If I could make you blog things.

So I've been playing the Two Tongues record nonstop this past weekend, as I'm writing the review for an upcoming issue. The short version? This shit is totally, utterly awesome. If you don't know, Two Tongues are Chris Conley (vocals/guitar) and David Soloway (bass) from Saves The Day and Max Bemis (vocals/guitar) and Coby Linder (drums) from Say Anything, and their self-titled debut comes out Feb. 3, 2009, on Vagrant. It is a beast, let me just say that. Here's "Crawl," the first track off the disc:

Crawl - Two Tongues

There's another song off the record, "Wowee Zowee" (what's up, Pavement reference) on the band's MySpace page that I highly recommend, as well.

I really, really wish more bands would intermingle like this more frequently. Sure, it's cool to see the singer of one band walk onstage during another band's set to throw in some guest vocals here and there, but I'm talking about taking two songwriters from different bands, throwing them into a room and having them write brand new music together. Too many bands are content to write and record in their own little bubble (no offense to Cartel); I just wish they would venture out and explore the notion of songwriting with someone else. Who knows what kind of gold you could strike?

With as much as Kevin Devine tours with Brand New, why hasn't he written a collaborative record with Jesse Lacey yet? Or considering how many side bands Craig Owens has, would it be that much more of a stretch for him to sit down with Anthony Green and create something completely new? (The Sound Of Animals Fighting doesn't count.) I think I personally would love to see Ted Leo and Against Me!'s Tom Gabel sit down and write an album's worth of songs together (and maybe throw the Weakerthans' John K. Samson in there for good measure). Now it's your turn: What two contemporary songwriters would you love to see hook up and make a new band?