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Monthly Playlist: January 2010 (now with free, streaming songs!)

In case you haven’t been reading these for long (or at all) and you’re wondering why the heck I post a list of songs at the end of every month, perhaps I should explain: A few years ago a friend of mine and I started making a playlist for every month, in a sense to act as a piece of nostalgia, as something of a musical fingerprint of a moment in time. It takes very little effort and is one of my favorite ongoing musical projects.

That said, here’s January’s list, which chronicles the new Vampire Weekend album release, hitting 100,000 listens on Last.fm (the song was “Last Dance” by the Raveonettes), listening to albums from people’s year-end best-of lists, mourning the loss of Jay Reatard and the end of These Arms Are Snakes, seeing Cross Canadian Ragweed live and remembering that I like Jimmy Eat World a hell of a lot. And bands with swear words in their name.

And, to start the year off right (hey, we’re only one twelfth of the way in), I’m going to be posting the songs from one of the many handy streaming music services that let you embed playlists. Check out the player below or go here to listen.

  1. The Dead Texan – “A Chronicle of Early Failures, Part 2″ (The Dead Texan)
  2. The Low Anthem – “Charlie Darwin” (Oh My God, Charlie Darwin)
  3. The Big Pink – “Velvet” (A Brief History of Love)
  4. Vampire Weekend – “White Sky” (Contra)
  5. Vampire Weekend – “California English” (Contra)
  6. The Raveonettes – “Last Dance” (In and Out of Control)
  7. Mastodon – “Crack the Skye” (Crack the Skye)
  8. Metric – “Sick Muse” (Fantasies)
  9. Jay Reatard – “Faking It” (Watch Me Fall)
  10. Cross Canadian Ragweed – “17″ (Cross Canadian Ragweed)
  11. The Antlers – “Sylvia” (Hospice)
  12. The Decemberists – “The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid” (Hazards of Love)
  13. These Arms Are Snakes – “The Shit Sisters” (Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home)
  14. The Very Best – “Julia” (Warm Heart of Africa)
  15. Infinite Body – “Dive” (Carve Out the Face of My God)
  16. Native – “Backseat Crew” (Wrestling Moves)
  17. Jimmy Eat World – “Big Casino” (Chase This Light)
  18. Jimmy Eat World – “Chase This Light” (Chase This Light)
  19. Fuck Buttons – “Olympians” (Tarot Sport)

Coachella Schedule Posted

I just got way too excited for Coachella this weekend when they posted the set time schedule.

Somehow they managed to keep conflicts to a minimum, as far as my own preferences go, anyway. There are a couple bands I might have to skip out early on to catch something else, but the only major conflict for me is Saturday evening. Kings Of Leon, The Decemberists, !!! and Andrew Bird all playing at the same time. I don’t even know where to start with that one. I’ve seen Andrew Bird, so I may have to sacrifice there, but even then, he puts on an amazing show.

Here’s how I plan to break it down:

Friday

  • Nickel Creek
  • Of Montreal
  • Circa Survive
  • Rufus Wainwright
  • The Jesus And Mary Chain
  • Peeping Tom
  • Interpol
  • Sonic Youth
  • Bjork

Saturday

  • Regina Spektor
  • The New Pornographers
  • Kings Of Leon vs. The Decemberists vs. !!! vs. Andrew Bird
  • The Arcade Fire
  • Girl Talk
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • The Black Keys

Sunday

  • Mika
  • Anathallo
  • Grizzly Bear
  • Explosions In The Sky
  • The Roots
  • Willie Nelson
  • Amos Lee
  • Ratatat
  • Damien Rice
  • Rage Against The Machine

Meanwhile, I’m packing up my sunscreen and shorts (two things I don’t use that often; yeah, I’m a nerd) and expecting to have a very fun weekend. I’ll be lucky if I don’t come back deaf, malnourished, underslept and looking like Pigpen.

