Radio On!

Cloud Nothings — Cloud Nothings

Love it when I find something swift and catchy on my walk to work. Listening to this now on the office speakers.

Teengenerate on RDIO

Falling back into my old ways, but this is too good to not listen to. Teengenerate from 1994.

CRIMINALLY under-listened to on Rdio. What a shame.

Say Hi To Your Mom — Discosadness

Say Hi To Your Mom (now known as Say Hi) is a band I first heard about on the web back in the early 00's. Randomly flipping around Rdio I came across this song that I hadn't heard in a while and wanted to share.

Ghostbusters, Joe Versus the Volcano, The Lakers. It's got everything!

Sweetie

I'm getting back into listening to music from the past four decades on Rdio and I noticed our band's album is in there. It put a crazy smile on my face.

Crazy!

Kristin Allen-Zito — The Atlas

We're listening to this album this rainy morning.

Totally random find while checking out rdio's new music this week. It's perfect for today.

Local H — Local H's Awesome Mix Tape #1

I have been playing this album for days now. It's a collection of covers done by Local H. I've never seen them live but apparently these are common covers for their live shows. I love when a band has a wealth of good covers and does them often enough to make the song feel like it came out of their heads.

The first track, TV On The Radio's "Wolf Like Me" is the one I've listened to the most, but I have to say they are all very good.

Ana Tijoux — 1977

I've been listening to this one a bit lately. Mostly the title track "1977" as it turned up in my game of FIFA 11 while I got trounced by Chelsea and Drogba. Check it out here. The rest of the album is okay, but definitely a little more "hey I'm a dope rapper!" than it needs to be.

Gold Panda — Lucky Shiner

I don't know exactly why but I've been listening to Gold Panda's "Lucky Shiner" for about three days now. There aren't very many memorable hooks or songs I can point to and say, "Yep, that's so good!" It's not even that sort of pleasant electronic music you hear while shopping at a store that is way above your income level.

No, it's just all one jumble of good music that I can't seem to stop listening to. It's weird!

Check it out!

Some Favorites

While (mistakenly) organizing my collection for Apple's new Ping service, thinking it would be used in my profile, I happened to rate all my music I've been enjoying so far this year. Here is a list of some of my favorites in no particular order:

• Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin — Let It Sway
• Four Tet — There Is Love In You
• Frightened Rabbit — Winter of Mixed Drinks
• The National — High Violet
• Sleigh Bells — Treats
• Yeasayer — Odd Blood
• Best Coast — Crazy for You
• LCD Soundsystem — This is Happening
• Major Lazer — Lazers Never Die EP
• Minature Tigers — F O R T R E S S
• Quasi — American Gong
• Robyn — Body Talk Pt 1
• She & Him — Volume Two
• Ted Leo and the Pharmacists — The Brutalist Bricks
• Titus Andronicus — The Monitor

This Project

One thing about this project that is pretty difficult sometimes: I listen to a lot of shit in order to find good stuff.

It's not even the derivativeness of it that bugs me, it's that it is just plain bad. Achingly bad. While I am all for the crumbling of gatekeepers and removing barriers between us and artists, some barriers are a good thing.

Any help would again be appreciated.