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Now that I've spent some time with the
new Ghostface and Wu-Tang LPs, I feel fairly comfortable
breaking out this list of my favorite releases of the year. I'm leaving off some really good records by stopping at 17, but with my obnoxiously long " ...
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Here's a new Animal Collective song, performed live
on Saturday at the Pitchfork Music Festival . Not
my favorite new jam of theirs -- that would be " Brother Sport " -- but " Lion in a Coma " will likely appear on the band's next LP (which, according ...
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Animal Collective stopped by BBC Radio 1 's
Rob Da Bank show earlier this morning, and in
addition to " Doggy " and " Hey Light ," they played a couple of brand new, unheard songs, which we have for you here (courtesy of Collected Animals ). The ...
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Thom Yorke stopped by for an interview with
BBC Radio 2 's Jonathon Ross yesterday, and turned
in a rare and exceedingly beautiful live acoustic performance of In Rainbows ' "Reckoner" and Kid A classic "Everything In Its Right Place." Here are ...
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So Scarlett Johannson has that Tom Waits covers
record coming out next month, and a few of
the tracks have made their way onto the internet. The album is produced by David Sitek and features a couple songs with David Bowie and members of Yeah Yeah ...
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Okay before anyone says anything, OF COURSE this
is a total La Blogtheque ripoff. I mean, they
even utilize Blogotheque's secret weapon: cute little kids . But, it's a new Love is All song from their upcoming record, and I love those guys, so I'm ...
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I'm not sure how I missed this, but
RATATAT released a new, vinyl-only 7" single last week
to very little fanfare, and it's pretty great. I've been wearing out cinematic A-side jam " Shiller ," which will appear on the band's forthcoming 3rd ...
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Man I love Love is All . The
Swedes recently completed a 5-song covers EP , featuring
their versions of songs by Flock of Seagulls, Dire Straits, and a few more . The band just upped one track from the EP, a super lo-fi and totally rad cover of ...
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" I liked the idea of making a
video of human beings and real life and time
without using any cameras, just lasers, so there are just mathematical points -- and how strangely emotional it ended up being ." --Thom Yorke That camera-free Radiohead ...
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watermelon hoodie by M.I.A. Apparently M.I.A. was dead
serious about that whole " quitting music to concentrate
on fashion and art " thing. Head over to her website to check a looped film of some sort that Maya made called " Real Pirates of the ...
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Top Ranking , a new 75-minute mix from
Diplo + Santogold , is out now , and
features tons of unreleased Santi/Diplo jams, as well as stuff from Ratatat, Cudi, Three 6 Mafia, xxxchange, Benga , and more. If this tracklist is accurate (it's ...
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santogold + diplo @ sxsw 2008 ( photo
) More from that Santogold + Diplo mixtape that
just dropped : Santi offers up her dubby top rankin' rendition of the Clash 's classic " Guns of Brixton ." Listen at Mad Decent space , then order Top Ranking: ...
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I always thought No Age 's dreamy ambient
jam " Keechie " would work great as the
score to one of those obligatory slow-motion montage scenes in indie films where nothing really happens, as a way to sort of create some instant poignancy. This clip -- ...
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Here's a new short film for the first
song I heard from Girls back in March .
Beautifully shot in the band's hometown of San Francisco , and directed by Heidi Petty and playplayplay (watch the hi-res version here ):
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Thanks to the commenter who alerted me to
Bradford Cox 's updates on the Deerhunter blog ,
including a new digital 7" that features a pretty, but perversely dark, little pop ditty called " Holiday ." The real news, though, is Bradford's response to ...
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white denim After releasing their stellar Workout Holiday
LP in the UK to unequivocally glowing reviews ,
then proceeding to tear up clubs all over Europe, TX's White Denim is finally set to release their self-produced Exposion LP here in ...
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Remember that St. Vincent post from yesterday? Well
here's another one...Annie covers " Dig a Pony "
in the back of a cab. So awesome: (via forkcast )
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Here's footage of Grizzly Bear performing " Knife
" at our unrelated-to-ACL Hot Freaks! after-party at Club
Deville . As you'll see in the video, the rocky backdrop of Deville's gorgeous outdoor stage couldn't have been any more perfect for the band's ...
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