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classic

I love any album that gets better every time you listen to it, and this is that kind of album.  There's so much range and variety from this Milwaukee based band, it's hard to pick a genre.  This is what music should be.  I'm pretty sure this is going to break my top 20 for the year.







The Fatty Acids - Stop Berries, Berries, and Berries - 2010



TAKIN OFF ALL YOUR CLOTHES AND MAKIN SURE NOTHIN SHOWS

I found this on Sordo last week and it said 'RIYL Strange Boys'. 

I <3 The Strange Boys so I couldn't resist grabbing it. 

Great decision. 

My Pet Saddle - Laughing At Me - 2010

SANDY SAYS THAT TIME IS RUNNING OUT

Please check out one of the most underrated bands of the last 5 years.  'The Glowing City' was my #1 album from 2008 and Austin's 'Blonde' Bill Baird is back in top-form for this year's release 'Loveshines But the Moon is Shining Too'.   Snag it below before they kill my link.

{{{SUNSET}}}

Loveshines But the Moon is Shining Too - 2010

Gold Dissolves to Gray - 2009

The Glowing City - 2008

Bright Blue Dream - 2008

Pink Clouds - 2007

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LOCK YOUR DOORS... THEY'RE COMING!!!

Blackpool, England.   Girl Talk meets Fake Blood meets the 80's.  More editing than a Special-Ed essay.  Super sick album.

VHS Head - Trademark Ribbons of Gold - 2010



I WANT YOU TO SEE BIRDS



This ep by Balam Acab is seriously chill.  The band includes 19-year-old Alec Koone and nobody else.  This paragraph from mishkanyc.com pays one of the better compliments that can be given currently... "Koone’s usage of the internet as his sound palette and the slowness with which his compositions meander presumptuously groups his music alongside witch house/drag. But while I’m sure Salem and Balam Acab have equal appreciation for one another’s work, See Birds is complex in its textures, setting itself apart and, conceptually speaking, having more in common with Panda Bear and Four Tet than witch house."  Get this shit NOW....

Balam Acab - See Birds EP- 2010

TRUMAN PEYOTE/MANY MANSIONS

Truman Peyote live: photo courtesy LastFM

Truman Peyote is a 2-man outfit (with help from others) from Jamaica Plain, Mass and has the coolest band name ever.  According to member Caleb Johannes, they don't make strictly dance or electronic music, instead "we use electronics that have the ability to make dance music, but we use these tools to sequence and create a much different sound."   Crazy trippy intros lead way to wonderfully melodic rhythmic chants in 'Kartwheels,' one of the better songs on the album.  WeeklyDig refers to their sound as "a Martian tribe emulating pygmy music, or ghostly reverberations from a dancefloor in the future."  Either way, get your digital hands on this digital copy and try it out. 

BUY it
Truman Peyote/Many Mansion - Peaced Together - 2010

NEON CANYON

Apparently this is what people refer to as 'shoegaze'...  I don't have a clue but it's good.

You can follow them if you want.





Buy it for $4 here
Neon Canyon - Bricoleur - 2010

Neon Canyon - Mononoke Free Download

I BELIEVE IN THE REAL WORLD. IT CONTAINS ME.

This American flag has too many stripes

Electric Sunset is Nic Zwart.  He's based in San Francisco.  Evidence suggests he is a chill ass bro.



Band website here
MySpace here


Electric Sunset - (S/T) - 2010

WHAT IF WE WERE CREATED TO GAZE AT THE STARS UP ABOVE?

ladies love JTG

I feel like this is similar to what Queen would make if they had evolved and continued putting out records.  Jukebox the Ghost has been around for a while now, and I really liked their last album.  This album officially dropped yesterday.  Lots of great agnostic lyrics in here too!


Jukebox the Ghost -  Everything Under the Sun - 2010

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD IT... WHITE MAGIC!

This isn't 'brand spankin new' but I don't think enough people have heard this yet.   CEO is the Swedish Eric Berglund, one of two members from The Tough Alliance (TTA).  White Magic is his official debut, but it doesn't take long to realize he's been here for a while.  Already on the short-list for 'best of 2010'.

 CEO - White Magic - 2010

I AWOKE JUST NOW. I DON'T KNOW FROM WHAT.

Hugging - (S/T) - 2010

I don't remember where I got this originally, but I found a link that was posted by the artist himself.

This is some pretty unclassifiable stuff with lots of great old sounds and clips.

I'VE NEVER WRITTEN A LOVE SONG...

                                                                       Photo Courtesy: laist.com 

This is an album I've been listening to for several months and it never ceases to amaze me how young these guys are.  Avi (pictured right) is barely out of high school, but already touring with giants like Modest Mouse and Wilco.  Hurry while you can still say you heard them first!

Avi Buffalo - (S/T) - 2010

I CAN'T GET OFF OF MY CLOUD...

"The future's a blind man who never stops crying.  He bleeds with his eyes, and never dies."

photo courtesy http://5acts.blogspot.com/

Get with the program and start enjoying THE WHITSUNDAYS.  Just enough pep to avoid cutting your wrists.


The Whitsundays - Saul - 2010

The Whitsundays - (S/T) - 2008