December 2009
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Tape Of The Year
Washed Out: High Times Runner Ups: Best Coast: Where The Boys Are Yarn Owl: Tiny Dots Pure Ecstasy: Future Nostalgia Washed Outs’ Ernest Greene managed to put out a pretty flawless tape. The music is described of as being a reminder “of a vaguely retro sound makes a pretty hip appeal to nostalgia”. This tape, for me, was the most ‘complete’ physical form...
Dec 30th
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7" Of The Year
Pure Ecstasy Easy b/w Baby Runner ups: 1.)Washed Out Feel It All Around 7” 2.)Girls’ Laura b/w Oh Boy 7” 3.)Toro Y Mois’ Blessa b/w 109 7” I was happy that this came in a few days ago so it would be eligible for my 7” of the year. I would say that the ‘surf rock’ genre came back this year, with bands like Girls, Best Coast, and...
Dec 30th
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Chocolate Bobka posts two Marissa Nadler downloads
Dec 27th
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Dec 25th
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My Favorite Record of 09': Balmorheas' All Is...
Watch these videos, and you’ll see why. They needed some extra publicity, the list below does not do them a fair enough share. Everything about this band is ‘epic’. Confused as to why they are so ‘unblogged’. The videos below were shot prior to their 09’ release, hence why they are untitled. You can also follow them on tumblr. Balmorhea “Untitled...
Dec 24th
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Mountain Man at the Church via
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Free Kurt Vile download (granted, this is kind of old, but I don’t have it): Kurt Vile Live at DNA Fest 4/28/09 Velvet Lounge, Washington DC Posted by the ‘fucking awesome blog’ Chocolate Bob.
Dec 23rd
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Pitchfork Top 10 Albums, In US Sales
1. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion 131k 2. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca 48k 3. the xx xx 35k 4. The Flaming Lips Embryonic 75k (estimate) 5. Raekwon Only Built For Cuban Linx Part II 141k 6. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest 132k 7. Bat For Lashes Two Suns 36k 8. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 205k 9. Fever Ray Fever Ray 23k 10. Girls Album 19k Sales figures are from Soundscan through...
Dec 22nd
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Listen Crocodiles & Dum Dum Girls - Merry...
Dec 22nd
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Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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To all Washed Out fans: Ernest Greene has very recently set up a store through his blog, selling his previously sold out High Times cassette, spring tour t-shirt, 7” single, and the first 50 of his Life of Leisure LP with a limited edition booklet. I just ordered his cassette, good timing-right before the holiday season.
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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New material from The Stooges “Just as it’s been announced that proto-punks the Stooges are to be finally inducted in the Rock’ ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame, frontman Iggy Pop has confirmed that the legendary band are in the process of writing new material.”
Dec 16th
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Chocolate Bobka posts Alex Bleeker (Real Estate) + Molly (Mountain Man) covering Girls’ “Oh, Boy”
Dec 16th
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This is Part 2 of a Ray Concepcion vid I posted a while back. This video is of a performance from Marissa Nadler, she’s just so damn good I had to post part dos. ‘dream-folk’ is an amazing genre, and Marissa melds the two together like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich! (I hate jelly, but for the sake of the argument…) In other news: check out some unreleased...
Dec 13th
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Dec 11th
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Woodsman: Sunglass via MBV
Dec 11th
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Toro Y Moi live on public access television, playing acoustic guitar. This is cool to watch because it is so different than everything else he’s done. via
Dec 11th
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The Velvet Underground Reunion Q & A
Dec 11th
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Pure Groove has a 7” Transparent Records bundle available for $32 this bundle features: Emil & Friends, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Fergus & Geronimo, Smith Westerns, That Ghost and Small Black
Dec 9th
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Spinner posts article on RJD2 and ‘commercializing music’ “Without having seen a pilot or preview material for the show, RJ was unsure about selling his work, even if it was more of a gamble for the company than for him. “There was a lot of wrangling because that’s not the kind of thing I normally do,” he says, noting that he turned the offer down several...
Dec 8th
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Foreign Born: Early Warnings
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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ListenLiars - “Scissor” New Liars. Free download here.
Dec 8th
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Vivian Girls post Chantels cover on their myspace
Dec 3rd
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Dum Dum Girls: Debut release, I Will Be out March 30, 2010 About fucking time. Can’t wait for this. The Dum Dum Girls are a band surrounded in buzz, selling records before even playing a show-but let’s not forget about Mr. Blank Dogs’ Captured Tracks label putting out her s/t EP and his work with Dee Dee on The Mayfair Set. P.S. Keeping an eye out for The Dum Dum Girls...
Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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This is some beautiful stuff. Dreamy guitar lines and some real nice vocals. This video is of Marissa Nadler preforming “Dying Breed”. She’s really pretty, too. via
Dec 1st
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Alex Bleeker and Mountain Man via MME
Dec 1st