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Acabo de publicar na revista ‘Manuscrita’ uma matéria especial com os 100 melhores discos lançados no Brasil em 2010. A edição especial pode ser lida online: http://issuu.com/manuscrita/docs/100brasil2010
Para fazer download: http://www.mediafire.com/?vr0a78zpz28v06v

1ºLeo Cavalcanti - Religar
2ºTulipa Ruiz - Efêmera
3ºMarcelo Jeneci - Feito Pra Acabar
4ºRodrigo Maranhão - Passageiro
5ºKarina Buhr - Eu Menti Pra Você
6ºCarlinhos Brown - Diminuto
7ºSilvia Machete - Extravaganza
8ºPato Fu - Música de Brinquedo
9ºRoberta Sá e Trio Madeira Brasil - Quando O Canto É Reza
10ºApanhador Só - Apanhador Só

11ºFernando Salem - Rugas Na Pele Do Samba
12ºThiago Pethit - Berlim, Texas
13ºAndréia Dias - Vol. 2
14ºCibelle - Las Venus Resort Palace Hotel
15ºHolger - Sunga
16ºRhaissa Bittar - Voilà
17ºAndré Abujamra - Mafaro
18ºGarotas Suecas - Escaldante Banda
19ºStop Play Moon - Stop Play Moon
20ºA Banda de Joseph Tourton - A Banda de Joseph Tourton

21ºGeraldo e os Amigos do Rumo - Sopa de Concha
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40- Alice In Videoland - A Million Thoughts and They're All About You (Sweden)
Favourite Song: Something New

39- Cathedral– The Guessing Game (United Kingdom)
Favourite Song: Funeral Of Dreams

38- Nechochwen - Azimuths to the Otherworld (United States)
Favourite Song: At Night May I Roam

37- Cibelle – Las Venus Resort Palace Hotel (Brazil)
Favourite Song: Lightworks

36- Triptykon– Eparistera Daimones (Switzerland)
Favourite Song: Abyss Within My Soul

35-Little Women – Throat (United States)
Favourite Song: Throat IV

34- Sarah Fimm– Karma Phala (United States)
Favourite Song: Everything Becomes Whole

33- Rasputina – Sister Kinderhook (United States)
Favourite Song: Dark February

32-Mar De Grises– Stream Inwards (Chile)
Favourite Song: Sensing the New Orbit

31- Enslaved– Axioma Ethica Odini (Norway)
Favourite Song: Ethica Odini

30- TOKiMONSTA– Cosmic Intoxication (United States)
Favourite Song: Doing It My Way

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The show at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles on July 2nd was CocoRosie's final show on a tremendously heavy trip throughout Europe and the U.S., before just a two-week break, upon which they start up again in Europe. Since May 4th, the band has played an astonishing 47 shows to promote their newest album, Grey Oceans. There were no tired legs or shaky arms weakly holding the microphone, if anything - the sisters performed with passion and verve, and their third-wheel beatboxer added a nice touch and pumped-up the soft-spoken songs of the band throughout the night. The crowd wore CocoRosie attire as if they wholly knew the proper dress code for the band's masquerade-like appearance on stage. Most of the crowd, aside from a few stringed-along guys of CocoRosie-loving girlfriends, look like devoted CocoRosie fans. The band's scene reminds a passerby with La Roux, Cansei de Ser Sexy, and Robots in Disguise - love of Paris-driven girls-night-out type fandom. …

Not that anyone reading this should have noticed, but I have spent this morning adding content to the artist page for Andrea Marquee, a Brazilian singer I'm quite fond of who has a grand total of one album available in the United States, Zumbi. But anyone rushing over to that page will probably wonder what the big deal is--you'll see some cut-and-pasted content from National Geographic (which they got from Calabash Music (now MondoMusic), a link to Last.fm's Portuguese-language wiki page, and another picture. So, really, it'd be more accurate to say that I've been trying to find content to add. Speaking of which: Here is the link to Zumbi's page on Amazon, with all of three reviews, one of which I added just this morning.

But I'm posting this not because of the above but because of some commentary I ran across in a couple of reviews for another record that Marquee's music appears on, a sampler called Brasil 2mil. This appears to be a pretty good survey of contemporary Brazilian music; artists include Bebel Gilberto…

England - 24
Radiohead
Kate Bush
The Smiths
On a Friday
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Morrissey
Amy Winehouse
The Stone Roses
Billy Bragg
Pete Shelley
Echo & The Bunnymen
Thom Yorke
Buzzcocks
The Cure
The Clash
Magazine
Joy Division
The Kinks
Samantha Fox
The Kills
The Monochrome Set
Blur
Happy Mondays
AFX

US - 13
Lisa Germano
Cat Power
Elliott Smith
The Magnetic Fields
The Velvet Underground
Nellie McKay
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Black Keys
Mazzy Star
Girl Talk
OP8
The White Stripes
Beck

New Zealand - 5
Crowded House
Neil Finn
Flight of the Conchords
Split Enz
Liam Finn

Canada - 2
Feist
Tegan & Sara

Brasil - 2
Cibelle
Os Mutantes

Australia -1
The Go-Betweens

Scotland -1
Belle & Sebastian

Iceland - 1
Björk

France - 1
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