This is it! Thanks for downloading and listening.
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1. Volcano Choir “Island, IS” (Jagjaguwar)
2. Portishead “Chase the Tear” (amnesty.org.uk/portishead.co.uk)
3. Hot Chip “Take it In” (EMI)
4. Vistoso Bosses “Delirious” (Collipark/Interscope)
5. Au Revoir Simone “All or Nothing” (Moshi Moshi)
6. A Sunny Day in Glasgow “Shy” (Mis Ojos)
7. Atlas Sound “Sheila” (Kranky/4AD)
8. AnCo [...]
This one–rife with debuts and hot comebacks–takes a detour through weirdsville about halfway through, but stick with it. We wind up at a sweet party.
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1. The xx “Crystalised” (Young Turks/XL)
2. Sade “Soldier of Love” (Sony)
3. Alicia Keys “Sleeping With A Broken Heart” (J/Sony)
4. Maxwell “Help Somebody” (Columbia)
5. [...]
Guitars! Beards! Punk dudes! Old dudes! A barely-2009 Spoon song! A few ladies! Two (2) bands from Indiana (#8, #18)!
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1. Yo La Tengo “Nothing to Hide” (Matador)
2. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart “The Tenure Itch” (Slumberland)
3. The Fresh & Onlys “Peacock and Wing” (Woodsist)
4. So Cow “Casablanca” [...]
Wherein I make my play for a programming slot on NPR’s All Songs Considered.
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1. DM Stith “Creekmouth” (Asthmatic Kitty)
2. Here We Go Magic “Fangela” (Western Vinyl)
3. The Books & Jose Gonzales “Cello Song” (4AD/Red Hot)
4. Bat for Lashes “Daniel” (Astralwerks)
5. St. Vincent “Laughing With A Mouth Full of Blood” [...]
Here’s Volume 2, chock full of 09’s monster pop/rock grooves. Fashionable Kelis bookends, a couple songs about dying and murder. Expect to see Royksopp, St. Vincent, AnCo and ASDiG again later.
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1. Basement Jaxx “Scars f. Kelis” (XL)
2. Phoenix “1901″ (Loyauté/V2)
3. Yeasayer “Ambling Alp” (Secretly Canadian)
4. Memory Tapes “Bicycle” (Sincerely [...]
There has been so much good music this year that I had to make six of these suckers. I’ll post two a day between now and Friday. Here’s the first one for you to download and play, in the following order (which should happen automatically) in a technology such as iTunes.
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