LOREN "FOLKLORE" CONE

ARIEN
I am the coolest person that works at Amoeba.

THADDEUS
I am hopelessly devoted to the music of my youth so here are some of my favorite bars.

• Mars Bar - 1st & 1st, NYC
  Diviest dive bar ever, and my favorite bar of all time. If you are a woman, I suggest you avoid the bathrooms.
  
• 8mm - Schonhauser allee, Berlin
  Cool bar with films screening on the wall and the occasional awesome visiting DJ. Order the crack-synth; they love that.
  
• Hemlock Tavern - Polk St., SF
  Fantastic punk rock DJ’s on Monday nights. Good place to people watch, but usually too crowded.
  
• Expansion Bar - Church & Market, SF
  I don’t know why, but I love this bar. Good place to avoid crowds.
  
• Sweetwater Tavern - North 6th,
  
• Williamsburg, Brooklyn (R.I.P.)
  Once an awesome punk-dive bar, now an upscale “bar & grill”. STUPID YUPPIES!

BRAD

• Cocteau Twins - Lullabies to Violaine
  Finally all the singles and b-sides collected in one place by one of the most amazing bands to ever exist. The box is worth buying alone for the awesome packaging that seems to be made of human skin. Possibly put together by the dude from Silence of the Lambs. Unfortunately this does not come with lyrics. So I will have to continue pretending to know what she is singing about. Beautiful music.
  
• Sigur Ros - Takk
  Another great album by the greatest band in Iceland. Beautiful music that takes me away from the world every once in a while to a magical place. Much like the Cocteau Twins, I have no idea what he is singing about. But the music is magical. And he is the coolest gay dude in rock next to Morrissey.
  
• Voxtrot - Raised by Wolves
  I can't wait for the real album to come out some time this year. Because I am wearing out this little ep of beautiful songs. They kinda sound like Belle and Sebastian. In that nerdy european indie pop kinda way. But they are actually from Austin. This album is probably better than anything else you could possibly find right now. If you like that kind of thing.
  
• Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - The Days of Mars
  This sounds like your favorite soundtrack to your favorite sci-fi/horror 80s movie. It's like the score to one of those movies that you keep watching over and over again only because the music is so good and you don’t even really care about the movie that much because some stupid jock dude is in the movie way too much anyway so you put it on and just listen. For fans of john carpenter movies who actually think he is a good composer.
  
• Explosions in the Sky - How Strange Innocence
  This is a reissue of their excellent first album which I think they originally made like 5 copies of. More beautiful instrumental music from my - and hopefully your - favorite temporary residence band. They are also from Austin. I think I might have to move there just to hang out with these bands. Great music to listen to when you want to think about stuff for a while and need to relax. You could really do yoga or have sex or do your laundry or whatever you do to this music. Good stuff.