November 2011
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Feist - Cicadas & Gulls...
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ROSTAM - DON'T LET IT GET TO YOU
It’s something of a joke, to find a song that “speaks” to you, your situation. From where I am, people rib you no end for the familiarity, especially if it’s sentimental. When “Don’t Let It Get To You” had all the music blogs buzzing, I felt I was going through a personal Dresden. You’re allowed to roll your eyes at that possible hyperbole, but it was anything but. You know what they say, break...
October 2011
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fthrsn - colors
You know those moments when you’re with your friends, and there’s a lot of nostalgia flying back and forth? When your insides ache from all the laughter, and your closest friend’s bursting to tell that embarrassing thing you did? It’s near-death, all that joy. You’re running at them, your hands over their face, your legs knocking their knees, to keep them from...
September 2011
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KYLA LA GRANGE - VAMPIRE SMILE
Admitting to obsession isn’t easy, and very rarely is it attractive. Kyla La Grange’s catalogue betrays this norm, stomping and treading all over the banal modesty of those that quell their dangerous passion. With “Courage”, La Grange seared everyone’s hearts with her lyrics that spoke only and too much of an apathetic lover, one that never wanted the heart she lay...
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THE MIDDLE EAST - BLOOD
Love is overweening. To think you can swim against the tide, chasing every collective dream, never coming up for air, you have to be more than just a little smug. When you spoke of it last, you said “forever”, hoping to stretch into the blue along with time. It never happened.
Love relents. You’re weary, burnt by the sun, one ear against the earth, a long and full life sailing...
July 2011
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WOLF GANG - DANCING WITH THE DEVIL [FEAT. KYLA LA...
Everyone should’ve seen this already, it’s five months old, but on the off chance you haven’t: sit your butt down, and spend the best four minutes fourty six seconds of your life watching these two criminally underrated singers.
And if this doesn’t sweep you up, you’re alone, babe.
More: Kyla La Grange, Wolf Gang
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I DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE OUT
I know I’ve posted this before, but because I’ve been listening to it for over 6 hours every day in the recent past, I just have to post this again. I haven’t run out of music. I post so little, I have an embarrassing pile of songs I want to write about, but don’t and won’t. Because I left a job, went on a vacation, watched awesome bands, fell in love with a city,...
June 2011
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May 2011
2 posts
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THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS - CAN'T KEEP JOHNNY DOWN
How could I possibly not put this up? They haven’t yet built a man that’ll keep ol’ Johnny down.
Listen: They Might Be Giants - Can’t Keep Johnny Down
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GERMANY GERMANY - JUST GO [FEAT. STEFFALOO]
Incredible doesn’t cut it.
Listen: Germany Germany - Just Go [feat. Steffaloo]
April 2011
3 posts
Ghost FM: Mixtape Vol.2: Landesklinikum Amstetten →
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Remember the Joseph Fritzl case? The Austrian old man who physically assaulted, sexually abused, and raped his own daughter and imprisoned her and her children in a Silence of the Lambs sort of basement for 24 years? This mix’s theme revolves around Elisabeth Fritzl, a woman who was not…
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MEMORYHOUSE - SLEEP PATTERNS
There’s something about silence that frightens people, roughs them up, makes them uncomfortable. Vacuous words become better than no words. It’s the extension of this that makes death such an uncomfortable topic. “We don’t talk death, that’s so morbid.” So we’ll press for words, anything, whatever you can give. We’ll ask you to smile, because an...
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LONG WALKS ON THE BEACH - I DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE...
What can I say? I didn’t want to make out, I wanted to kiss.
<a href=”http://longwalksonthebeach.bandcamp.com/track/i-didnt-want-to-make-out” _mce_href=”http://longwalksonthebeach.bandcamp.com/track/i-didnt-want-to-make-out”>I Didn’t Want To Make Out by Long Walks On The Beach</a>
March 2011
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BENOIT & SERGIO - BOY TROUBLE [RADIO EDIT]
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JOHN MAUS - AND THE RAIN
Listen: John Maus - And The Rain
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THE NATIONAL - THINK YOU CAN WAIT
The National’s ghostly, elegant new track featuring Sharon Van Etten off the Win Win OST. Stack it under remarkable.
Listen: The National - Think You Can Wait
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OUPA - FORGET
That I love is Yuck is hardly a secret. That I think they were one of the best things to hit my ears in 2010 is absolutely no lie. So, it isn’t any surprise that “Forget” has me knocked off my feet and peaceful on the floor.
On here, Blumberg is sparse and haunting, looking through your eyes as you insist and make a vacant point. It’s an unsettlingly stark white room,...
