Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. If you actually read this blog then thank you.

Paste's Top 10 Albums - 2008

So I can't believe that year-end lists are already coming out but here is Paste Magazines Top 10 (the magazine actually has Top 50, but who remembers anything out of the Top 10, right)

10. Deerhunter - Microcastle
9. Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
8. Sun Kil Moon - April
7. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
6. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
5. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
4. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
3. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
2. Sigur Ros - (Something in Icelandic)
1. She & Him - Vol 1

I, personally, have only heard the middle 5 (from 3-7) which are pretty good. I guess we'll just have to wait for Blender's Top 10 to see how they compare.

Kanye Leaks Yet Another Song

Kanye just leaked the third (or fourth or fifth?) song of his 808's and Heartbreaks album, due on November 24th.

It is called Amazing and it follows suite with all the other songs by using more traditional song beats and, of course, an auto-tune.

And it isn't just a stream. You can also download the mp3.

Check it out:
Amazing

Little Joy Video

This is a member of the Strokes? Yes.

Gang Gang Dance - Live in France

Notable Releases - Nov 11, 2008

Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night
The Flaming Lips - Christmas on Mars DVD
Black Lips - Black Lips!
Luomo - Convival
Kid 606 - Die Soundboy Die
Freq Nasty - FabricLive.42
Robert Wyatt - Various Re-releases
Isobell Campbell - Sunday at Devil Dirt
Rick Springfield - Tao
Ray LaMontagne - Gossip in the Grain
Burial - DJ Kicks

The last one is the only one that really interests me. It is a pretty boring week for new releases.

DJ /Rupture Video

So, I gave in and downloaded this album off of Amazon. As most of you know, I really like forward thinking electronic/DJ music and so far this mix is pretty friggin' ridiculously good.

Anyways, this is the video for the first song off of the album. I hope you enjoy it.

5 Power Pop Classics

Big Star - "The Ballad of El Goodo"

The quintessential power pop band.




The Raspberries - "Go All The Way"

The song starts out with a Who-esque guitar onslaught before giving way to some fairly lame crooning, which only lasts for a few seconds before the waves of classic harmonies come in. Dorky goodness.




Teenage Fanclub - "The Concept"

It's kind of crazy that Spin named a power pop album, Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque, the #1 album of 1991, ahead of Nirvana's Nevermind. This song is the leadoff track from that album, a power pop epic.




The Exploding Hearts - "Throwaway Style"

I subscribe to the theory that if The Exploding Hearts had lived to make another album, they would have become the forerunners of a new power pop movement. Dammit.




Chris Bell - "I Am The Cosmos"

Feel free to ignore the lame fan-made video (nice star wipes!).

New Wilco!!

Jeff Tweedy and Wilco showed up on The Colbert Report last week and after Stephen interviewed Jeff, Wilco played a new song: Wilco The Song

I know. That is the most original title for a song ever.

The Very Best Mixtape

Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit (aka The Very Best) will be releasing their first mixtape tomorrow, Nov 1. You can get it here at Wooden Vinyl a day early. Check it out. All the detail are below.



You can dowload here or here. (I had better luck with the second link, and the file is a .zip so just extract the contents for the actual songs)

1) Kamphopo (vocals: Esau Mwamwaya, music: Architecture In Helsinki - Heart It Races)
2) Wena (vocals: Esau Mwamwaya & Bleksem, music: DJ Cleo - Wena)
3) Tengazako (vocals: Esau Mwamwaya, music: M.I.A - Paper Planes)
4) Chikondi (vocals: Esau Mwamwaya, music: Hans Zimmer - True Romance Theme)
5) Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (The Very Best Remix) (vocals: Esau Mwamwaya, music: Radioclit & Vampire Weekend)
6) Hide And Seek (vocals: Esau Mwamwaya & Teki Latex, music: TTC - Batards Sensibles)
7) Salota (vocals: Esau Mwamwaya and Blk Jks, music: Cannibal Ox - Life’s Ill)
8) Boyz (vocals: Esau Mwamwaya, Akon & M.I.A, music: M.I.A -Boyz)
9) Sister Betina (vocals: Esau Mwamwaya & Mgarimbe, music: Mgarimbe - Sister Betina)
10) Birthday (vocals: Esau Mwamwaya & The Ruby Suns, music: The Ruby Suns)
11) Funa Funa (vocals: Esau Mwamwaya, music: Radioclit)
12) Kada Manja (classic version) (vocals: Esau Mwamwaya, music: Radioclit)
13) Dinosaur Of The Lost Ark (The Very Best remix) (vocals: Esau Mwamwaya & Ben Brewer, music: Bermuda)
14) Get it Up (The Very Best Remix) (vocals : Esau Mwamwaya, Santogold, M.I.A & Northern Cree, music: Radioclit)
15) Will You Be There (vocals: Esau Mwamwaya & Michael Jackson, music: Michael Jackson - Will You Be There)

How can you pass up a mixtape that is free and finishes off the set with Michael Jackson?