This weekend, my buddy Luke out in San Francisco recommended I check out a track called "Home" from this summer's Up From Below, the debut of Ima Robot frontman Alex Ebert's ensemble project Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros. I'm still only a few tracks deep on the album right now, but it has such a galant, 60s-pop playing during a bloody slow-motion shootout sort of vibe, that it's forcibly interesting. 

"Home" opens with a whistle hook reminiscent of "Young Folks," the Peter Bjorn and John single that took over the radio, mall intercoms and WB programming in 2007. If you don't remember the track (you were born after 2007 or you live in a place without shit-tons of Apple stores), here's what Pitchfork thought of it: 

The song was ranked #5 on Pitchfork Media's "Top 100 Tracks of 2006" list. Pitchfork reviewed the song on 19 July 2006, giving it three out of five stars.[1]

Leave it to Pitchfork to hate on the popular stuff. It's a sharp track on an album these eighteen folks really seem to like but Rolling Stone called "an art-college thesis." Wherever your alliance may lay, there's an interesting unofficial music video of it on YouTube: 

Doesn't it kind of make you want to take a road trip? There has been some talk amongst my friends lately of a cross-country Coachella drive this April, just as classes are ending and a bunch of them graduate. 

Weekend passes are going for $269, which is about what it takes for me to survive on tacos for an entire month. A bit pricey, but the lineup includes: Echo & the Bunnymen, Grizzly Bear, Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Passion Pit, Vampire Weekend, MGMT, Gorillaz, Matt & Kim, Phoenix, Spoon, Yo La Tengo and Thom Yorke. I would keep going but making those links is tiring.   

//It's enough to make me start saving for gas.