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CALIFORNIA WIVES - TOKYO
You lay on the grass, inches from your dream. Every day, you’d navigate through each other’s limbs, reading the way a nerve disappeared deep into the skin. You wished you could see where it ended, but there were places you couldn’t go.
She told you of people she once knew. Thick as thieves, and now she couldn’t tell you their faces. You never wanted to go there, never...
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HIGH HIGHS - HORSES
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JAMES BLAKE - WHAT WAS IT YOU SAID ABOUT LUCK
“Wilhelms Scream” b-side
James Blake - What Was It You Said About Luck (click through to box.net)
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TWO BICYCLES - I'M NOT AFRAID TO WAIT FOR YOU
I think if I had to pick a song to soundtrack my life right as it is now, I’d close my eyes and keep “I’m Not Afraid To Wait For You” as the only track on the list.
To say you’ve never felt more alone would perhaps be hyperbole and also untrue. It’s not so much loneliness, as it is just being flung far out in the choppy waters when you don’t know what it is to swim. But “I’m Not Afraid To Wait...
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KYLA LA GRANGE - COURAGE
February 2011
16 posts
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LYKKE LI - WOUNDED RHYMES [ALBUM STREAM]
Exclusive stream of Lykke Li’s Wounded Rhymes for Hype Machine:
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THE NATIONAL - AFRAID OF EVERYONE [MTV LIVE IN...
Watch more videos, including “Bloodbuzz Ohio”, “Conversation 16”, “Terrible Love”, and “Fake Empire”, from the MTV Live in NYC show here.
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THE VACCINES - IF YOU WANNA (BBC SESSION)
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WOLF GANG - DANCING WITH THE DEVIL
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SELEBRITIES - THE MOONLIGHT
Scoped them out last year and you should know this, if you don’t already.
Listen: Selebrities - The Moonlight
Listen: Selebrities - Secret Garden
Listen: Selebrities - Time
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TIM & JEAN - COME AROUND
First time I heard this song, I ran to tell my best friend about it. Where ran really means hastily logged on to a social networking site and indulged in some overblown rhetoric. Thing is, she’s far away in another country and even occasional hipster indie electropop boys seem reason enough to post updates about. When there’s ridiculous distance, you don’t pick on the absurdity...
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GERMANY GERMANY - LAST SUMMER & LENA
I really, really like Germany Germany. I mean, an under-21 wonderkid, electropop and free EPs? Don’t mind if I do. This music definitely helped make 2010 one of my best years yet.
Listen: Germany Germany - Last Summer Listen: Germany Germany - LENA
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SEA OF BEES - SKINNYBONE & WIZBOT
You don’t know it yet, but you’re pining for more of Julie Ann Bee tomorrow.
Listen: Sea of Bees - Skinnybone
Listen: Sea of Bees - Wizbot
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THE STROKES - UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS
Two nights and two days to get the new Strokes single here. GO.
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bikini - ACheerlaeder
Spent 2008 - 2010 in love with bikini and digital dreams. It’s 2011 now, and I still won’t stop.
Listen: bikini - ACheerlaeder
Listen: bikini - I Remember Being Young
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LUFTWAFFE - NEVER LET ME GO
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WILDLIFE - STAND IN THE WATER
Toronto-based Wildlife hit all the top spots in 2010 with their debut EP, Strike Hard, Young Diamond, one of the best the year saw. It would be understating things to say you should drop everything and give this band a whole lot of your time.
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STRANGE TALK - CLIMBING WALLS
It wouldn’t be strange talk if I said these guys were Phoenix hyped up on a whole lot of Yeasayer, now would it?
Strange Talk - Climbing Walls (Demo) by aboatforall
January 2011
28 posts
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Ducktails - Hamilton Road
This is easy, just...
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U.S. Royalty - Monte Carlo
tigerlilysrose-deactivated20110 asked: your blog is epically amazing!
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SUN AIRWAY - PUT THE DAYS AWAY
There’s a confidence in youth that affronts those that no longer know it. This undeniable need to live and to prove, and how it’s all ridiculously urgent. If there’s patience in the world, they’re not saving it for us. There’s distortion, there’s rising synths, there’s a whirlwind and then there’s the quiet.
We can wait to understand, but we...
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STORNOWAY - I SAW YOU BLINK
2010 saw Mumford & Sons get big and get a Concert à Emporter. At the same time, Oxford band, Stornoway, created tiny ripples across the indie sea. Few people noticed, and most of them got taken up by the wave. We were riding this out with them and they really were the ones we were waiting for. Their debut record, Beachcombers Windowsill, was among the best the year saw.
It’s 2011 now,...