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2009 MUSIC: TOP 50 ALBUMS

Dez 5 2009, 2h27 por jchicosantos

#50. Pitty - Chiaroscuro
#49. Mariah Carey - Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel
#48. Maria Gadú - Maria Gadú
#47. Joss Stone - Colour Me Free
#46. Whitney Houston - I Look To You
#45. The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
#44. Robbie Williams - Reality Killed The Video Star
#43. Depeche Mode - Sounds Of The Universe
#42. Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night
#41. The Mars Volta - Octahedron

#40. Florence + The Machine - Lungs
#39. Arnaldo Antunes - Iê Iê Iê
#38. Madonna - Celebration
#37. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
#36. Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
#35. Basement Jaxx - Scars
#34. Little Boots - Hands
#33. KISS - Sonic Boom
#32. Shakira - She Wolf
#31. David Guetta - One Love

#30. Calvin Harris - Ready For The Weekend
#29. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
#28. Frankmusic - Complete Me
#27. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
#26. Glasvegas - Glasvegas
#25. The xx - XX
#24. Röyksopp - Junior
#23. Passion Pit - Manners
#22. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
#21. Pearl Jam - Backspacer

#20. The Killers - Live From The Royal Albert Hall
#19. The Gossip - Music For Men
#18. Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream
#17. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
#16. Paul McCartney - Good Evening New York City
#15. Two Suns - Bat For Lashes
#14. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
#13. Nirvana - Live At Reading
#12. La Roux - La Roux
#11. Lady GaGa - The Fame Monster

#10. U2 - No Line On The Horizon
#09. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
#08. Rihanna - Rated R
#07. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
#06. The Dead Weather - Horehound
#05. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
#04. Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
#03. Muse - The Resistance
#02. Bob Dylan - Together Through Life

#01. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

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Top Albums/EPs of 2009

Dez 4 2009, 19h54 por JBiiJB

-----------Top 20-----------
Animal Collective ~ Merriweather Post Pavillion
The Antlers ~ Hospice
Fever Ray ~ Fever Ray
Patrick Wolf ~ The Bachelor
Memory Tapes ~ Seek Magic
Phoenix ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Grizzly Bear ~ Veckatimest
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit ~ S/T
Fanfarlo ~ Reservoir
Animal Collective ~ Fall Be Kind [EP]

The xx ~ The xx
Atlas Sound ~ Logos
St. Vincent ~ Actor
Passion Pit ~ Manners
Neko Case ~ Middle Cyclone
Nomo ~ Invisible Cities
Umphreys McGee ~ Mantis
Flaming Lips ~ Embryonic
Yeah Yeah Yeahs ~ It's Blitz!
Magnolia Electric Co. ~ Josephine

-----------Excellent-----------
Cymbals Eat Guitars ~ Why are There Mountains
Dinosaur Jr. ~ Farm
A.A. Bondy ~ When the Devil is Loose
Manchester Orchestra ~ Mean Everything to Nothing
Local Natives ~ Gorilla Manor
Tegan & Sara ~ Sainthood
Neon Indian ~ Psychic Chasms
jim o' rourke ~ The Visitor
Mars Volta ~ Octahedron
Dirty Projectors ~ Bitte Orca
Bat for Lashes ~ Two Suns

Washed out ~ Life of Leisure [EP]
Sufjan Stevens ~ BQE
Hercules & Love Affair ~ Sidetracked
Pains of Being Pure at Heart ~ Higher than the Stars [EP]
Marissa Nadler ~ Little Hells
Bibio ~ Ambivalence Avenue
Toro y Moi ~ My Touch
Julian Casablancas ~ Phrazes for the Young
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart ~ S/T
Avett Brothers ~ I and Love and You
Mos Def ~ The Ecstatic

Built to Spill ~ There is No Enemy
Sunset Rubdown ~ Dragonslayer
maudlin of the Well ~ Part the Second
Discovery ~ LP
Beirut ~ March of the Zapotec [EP]
Tortoise ~ Beacons of Ancerstorship
Akron/Family ~ Set Em' Wild, Set Em' Free
Woods ~ Songs of Shame
The Decemberists ~ The Hazards of Love
Andrew Bird ~ Noble Beast
Tim Hecker ~ Imaginary Country