Monthly Playlist – January 2007

A while back my best friend started keeping a monthly playlist. Any particular song that she felt was a favorite or most-played item was added to this list. The idea is that, at some undefined point in the future, she’ll appreciate being able to go back and see what she was listening to at a particular era of time.

I took the idea and changed the rules to fit me a little better. I create a monthly playlist but it not only contains favorites of the time, but any song that caught my attention (in a good way) during the month, whether or not I really listened to it a huge amount.

So now I’m going to post these on my blog at the end of each month. For this introductory post I’ll post January’s because it’s the first playlist and I need to catch up. February is soon to follow. Oh, a little disclaimer: the songs aren’t sorted in any order other than whatever order they went on the list.

Monthly Playlist – January 2007

  1. Band Of Horses – “The Funeral” (Everything All The Time)
  2. The Black Keys – “Thickfreakness” (Thickfreakness)
  3. Brand New – “Sowing Season (Yeah)” (The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me)
  4. Calexico and Iron & Wine – “He Lays In The Reins” (In The Reins)
  5. Calexico and Iron & Wine – “Sixteen, Maybe Less” (In The Reins)
  6. DragonForce – “Through The Fire And Flames” (Inhuman Rampage)
  7. Eluvium – “The Well-Meaning Professor” (An Accidental Memory In The Case Of Death)
  8. Fujiya & Miyagi – “Ankle Injuries” (Transparent Things)
  9. Fujiya & Miyagi – “Collarbone” (Transparent Things)
  10. Gomez – “See The World” (How We Operate)
  11. Jeremy Enigk – “Been Here Before” (World Waits)
  12. John Mayer – “Slow Dancing In A Burning Room” (Continuum)
  13. John Mayer – “Bold As Love” (Continuum)
  14. Birdman & Lil Wayne – “Stuntin’ Like My Daddy (Street)” (Like Father Like Son)
  15. Neko Case – “Star Witness” (Fox Confessor Brings The Flood)
  16. Ratatat – “Wildcat” (Classics)
  17. Ray LaMontagne – “Be Here Now” (Till The Sun Turns Black)
  18. Regina Spektor – “Fidelity” (Begin To Hope)
  19. Ryan Adams – “The Shadowlands” (Love Is Hell)
  20. The Crystal Method – “High Roller” (Vegas)
  21. The Decemberists – “The Perfect Crime #2″ (The Crane Wife)
  22. The Shins – “Phantom Limb” (Wincing The Night Away)
  23. Damien Rice – “9 Crimes” (9)
  24. Caspian – “Quovis” (You Are The Conductor)
  25. Caspian – “Further Up” (You Are The Conductor)
  26. Portishead – “Glory Box” (Roseland NYC Live)
  27. mewithoutYou – “Carousels” (Catch For Us The Foxes)
  28. Explosions In The Sky – “The Only Moment We Were Alone” (The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place)

20 Best Albums Of 2006

The final part of my four-part series. The list to end all lists. I present to you the best new albums in 2006.

  1. mewithoutYou – Brother, Sister
  2. This Will Destroy You – Young Mountain
  3. Mew – And The Glass Handed Kites
  4. Jeremy Enigk – World Waits
  5. Joshua Radin – We Were Here
  6. Malajube – Trompe-L’Oeil (US Release)
  7. Band Of Horses – Everything All The Time
  8. John Mayer – Continuum
  9. P.O.S. – Audition
  10. Norma Jean – Redeemer
  11. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
  12. Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
  13. Sufjan Stevens – The Avalanche
  14. The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
  15. The Appleseed Cast – Peregrine
  16. Damien Rice – 9
  17. The Knife – Silent Shout
  18. Underoath – Define The Great Line
  19. Angels & Airwaves – We Don’t Need To Whisper
  20. Muse – Black Holes And Revelations

Well, that’s all folks. I had fun making these lists and you probably hated reading them. Or maybe you found something new to love. If that’s the case, my goal has been met.

Have a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Keep on discovering.

Video Time

I keep coming across all sorts of random videos on YouTube that are well worth viewing but haven’t ever mentioned them to anyone. All are music-related, of course:

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