Gameboy Nostalgia

"Zelda Theme" from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
"Battle Theme" from Pokemon Red and Blue
"Music A" from Tetris

Albums Released This Week

Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue - "The Next Messiah"
tastes like: Josh Ritter circa Historical Conquests

Kings of Leon - Only By The Night - "Manhattan"
tastes like: 70s radio rock


TV on the Radio - Dear Science - "Dancing Choose"
tastes like: Death From Above 1979


Thievery Corporation - Radio Retribution - "La Femme Parallel"
tastes like: all their previous work


Cold War Kids - Loyalty to Loyalty - "I've Seen Enough"
tastes like: the intersection of Billy Joel and the Mars Volta

Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling - "Friend of the Night"
tastes like: Explosions in the Sky

Bet You Didn't See This Coming

"Electric Feel (MGMT Cover) by Katy Perry

I want to hear a mashup called "Time to Pretend to Kiss a Girl".


Big post tomorrow - it's a good week for new music.

Never noticed this before.

"Ghostwriter" by RJD2 samples "I Didn't Understand" by Elliott Smith.
At about 2:29 in Ghostwriter, sped up. Cool.

Season's Changing

"Season" by the Dodos

CT Pride

"CT Shit" by Apathy
"It Takes A Seven Nation Army To Hold Us Back (feat. Emilio Lopez)" by Apathy (amazing)

Today: I AM Festival

"See Emily Play" by Martha Wainwright
"Get Busy Pt. 1" by Kidz in the Hall
"DOA" by Jay Reatard

afterparty:
"Spinning Like A Wreck" by the Quiet Life

Cloud Cult

These are awesome. Listen.

Cloud Cult:
"May Your Hearts Stay Strong"
I love the way you touch me, it makes me feel like I have no skeleton

"Story of the Grandson of Jesus"

"When Water Comes To Life"

Now that's a groove right there

"Perverted Undertone" by Prefuse 73

opening for Girl Talk at Skidmore in a week and a half. woot!

Rain, Rain

"Cherry Tree" by the National
loose lips sink ships

"Strangest Land" by Tom McRae

"Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley

Themes

"La Valse d'Amélie" by Yann Tiersen from Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
"Emily's Theme" by Nathan Johnson from Brick
"Theme" by Jon Brion from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Andrew Bird Remixes

"Plasticities - Remix" by Andrew Bird
"Imitosis (Four Tet Remix)" by Andrew Bird

I've Got To See These Guys

"Apartment Story" by the National (live)

(more)

Visualize Your Goal

This one's a two-stepper. First, download and unzip this iTunes visualizer (Mac only):
Magnetosphere
Install it by putting it in your iTunes plug-ins folder, which is under
<username> - Library - iTunes - iTunes Plug-Ins.

Then play either of these tracks, set it to full screen, and be entranced for a good long while. Mmmm.

"Compliments" by Bloc Party
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" by James Bond The Propellerheads

dance to this.

"Blood On Our Hands (Justice Remix)" by Death From Above 1979
"The Power Is On!" by The Go! Team
"Dancing Choose" by TV On The Radio (new!)

Monday Mixtape: Gender Bender

Photoshop is broken so for now you get no album cover.


download zip ‡ box.net folder

featuring covers of:

Kylie Minogue
Bloc Party
Justin Timberlake
Lil Wayne
Gnarls Barkley
James Taylor
The Postal Service
Jackson Browne
The Kooks
Death Cab for Cutie
Radiohead

by:

Coldplay
KT Tunstall
Gabriella Climi
Madison
Nelly Furtado
Ben Gibbard
Dido
Jonna Lee
St. Vincent
Lily Allen
Amanda Palmer
Marissa Nadler



fun!