-----------Good-----------
Dan Deacon ~ Bromst
Islands ~ Vaupors
The Wooden Sky ~ If I Don't Come Home, You'll Know I'm Gone
Kid Cudi ~ Man on the Moon: End of Days
Girls ~ Girls
JJ ~ no. 1
Muse ~ The Resistance
Osso ~ Run Rabbit Run
Monsters of Folk ~ Monsters of Folk

Miike Snow ~ Miike Snow
Junior Boys ~ Begone Dull Care
Antony & The Johnsons ~ The Crying Light
Bon Iver ~ Blood Bank [EP]
fun. ~ Aim & Ignite
The Real People ~ Holland [EP]
Modest Mouse ~ No One's First and You're Next [EP]
Handsome Furs ~ Face Control
Polvo ~ In Prism
Volcano Choir ~ Unmap
Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson ~ Break Up

Sonic Youth ~ The Eternal
A.C. Newman ~ Get Guilty
Dead Weather ~ Horehound

-----------Meh-----------
John Mayer ~ Battle Studies
State Radio ~ Let it Go
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears ~ Tell Em' What Your Name Is!
Karen O and the Kids ~ Where the Wild Things Are
Röyksopp ~ Junior
Real Estate ~ Real Estate
Mastodon ~ Cracke the Skye
Hudson Mohawke ~ Polyfolk Dance [EP]
Ben Kweller ~ Changing Horses
Dave Matthews Band ~ Big Whiskey & The Groogrux King
Andrew Bird ~ Fitz and Dizzyspells [EP]

Platinum Pied Pipers ~ Abundance
God Help The Girl ~ Stills [EP]
Imogen Heap ~ Elipse
Brand New ~ Daisy
M. Ward ~ Hold Time
The Whitest Boy Alive ~ Rules
Zu ~ Carboniferous
Yuksek ~ Away from the Sea
Hudson Mohawke ~ Butter
Dragonette ~ Fixin to Thrill

-----------Pretty Bad/Horrible-----------

MSTRKRFT ~ Fist of God
Telepathe ~ Dance Mother
Amy Milan ~ Masters of the Burial
Wilco ~ Wilco (The Album)
IAMX ~ Kingdom of Welcome Addiction
Pete Yorn ~ Back and Forth
The Dodos ~ Time to Die
Audrye Sessions ~ Audrye Sessions
Great Lake Swimmers ~ Lost Channels
Vetiver ~ Tight Knit

Silversun Pickups ~ Swoon
Deerhunter ~ Rainwater Cassette Exchange [EP]
Lotus Plaza ~ Floodlight Collective
Japandroids ~ Post-Nothing
Swan Lake ~Enemy Mine
Conor Oberst ~ Outer South
Paper Route ~ Absence
The Bird and the Bee ~ Ray Guns are not the Future
Dent May ~ The Good Feeling Music of Dent May
N.A.S.A. ~ Spirit of Apollo

Bruce Springsteen ~ Working on a Dream
Iran ~Dissolver
Wavves ~ Wavves (soooo baddddd. epically bad)

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Top Scrobbles of 2009 - Tentative

Dez 4 2009, 4h05 por tihsymtae

Top Artists
1. The Beatles - 628 scrobbles
I confess that I am one of the many suckers who shelled out a crapload of money to buy the remasters that came out in September. They certainly sound better than the original '87 CD releases, but unless you have a really good stereo system (which I don't) the difference isn't big enough to be worth all that money. Still, at least I finally completed my collection and now I'm forced to admit that there are some very good songs in their early catalog.

2. Bob Dylan - 486
This is all back-catalog listening. Dylan released two albums this year, neither of which I bought. And based on the reviews, I don't intend to.

3. Opeth - 476
This is mostly back-catalog listening. Opeth released Watershed in '08 and I still had it on heavy rotation for much of this year. I don't think it was their best album to date, but it was very good and I like the direction they're heading in. I'm looking forward to a new album sometime in 2010.

