3/9—Never forget. This was the biggest week in indie music thus far, so it is broken up into two parts. If you don’t see your favorite record from the week here, expect it next week, ’cause your boy be steady listening to everything so you don’t have to trudge through the music world without guidance.

The other day I was watching The Birdcage, a movie that I have loved since seeing in at the theaters nearly 15 years ago. Based on the French film La Cage aux Folles (which is also quite entertaining), the American adaptation brought together the classic comedy duo of Nichols and May, with Mike Nichols directing, and Elaine May writing the screenplay. I am a big fan of Mike Nichols, as he has directed some of my favorite movies (The Graduate, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Working Girl- just for starters).

Today’s song of the day is the most aggressive and polarizing thing I will ever post, but the track is fucking good – trust. Captain Ahab are a duo from LA and they know how to party. Their shows consist of both dudes running around sing-screaming their lyrics while humping members of the audience and having an all around good time. Sure there are many party bands out there, but none do it with the general fuck all of Captain Ahab.

If you haven’t yet read about “The Marriage Ref” negating all the good vibes Jerry Seinfeld sent out into syndication, then I suggest you scrap who you’re following on Twitter right now and start over. It’s an awful, awful show. Awful.

But before you lapse back into refrains of “I’m on Team Coco”, consider this curveball – maybe, just maybe, on an upcoming episode the Ref will have to tell one lesbian that seven dogs is plenty, and that her wife is right to protest the purchase of an eighth.

Each week, I’ll be picking a particularly good shot from the TNG Flickr pool to give one of our contributors some special attention. This week: John Foster Cartwright.

Neon Indian is a favorite here at TNG, so I am pretty excited that today’s song of the day is their first new offering since 2009’s fantastic Psychic Chasms LP. “Sleep Paralysist” is a collaboration with Mountain Dew’s Green Label Sounds, and was produced by Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear at Taylor’s Terrible Studios.

Hello all. If you have been missing my drunken musings about music—because we all know a week without Driveway to Driveway is a bad week—the wait is over. If you didn’t know I had a column (as well as providing you your songs,and doing the colorful Weekly Music Roundups), well I do, and here it is.

Last Wednesday they applied, and today they picked up their marriage licenses from DC Superior Court.

Congratulations is also supposedly inspired by Lady Gaga, but after listening to today’s SOTD, “Flash Delirium,” I can’t hear it. This track is a mixing bowl of influences, reading a lot like the “favortie music” secontion on an online dating profile.

I was fortunate enough to get to inteview one of the invited artists, Lisa Marie Thalhammer, at Manifest Equality, a temporary exhibition that represents the artistic community’s response to Proposition 8 and how the struggle for equality fits in to the greater civil rights movement.