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My little brother has been trying for about a dozen songs now to best me by sending me something marvelous that I’ve never heard. He’s far away living in Sydney with his Aussie girlfriend now, and I miss him terribly, so I was thrilled to let him win this latest incarnation of Stump The Sister. Joseph [...] [full post]

The Be Good Tanyas — Light Enough To Travel (Geoff Berner Cover)

Elizabeth Mitchell — This Little Light Of Mine   

Lori Carson — I Saw The Light (Todd Rundgren Cover)

Danny Barnes — Let Your Light Shine on Me (Willie Johnson Cover)

Arborea — This Little Light Of Mine   

Allison Moorer — Light of a Clear Blue Morning (Dolly Parton Cover)

Allison Crowe — Shine a Light (Rolling Stones Cover)

Jorma Kaukonen & Tom Hobson — I Am The Light Of This World (Rev. Gary Davis Cover)

Ted Hawkins — Long As I Can See the Light (Creedence Clearwater Revival Cover)

The Dodos — Biggest Light Of All (Kath Bloom Cover)

Dan Mangan — There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Smiths Cover)

Death Cab For Cutie — There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (Smiths Cover)

Jorma Kaukonen & Tom Hobson — I Am The Light Of This World (Rev. Gary Davis Cover)

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Shout Out Louds “At Work” from Ted Malmros on Vimeo. A film about the making of Shout Out Louds third album, “Work”. [full post]

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Driving fuzzed up old style rock that coasts along courtesy of versatile vocalist Andy Metcalfe, is oozed out by this live-wire Liverpudlian troupe. Who seek to continue to leap and bound off from the momentum given by their Zane Lowe endorsed debut EP, ‘Elementary of Youth’. ‘Alcatraz’, is a topsy-turvy three and a half minute [...] [full post]

Dr. Dog — Stranger   

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Off Sparklehorse’s 2001 album It’s A Wonderful Life. What an album. + Download Sparklehorse via eMusic’s 25 free MP3 no risk trial offer ____________________________________________________________________________________ [full post]

Paul Weller — Aim High

Paul Weller — No Tears Left to Cry

Paul Weller — Moonshine

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Whether it’s historically or artistically accurate or not, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Hardcore, whatever you want to call it, used to be the realm of Satan. Well, clearly Jesus was having none of that, cause ever since Underoath’s 2004 They’re Only Chasing Safety brought they’re brand of Christian Hardcore to the masses,it has been [...] Related posts:

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It’s been a while since we checked in with mellow Jersey Shore/Galaxie 500 fans and BTW Real Estate. Turns out they were hiding in an actual real estate office and performing “Suburban Dogs” for the company holiday party. Pass the spiral ham, please. Real Estate is out via Woodsist. While we’re here, revisit “Green River.” Real [...] [full post]

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People hate Burzum. A passing mention of Varg Vikernes’ longstanding one-man black metal project is enough to kick-start a heated debate. (I know, it happened to me in a bar last night. And a few weeks ago on-line. And etc.) The issues here, of course, involve the Right Wing, Nationalistic, Racialist, Odalist, etc., views held [...] [full post]

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Yves Saint Laurent reinterpreted ’70s Paris for their Fall/Winter 2010 show, with long, waist-length medallions, little capelets, and mid-calf skirts dotting the collection. So a new (sort of) song by LCD Soundsystem, who also performed at yesterday’s show, seems appropriate. According to DFA’s website, they performed a reinterpretation of a 1979 Peter Gordon & Love [...] [full post]

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A tinkerer, an eccentric, an alchemist — the Michael Yonkers of my imagination is in a room of detritus and scattered cranks, whistles, pulleys, and chain links.  There are curious inventions and abandoned contraptions strewn across the floorboards. Yesterday’s inspiration lies aborted and beautiful next to today’s. There is no apparent order to this space [...] [full post]

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Directed by Radical Friend, the same duo behind their excellent (and top-rated NSFW) video for “Ambling Alp,” Yeasayer’s “O.N.E.” clip has some seriously cool eye candy. Hard to know what to highlight here: the neo/neon tribal dancers, the face-shifting protagonist, or maybe Anand Wilder’s phallic crystal microphone. I’m going to go with the latter: check [...] [full post]