4. Johann Sebastian Bach - 466
What is there to say? Timeless.

5. Mastodon - 413
I discovered Mastodon late last year. I bought Leviathan in December '08 and by the middle of this year I'd bought their complete catalog. Crack The Skye is my absolute favorite album of '09. From what I hear there'll be no new album in 2010 which is fine with me since (a) I'll still be listening to Crack The Skye on heavy rotation for a while and (b) I have no idea how they can possibly top themselves.

6. Bruce Springsteen - 412
In one sense this is all back-catalog listening. The newest Springsteen album I own is The Rising from 2002. But earlier this year I bought The River from 1980. It's a mixed album. There are great songs like the title track and "Hungry Heart" and there are no bad songs. But unlike most Springsteen albums, it felt like a collection of random songs; their sum was no greater than the parts.

7. Marisa Monte - 390
Love her voice. Always have, probably always will. And I absolutely love the lyrics that Arnaldo Antunes writes for many of her songs. Her last album was in 2006; Here's hoping there'll be another one in 2010.

8. Pink Floyd - 357
I have finally come to terms with the fact that I only like 70's Pink Floyd. I gave up trying to like their psychedelic stuff from the 60's and I've always been lukewarm about their glossy cinematic rock from the 80's. I used to own their entire catalog but now I'm selling everything pre-Meddle and postThe Wall to free up some space on my CD shelf. Still, I like the stuff from the 70's so much that I don't expect them to drop out of this top-10 list next year.

9. Iron Maiden - 349
Like Pink Floyd, I've come to accept the fact that I don't like Iron Maiden as much as I once did. With the exception of Brave New World and a few scattered tracks, I think most of their post-Powerslave output is pretty weak. Also like Pink Floyd, I'll probably start selling some of their CDs to make room on my shelf.

10. Metallica - 348
After all these years, still one of my favorites. Death Magnetic was a good comeback album after the underrated but ultimately unsuccessful experiment that was St. Anger. And though it came out in 2008, I listened to it pretty heavily throughout most of this year. Who knows when they'll get around to recording another album! In the meantime there's a lot of good stuff in their back catalog to keep me satisfied. Maybe I'll revisit Ride The Lightning sometime in 2010.

Top Songs
1. The Last Baron
2. Crack The Skye
3. The Czar
4. Ghost of Karelia
5. Oblivion
6. Divinations
7. Quintessence
8. Because the Night
8. The Lotus Eater
10. Jessica

Top Albums
1. (2009) Mastodon - Crack The Skye (161)

2. (1968) The Beatles - The Beatles (109)

3. (2009) Graveola E O Lixo Polifônico - graveola e o lixo polifônico (107)

4. (1744) Johann Sebastian Bach - WTC, Bk II (102)

5. (2000) Mastodon - Remission (95)

6. (2000) Marisa Monte - Memórias, Crônicas e Declarações de Amor (91)

7. (1889-1902) Gustav Mahler - Mahler: Symphonies #1 & 5, Lieder (90)

7. (1998) Manu Chao - Clandestino: Esperando La Ultima Ola... (90)

9. (2008) Watershed (89)

10. (2001) Tool - Lateralus(85)

top albums generator>>

Top Artist By Month
March - Opeth
April - Opeth
May - Bob Dylan
June - J.S. Bach
July - Bob Dylan
August - Opeth
September - The Beatles
October - J.S. Bach
November - Radiohead
December - ???

Top Songs By Month
March - Crusher Destroyer
April - The Last Baron
May - Mississippi
June - Coming Home
July - Because the Night
August - Outro Modo
September - In the Midnight Hour
October - Carry
November - Oblivion
December - ???

Monthly stats courtesy of Heat Haze

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Grammy Nominations

Dez 3 2009, 15h48 por TulsaMJ

I knew I needed to take a look at the Grammy nominations list when I saw separate Twitter tweets from Mandisa (@MandisaOfficial), Ashley Cleveland (@AshleyCleveland), and Weird Al Yankovic (@AlYankovic) mentioning that they got nominated! All favorites of mine! As is traditionally the case, I recognize quite a few names but couldn't sing you the songs (I've never been much of a pop-culture junkie), but I did think it was cool to see nominations for Seal, Stevie Wonder, Bon Jovi, Hall & Oates, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, even Bob Dylan and a number of other artists who are clearly still going strong even though they got their starts when I was just a kid. Remember back when you were old if you were 30?

