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Very Close to, if not actually in, the CD player:

Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana

seen/heard  °  listen °  buy

Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo - Echos Hypnotiques

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Whatever Brains - Trim-Jeans and/or Gross Urge Plus Ten CD-R

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Gene Watson - A Taste of the Truth

seen/heard   °  stream album °  buy

Franco & le TPOK Jazz - Francophonic Volume 2

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Amerie - In Love & War

seen/heard   °  stream album °  buy

Nirvana - Live at Reading

seen/heard   °  stream album °  buy

Shakira - She Wolf

seen/heard   °  listen   ° preorder

Magneta Lane - Gambling with God

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Various Artists - Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

The xx - xx

seen/heard   °  listen °  preorder

Future of the Left - Travels With Myself And Another

seen/heard   °  listen°  buy

Rokia Traoré - Tchamantché

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Emmy the Great - First Love

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Shiina Ringo - Superficial Gossip

seen/heard  °  listen °  buy

Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana

seen/heard  °  listen °  buy








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MP3s that appear on this page are available for a limited amount of time; they are posted for illustrative or promotional purposes.  Everyone is encouraged to support the artists and buy their work.  If you are an artist or artist's representative and object to having the music posted, please contact me at the above e-mail address.

PR Reps/Labels/Bands:  At this time, I am not accepting any free product.  If I like an album, I'll buy it.  (Who would I be to recommend a CD I haven't bought myself?)  Links to album streams, MP3s, or myspace pages can be sent to the e-mail address above - though frankly I pay little attention to press releases and their ilk. Sorry.

 

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Wherever You Go, There You Suck

08/28/2009 2:50 P GMT-05
Promo vids for Third World plundering from Taken by Trees and Firewater

TTFN PT ONE (NIN @ T5 08.25.09)

08/26/2009 1:06 P GMT-05
Nine Inch Nails, Terminal 5, 8-25-09

Cause It Is What It Is, Is It Not? (Vulture Whale, Pianos, 8-22-09/Inglourious Basterds)

08/25/2009 12:10 P GMT-05
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I Want to Watch It Come Down

08/25/2009 8:39 A GMT-05
This is still one of the best videos ever made.Though this version holds a soft squishy place in my heart:

Yeah, But You Should See the Line Outside of Pianos for Vulture Whale

08/22/2009 11:36 A GMT-05
"I am posting from the line. Its been fun so far and thankfully no one has died yet. Thanks for the positive comments everyone :) the line experience is not for everyone but we are all here because we love it... "Ticket-holders started gath

Don't Stop

08/21/2009 1:54 P GMT-05
This mix - well, it makes no sense. It's not of any time or place or sort. Don't even know where I got some of it from. It's less Pan-African than spotty. Iftin's Somali funk doesn't belong at all except that it's a scorcher...

When the Sky Drops All Those Feathers, Take Two (School of Seven Bells @ South Street Seaport/Alela Diane & Sharon Van Etten @ Union Hall, 8-14-09)

08/20/2009 2:48 A GMT-05
Concert Review: School of Seven Bells @ South Street Seaport/Alela Diane & Sharon Van Etten @ Union Hall, 8-14-09; a couple words about Shiina Ringo's perf of "Yume no Ato" at Expo 08

I Dunno, What Do You Wanna Do?

08/15/2009 11:14 A GMT-05
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"A.O.E. Accumulation of Everything." (24 Hours of Samuel Fuller, Part 2)

08/14/2009 7:57 A GMT-05
Hell and High Water (1954) through The Naked Kiss (1964)

It's Going to Revolutionize the Way We Do Business

08/12/2009 1:50 P GMT-05
 I do love this show.  ABC's finally finished burning off old new episodes of Better Off Ted to make room for the eventual new new episodes of Better Off Ted, and those last couple are yours to Hulu.In the episode above, there's a s

Fits Like a House

08/11/2009 12:15 P GMT-05
"Tsugou no Ii Karada" is the third video from Superficial Gossip and not the first time she's been animated (there was the brassy spy vid for the non-album track "Mayonaka wa Junketsu," possibly others).  Flying scales, t

Whatever Happened to Blu Cantrell, Anyway?

08/10/2009 3:04 P GMT-05
 I wish this song was thirty hours long so I could go ahead and get sick of it all at once, instead of having to hit PLAY every three minutes six hundred times over.

Washed Up on Shore

08/06/2009 12:53 P GMT-05
Brad Paisley - Water (mp3)(buy)First let's agree on two things:1.  Country music is by its nature regressive music.  It resists change:  It treasures tradition and authenticity both musically and socially to such an extent that mod

The Eighties Are Over

08/06/2009 12:32 A GMT-05
RIP, John Hughes

You Put Your Whole Self Into That Laugh

08/05/2009 11:46 P GMT-05
R.I.P., Budd Schulberg.

My Calves Are Caked with Mud (All Points West, 8/01/09)[UPDATE]

08/02/2009 4:46 A GMT-05
Near the end of their set, for what seemed like ten minutes, Kevin Shields and My Bloody Valentine made Liberty State Park sound like nothing so much as the inside of a jet engine.  This was annoying, then it was pretty great, then it was enough