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30
Aug

[Listen] – #MusicMonday – 20 Songs Of The Week – August 30th

If you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too.  Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted by the thousands of people making recommendations each week.

Every #MusicMonday I upload a playlist of 20 songs that I’ve been listening to (new and old) over the past week and hopefully you’ll enjoy some of them.  Want me to check someone out? Let me know at that Contact Us thinger up there.

In order to listen to the playlist you’ll need to have Flash enabled.

This week’s #MusicMonday playlist:

“Hey Joe – Jimi Hendrix”
“I’m Not Driving Any More – Rob Dougan”
“Woman – John Lennon & Yoko Ono”
“NYC – Interpol”
“Top Expert – Cat Power”
“Nowhere Again – Secret Machines”
“Standing In The Way Of Connection (The Gossip Vs. Elastica) – A Plus D”
“Whiskey and Fish – Joe Purdy”
“Pimp Millennium – Trouble Andrew”
“Eat Your Heart Up – The Blow”
“Jetstream – Doves”
“What New York Used To Be – The Kills”
“Fuck You! – Cee-Lo”
“Change Of Time – Josh Ritter”
“Wide Eyes – Local Natives”
“Know Better Learn Faster – Thao With The Get Down Stay Down”
“Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? – She & Him”
“Oh Mandy – The Spinto Band”
“One (Blake’s Got a New Face) – Vampire Weekend”
“It’s Always Been You – Thomas Dybdahl”

12
Jul

[Listen] – #MusicMonday – 20 Songs Of The Week – July 12th

If you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too.  Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted by the thousands of people making recommendations each week.

Every #MusicMonday I upload a playlist of 20 songs that I’ve been listening to (new and old) over the past week and hopefully you’ll enjoy some of them.  Want me to check someone out? Let me know at that Contact Us thinger up there.

In order to listen to the playlist you’ll need to have Flash enabled.

This week’s #MusicMonday playlist:

  1. “When I’m With You – Best Coast”
  2. “Leave Me Be – Spectrals”
  3. “Light My Fire – The Doors”
  4. “Empassant – Black Lips”
  5. “Cet Air-La – April March”
  6. “That’s Entertainment – The Jam”
  7. “The Humans Are Dead – Flight of the Conchords”
  8. “Colours – Editors”
  9. “Multiplication – Bobby Darin”
  10. “Perfection As A Hipster – God Help The Girl”
  11. “White Sky – Vampire Weekend”
  12. “To the Ghosts Who Write History Books – The Low Anthem”
  13. “Lazy Day – Beach Fossils”
  14. “Trouble – Spoon”
  15. “Babelonia – School of Seven Bells”
  16. “The Maginificent Seven – The Clash”
  17. “Come Out and Play (Keep ‘Em Separated) – The Offspring”
  18. “Song of Our So-Called Friend – Okkervil River”
  19. “Real Wild Child – Iggy Pop”
  20. “Space – M.I.A.”

28
May

[Listen/Watch] – Brand New Song By Vampire Weekend – “Jonathan Low” & Watch The Video For “Holiday”

Frankly I’m shocked and appalled that it’s taken three movies for Vampire Weekend to appear on the soundtrack for what’s arguably the greatest and most important movie franchise in human history (Twilight).  I mean they have the word “Vampire” in their name for fridge-magnet’s sake.

Anyway, the song below, “Jonathan Low”, is on the upcoming soundtrack for the new Twilight movie, although there’s no word yet on whether it’ll be in the movie itself….I think it will be though, at that point where there’s a vampire, or another person, and they’re doing something, and you can see it, and then the song comes on and they’re doing something else but you can’t hear them speak and it’s in slow motion, and then they eat a human and a ginger vampire jumps out of a tree………or something like that.

Also, they made a new video for their song “Holiday” that features the band caught on candid camera on a day off as they go chill for a day, so check it out and see what they’re like when they think nobody’s watching them.

“Holiday” is taken from their hugely successful and critically acclaimed second album “Contra”. Download their whole debut “Vampire Weekend” album for free by signing up for eMusic (also free).

8
Mar

[Discover] – Mumford & Sons – [Indie-Folk]

Mumford & Sons have been a round for a couple of years now, playing gigs in and around London along with buddies of the same scene like Johnny Flynn and Noah And The Whale, but they’ve only just (October 2009) released their debut album “Sigh No More”.  Polarising critics (some saying their music is awful, some (most) saying it’s excellent) they’ve made an album that’s passionate and catchy, melodious and stomping, but most of all enjoyable.

I think I’m on an Indie-Folk kick lately as most of the bands I’m featuring seem to be in that kind of genre, but what the hell, the music’s awesome and that’s all that matters.

Below you can hear “White Blank Page” that they did for WOXY, “After The Storm“, single “The Cave”, as well as a top notch cover of “Cousins” by Vampire Weekend.  Also are performances of “Timshel”, beautifully shot for Le-Hiboo and their official video for “Winter Winds”.

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