I also dig Kelly Clarkson's music; I try to not hold the whole AI thing against her. :)

I see tobyMac got nominated (yay!) for City On Our Knees (meh), and the inevitable Third Day nominations are in there. Jonny Lang got a nomination in the Gospel categories (his Gospel CD is really good stuff!) I like Mary Mary quite a bit... been listening to Mary Mary Christmas this week (that's not the CD that got nominated, BTW). Looks like an interesting bunch of nominations this year!

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Top 10 Albums of 2009

Dez 3 2009, 9h32 por anchovybay

In no order:
Pearl Jam - Backspacer: The 90s rockers return with a new sound, to reflect a new era.
Notable tracks: Got Some, Unthought Known, The End

Paramore - Brand New Eyes: The band's follow up to 2007's RIOT! features a darker edge, and deeper lyrics reflecting the turmoil of the band at the time of the record's conception.
Notable tracks: Brick By Boring Brick, Turn It Off, All I Wanted

The Flaming Lips - Embryonic: With their first venture since 2006's At War With The Mystics, Wayne and co. return with a double album full of instrumentals, pounding bass riffs, hard sound explosions, and guest appearances from Karen O and MGMT.
Notable tracks: Convinced Of The Hex, Silver Trembling Hands, Watching The Planets

Allison Iraheta - Just Like You: The Idol runner up's debut album dwarfs the debuts of the winner (Allen) and the more popular one (Lambert) with the edgy sound expected from the 17-year old rocker.
Notable tracks: Just Like You, Don't Waste The Pretty, Holiday

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!: The indie rockers take a new direction to a more synth fueled, electronic based album, and they pull it off perfectly.
Notable tracks: Zero, Heads Will Roll, Hysteric

Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart: The Norwegian musician's first album shows off a edgy, angry sound that comes right at you.
Notable tracks: Oh My God, I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked, Stella

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Outer South: The Bright Eyes veteran brings the Mystic Valley Band back for a second album which works better than the first, including new versions of previously released tracks, and scathing protest songs.
Notable tracks: Slowly (Oh So Slowly), Big Black Nothing, Roosevelt Room

The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love: The indie rockers paint a long, sprawling picture of fantasy with this rock opera.
Notable tracks: Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga), The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid, The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)

Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk: The indie rock superstars form to make an album showcasing the talents of Conor Oberst, Jim James, and M. Ward while still retaining the sound of a fresh new band.
Notable tracks: Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.), Say Please, His Master's Voice

Alberta Cross - Broken Side Of Time: The debut album from Alberta Cross displays the smooth vocals of Neil Young, with the blistering rock of early Oasis.
Notable tracks: Broken Side Of Time, Song 3Three Blues, Rise From The Shadows

Honorable Mentions:
Regina Spektor - Far
Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
Morrissey - Years of Refusal
Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream

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Last.fm milestones

Nov 29 2009, 22h05 por pornosoldier

Last.FM Milestones1st track: (11 Nov 2009)
Jimmy Dean - Big Bad John
5th track: (11 Nov 2009)
Jerry Lee Lewis - To Make Love Sweeter For You
10th track: (11 Nov 2009)
Bryan Adams - The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You
15th track: (11 Nov 2009)
Bill Haley and the Comets - See You Later Alligator
25th track: (11 Nov 2009)
Herbert Grönemeyer - Der Weg
50th track: (12 Nov 2009)
ASD - ASD
75th track: (13 Nov 2009)
Irie Révoltés - Ska
100th track: (14 Nov 2009)
Bruce Springsteen - Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
150th track: (15 Nov 2009)
Peter Maffay - Josie
250th track: (16 Nov 2009)
Jan Delay - Türlich, türlich (Radio Edit)
500th track: (22 Nov 2009)
Adam Green - Friends of Mine
750th track: (27 Nov 2009)
Adam Green - Novotel
1000th track: (29 Nov 2009)
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
Generated on 29 Nov 2009
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The 29 Best Tracks of 2009

Nov 29 2009, 3h34 por tmills

Alphabetically. I've come to realize how ridiculous it is to actually try and rank these.

