Curve Music Recommendation For December 2006: Midlake

Most Internet music types seemed to be hip to the band Midlake and their excellent song "Roscoe" a year or more ago, but since I'm generally too busy taking over the world and stuff to notice much that doesn't have anything directly to do with me, I just found out about it a couple weeks ago. The way it went down was I was telling a friend about how I'd been obsessed lately with Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, and any other band that wrote great songs, played acoustic guitars, and snorted tons of cocaine in the '70's and he was all like "You should check out Midlake." And then he totally sent me a link to the song "Roscoe," which you will find here. I checked that shit out and was all into it and shit. Maybe you will be too. Also, extra points go to the band for having a couple of dudes in sweet costumes on their album cover. I am so into that shit it's not even fucking funny. Motherfucker's wearing a velvet coat and a panther head. That's the way to do it.

Dave Hill