High School Reunion: Valerie Veteto (2004-2008)
Not that long ago I was the kid in high school showing up with the sleepiest raccoon eyes. I spent most nights in a never-ending search for the unloved bands just poking their way into Internet existence, and then bombarding my friends with my findings. Back then my money/weekend nights were monopolized by small venues like The Underground and The Boardwalk [suburbs of Sacramento], going to any live show that wasn’t 18+. My stereo was clogged with anything and everything, from Queen to Porcupine Tree to Damien Rice, but it was in the folk/indie scene that I burrowed into. Though it really wasn’t that long ago, take a dip into the heart of the ’00s when MTV still played music videos for the diehard insomniacs.
TV on the Radio – Wolf Like Me
The Shins – Kissing The Lipless
Rocky Votolato – Suicide Medicine
Pixies – Hey
Motion City Soundtrack – LGFUAD
Death Cab for Cutie – We Looked Like Giants
The Dandy Warhols – Bohemian Like You
Coheed & Cambria – A Favor House Atlantic
Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor
Angus & Julia Stone – Just A Boy
Andrew Jackson Jihad – People II: The Reckoning
Andrew Bird – A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left
Elliott Smith – Between The Bars
Third Eye Blind – Motorcycle Drive-By