1. A.A. Bondy – When The Devil's Loose
I wish I had a porch and lived in a cabin out in the country. Until the song ends. Then take me back to my normal, yuppie life with high-speed Internet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0DWZ3VBROw

2. Animal Collective – My Girls
The song that turned these unlistenable noisemaking jackasses into everyone’s favorite jam band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zol2MJf6XNE

3. Annie – Songs Remind Me of You
“You’re So Vain” for disco-loving homosexuals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y3FFWPBvBs

4. Big Boi – Shine Blockas (feat. Gucci Mane)
Party at my place, y’all. Shine Blockas will be on repeat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxBt_p8gFkw

5. Boston Spaceships – Tattoo Mission
A Robert Pollard song with a string hook and a Led Zeppelin riff. Yeah, I know, sounds crazy, but it's actually really good.

6. Bruce Springsteen – The Wrestler
The Ram jumps off the top rope, the screen goes black, Bruce Springsteen does his thing and I cry. God damn this is some powerful stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRUEKJIcvbo

7. Built to Spill – Done
It’s kind of funny that I find a song about loneliness to be so comforting. Goes to show I’m not much of a lyrics guy.

8. Built to Spill – Hindsight
“Hindsight brings me down / keeps me on the ground.” Yeah, hindsight hit me pretty hard this year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Ppc_4Be5o

9. Candlemass – If I Ever Die
Oh. My. God. It’s about time someone released a balls out metal song again where the lead singer doesn’t sound like Doctor Claw.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG9InehQEos

10. Clipse – Kinda Like A Big Deal (feat. Kanye West)
I feel like kinda like a big deal when this comes on my iPod as I walk my dog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diEVUSBnNc8

11. Clutch – 50,000 Unstoppable Watts
Rage Against the Machine – Sanctimonious Douchebaggery + Awesome Blues Rock = This Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDoKyzHzP14

12.CunninLynguists – Don’t Leave (When Winter Comes) (feat. Slug)
These dudes put out some weed-brownie party song that everyone seemed to really like this year (it wasn’t very good), but you cats are in denial if you think it even came close to this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmpc6vqUyO0

13. Delorean – Seasun
Great song for driving at night. Incidentally, it would be perfect for a car commercial. Let's just hope and pray that never, ever happens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axi7mudxdmk

14. The Depreciation Guild – Dream About Me
Proof that shoegaze isn’t just a bunch of fuzzy, sad bastard music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXFj94qr0R0

15. Dinosaur Jr. – I Don’t Wanna Go There
I always knew these guys could crank out some extended guitar jams with the best of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qwWbVjKBR0

16. Dinosaur Jr. – Over It
Good alternative to emo for overcoming your sorrows. Works much more quickly, too. I’m movin’ on, dude.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgTJtdn6VjM

17. Dusty Kid – Moto Perpetuo
Oh man, if I ever went to a dance club and the DJ played this techno monster, I'd be throwing some wicked dice rolls on that dance floor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlRlqiXvyCw

18. Faunts – Feel.Love.Thinking.Of
Tyler and imaginary girl fall in love while this song is playing in the background.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_SJXtaTmBc

19. Girls – Lust For Life
Cool song, but I wish I’d never watched the uncensored video where the dude uses a guy’s dong as a microphone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuoTjYYqe4c (Not the uncensored version)

20. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
Oh, yay, it’s everyone’s favorite new band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjecYugTbIQ

21. JJ – Ecstacy
This song takes the only good thing about Lil’ Wayne’s “Lollipop” and makes it safe for white Brooklyn kids.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQgjpkbZ2AU

22. Joker & Ginz – Purple City
I’ve never wanted window-rattling bass in my car until I heard this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bIR_YmiuVw

23. Julian Casablancas – 11th Dimension
Julian, I’ve really missed you. I’m sorry I said the last Strokes album sucked. Can we be friends again?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_h5DMHh5_M

24. Mastodon – Divinations
They took the original Mastodon formula of really heavy riffs and added radio-friendly hooks. Sounds like a recipe for disaster, but that shit actually works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxelXPg961M

25. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Young Adult Friction
The first time I heard this song, I was on my way to purchase barstools from Bed, Bath & Beyond. It deserved so much better than that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4itzHRpltQ

26. Raekwon – 10 Bricks
Just one step below “Verbal Intercourse” and “Knuckleheadz.” If you’re familiar with those songs, you’ll know that’s incredible praise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzS2dN99KxM

27. Reigning Sound – Stick Up For Me
Memphis feels exactly how this song sounds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSjdW8I19BQ

28. Shpongle – Electroplasm
I don’t do mushrooms or LSD or the like, but if I did, I would choose this to soundtrack the experience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3E--ZXTVdw

29. Washed out – Feel It All Around
I want to disappear in this song. Preferably some friends could come with me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PuCkZ1ALkI

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Artists I've Seen Live

Nov 29 2009, 1h59 por ZeroToLove

A.A. Bondy
Alberta Cross
Allen Toussaint
Amber Pacific
Andrew Bird
Animal Collective
Apartment 26
Armor for Sleep x3
As Tall as Lions
Bad Religion
Bayside x2
Beastie Boys
Ben Folds
Billy Talent x3
Bob Dylan
Boys Night Out
Brand New x5
Brett Dennen
Bruce Springsteen
Busta Rhymes
Cale Parks
Cancer Bats
Cartel
Chairlift
Chiodos x3
Chubby Checker
Circa Survive x5
Circle Takes the Square
Citizen Cope
Coheed & Cambria x5
Cold
Common Denominator
Crime in Stereo
Crooked X
Cute Is What We Aim For
Damone
Dan Deacon
Dane Cook
Daryl Hammond
Dashboard Confessional x5 (once solo acoustic, three times free)
David Byrne
Dear and the Headlights x2
Death Cab for Cutie x2
Deftones
Disturbed x2
dredg
Drive By
Dropkick Murphys
Elvis Perkins
Emanuel
Emery
Fabolous
Fear Before the March of Flames
Filter
Flogging Molly
Four Year Strong x2
Franz Ferdinand
Girl Talk
Glassjaw
Godsmack
Gone By Daylight
Harlem Shakes
Hawthorne Heights
Hellogoodbye
Helmet
Hot Rod Circuit
IMA Robot
Jeanine Garafalo
Jerry Seinfeld
Jim Breuer
Jimmy Buffet
John Ralston
Jurassic 5
Kaddisfly
Kevin Devine x3
Korn x2
Limp Bizkit
Little Richard
Madi Diaz
Madonna
mc chris
mewithoutYou x3
MGMT
Mindless Self Indulgence
Mobb Deep
Motion City Soundtrack
Nas
New Found Glory x3 (once acoustic)
Nine Inch Nails
Nuclear Power Pants
of Montreal
One Minute Silence
Ours
P.O.D.
Paramore
Passion Pit x2
Phoenix
Poison the Well
Portugal. The Man x3 (once acoustic)
Public Enemy
Puddle of Mudd
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Reggie and the Full Effect
Rise Against
Rob Riggle
Rodrigo & Gabriella
Saves the Day
Seafood
Senses Fail
Silverstein
Slipknot
Snoop Dogg
SOAD
Staind x2
Steven Wright
Straylight Run
Taking Back Sunday x4
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
Tegan and Sara
The Get Up Kids x3
The Academy Is...
The All American Rejects
The Anniversary
The Appreciation Post
The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys
The Blood Brothers
The Cribs
The Crystal Method
The Decemberists
The Early November
The Life & Times
The Mars Volta
The Raconteurs
The Roots
The Sleeping
The Slip
The Starting Line x2
The Used
Thrice
Thursday x3
Tiger Army
Tokyo Rose
Trust Company
TV on the Radio
Under the Influence of Giants
Underoath x2
White Rabbits
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yellowcard

Unsigned Acts:

Dental Plan (I am the drummer)
Castine x5
The Wandas x5
The Bynars x4
Miars x3
Nemes x2
The Sift x3
Traphiq (I was the drummer '07 - '08)
the white mountains

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In Spotlight - Finn Andrews

Nov 27 2009, 2h02 por yxsarvik

First, I’d like to note that The Veils have currently assumed number one position in my top artists list here on Last.fm. in a surprisingly short amount of time – a band that has sort of come out of nowhere and done that so swiftly is an important band for me indeed.

