These sound awesome. Really excited about this. And I totally agree on “criminally underrated.” “Please Visit Your National Parks” was such a jam–and one of my favorite music videos from that period: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IVUNZkN_vc

So true. Love those guys. Love them live, too.

Yea, Local Natives were supposedly recording back in the Fall. After their little tour with the National, they said they were going back to writing (via twitter). They also posted photos over the summer of the place they were recording.

Went Brent left Menomena a year ago, he said it was, in part, to focus on Ramona Falls. Back in September, on twitter, he said he was 70% done tracking the new album (though I guess that could refer to another artist’s album he might be working on, but I doubt it). He’s also made references to working on the second LP (on twitter), but nothing specific.

Laura Gibson – La Grande (1/24, via Barsuk)
speaking of Barsuk, Ramona Falls likely. Maybe even Menomena (they at least said they’re writing stuff).

Sharon Van Etten – Tramp, Jagjaguwar, 2/7
The Walkmen – March or April
Fiona Apple

These are, hands down, my most anticipated.

Yea, I likewise saw this a couple months ago on IMDb. And sorry to be way fangirl here, but there’s also a Sufjan playing arcade games scene in the Danielson movie. It’s actually a really weird scene, because they play his live performance of “To Be Alone With You” over Daniel and he playing together, and there are some (perhaps tongue-in-cheek?) homoerotic undertones.