February 2011
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January 2011
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6 Predictions for the Music Industry (2011) →
MediaShift delivers six sound predictions for the year in music. An overview:
1. Another one bites the dust! EMI music will be sold to other major labels
2. The indie queens are waiting! Indie labels will continue to thrive due to their business models
3. There’s a stream running over, & everybody’s swimmin’! Music streaming services like Spotify will take off and move...
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December 2010
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NPR Music: Best & Worst of 2010 →
The Record has a fantastic list of the year’s best and worst news in music.
High notes:
Social networking for musicians
Freebie tracks from record labels
Low notes:
“We Are The World” remake
Apple’s picky Ping
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Paste's Free Christmas Sampler →
Paste has an excellent 50+ track Christmas sampler featuring everyone from Kanye West to Deer Tick. Cheers!
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-12) →
Stars (131)
Mumford & Sons (84)
Andrew Belle (45)
Sufjan Stevens (40)
Explosions in the Sky (35)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Top 10 of 2010
10. Girl Talk - All Day
If there was ever an album to take into the new year to help keep those resolutions, it’s this one. Put it on and you’ll breeze through your workout. Girl Talk jumped back into the mashup scene with a pretty seamless 71 minute track combining a healthy variety of genres that make for one fun listen. “Get out the way, boom” cause it’s power...
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Last.fm: Best of 2010 →
One of my favorite “Best of” music charts is out. It’s at the half way point as of today. The top 20 comes out next Wednesday. I suspect with the releases of their fantastic albums this year that The National, Sufjan, and Mumford and Sons are camping out in the Top 20!
October 2010
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September 2010
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August 2010
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New Sufjan Stevens EP!
Via Asthmatic Kitty:
The EP, All Delighted People, is built around two different versions of Sufjan’s long-form epic ballad “All Delighted People,” a dramatic homage to the Apocalypse, existential ennui, and Paul Simon’s “Sounds of Silence.” Sounds delightful, yes! The song was originally workshopped (oh we hate making workshop a verb, but time is money!) on Sufjan’s...
June 2010
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The Apples in Stereo - “Can You Feel...
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Sufjan Stevens to Release New Album →
After 5 years, Sufjan Stevens is finally back in the studio working on a new album with The National’s help!
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The xx - “Islands”
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Grizzly Bear - “Deep Blue Sea”
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Good Old War - “My Own Sinking Ship”
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May 2010
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April 2010
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The National Streams New Album on New York Times'... →
Since The National’s new album, High Violet, has leaked, they’ve decided to let the world stream it in the unlikeliest of places- The New York Times’ website. Social media news site, Mashable, seems to think this has something do with the NYT trying to attract a younger demographic to their site before it starts charging for access next year. The album will be up until April 27th...
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WatchHanson - “Thinking ‘Bout Somethin’”
I don’t think I’ll ever outgrow Hanson, and I’m not sure that they’ll ever disappear! This video is even funnier than the original from The Blues Brothers. Taylor Hanson as Ray Charles and Weird Al as the random tambourine guy crack me up. The choreography is just so kooky and fun. I love it!
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Hercules and Love Affair - “Hercules...
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Bon Iver - “Come Talk to Me”
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The xx - “Intro”
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It Was All Yellow: A Pollen Playlist →
The sky is yellow, my car is yellow, the ground is yellow, basically, everything is all yellow. Why? Because Georgia’s pollen count shot through the roof today, and to commemorate the sneezes and sniffles, Paste Magazine made a pollen playlist!
March 2010
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Big Ears Festival 2010
Big Ears Festival is over- at least for me anyway. I arrived at the festival on Saturday and was left wondering where on earth it was at. Downtown Knoxville had a little hustle and bustle, but nothing compared to what I would’ve expected for a music festival with big headliners. This was what I liked least about the festival. I was really expecting more cohesiveness given that it was, you...