Second... Finn Andrews has arrived to fill the (emotional) void that’s been there for me ever since I started listening to male singers on a serious basis. His voice is not a question of like or love, it’s a question of need. I can’t imagine living without hearing it anymore. I have finally found my favourite male singer.

Thank you, Mr. Andrews, for making it so easy. For years, one of the most painful and annoying things about being a music fan has been an attempt to pick out the official favourite from several men whose voices and singing abilities I love so dearly. I never really could do it. I was always waiting for someone to do it for me; for someone to appear and sweep me off my feet with his passion. And you did. And I fell. And I fell hard. And I don't think I will recover from this any time soon. Or perhaps at all.

His voice just resonates somewhere deep within me, in some wild and sensitive place underneath my heart where no one else has managed to get an access to, and gives me a tingle I can’t explain. He has penetrated my soul and broken down all my barriers. His voice is where my home is.
The whole situation seems pretty ironic, considering the fact that right now is the time when I'm losing faith in my favourite female singer, LeAnn Rimes, which is another (not such a pleasant) story.

Finn Andrews, however, sings like a deity, looks like a deity... and I'm getting the feeling, might BE one, because it's hard to believe this kind of human being exists. And to call him something as trivial as "queer" would be like saying "Orpheus was a fag". For all we know, Orpheus may have been a fag, but that is not the point. His mother's name was Calliope, though.

The Greeks of the Classical age venerated the legendary figure of Orpheus as chief among poets and musicians, and the perfector of the lyre invented by Hermes. Poets like Simonides of Ceos said that, with his music and singing, he could charm birds, fish and wild beasts, coax the trees and rocks into dance, and even divert the course of rivers. He was one of the handful of Greek heroes to visit the Underworld and return; even in Hades his song and lyre did not lose their power. - from Wikipedia

Yup, sounds like Finn.

Don't fall into all those sad stories you write, your voice is so pretty when it gets caught in the right rhyme

Lavinia

Sit Down By The Fire with Finn on piano

Not Yet
You really see him in his element in here – borderline possessed and magnetic. Performances like this one have given The Veils live shows their must-see reputation.

Here’s State Trooper, one of the few Bruce Springsteen songs I can stand... I even like it now. Finn loves to sing it. He has covered it live many times.

The Tide That Left And Never Came Back (acoustic)
Which he does a lot as well, for "old-school" fans.

I think that the Nux Vomica era interview for the Dutch music website FaceCulture is one of the most insightful interviews he has given so far. I’ll post the link to it.
http://www.faceculture.tv/11735576/The_Veils_-_2007_-_I/His_painting_drawing_dreaming_making_music/rock/indie/Interviews/The_Veils/2007/Andrews/Finn/indie/rock/The/Veils

Here’s Sun Gangs Short Film with Finn and Sophia

And here’s Finn, being pwetttty...

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The Ultimate Perfect Gig

Nov 22 2009, 0h25 por anchovybay

• Name your top 15 artists.
• Come up with a set list for them to make your perfect gig
• All artists get a 10 song set list with a 3 song encore.

TV On The Radio
Nine Inch Nails
The Decemberists
Weezer
The Flaming Lips
Bright Eyes
Stars
Pink Floyd
Elliott Smith
The Beatles
Allison Iraheta
Bad Religion
The Hold Steady
Pearl Jam
Bruce Springsteen

TV on the Radio

You Could Be Love
Young Liars
Golden Age
Blues From Down Here
Province
King Eternal
A Method
Satellite
King Eternal
Dry Drunk Emperor
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Walking The Cow (Johnston)
Dreams
The Wrong Way

Nine Inch Nails

All The Love In The World
With Teeth
Don't You Know What You Are
March Of The Pigs
Starfuckers Inc.
Wish
The Collector
The Good Soldier
The Frail
The Wretched
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Head Like A Hole
Something I Can Never Have
Hurt

