Best of the Month - October 2011 Contenders Mix

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(1) Ting Tings - "Hang It Up"
(2) Small Black - "Two Rivers" (f/ Heems)
(3) Coldplay - "Mylo Xyloto"
(4) Coldplay - "Hurts Like Heaven"
(5) Kooks - "Carried Away"
(6) Penguin Prison - "Don't Fuck With My Money"
(7) Patrick Stump - "Coast (It's Gonna Get Better)"
(8) The Joy Formidable - "Cradle"
(9) fun. - "We Are Young" (f/ Janelle Monae)
(10) Team Me - "Me And the Mountain"
(11) The Horrible Crowes - "Crush"
(12) Veronica Maggio - "Satan I Gatan"
(13) Class Actress - "Weekend"
(14) Grimes - "Oblivion"
(15) Phantogram - "Don't Move"
(16) Team Me - "Dear Sister"
(17) Veronica Maggio - "Finns Det En Sa Finns Det Flera"
(18) The Roots - "Make My"
(19) The Horrible Crowes - "Behold the Hurricane"
(20) Nada Surf - "When I Was Young"
(21) Los Campesinos! - "Hello Sadness"
(22) Ducktails - "Killin' the Vibe" (f/ Panda Bear)

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Best of the Month - September 2011 Contenders Mix

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(1) Florence and the Machine - "Shake It Off"
(2) Los Campesinos! - "By Your Hand"
(3) Summer Camp - "Better Off Without You"
(4) TV Girl - "Girls Like Me"
(5) Girls - "Love Life"
(6) The Drums - "Days"
(7) Emmy the Great - "Paper Forest (In the Afterglow of Rapture)"
(8) YACHT - "Shangri-La"
(9) Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - "The Good Rebel"
(10) Surfer Blood - "Miranda"
(11) The Knocks - "Dancing with the DJ"
(12) Neon Indian - "Polish Girl"
(13) Kathryn Calder - "Who Are You?"
(14) Girls - "Honey Bunny"
(15) Wilco - "Art of Almost"
(16) Lana Del Rey - "Video Games"
(17) Young Jeezy - "F.A.M.E." (f/ T.I.)
(18) Patton Oswalt - "The Ham Incident"

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Best of the Month - August 2011 Contenders Mix

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(1)  Dominant Legs - "Hoop of Love"
(2)  Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - "Yellow Missing Signs"
(3)  Portugal. The Man - "So American"
(4)  We Became Actors - "I Feel Like This Summer Is Gonna Be One Long Hold Steady Song"
(5)  The Decemberists - "When You Love Somebody"
(6)  Fountains of Wayne - "A Dip in the Ocean"
(7)  Mayer Hawthorne - "A Long Time"
(8)  SBTRKT - "Wildfire"
(9)  Southern Shores - "Grande Comore"
(10)  Air France - "It Feels Good to Be Around You"
(11)  Ryan Adams - "Lucky Now"
(12)  Portugal. The Man - "Got It All (This Can't Be Living Now)"
(13)  Fountains of Wayne - "Someone's Gonna Break Your Heart"
(14)  Fruit Bats - "You're Too Weird"
(15)  Jens Lekman - "An Argument With Myself"
(16)  Mates of State - "Palomino"
(17)  CSS - "City Girrl"
(18)  Das Racist - "Michael Jackson"
(19)  Jay-Z and Kanye West - "One Day"
(20)  Little Dragon - "Ritual Union"
(21)  Purity Ring - "Belispeak"
(22)  Mattieu Santos - "I Can Hear the Trains Coming"
(23)  The Bear Coat - "Steady Til Stuck"
(24)  Florence and the Machine - "What the Water Gave Me"

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Or, listen to 2/3 of this playlist via Spotify.

Album art courtesy of Laura Kleffman Photography.

