January 2012
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TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
I am currently phisically incapable of not listening to TV On The Radio, so you guys have to share my burden. I’d be sorry if they weren’t so goddamn awesome.
TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
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December 2011
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The wombats - Techno Fan
Holy fuckballs it’s new year’s already. Right then: time to get too excited about tonight’s plans. Get too drunk, too fast and miss the whole thing.
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Phonogram. The best thing since bacon.
I’ll try to contain my enthousiasm here, cause I am very much aware that most of you aren’t all that much into comics/graphic novels. But this is unironically “Da bomb”. Scott Pilgrim meets Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity and throw some dark fantasy in there, that approximates the awesomeness that is Phonogram.
The writing is ridiculously dense with references to...
November 2011
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New unreleased Dodos track
Well, I guess it’s sort of released now.
In a way.
Fuck it! New Dodos!
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James Blake - Lindisfarne
Song of the day 20/11/2011 (How’s that for an awesome date)
James Blake - Lindisfarne I
James Blake - Lindisfarne II
Czech it on : Spotify / iTunes
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The Crackups - Animals On Acid
Wasn’t feeling too alert when I was waking up today.
Then someone told me The Crackups’ album was out.
Well… that’s that problem solved…
<a href=”http://thecrackups.bandcamp.com/album/animals-on-acid”...
October 2011
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They Might Be Giants rule the pants off of...
Little embarassed. Only started listening to them… well, recently (last month, really), even though they’ve been around for a gazjilion (19) years. So I’m making up for it by granting upon the internet this totally superflous list of They Might Be Giants songs that I (and possibly you) should’ve checked out earlier:
Spoiler Alert
Where it all started. My friend Glenn...
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Psycho 44 - Boom (Snoop Dogg Cover)
It’s snoop dogg’s birthday today (dude’s turning 40, damn).
Anyway: Fridge favourite Psycho 44 covered the FUCK out of one of his tracks.
Yeah.. Blew me away to.
You can download it on soundcloud, and you should.
BONUS: As you may or may not know, Psycho 44 is working on their (its?) debut album. This little (but poorly recorded) gem will probably be on it. I’m so...
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Codes In The Clouds & Rival Consoles
CODES IN THE CLOUDS VS RIVAL CONSOLES from RAW Collective on Vimeo.
That really was a terrific show. Crowd was a bit quiet. But the band was amazing. Video was made by the truly eminent Raw Collective.
Started of by being it’s own warm-up band, which was new..
Rival Consoles and CITC on the same stage, playing an electro-post-rocky song you could almost call james blake-ian. Best part,...
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Yeah yeah yeahs - Zero
Cause it’s been too long since you listened to it.
Song of the day 16/10 : Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
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James Blake - Enough Thunder
It’s here! Stream it over at Abeano
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Grizzly Bear - Knife
Song du jour 6/10 : Grizzly Bear - Knife
I actually didn’t know this song until Zach from Beirut sang it in the streets of Paris and made a video about it.
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The Flaming Lips - She Don't Use Jelly
Song of the day 4/10 : The Flaming lips - She Don’t Use Jelly
German Error Message
Started following me on tumblr yesterday, and I like their ‘In Comforting’ song. So showing them some love:
<a href=”http://germanerrormessage.bandcamp.com/album/in-comforting” _mce_href=”http://germanerrormessage.bandcamp.com/album/in-comforting”>In Comforting by German Error...
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Fan better at writing Blink 182 songs that Blink...
That’s one of the new Blink 182 songs off their new Neighbourhoods album. I’m not gonna force you to listen to the whole thing, cause it’s not that great. When you get about a minute and a half in you should have a solid idea of the song’s vibe. So go ahead, I’ll wait….
Right. You done?
Now check out this dude:
Yeah….
What if Blink-182 had...
September 2011
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Keaton Henson or "How about the power... to move...
If you got that reference I applaud you good sir/ma’am.
(It’s this btw)
Moving on: Keaton Henson
If Jack black is right and ‘Moving you’ is a superpower this dude could start his own justice league.
You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are is from his Dear… EP. But the song is available as a single-thing on iTunes.
Keaton Henson - You Don’t Know How...
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Mord Fustang - A New World
It’s weird that I’ve never brought up dubstep on here before. Well I guess James Blake kind of counts… not really though.
It’s very galvanising, dubstep. One of those love-it-or-hate-it type deals. But recently, with the rise of the toned down Katy B-style of dubstep it’s been gaining momentum like a motherfucker. Best example: This
That’s a Weetabix Ad from...
