Disclaimer: You May Find a Broken Link
So, there USED to be freenapster.com, and it USED to provide access to almost any artist's music. It was pretty awesome, and I linked ~90% of this blog's recommendations to that site. Now, apparently, Free Napster is no more. Booooooo.
It will be a long, on-going task of mine to redirect the links to somewhere you can hear the music, but in the meantime, if you click on a link that brings you to Napster where it asks you to sign in:
1) Be angry at them, for disrupting your chance to enjoy a good song
2) Google the song and still check it out, because it's awesome
If you have another source I should be using, please don't hesitate to send it my way. Email me for that, and any music recommendations, at tracy@groundwm.com. Thanks!
and I SO wish I could go :(
I will certainly be at
Lollapalooza and
Pitchfork again this year, but I really hope I can find a way to make it to
Coachella or
CMJ or
SXSW or
Bonnaroo too. Either way, I posted the Coachella line-up below for your reference, and I also called out which bands made me immediately excited. The bands are listed in relative order of excitement. :)
MuseLCD SoundsystemPassion PitSPOONFlorence and the MachineOwen PallettHot ChipYeasayerKing Kahn
PhoenixShe & HimWhite RabbitsGirlsPavement
Them Crooked Vultures
Avett BrothersMGMTGossipBeach House
GorillazTemper Trap
The xx
Matt & KimDirty ProjectorsVampire WeekendHockeyGrizzly BearTokyo Police ClubSia
So, the very fine blog
Consequence of Sound posted a pretty thorough list of album releases for Q1 2010. I highlighted what I'm most excited for below, and you can check out the full list
HERE.
1/12/10Ringo Starr - Y Not [Hip-O Records]Vampire Weekend -
Contra [XL]
12/19/10Editors -
In This Light And On This Evening [Fader]
Eels -
End Times [Vagrant]
Fredrik -
Trilogi [Kora Records]
Spoon - Transference [Merge]
1/26/10Animal Collective -
Campfire Songs [Reissue] [Paw Tracks] Beach House -
Teen Dream [Sub Pop]
David Bowie -
A Reality Tour [ISO]
Four Tet - There Is Love In You [Domino Records]Los Campesinos! -
Romance Is Boring [Arts&Crafts]
2/9/10AM -
Future Sons & Daughters [Filter Recordings]
David Bowie -
David Bowie: Deluxe Edition [Decca/Universal]
Galactic -
Ya-Ka-May [Anti-]
Hot Chip - One Life Stand [Astralwerks]
Yeasayer - Odd Blood [Secretly Canadian]
2/23/10April Smith & The Great Picture Show - Songs For a Sinking Ship
David Byrne & Fatboy Slim -
Here Lives Love [Nonesuch Records]
Xiu Xiu -
Dear God, I Hate Myself [Kill Rock Stars]
3/2/10Rogue Wave -
Permalight [Bushfire]
The Whigs -
In The Dark [ATO Records]
3/9/10Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -
Beat The Devil’s Tattoo [Abstract Dragon]
Frightened Rabbit -
The Winter of Mixed Drinks [FatCat Records]
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach [EMI]Ted Leo & the Pharmacists -
The Brutalist Bricks [Matador Records]
3/16/10The White Stripes - White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights [Third Man]
3/23/10Goldfrapp -
Head First [Mute Records]
She & Him - Volume Two [Merge]
12/6/08: Over and Over, by Hot ChipTracy :)
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