January 2009
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“Rocks Off” - Spoon, live at the...
All of "Hastings Sunrise" at MBV →
MBV has launched a new feature where they will stream full albums, and they’re starting it with Apollo Ghosts’ “Hastings Sunrise”, from whence came the gem “Little Yokohama” that I blogged the other day. My work computer has problems with streaming audio, so I can’t tell you if the whole thing is good yet, but I’ll definitely be listening when I get...
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“Maria Jose” - Federico Aubele,...
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“Long Way To Go With No Punch” - Dirty...
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“Pop, Lock and Drop It” - Huey,...
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"Little Yokohama" - Apollo Ghosts, "Hastings... →
This Vancouver band is pretty small-time, so I can’t find mp3s of them on iTunes, Amazon, or anything like that (and I haven’t emailed them to buy their mp3s…yet). So their mySpace page, with streaming mp3s, will have to do for now. Most of their stuff sounds pretty good, but “Little Yokohama” is by far my favorite. It’s a raw little 90-second blitz that reminds...
Haruki Murakami Playlist →
I will never know as much about the internet as ferrrn, as evidenced by the fact that she keeps beating me to awesome things such as this. Murakami is one of my favorite authors. His taste in music isn’t all that similar to mine, but that actually makes it all the more interesting to me.
ferrrn:
This NYT essay from today, “See the Website, Buy the Book” is kind of useless, except for the...
China's Underground Hip-Hop Movement →
A nice bit of video reportage from the NYTimes on China’s hip-hop subculture. Sorry I can’t figure out how to embed video from the NYT site.
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“Save Me” - Jem, “Finally...
Every Beatles song ranked 185 - 1 →
Insanely detailed arguments for the relative merits of every single Beatles song.
via kottke.
OK I sent ferrrn the link to this mashup this...
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“Busted Heart” - Bishop Allen,...
The Fingers Were Live but the Music Wasn't →
weird. i thought yo yo ma was supposed to have a special carbon fiber cello for exactly this reason.
Another Perk for Obama’s People: Arcade Fire →
as if a job in the obama white house weren’t enough. note the aside that, oh yes, Jay-Z is also playing.
via LHB.
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“Party & Bullshit” (remix of...
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“My Girls” - Animal Collective,...
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Ralph Stanley’s Obama Endorsement (2008)
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“Tenha dó” - Los Hermanos, “Los...
Guardian: My Lifelong Love Affair With Motown →
A lovely blog post from earlier this week on the Motown sound and the people behind it. It was a complete coincidence that I posted Heat Wave this morning, but I’m glad it led me to this!
via my dad.
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“Heat Wave” - Martha Reeves & The...
The Most Unpleasant "Song" Ever →
I am warning you: if you watch this commercial for Microsoft Songsmith, you will be at risk of smashing your computer screen just to make it stop. This is quite possibly the stupidest product ever, and most definitely the most annoying commercial ever.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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“…Baby One More Time” -...
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“L-L-Love” - Astaire,...
“Slumdog Millionaire” won Best Original Score at the Golden Globes last night. If you missed it last week have a listen.
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“Satyam Shivam Sundaram” - Thievery...
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“Lost in the Ballroom” - Forro in the...
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“Sebastiana” - Gal Costa, “Nao...
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“Forrowest” - Forro in the Dark,...
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“Roadrunner” - The Modern Lovers,...
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“Reckoner” - Flying Lotus
Flying...
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“Liquid Dance” - A.R. Rahman,...
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“Palmistry” - Tabla Beat Science,...
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“She Said, She Said” - The Black Keys,...
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“Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” - Peter...
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“Auld Lang Syne” - Jimi Hendrix,...