Best of the Month - July 2011 Contenders Mix

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(1)  Craig Finn - "One Single Saviour"
(2)  Patrick Wolf - "The City"
(3)  Beyonce - "Schoolin' Life"
(4)  Dom - "Damn"
(5)  Slow Club - "Two Cousins"
(6)  Letting Up Despite Great Faults - "Teenage Tide"
(7)  Chris Devotion & The Expectations - "A Modest Refusal"
(8)  Mates of State - "Maracas"
(9)  Ellie Goulding - "Lights"
(10)  Penguin Prison - "Fair Warning" (Oliver Remix)
(11)  M83 - "Midnight City"
(12)  Patrick Wolf - "House"
(13)  Washed Out - "Amor Fati"
(14)  Real Estate - "It's Real"
(15)  Nappy Roots - "Congratulations"

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Best of the Month - June 2011 Contenders Mix

 

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(1)  Purity Ring - "Ungirthed"
(2)  Handsome Furs - "Repatriated"
(3)  CSS - "Hits Me Like a Rock"
(4)  Givers - "Up Up Up"
(5)  Clap Your Hand Say Yeah - "Same Mistake"
(6)  Herman Dune - "Tell Me Something I Don't Know"
(7)  The Bear Coat - "Adding Mass"
(8)  Coldplay - "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall"
(9)  Ford & Lopatin - "Emergency Room"
(10)  Hooray for Earth - "No Love"
(11)  Kanye West - "Mama's Boyfriend"
(12)  Battles - "Ice Cream"
(13)  Wilco - "I Might"
(14)  Givers - "Meantime"
(15)  Sun Airway - "Wild Palms"
(16)  Purity Ring - "Lofticries"
(17)  Halloween Alaska - "Dance By Accident"
(18)  Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - "Codeine"

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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - "Same Mistake"

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - "Same Mistake"

Handsome Furs - "Repatriated"

Handsome Furs - "Repatriated"

Herman Dune - "Tell Me Something I Don't Know"

With an early front-runner for video of the year, featuring Jon Hamm.

Herman Dune "Tell Me Something I Don't Know" from Jon Hamm

Herman Dune - "Tell Me Something I Don't Know"

Purity Ring - "Ungirthed"

... ears ringing teeth clicking ears ringing teeth clicking ears ringing teeth clicking ...

Purity Ring - "Ungirthed"

Best of the Month - May 2011 Contenders Mix

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(1)  Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - "An Ugly Person on a Movie Screen"
(2)  Yuck - "Get Away"
(3)  Bon Iver - "Calgary"
(4)  Antlers - "I Don't Want Love"
(5)  Arcade Fire - "Speaking in Tongues"
(6)  Foster the People - "Waste"
(7)  The Very Best - "Super Mom"
(8)  Submarines - "Shoelaces"
(9)  Jim Jones - "Believe in Magic" (Produced by Girl Talk)
(10)  When Saints Go Machine - "Kelly"
(11)  Yuck - "Milkshake"
(12)  Junior Boys - "Banana Ripple"
(13)  Death Cab for Cutie - "St. Peter's Cathedral"
(14)  Bon Iver - "Minnesota WI"
(15)  Joseph Arthur - "Out on a Limb"
(16)  MouseRat - "5,000 Candles in the Wind"

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Bon Iver - "Calgary"

Bon Iver - "Calgary"

Submarines - "Shoelaces"

Submarines - "Shoelaces"

Jim Jones - "Believe in Magic" (produced by Girl Talk)

Jim Jones - "Believe in Magic" (produced by Girl Talk)

Yuck - "Milkshake"

Milkshake by Yuck

Yuck - "Milkshake"



Missed these guys opening for Smtih Westerns AND Tame Impala, but I might have to hit their first SF headlining show at The Independent July 26.

Antlers - "I Don't Want Love"

Weird that Pitchfork likes this, because, honestly, it sounds like a stripped-down U2 song.  Which is a compliment coming from me, but I don't think most in the blogosphere feel the same way.

Antlers - "I Don't Want Love"

Foster the People - "Waste"

Foster the People - "Waste"

Junior Boys - "Banana Ripple"

Junior Boys - Banana Ripple by DominoRecordCo


Junior Boys - "Banana Ripple"

The Very Best - "Super Mom"

We are less than two weeks away from a new mixtape from The Very Best!  Head over to their website and sign up to get the Super Mom mixtape in your inbox for free on Mother's Day, May 8.

The title track is streaming on Pitchfork, so head over there to hear it.  It is absolutely as joyous as we've come to expect from The Very Best.

The Very Best - "Super Mom"

Bright Eyes - "Haile Selassie"

And ... that's it.  This is the last one.  These are all the songs you need to hear today.  Thanks for putting up with my incessant posting, those who follow me on Google Reader.

In conclusion ... wow, Haile Selassie was a fascinating guy.

Bright Eyes - "Haile Selassie"

My Morning Jacket - "Circuital"

Almost done ...

My Morning Jacket - "Circuital"