Annual " I Love Rain" Post

MFW it rains

"Woke up to the sound of pouring rain (Skid Row, what?!?!)." No Really. It's raining outside. Here in Southern California, whenever the temperature drops below 70 degrees it's a big deal. When it rains, OMG forget about, the sky is literally falling one drop at a time.

I enjoy this weather though. I have today off and plan on sitting by the window blasting some rainy day jams to mark the occasion. Like this:

Rainy Day Jamz

Some of you might remember that I like it when it rains. Maybe it's because we don't actually get much weather here in Southern California, so I enjoy the periodic rainy days whenever they pop up. I'll be blasting gloomy rainy day music like this all day, with a smile on my face:

Weather Rock

So it's cold/gloomy/rainy here in Southern California and I love it. It's been coming down lightly for the past few days but today it really started pouring nicely. Here's some "rain music" I've been diggin' recently.

This song is kind of long but man, it might just change your life. Post-rock meets black metal meets medieval times in the bleak frozen tundra of the Pacific North West:


This song is more straight forward but rocking none the less. Simplistic yet haunting guitar work and a guttural bellow so deep you'd think this was a band of frost giants. These burly, Tolken inspired Vikings are close enough I suppose:

It's Raining..

Its raining here in Southern California. For those of you in other parts of the country/world that actually experience other forms of weather, you should know that any disturbance to our consistently arid climate causes the shinny happy people of Los Angeles to collectively freak the fuck out. Not me however. I despise the sun. The first good rain of the year is cause for celebration in my book!

I don't know about you, but I enjoying blast two types of music while driving around in the rain....grim and frost bitten Black Metal, and uber depressing "post metal/stoner/gaze" type shit.

Exhibit A:


Exhibit B:


so heres to all the traffic jams, car accidents, tardiness and awesome music associated with the rainy season!