The Decemberists

The Hazards Of Love 1
July, July!
The Hazards Of Love 2
Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
O Valencia!
Isn't It A Lovely Night?
The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid
16 Military Wives
The Crane Wife 3
The Hazards Of Love 4
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Sons And Daughters
Valarie Plame
California One/The Youth And Beauty Brigade

Weezer

My Name Is Jonas
Beverly Hills
Perfect Situation
In The Garage
Pork And Beans
The Greatest Man That Ever Lived
Hash Pipe
The Sweater Song
Buddy Holly
Knock-Down-Drag-Out
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If You're Wondering If I Want You To (I Want You To)
Say It Ain't So
Surf Wax America

The Flaming Lips

Race For The Prize
Silver Trembling Hands
Fight Test
One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots pt. 1
My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion
It Overtakes Me
Convinced Of The Hex
Jesus Shootin' Heroin
She Don't Use Jelly
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Do You Realize??
The W.A.N.D
Watching The Planets

Bright Eyes

At The Bottom Of Everything
The Calender Hung Itself
Method Acting
Four Winds
A Scale, A Mirror, and Those Indifferent Clocks
Lover I Don't Have To Love
Hot Knives
Soul Singer In A Session Band
Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh
Make War
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Road To Joy
Easy/Lucky/Free
Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And To Be Loved)

Stars

Set Yourself On Fire
Ageless Beauty
The Night Starts Here
Take Me To The Riot
A Thread Cut With A Carving Knife
Barricade
Sleep Tonight
The Woods
One More Night (Your Ex-Lover Remains Dead)
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
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Reunion
Celebration Guns
In Our Bedroom After The War

Pink Floyd

Interstellar Overdrive
In The Flesh
Happiest Days Of Our Lives/Another Brick In The Wall pt. 2
Free Four
Fearless
When You're In
Astronomy Domine
The Gunner's Dream
Vera/Bring The Boys Back Home
Comfortably Numb
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Wish You Were Here
When The Tigers Broke Free
Brain Damage/Eclipse

Elliott Smith

LA
Pretty Mary K
Waltz #2 (XO)
Antonio Carlos Jobim (Heatmiser)
In The Lost And Found (Honky Bach)
Plainclothes Man (Heatmiser)
Son Of Sam
Flowers For Charlie
Miss Misery
Between The Bars
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Speed Trials
Somebody That I Used To Know
Needle In The Hay

The Beatles

Come Together
Get Back
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Blue Jay Way
Helter Skelter
If I Needed Someone
I Am The Walrus
Dear Prudence
Strawberry Fields Forever
Hey Jude
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Blackbird
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
A Day In The Life

Allison Iraheta

Friday I'll Be Over U
Holiday
Alone (Wilson)
D is For Dangerous
Teenagers (Williams)
Robot Love
Don't Speak (Stefani)
Scars
Beat Me Up
Just Like You
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Cry Baby (Joplin)
You Don't Know Me
Don't Waste The Pretty

Bad Religion

Sinister Rouge
Los Angeles Is Burning
21st Century Digital Boy
We're Only Gonna Die
Let Them Eat War
Stranger Than Fiction
Kyoto Now
Atomic Garden
Struck A Nerve
American Jesus
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Boot Stamping On A Human Face Forever
A Streetkid Named Desire
Fields Of Mars

The Hold Steady

Stuck Between Stations
Constructive Summer
The Swish
You Gotta Dance With Who You Came To The Dance With
Both Crosses
One For The Cutters
Stevie Nix
Banging Camp
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
First Night
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Party Pit
You Can Make Him Like You
How A Resurrection Really Feels

Pearl Jam

Present Tense
Wash
Jeremy
Red Mosquito
Insignificance
Deep
Off He Goes
Breath
Hitchhiker
Rearviewmirror
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Leash
Black
Indifference

Bruce Springsteen

Thundercrack
Born To Run
Iceman/Fade Away
Spirit In The Night
She's The One
The E Street Shuffle
It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
4th Of July, Asbury Park
Brilliant Disguise
New York City Serenade
Incident On 57th Street
Zero And Blind Terry
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Backstreets/Sad Eyes
Lost In The Flood/The Angel
Jungleland

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