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50. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II (Ice H2O/EMI Records) - Raekwon
49. Monster Head Room (Woodsist) - Ganglians
48. Tyvek (Siltbreeze) - Tyvek
47. Alice and Friends (Goner) - Box Elders
46. Fuckbook (Matador) - Condo Fucks
45. The Eternal (Matador) - Sonic Youth
44. Blackout Summer (In The Red) - Christmas Island
43. Over and Over (Labrador) - The Legends
42. Down with Liberty...Up with Chains (K) - Chain and the Gang
41. Watch Me Fall (Matador) - Jay Reatard
40. Popular Songs(Matador) - Yo La Tengo
39. My Maudlin Career (4AD) - Camera Obscura
38. Everything Goes Wrong (In The Red) - Vivian Girls
37. Grass Widow (Make a Mess) - Grass Widow
36. Raw Romance (Burger Records) - Nobunny
35. We Be Xuxa (Post Present Medium) - Mika Miko
34. My Electric Family (Drag City) - Bachelorette
33. Hands Across the Void (Sub Pop) - Tiny Vipers
32. Beware (Drag City) - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
31. Alpha (Almost Ready) - The Pink Noise
30. I Am Become Joy (High Two) - Adam Arcuragi
29. Bonfires on the Heath (Merge) - The Clientele
28. All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (Dead Oceans) - Califone
27. Zero to 99 (Guided By Voices, Inc.) - Boston Spaceships
26. Thank You Very Much (SS Records)- Dan Melchior Und Das Menace
25. Years of Refusal (Decca/Lost Highway)- Morrissey
24. So Cow (Tic Tac Totally)- So Cow
23. Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars)- The Thermals
22. More (Thrill Jockey)- Double Dagger
21. Cold Fish (In the Red) - TV Ghost
20. Help (In the Red) - Thee Oh Sees
19. Catacombs (Domino) - Cass McCombs
18. Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle (Drag City) - Bill Callahan
17. Everything Went Wrong (Woodsist) - Meth Teeth
16. Logos (Kranky) -Atlas Sound
15. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glassnote / Loyauté) - Phoenix
14. Songs of Shame (Shrimper / Woodsist) - Woods
13. Lemons (Goner) - Ty Segall
12. Free Drugs (Female Fantasy) - Harlem
11. Outside Love (Jagjaguwar) - Pink Mountaintops
10. Real Estate (Woodsist) - Real Estate
9. Fake Surfers(In the Red) - The Intelligence
8. Grey-Eyed Girls (Woodsist) - The Fresh & Onlys
7. Wild and Inside (Siltbreeze) - Eat Skull
6. Introducing (Slumberland) - Brilliant Colors
5. Childish Prodigy (Matador) - Kurt Vile
4. Goodbye Cruel World, Hello Crueler World (Birdman) - Spider Bags
3. Travels With Myself and Another (4AD) - Future of the Left
2. Born Again Revisited (Matador) - Times New Viking
1. Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) - Animal Collective

1. Low – The Great Destroyer (2005)
2. Stars of the Lid – Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (2001)
3. Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse (2004)
4. Radiohead – Kid A (2000)
5. Lightning Bolt – Wonderful Rainbow (2003)
6. The Goslings – Grandeur of Hair (2006)
7. Arcade Fire – Funeral (2004)
8. Studio – West Coast (2006)
9. Religious Knives – Remains (2007)
10. The Rosebuds – Birds Make Good Neighbors (2005)

11. Boris – Pink (2005)
12. Sleep – Dopesmoker (2003)
13. Panda Bear – Person Pitch (2007)
14. Jay Reatard – Blood Visions (2007)
15. Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
16. Fennesz – Endless Summer (2001)
17. of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping (2008)
18. Black Dice – Beaches & Canyons (2002)
19. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (2000)
20. Girls - Girls (2009)

Abierta a votaciones populares la primera eliminatoria del Gran Torneo 2009.

Participe: http://commonpeoplemusic.com/gran-torneo-2009-primera-ronda-eliminatoria/


Discos en competición:

The New Christs - Gloria
Deer Tick - Born on Flag Day
Mount Eerie - Winds Poem
Telekinesis - Telekinesis!
The Dead Weather - Horehound
Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young
Pants Yell! - Received Pronunciation
Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy
Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
Elephant Stone - The Seven Seas
Thee Oh Sees - Help
Atlas Sound - Logos
Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
Dan Auerbach - Keep it Hidden
Animal Colective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
The Felice Brothers - Yonder is the Clock
Action Beat - The Noise Band From Bletchley
Carsick cars - You Can Listen, You Can Talk
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter
M. Ward - Hold Time
Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds - Dracula Boots
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
The xx - xx
The Church - Untitled #23
Soulsavers - Broken
Cohete - Cohete
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave
Love Of Lesbian - 1999
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Eels - Hombre Lobo
Wilco - Wilco
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Muse - The Resistance
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
The Wave Pictures - Play Some Pool
The Wave Pictures - If You Leave It Alone
Ezra Furman and the Harpoons - Inside The Human Body
Jeremy Jay - Slow dance
Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern - Pram Town
Radio Moscow - Brain Cycles
The Nightgowns - Sing Something
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Valley Lodge - Semester at Sea
The Drones - Havilah
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There are Mountains
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its Blitz!
Port O'Brien - Threadbare
Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Morrissey - Years of Refusal
Ganglians - Monster Head Room

1. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
2. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
3. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
4. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. JJ - jj n° 2
6. The xx - xx
7. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
8. Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
9. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
10. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
11. The Dodos - Time To Die
12. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
13. Dan Deacon - Bromst
14. Brand New - Daisy
15. The Antlers - Hospice
16. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
17. Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter
18. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
19. The Legends - Over and over
20. The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
21. Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
22. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
23. Girls - Album
24. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
25. YACHT - See Mystery Lights
26. El Goodo - Coyote
27. Passion Pit - Manners
28. The Horrors - Primary Colours
29. Tiny Vipers - Life on Earth
30. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
31. Ian Brown - My Way
32. Karl Blau - Zebra
33. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
34. We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
35. The Thermals - Now We Can See
36. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
37. HEALTH - Get Color
38. The Mary Onettes - Islands
39. Black Cab - Call Signs
40. The Very Best - The Warm Heart of Africa
41. God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl
42. Fanfarlo - Reservoir
43. Wavves - Wavvves
44. The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
45. Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose
46. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
47. Atlas Sound - Logos
48. Woods - Songs of Shame
49. Built to Spill - There Is No Enemy
50. It Hugs Back - Inside Your Guitar
51. Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
52. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
53. Telekinesis - Telekinesis!
54. Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People -- Lazers Do
55. All Smiles - Oh For The Getting And Not Letting Go
56. Julie Doiron - I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
57. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
58. M. Ward - Hold Time
59. Sky Larkin - The Golden Spike
60. Malakai - Ugly Side Of Love
61. The Fresh & Onlys - Grey-Eyed Girls
62. Thee Oh Sees - Help
63. Iran - Dissolver
64. Real Estate - Real Estate
65. Asobi Seksu - Hush
66. I Was A King - I was a King
67. Vetiver - Tight Knit
68. Aidan Moffat and the Best-Ofs How To Get To Heaven From Scotland
69. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
70. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
71. Foreign Born - Person to Person
72. Workers - Workers
73. Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
74. Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
75. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast

Stereogum just posted this cover of MGMT's Time to Pretend. Digital Leather's Shawn Foree and Stephen Pope (previously of Jay Reatard) were talking about synths one day and Stephen mentioned that MGMT used the same machine on Time to Pretend as DL did on Modern Castles. They really liked the song so they decided to cover it: "We wanted to do a straight cover. No deconstruction needed. Just as long as it was lo-fi we were happy girls."

Time To Pretend (MGMT Cover)
Modern Castles

I am currently digging the Blank Dogs....who kinda remind me of Jay Reatard & The Vivian Girls combined. Thank you for the "recommendation" lastfm.com

You guys. It's friday. I'm gonna spend all day in my office listening to the Mountain Goats and playing Desktop Tower Defense. And then tonight: sex party.

OK. That last part isn't true. Tonight is probably going to be "get drunk, play "Left 4 Dead 2," swear at the TV. But maybe I'll feel myself up whilst drunk. That's SORT of a sex party. Right?

Latest show:

Things that Are Square 11-19-09

(*) = New release

(*) Yo La Tengo - More Stars Than There Are in Heaven - Popular Songs

(*) Built to Spill - Done - There Is No Enemy
Sigur Rós - Von - Heim

(*) Tom Waits - Goin' Out West - Glitter and Doom Live
The Mummies - Stronger Than Dirt - Never Been Caught
Thee Oh Sees - Quadrospazzed - The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending the Night In
(*) The King Khan & BBQ Show - Lonely Boy - Invisible Girl

Ghost Mice - Critical Hit - Andrew Jackson Jihad/Ghost Mice Split
Beat Happening - Nancy Sin - Dreamy/Nancy Sin 7"
(*) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - 103 - Higher Than the Stars
(*) Pants Yell! - Cold Hands - Received Pronunciation

(*) Fool's Gold - Ha Dvash - Fool's Gold
High Places - The Storm - High Places
The Endless Bummer - Itacan of Lakota - Modern American Calypsos for Voice and Computer
Nose Bleed Island - When We Won the War - More Tales From the Blood Island

*********************Intern Neha takes over******************************

Jay Reatard - Man of Steel - Watch Me Fall
Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! - Hold On Now, Youngster...
Lotus Plaza - Red Oak Way - The Floodlight Collective
Midnight Juggernauts - Into the Galaxy - Dystopia

Dirty Projectors - Cannibal Resource - Bitte Orca
Friendly Fires - Jump in the Pool - Friendly Fires
Dressy Bessy - Small - Electrified
The Big Pink - At War WIth the Sun - A Brief History of Love

The Antlers - Thirteen - Hospice
Jack Peñate- Be the One - Everything is New

The Lucksmiths - A Sobering Thought (Just When One Was Needed) - First Frost

The end! Feel free to tune in Things that Are Square every Thursday 6-8pm PST on KUCI 88.9FM in Irvine, CA, and worldwide on the internet at KUCI.ORG, the radio presets of iTunes, and etc etc etc.

Next week being Thanksgiving, I'll be out of town, but I'm sure some capable sub is being found.

<3,
Kyle

Wed 18 Nov – YMD! presents WAVVES

The recent noise/lo-fi pop revival has produced a lot of records I like, scratching an itch I've apparently had since about 1995 without noticing. Wavvves is one of the best, its California-surf-dream-gone-awry tone offsetting the more straight down the road catchy indie punk. Despite various stories about Wavves' misbehaviour elsewhere, I was keen to see them.

With a brand new rhythm section (apparently from Jay Reatard's band), the set was sometimes a little choppy, and quite short (the encore consisted of the 'only other song we know how to play together'). But it was still fun. The songs were a bit noisier than on record, and the vocals were even further buried in the mix, but still catchy. The kids at the front seemed to be feeling it, but given the sparse crowd and short set it was hard to get fully into it. Still, fun to see.

I was struck by how much Nathan Williams looked like Lil' Chris. Maybe it was the hat.