Sunday, December 31, 2006

"All This Love" The Similou

What's happening to me? When did I start digging twinky scandinavian electro-pop? If my sixteen-year-old-self could see me now he would puke all over his Bad Religion t-shirt. Forgive me.

"All This Love" The Similou (BUY)

Friday, December 22, 2006

2006 Top Ten

It's been a good year. And now that I'm a music blogger, it's my god-given right, nay duty, to summarize it (musically speaking) in a good ol' top-ten list. Here goes...

2006 Best Albums

1. Hot Chip - The Warning
2. TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
3. The Knife - Silent Shout
4. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
5. Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
6. Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
7. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
8. Ladyhawk - Ladyhawk*
9. Grandaddy - Just Like The Fambly Cat
10. Danielson - Ships

*Just a week into the new year, I really have to add Grizzly Bear's Yellow Houses to this list. Probably at the expense of Ladyhawk. Sorry guys.

And just cause I can't resist, here are my favourite songs of the year.

1. Never Be Alone - Justice vs Simian
2. Over and Over - Hot Chip
3. We Share Our Mothers Health - The Knife
4. Playhouses - TV on the Radio
5. In The Morning - Junior Boys
6. The Greatest - Cat Power
7. Beng Beng - Gyptian
8. Waters of Nazareth - Justice
9. Lowlife - Scanners
10. All Fires - Swan Lake
11. Launch Yourself - Adem
12. Chillout Tent - The Hold Steady
13. Ross Ross Ross - Sebastian
14. My Love - Justin Timberlake
15. Funeral - Band of Horses
16. LDN - Lily Allen
17. Ghetto Story - Cham
18. Notorious - Turbulence
19. The Dugout - Ladyhawk
20. The Devil - The Rapture

Thursday, December 21, 2006

"Big Money" Lexicon


I gotta up my boys Lexicon from LA. First of all, they're brothers. Second of all, they've been plugging away at this shit for like ten years. Third of all, their new ep, Rapstars, kills. It's the same sharp, funny rhymes we've come to expect, but they're riding over classic-rock, punk and even disco inspired beats. Good one.

"Big Money" Lexicon

Sunday, December 17, 2006

"Over and Over" Hot Chip (video)

I've been hyping Hot Chip since I started this thing but I hadn't seen this video until today. It's pretty much the best music video ever. My eyes were laughing and cumming at the same time.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

The Pixies on SNUB tv (1988)

YouTube sure is fun for music fans. Search Guided By Voices or Pavement or N.W.A. and see how many videos come back. Or The Pixies. Well, I've saved you the trouble of sifting through the hundreds of mediocre cel phone recordings of their 2003 show in Des Moines by posting this little jem. It's an appearance on a late-night BBC show called SNUB TV, circa 1988. They play Dead and I Bleed in promotion of their forth-coming album, Doolittle. And there's some funny interview footage with Kim trying to explain the name of the band.

Monday, December 04, 2006

TV On The Radio on AOL Music






AOL is the best. They're repping indie-rock till they fuckin die. They just have to unplug the guitars so the soccer-moms can get the kids to the game in one peice. For real though, this is a very nice recording from AOL Music's "alternative" platform, The Interface. Brooklyn's finest play three acoustic (almost psychedelic...) pieces and then have an entertaining chat with a star-struck host.

TV On The Radio on The Interface