December Underground

It's July 24th and I have been listening to the best album of the year, so far, for about 3 straight weeks...something I never do. The album is AFI's December Underground and it is absolutely phenomenal. Everything about it is accessible, but with that dark, edgy, industrial style they toyed with on Sing The Sorrow.
If you heard Sing The Sorrow and dug its style then this might be your favorite of all time. It took some serious convincing for me to take it out of the cd player(Thursday's A City By The Light Divided convinced me to pull it out); but every song on December underground is great. Check it out if you get a chance, you won't be disappointed.

Today, my heart is broken

So I was talking to a friend at the gym today, a fellow music snob like myself. He was flipping through my cd collection when he came to Further Seems Forever's latest album Hide Nothing;"Dude I love them, you know they broke up huh?"
My heart sank.
Further Seems Forever is one of my favorite bands, and unfortunately they could not keep a lead-singer for anything. 3 albums and 3 lead-singers; The Moon is Down- Chris Carabba (of Dashboard Confessional fame- he left the band after they recorded their first album, but before it was released) How to Start a Fire Jason Gleason(great vocalist, but could not enunciate to save his life, I still don't know what the meaning of How to Start a Fire was) Hide NothingJohn Bunch (nothing great, nothing not great about this lead-singer, his style fit the bands message on Hide Nothing).
So if you get a chance to checkout anything they've done, please do. I know they have a myspace page and you can get to their website @ furtherseemsforever.com.
They were great, and I will miss them tremendously- smartypants walks with his head down today.