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!
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]
Ra Ra Riot + Vampire Weekend = side project awesomeness
Discovery
click the pic to listen
props to KC
Once upon a time, a little boy named Esau Mwamwaya was born in Malawi, East Africa.
He learned to play the drums and even played in several bands while in Africa.
He later moved to London and ran a second-hand furniture store.
Recently, he paired up with Radioclit and together they created the album, The Very Best.
I can't say I'm fanatic about it, BUT I do love what they've done and wanted to post their version of Vampire Weekend's Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa for you.
Alas, I can only link to the web page with the song on it.
Check it out!
My Album Ratings
When I started this blog in November I made a goal to listen to albums. I think I've been too into my iPod lately and needed to get back to hearing albums and bands the way they are intended to be heard - in a full-length, non-shuffle format. I made up a rating system to keep track of them, with ##### being the best. I've decided to share my list to-date for a few reasons: - Hopefully you'll find good music
- Hopefully you'll give me new good music
- Hopefully since I'm sharing such intimacies with you, our bond will grow stronger
First sorted by rating, then chronologically because if you're an analytical freak like me you might enjoy seeing my sequence of discovery.
Enjoy!
Tracy :)
By Rating
#.5
Sigur Rós - Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust
##
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
##.5
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
###.5
She & Him - Volume One
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
####
Dr. Dog - Fate I'm From Barcelona - Who Killed Harry Houdini?
####.5
Battles - Race In Foals - Antidots
Greg Wood - Vibrating Glass Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Tapes 'N Tapes - Walk it Off
#####The Blow - Paper Television Calvin Harris - I Created Disco
Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini
The Faint - Fasciinatiion
The Faint - Wet From Birth Langhorne Slim - Langhorne Slim
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Moving Units - Dangerous Dreams
Mugison - Mugiboogie
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Total List Chronologically
- Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago ##.5
- Dr. Dog - Fate ####
- The Faint - Fasciinatiion #####
- The Faint - Wet From Birth #####
- Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes ##
- Girl Talk - Feed the Animals ##.5
- Greg Wood - Vibrating Glass ####.5
- I'm From Barcelona - Who Killed Harry Houdini? ####
- MGMT, Oracular Spectacular #####
- Moving Units - Dangerous Dreams #####
- Sigur Rós - Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust #.5
- She & Him - Volume One ###.5
- Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend ###.5
- Calvin Harris - I Created Disco #####
- Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins ####.5
- The Blow - Paper Television #####
- Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga ####.5
- Langhorne Slim - Langhorne Slim #####
- Battles - Race In ####.5
- Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini #####
- Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping #####
- The Hold Steady - Stay Positive ##
- Foals - Antidots ####.5
- Tapes 'N Tapes - Walk it Off ####.5
- Mugison - Mugiboogie ######
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