All you can eat at the Sizzler
Eef Barzelay kills me. Barzelay is the lead singer of the band Clem Snide, and there's something about his voice that goes through me in a way that the best vocalists do, like Chrissie Hynde and Willie Nelson. The songs aren't too shabby, either. Though I haven't heard their two newest offerings (one of which, an EP, has a decent cover of Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful"), my favorite Clem Snide record is The Ghost of Fashion, which oscillates between sleepy country and hyper rock 'n' roll. Though there are a few tracks I could post to really get your week going, like "Ice Cube", I'm going to give you a beautiful tale of romantic martyrdom:
You can already tell from the title that it's full of little pop culture puns, but they're sung with a sincerity that might just break your heart.
One of my favorite concert memories was seeing this band on the edge of a small pond at the college I went to in Maine. They played in May, when everything was just thawing out, and the sun was in that 4 p.m. droopy position, and there were only a few people lying on the grass to hear Clem Snide. Go see them if you get a chance, and pick up The Ghost of Fashion here or get it from iTunes.