January 2010
Screaming Trees /// “All I Know” ///...
Yellow Fever /// “Cats And Rats” ///...
Anonymous asked: what pre-80s music is your favorite?
The Delta Mirror /// “He Was Worse Than The...
Shearwater /// “Hidden Lakes” /// The...
How To Pirate The New York Times When They Start... →
jj /// “My Way” /// (mp3)
From the...
Shoegaze (Unusual Suspects) Vol. II →
Partly because I won’t be around tomorrow—and partly because the first installment was such a popular download—I’m pleased to offer you a mixtape sequel.
As with the first volume, this is a shoegaze compilation designed to get us beyond the canon and, once in a while, toward the outer fringes of the aesthetic. There are plenty of tracks from well-kept secrets (make sure to get...
Jay Reatard Confirmed Dead at 29 →
(via yvynyl)
Holy shit. This guy was too punk for his own good. Sad to think about all the great albums he would have gone on to make, but dude was a prolific juggernaut in the short time he had. RIP.
The Magnetic Fields /// “Seduced And...
Besnard Lakes /// “Albatross” ///...
Bush /// “Glycerine” /// Sixteen...
Indie Bands About Which I Wish I Cared Enough To...
Animal Collective
Vampire Weekend
Grizzly Bear
The Dirty Projectors
Spoon
Phoenix
Camera Obscura
The Arctic Monkeys
headphonesnotrequired:
Ra Ra Riot ///...
Connecting The Dots
I am missing the lobe of brain that NME’s editors and readers have in common. People who enjoy The Horrors’ Primary Colours, help me out: what exactly do you like about this album? Which tracks in particular do it for you? To me it’s just obnoxiously smothering effects on top of nonexistent songcraft, one of the most unlistenable bricks of nonsense I’ve attempted to parse...
Joy Division /// “Atmosphere”
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The Knife /// “The Colouring Of...
“Alternatively, I’ve considered embracing this new paradigm and setting up my own...”
– incidentals and accidentals: If it’s January of an even-numbered year, we must be arguing about Vampire Weekend. (via tristn)
The other beauty of the new era is people don’t even feel obligated to listen to things all the way through once— let alone multiple times, critically.
(via desnoise)
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Eluvium /// “The Motion Makes Me Last”...
Massive Attack /// “Girl I Love You (feat....
Brian Eno /// “Deep Blue Day” ///...
