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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 [...]

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 [...]

jj no. 2 The soundtrack to my summer, heard it at too many parties and in too many cars…but still not enough
Neon Indian Psychic Chasms The soundtrack to my summer, pt 2. Me and (noted Bloomingtonian) Jon Coombs jamming this in the middle of Indiana outside some greasy pizza joint, again through the corn fields [...]

(These aren’t in any sort of hierarchical ordering, but numbers comfort me.)
1  She’s not quite everything I want from a balls-out-weirdo-pop-star, but Lady Gaga comes terribly close.  ”I want to take a ride on your disco stick”?  Disco stick.
2 Dan Bodah’s Dronecast podcast has managed to fit into my neurosis rather nicely.  I imagine (well, [...]

Gabe from Videogum, on MTV’s latest reality effort:
“The impulse that drives us to watch Jersey Shore with a smirk is the same impulse that drives the people on Jersey Shore to call us ‘faggots.’ Because the reality is that they are part of an actual community, with its own language and its own mating rituals [...]

If a band wants to conjure up a satisfying series of earthy hippie brews, it seems like they’ll eventually have to mix in a bit of patriarchy. In an earlier period of my life, I might say about “My Girls” something like “Hey Noah, it’s all well and good that your intent isn’t [...]

Today’s MMMV will be hosted (unbeknownst to them) by the recently controversial folks over at Good Weather for an Airstrike, who, through posting a good portion of their top 65 videos of 2005 with EZArchive, caused the server to crash and their subscription to be terminated. Don’t hate, though–they’ve left us with a magnificent [...]

Here are the last two:

marathonpacks year-end mix, vol. 3 (128k mp3, 68.4MB) (expired)
1. Black & White Town–Doves
2. A Little Bit More–Jamie Lidell
3. Gone (f. Cam’ron & Consequence)–Kanye West
4. Trouble With Dreams–Eels
5. All We Are–Fischerspooner
6. Gideon–My Morning Jacket
7. Like A Honeycomb–British Sea Power
8. There Goes the Sun–The Pernice Brothers
9. I Was A Teenage Rainphase–Stereolab
10. So Begins [...]

Sung Tongs was near-perfect. Feels, although veering a bit too close to Mercury Rev territory in a few places, is great, but would have benefitted from the inclusion of “Fickle Cycle” (mp3), included instead on the Grass EP. The song tears out of the gate like a carnival barker cutting into your path, not letting [...]

After a week-long respite in the Florida sun, I’m back, with a list inspired by my pal Irving of the 10 best singles so far this year. As I compiled it, I noticed that my ideal top ten is replete with up-tempo, danceable numbers–my ideal, parallel-universe Billboard chart.
1. The Decemberists “16 Military Wives“–At a typically [...]