Add fun.'s Aim and Ignite to the list of albums I really should have listened to earlier. Not sure how I missed out on hearing this when it was released, but I've rectified that situation now, and am fully in love.

I am super excited about Chris Pureka's show at SPACE on Wednesday. How I Learned to See in the Dark is one of my favorite albums of 2010 so far, and I'm sure the live show will be great.

If you missed Andrew Bird's residency of cozy concerts last year, either in Chicago or Minneapolis, don't despair! You'll have another chance this holiday season. Five more so-called Gezelligheid concerts have been announced, to keep you warm and cozy and creatively satisfied this year:

Sometimes, I feel like I'm the only person on the internet who doesn't care about Pavement.

So traffic's moving along and I'm thinking about the video for "Tightrope" and something occurs to me. Monáe's collaborators include Big Boi (of Outkast). While I'd stop short of calling the "Tightrope" video derivative, it shares certain similarities with the video for Outkast's "Hey Ya".

Things I enjoy about this:A) Cover of a well-known pop songB) Joseph Gordon-LevittC) Cover of a well-known pop song that now sounds a little bit creepierD) Joseph Gordon-LevittE) A performer who is very clearly having fun with what he's doingF) Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Entertaining in an oh-god-why-can't-people-control-themselves sort of way was the drunk girl who sprawled out on stage, and eventually got up to drunkenly dance on the stage. This is why we can't have nice things, people.

This Week in Great Music: 9/6 - 9/12

Despite August being Lollapalooza madness, not many Lolla artists made it onto my most-listened mix for the month. August's mix brings you eleven songs, featuring everything from the glam pop of Lady Gaga to the old timey bluegrass of Carolina Chocolate Drops.

In the last couple of years I've become increasingly frustrated with mainstream music magazines, Paste included -- not because they've changed, but because I've changed. Reviews of new albums look like mad libs with interchangeable clichés; feature articles aren't much better, though they have more research in them.

I can't describe this song as anything other than sexy. "Fistful of Swoon" slinks along, propelled forward by the rough voice of Mark Charles Heidinger and the twisting harmonies of Rose Guerin. It builds off of a simple guitar riff and just a handful of delicate piano notes, and even the video, shot in stark black and white, manages to be both sinister and alluring.