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Vampire Weekend: The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance (via...

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:32:23 -0400

Vampire Weekend: The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance

bryanmckay: Skeletal Lamping, the latest studio album from of...

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:55:29 -0400

Skeletal Lamping, the latest studio album from of Montreal, is set to drop October 21, but you can grab it now here (but, you know, support the artist when you get the chance). I haven’t listened to the full album yet, but I am willing to hazard that this may be one of the best pop releases of the year, and certainly their best album after Hissing Fauna.

Dolly Parton: Jolene Dolly was on NPR’s All Things...

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:38:00 -0400

Dolly Parton: Jolene

Dolly was on NPR’s All Things Considered yesterday talking about Jolene.

Sinead O’Connor: Mandinka

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:57:56 -0400

Sinead O’Connor: Mandinka

The Magnetic Fields: When You Were My Baby

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:32:10 -0400

The Magnetic Fields: When You Were My Baby

Some of the Vivian Girls favorites: The Mama’s & The...

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:09:33 -0400

Some of the Vivian Girls favorites: The Mama’s & The Papa’s…Nirvana’s ‘Drain You’…and The Breeders…I am so in love with them…

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Vivian Girls on Pitchfork’s Guest List

Sonic Youth: Teen Age Riot My all time favorite Sonic Youth...

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:24:12 -0400

Sonic Youth: Teen Age Riot

My all time favorite Sonic Youth song.

(via 2arrs2ells)

Biz Markie: Just A Friend How can’t you love this...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:38:00 -0400

Biz Markie: Just A Friend

How can’t you love this song?

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Arcade Fire: Brazil (Bossonova Cover)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:14:08 -0400

Arcade Fire: Brazil (Bossonova Cover)

Spoon: Rock Off (Rolling Stones cover)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:08:13 -0400

Spoon: Rock Off (Rolling Stones cover)

This is definitely my favorite Scott Walker record. (via...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:29:02 -0400

This is definitely my favorite Scott Walker record.

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Patsy Cline: I Fall to Pieces My mother would listen to Patsy...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:51:07 -0400

Patsy Cline: I Fall to Pieces

My mother would listen to Patsy Cline and Janis Joplin all the time when I was little and now I can’t help but love both of them too.

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Letters to Cleo: Here & Now This is what they looked like...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:36:00 -0400

Letters to Cleo: Here & Now

This is what they looked like when I saw them play for the first time.

The Langley Schools Music Project: Desperado “The Langley...

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:53:45 -0400

The Langley Schools Music Project: Desperado

“The Langley Schools Music Project is a collection of children’s chorus recordings made from 1976-77 by Canadian music teacher Hans Fenger in a school gymnasium in Langley, British Columbia, near Vancouver. The students performed unique versions of pop hits by the likes of The Beach Boys, David Bowie, and Paul McCartney. The recordings were quickly forgotten until Victoria record collector Brian Linds found the first record in a thrift store and sent it to author, WFMU radio DJ, and “outsider music” enthusiast Irwin Chusid in 2000. After ten label rejections, Irwin managed to get the album released on Bar/None Records, and it immediately created an international buzz, making many end-of-the-year best album lists in 2001. VH-1 coordinated a reunion of Fenger and dozens of his former students in 2002, and produced a documentary about the project.” (via wiki)

This whole album is brilliant and this one song in particular just stands out…it is so haunting and it reminds of the scene from the movie, In America, when the daughter sings this song to her father.