2010 First Quarter Round Up and Playlist

Since I haven't had much time as of late to post content to this site, I thought I would do my best to give my readers a report on the last three months of music.  The releases listed below are not listed in any certain order. 

NOTABLE RELEASES
Artists: Album: Release Date: Label: Links:
Beach House Teen Dream 1/26/2010 Sub Pop >Listen or Buy
Freedy Johnston Rain on the City 01/12/10 Bar/None >Listen or Buy
Vampire Weekend Contra 01/12/10 XL >Listen or Buy
Yeasayer Odd Blood 02/09/10 Secretly Canadian >Listen or Buy
Broken Bells S/T 03/09/10 Sony >Listen or Buy
Bettie Serveert Pharmacy of Love 03/23/10 Second Motion >Listen or Buy
Charlotte Gainsbourg IRM 01/26/10 Elektra/Asylum >Listen or Buy
Juliana Hatfield Peace and Love 02/16/10 Ye Old Records >Listen or Buy
Joanna Newsom Have One On Me 02/23/10 Drag City >Listen or Buy
jj jj no. 3 03/08/10 Secrectly Canadian >Listen or Buy
Spoon Transference 01/19/10 Merge >Listen or Buy
These New Puritans Hidden 03/02/10 Domino >Listen or Buy
Shout Out Louds Work 02/23/10 Merge >Listen or Buy
She & Him Volume Two 03/23/10 Merge >Listen or Buy
Gorillaz Plastic Beach 03/09/10 EMI >Listen or Buy
Retribution Gospel Choir 2 1/26/2010 Sub Pop >Listen or Buy
Four Tet There Is Love In You 1/26/2010 Domino >Listen or Buy
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists The Brutalist Bricks 3/9/2010 Matador >Listen or Buy
Liars Sisterworld 3/9/2010 Mute >Listen or Buy
Los Campesinos! Romance Is Boring 1/26/2010 Arts & Crafts >Listen or Buy
Magnetic Fields Realism 1/26/2010 Nonesuch >Listen or Buy
Laura Veirs July Flame 1/12/2010 Raven Marching Band >Listen or Buy





REST IN PEACE
Vic Chesnutt Box Tops & Big Star founding member, and solo artist
Alex Chilton Solo artist
Mark Linkous Sparklehorse leader

Below is a playlist featuring some of the best tracks off the albums listed above.  If you do not see the embedded playlist below please follow this link.

Songs To Be Obsessed With – Volume 2

Click the link above and you will be taken to the playlist hosted on this website.  Click once on the first song and the playlist will start.

1 ) “Dawna” by Morphine (0:43)
2 ) “The Aspidistra Files” by Stars (3:53)
3 ) “November” by Azure Ray (4:27)
4 ) “Blackout Curtain” by Now It’s Overhead (4:17)
5 ) “She Will Have Her Way” by Neil Finn (3:56)
6 ) “I’ve Got A Feeling” by Ivy (3:02)
7 ) “Change My Life” by Spoon (4:29)
8 ) “That’s What I Know” by Josh Rouse (3:31)
9 ) “Reveal Love” by Ken Stringfellow (5:07)
10 ) “Mad World” by Gary Jules (3:09)
11 ) “I’ll Be Around” by Nourallah Brothers (3:01)
12 ) “Let’s Take A Trip Together” by Morphine (3:00)
13 ) “Nightswimming” by R.E.M. (4:18)
14 ) “Tongue And Heart” by Anomoanon (3:56)
15 ) “Exercise” by Clem Snide (3:34)
16 ) “Random Homes” by Twin Atlas (2:05)
17 ) “Island Garden Song” by Mountain Goats (2:27)
18 ) “I Am A Rock” by Red House Painters (5:32)

Just like volume one, this playlist was put together as a mix CD which I have now resurrected in digital format.  I put it together sometime in 2004.

Songs To Be Obsessed With – Volume 3

Click the link above and you will be taken to the playlist hosted on this website.  Click once on the first song and the playlist will start.

1 ) “Aphrodisiac” by Bow Wow Wow (3:18)
2 ) “Where Do You Run To” by Vivian Girls (3:23)
3 ) “Lola – The Raincoats, Davies, Ray” by Raincoats (4:04)
4 ) “Strangers” by Kinks (3:22)
5 ) “Paper Tiger” by Spoon (3:07)
6 ) “Shout Me Out” by TV On The Radio (4:28)
7 ) “Armenia City in the Sky” by Who (3:48)
8 ) “Good To Sea” by Pinback (3:14)
9 ) “Tammie” by The Dø (3:15)
10 ) “Daisy Click Clack” by Stereolab (3:28)
11 ) “Time to Pretend” by MGMT (4:21)
12 ) “Golden Brown” by Stranglers (3:30)
13 ) “Up In Michigan” by Chappaquiddick Skyline (2:24)
14 ) “Calling And Not Calling My Ex” by Okkervil River (4:21)
15 ) “Folk Song” by Ash (4:13)
16 ) “Boots Of Chinese Plastic” by Pretenders (2:33)
17 ) “Boots of Spanish Leather” by Bob Dylan (4:40)
18 ) “I’ll Keep It With Mine” (Bob Dylan Cover) by Nico (3:20)
19 ) “Who Loves The Sun” by Velvet Underground (2:48)
20 ) “Perfect Day” by Lou Reed (3:49)
21 ) “Gila” by Beach House (4:46)

Contains tracks that I was obsessed with over the past year.  A mixture of great songs from 2008 and great tracks from the past.

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