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1993 might not (definitely was not) the best year to see the Grateful Dead.  Health issues plagued the band, and Bobby’s songwriting skills were not peaking, either.  What makes this show so cool, though, is the widely varied setlist.  There’s the last Casey Jones ever played, and in set one no less, a rare recording [...] [full post]

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Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope stopped by Nightline to teach Martin Bashir about horrorcore and Juggalo violence. Too bad Bashir went into the interview with such obvious anti-Juggalo bias. [full post]

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I gave an abridged history of High On Fire when posting “Frost Hammer,” the lead single from the Oakland trio’s fifth album Snakes For The Divine, because they’re a band who inspire detailed contextualization. Not just because main man Matt Pike was a member of Sleep or that HoF’s released some certified classics (Death is [...] [full post]

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Like 2005’s “Sapphire Eyes,” the gorgeous, pleasantly disorienting Serena-Maneesh No 2: Abyss In B Minor standout “I Just Want To See Your Face” brings together the competing impulses in S-M’s arsenal — pristine, bright-lined pop and shadowy, often bleak noise eruptions — in a short burst of optimistic (then grimly overdriven) shoegazer sweetness. It is [...] [full post]

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This has the be the best vocal via a metro loudspeaker since that sweetie decided it was a good idea on ‘Fade To Grey’. It's taken from Galway’s Low Sea’s debut LP ‘Las Olas’, an album that has already been feted by those Sound Team slayers. We've been on the duo's case for a while now so ‘Alex’ comes as a major twist in what we thought they were about. Low Sea normally frontload their tunes with shoegazing chords but this one goes a lot more in the direction of the Paris Angels (remember their perfumed numbers?). The effect establishes a lighter tone but an altogether more fluid dreamscape that should broaden the band's appeal. With the risk of being labelled a toasted heretic I now declare Low Sea the West’s most treasured bullion. KD

Low Sea - Alex

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Green Label Sound just posted this Chris Taylor-produced Neon Indian track, “Sleep Paralysist.” It’s the first thing we’ve heard from Neon Indian since Psychic Chasms and it’s great to know he hasn’t lost his touch. Download “Sleep Paralysist” at Green Label Sound [full post]

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Unfortunately I can’t get Youtube to work on the WiFi network where I’m staying, but I’m told that this is a video of Broken Bells making their television debut on Letterman last night. But I don’t know. It could be a video about cats (likely, given that it is the internet). But assuming it’s NOT [...] [full post]

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Were you hoping for less action, and more heart-to-heart family convos and air guitar-wielding albinos from the Tron sequel, you terrible person, you? You’ll get what you want from the trailer, plus a small sample of the Daft Punk soundtrack (which you probably don’t want because it might be good), at Videogum. [full post]

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Over the past few months, Alan Palomo, aka Neon Indian (et VEGA), went from the bedroom to Late Night television. Now he’s also passed through Chris Taylor’s Brooklyn-based Terrible Studios: Palomo wrote and recorded “Sleep Paralysist,” his first new post-Psychic Chasms track, and received mixing/mastering help from the Grizzly Bear. He’s described Neon Indian’s sound [...] [full post]

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Listen to "I Know," the vinyl-only bonus track from jj's new jj nº 3 LP, out now on Secretly Canadian: ******

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It was the first single, then the first video, now “The High Road” gets its late night debut via The Late Show. Letterman introduced the band with a little misinformation — he promised that their self-titled album came with balloons and other prizes. No prizes or balloons, but it is really smart packaging. Brian Burton [...] [full post]

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France’s clothing/music label Kitsuné Maison is known for their compilations which in the past have featured groups like Digitliasm, Klaxons, La Roux, and many other bands that went on to greater fame. La Roux’s appearance on their 6th compilation was the first time I ever heard her, and then she blew up and was everywhere. Well [...] [full post]

Ted Leo And The Pharmacists — Bottled In Cork   

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There is nothing more exciting than finding an unsigned band that’s making music that I enjoy. The guys of Bigger and Better Things hail from Montreal, Quebec. Their pop punk sound is a sound that I have grown to love throughout my high school years; a genre of music I still indulge in with no regrets. With [...] Related posts:

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From start to finish, the self-titled sophomore release from art funk band Rubblebucket (formerly known as Rubblebucket Orchestra) is an uptempo treat, careening wildly all over the musical map while holding down a steady groove. Rubblebucket - November Rubblebucket... [full post]

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Oh No Ono — Helplessly Young   

Vetiver — You May Be Blue   

Vetiver — WOXY.com Lounge Act

Vetiver — Wishing Well

Vetiver — Pay No Mind   

Vetiver — Everyday   

Vetiver — Rolling Sea   

Vetiver — Wishing Well

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In the Largehearted Word series, the staff of Brooklyn's WORD bookstore highlights several new books released this week. WORD is an independent neighborhood bookstore in Greenpoint, the northernmost neighborhood of Brooklyn, that will celebrate its third anniversary this March.... [full post]

Mimicking Birds — Burning Stars

Mimicking Birds — Cabin Fever   

Yarn Owl — Yarn Blues

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NAME:Robyn PROGRESS REPORT: Mixing the first of three mini-albums she will release this year. A big part of Robyn’s story is how, when she felt frustrated with her former label, the Swedish singer started Konichiwa Records and decided how she would write and market her music. The downside of all that control? Everything takes so much time. [...] [full post]

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In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Phantom is a literary horror fiction anthology that collects 14 fascinating short stories. Other than Nick Mamatas... [full post]

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A couple days ago we heard Devendra Banhart inhabit Liars’ excellent “The Overachievers,” reversing the frequency of the opposites attract/urban cynic vs. L.A. hippie love song for the deluxe edition of Sisterworld’s Reinterpretations disc. Various able-minded individuals also helped build the “reinterpretation” collection’s intriguing tracklist, but Radiohead fanatics have inevitably zeroed in on Thom Yorke’s [...] [full post]

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Yesterday we brought you Weezer’s buggy performance on Nickelodeon’s kooky-cool children’s show Yo Gabba Gabba. of Montreal will be on today’s show (airing 10:30 ET/PT), but it won’t be their first Yo Gabba Gabba moment — the band turned in a song about dental hygiene a season back. It will be the first time the [...] [full post]

The Tallest Man On Earth — King Of Spain   

The Tallest Man On Earth — Troubles Will Be Gone

Neon Indian — Sleep Paralysist

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Remember that line in As Good As It Gets when Nicholson’s character used one of the greatest panty-dropper lines of all time, “You make me want to be better man.” The Big Echo makes me want to become a better reviewer of music. The Morning Benders shine a bright light on my shortcomings as I [...] [full post]

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The University of Texas has acquired the papers of author David Foster Wallace. The San Antonio Current profiles the Coathangers. Despite their back-alley beginnings, the group, in just three-and-a-half years’ time, has three 7-inch records, two full-length albums, and an... [full post]

Warpaint — Elephants   

the morning benders — Promises   

Slow Club — It Doesn't Have To Be Beautiful   

Freelance Whales — Generator ^2nd Floor

Diamond Rings — All Yr Songs   

Ume — The Conductor   

Danielson — ANIMAL IN EVERY CORNER   

Electric President — Safe And Sound   

Electric President — Safe And Sound   

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Big Echo is a well titled LP. For a band so clearly indebted to the sounds of the echo chamber of a particular branch of rock and roll, it is honest and forthright nomenclature. The Morning Benders, only now two albums into their career, have crafted a subtly charming album that at once fully involves [...] [full post]

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My turntable has been out of commission ever since I broke a very important wire with a very poorly placed footstep. As such, it was impossible for me to enjoy Pill Wonder’s LP Jungle/Surf that they were kind enough to mail me a few weeks ago. It sat on a stack near my desk until [...] [full post]

Braid — Grand Theft Autumn   

The Rest — Apples & Allergies   

Braid — Movie Clock Star   

Braid — I'm Afraid Of Everything   

Braid — Hugs From Boys   

Grand Atlantic — She's A Dreamer   

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Here's the new free single from TX's own Neon Indian, courtesy of Green Label Sound. Co-produced by Palomo + Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear: mp3: Neon Indian :: Sleep Paralysist [via greenlabelsound.com] ******

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