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Wavves - Nodding off (feat. Best Coast)
Wait… Wavves released something last week?
Damn I need to start paying more attention.
Haven’t heard the entire thing yet, but I’ve already picked my favourite songs, cause that’s just how much of a judging-a-book-by-its-cover person I am.
So here it is : Song of the day 29/9
Wavves - Nodding Off (Feat. Best Coast)
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Get Off My Shoes EP-release
Our friends at Get off my shoes are releasing a goddamn EP.
About time.
It’s gonna be called ‘Let’s Not Rush Out And Tell The World’ and from what I’ve heard it’ll be awesome to the power of epic.
If you live in the neighbourhood, or even relatively close : Be there, or be a whiny rectangular bitch. In case you forgot: Get off my shoes are the guys...
The Lightwings
Found them over on The wonderful Blue Walrus and was surprised that these guys aren’t half as famous as they should be. Beatpop sounds like a genre I could get into in a big way. So start hopping on that bandwagon, people!
The Lightwings EP by The Lightwings
Show them some love on Twitter or Facebook
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30 minutes of Break-up songs
Sometimes painful things happen. That’s just part of life.
You’ve probably all been there. Getting your heart broken, trampled on. We all have our ways of dealing with that, but from what I gather music is one of the big ones. Something most of us have in common.
Listening to the saddest song you can possibly find, hating yourself for putting it on, but somehow feeling comforted by...
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Song of the day 24/9
Noah & The Whale - 5 years time
Something to listen to while riding your bike on a sunny day through the city to go visit someone you love.
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Scissor Sisters - Take Me Out (Franz Ferdinand...
One of the most original covers (yeah I know, contradiction) I’ve heard in a while. Lovin’ the intro.
Scissor Sisters - Take Me Out (Franz Ferdinand Cover)
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Childish Gambino - Bonfire
Childish Gabino - Bonfire
CAMP is coming out November 1st. Until then have this shitty radio rip of Bonfire, Donald Glover’s latest.
Show ‘em some love: Twitter or his Website/Tumblr thing
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Kanye West & Jay-Z : Watch The Throne
Yes. This has been out forever. I know.
My music taste went full-circle a couple of weeks ago.
Let me try to explain that.
The veeeery first post I did, almost a year ago to the day, was a Hiphop song. And I listened to a shitload of hiphop back then. Mostly 90’s type things, De La Soul, Biz Markie, those guys… After a while the Hiphop phase kinda melted away, made room for the...
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The Galacticos - Paint The Town Rad
Paint the town rad by THE GALACTICOS
The Galacticos are a belgian band. They do the smaller festival circuit here, playing slightly better gigs than ‘Their mom’s basement’. They’re known, but not famous. And I think that’s a damn shame. They had a hit with Humble Crumble a while ago, but I think they must be running low on their Groupie-supply by now.
Playing...
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Not Long Now
That James Blake/Bon Iver collaboration produces another song: Pitchfork readers across the globe jizz in their skinny jeans AGAIN.
Jeans not creamed in vain though. This is Blake in top form, and as you would expect: the vocals carry the same touching frailty that Bon Iver is known for.
Here’s the track from last month as well, in case you missed it.
James Blake & Bon Iver - Fall...
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Song of the day 16/9/11
Madcon - Beggin
Remember that song? What was it? 2007, ‘08? It actually wasn’t that bad.
And ‘FunkHop’ as a genre just sounded like a good idea as well. Whatever happened to that?
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Mashup Album : Fela Soul
I’m usually pretty sceptical of Concept-Mashup Albums, mostly because they tend to lose a lot of momentum after one or two tracks.
Whoever’s mixing the songs runs out of golden combinations, and hastily throws a couple more together, cause you can’t have an ‘album’ with 2 songs, now can you?
But every once in a while you run into one that has nothing but awesomely...
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Designers.mx
This has been on my to-write-stuff-about list forEVER now.
Beautifully Designed Mixes
That’s kinda their thing.
Designers make playlists, with music that inspires them. And then design something for it… I guess.
Anyways, knowing designers (I dabble) they’re into some pretty obscure shit, so it’s a great place to get to know some new bands. Plus it’s all very...
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August 2011
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The Wombats - Tokyo
Song of the day 31/8/2011: The Wombats - Tokyo
The Wombats - Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) by Press Here
This might’ve already been a SOTD already.
But fuck it. It’s catchy.
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Jamie XX Radio 1 Essential Mix
Jamie xx Essential Mix by Young Turks
Tracklist:
Orbital - Belfast Phanes - Lucky Woman Ifan Dafydd - No Good Harvey Mandel - Christo Redentor Koreless - Lost in Tokyo Floating Points - Sais Wiley - Colder (Instrumental) Fantastic Mr. Fox - Untitled Pärson Sound - Untitled DJ Deeon - Fine Hoes Luke Vibert - Analord New Look - Janet John Tejada - Unstable Condition Univac -...
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Song of the day is....back? Again?
It’s been super-fucking busy lately with my new real job and such, so not a lot of action here. Apologies go out to all those affected.
Here. Have an awesome mashup.
Gold Panda & Childish Gambina - Let Me Dope YOU
So… we cool?
July 2011
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June 2011
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Don’t Appreciate The Originals 3
Remember this?
I do.
Time for another batch of cover-versions of songs you know and love, ungodly as they may be, they’re mostly fun and original. Well not original per se. By definition they’re not original, but you know what I meant.
Snoop Dogg - Gin N Juice (Bluegrass version)
Leann Grimes - Old Bodies Slip When They Make Love (A re-imagining of The Morning Bender’s...
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SF Swag, part 4: Where the new Strokes album is...
Ask any indie rock enthousiast. The strokes is probably in their Hall of Fame. They just are. First Impressions Of Earth, Room on Fire , Is This It? They’re one of the last remaining truly legendary bands around. They’ve been kicking ass since 2001. So, yknow, Angles. It had to be awesome, right?
They took a “much needed break” in 2008, and went off to work on their...
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Fossil Collective - Without A Fight (Dark Dark...
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The Head : Hang on [Album]
I’ve always liked these guys. They write catchy indie pop rock songs. And that’s how I like my indie pop rock. Strangely reminiscent of Oasis at times, but that’s more of a good thing than anything else (I was waaaay into Oasis, back in the day). Hang on is fresh guitar-pop all ze way and makes you wanna play airguitar on sunny afternoons. With tracks like Sneeze and Stockwood...
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Mixtapes : Songs To Have Sex To
I came across this recently. It was a refreshing change of pace to the “You can only have sex to super sensual RnB and Marvin Gaye songs”-school of thought.
Pardon the expression but: Fuck that.
So yeah, the 8track playlist was a good start. But it needed some work.
So here it is. Thanks go out to Charlotte, for most of these.
TRACKLIST
Max Berlin - Elle & Moi
Peaches -...
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Yordiscédo - DRMN
I’ve mentioned this guy before, no?
Yordiscedo is a friend of mine. And I’m not just putting his tunes up here cause he’s my friend. I’m putting it on here cause I really like it.
It’s… experimental… electronica? I guess. Ranging from chilling-to music to full on party-mode and everything in between.
Just wish he’d stop naming his songs after...
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Mixtapes: Tammy
I have some mixtapes on my laptop. I wish they were actual mixtapes. But alas. Born 10 years too late for that I guess.
Thought I’d share.
TRACKLIST
Young The Giant - I Got [Daytrotter Session]
The Dodos - Fools
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago (accoustic version)
The Bony King Of Nowhere - Going Home
Bon Iver - For Emma
Ra Ra Riot - Too Dramatic
The Antlers - Two [Daytrotter Session]
...
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Cults - Go Outside
Song di giorno 8/6:
Cults - Go Outside
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Lonesome Ghost - Golden Cage
Song of the day 7/6 (technically..)
Lonesome Ghost - Golden Cage
Recommended to me by my american friend Tammy. Huzzah.
Now THIS is a summer jam. Fuck you Underdog Project.
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tUnE-yArDs - Bizness
Song of the day 5/6
Strangely Compelling doesn’t even begin to describe it.
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La Casa Azul - Prefiero Bailar
Song Of The Day 4/6
La Casa Azul is a Spanish Indie Band, recommended to me by this fine gentleman here. This fucking song though…. It’s got the energy of J-pop and the melodic cheeriness of western Indie pop. Love it.
La Casa Azul - Prefiero Bailar
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Why Pop Music Is Bad
A semi-in depth analysis of the “Lamestream” by a music snob who just wants to understand.
It all started with the new Coldplay single, really.
I thought it was shit. And Alex Franklin (a writer for the wonderful Listen Before You Buy) seemed to agree with me. We talked (I say talked, tweeted) a bit and he said:
Yup. Hovered over “Alternative” before tagging them as...
May 2011
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The Morning Benders - Oh Annie
Song of the day 31/5
From the Big Echo B-sides. Brilliant tune.
The Morning Benders - Oh Annie