November 20, 2009
FOR SALE: TMT Vol. 1: Darfur
feat. exclusive tracks by Dan Deacon, Xiu Xiu, Jim O'Rourke, Mount Eerie, WHY?, and more!
MUSIC REVIEWS
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Artist: Title
Rating
A Day in Black and White: Notes
A Day in Black and White: My Heroes Have Always Killed Cowboys
A-Frames: Black Forest
A-Trak: Infinity + 1
Stuart A. Staples: Leaving Songs
Aavikko: Back from the Futer
AC/DC: Black Ice
The Accidental: There Were Wolves
Acid Mother’s Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.: Recurring Dream and Apocalypse of Darkness
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.: Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under the Stars
The Acorn: Tin Fist [EP]
The Acorn: Glory Hope Mountain
Actress: Hazyville
Ad Astra Per Aspera: Catapult Calypso
Ryan Adams: Easy Tiger
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals: Follow the Lights [EP]
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals: Cardinology
Add N To X: Avant Hard
Adem: Homesongs
Paul Adolphus: The Dawn Wind
ADULT.: Gimme Trouble
ADULT.: Why Bother?
The Advantage: Elf-Titled
The Advantage: The Advantage
Adventure Time: Dreams of Water Themes
Aereogramme: Seclusion
The Aerovons: Resurrection
Aesop Rock: Bazooka Tooth
Aesop Rock: None Shall Pass
Aether: Artifacts
Andre Afram Asmar: Gawd Bless The Faceless Cowards (vs Circus)
Afrika Bambaataa: Dark Matter Moving at the Speed of Light
Afrirampo: Kore Ga Mayaku Da
Afrirampo: Afrirampo
AFX: Chosen Lords
AGF: Words Are Missing
AGF/Delay: Explode
Aids Wolf: The Lovvers LP
AIDS Wolf vs Athletic Automaton: Clash of the Life-Force Warriors
AIDS Wolf: Cities of Glass
Air: Talkie Walkie
Air: Pocket Symphony
Air Conditioning : Dead Rails
Akimbo: Navigating the Bronze
Akimbo : Jersey Shores
Akrobatik: Balance
Akron/Family: Meek Warrior
Akron/Family: Akron/Family & Angels of Light (with The Angels of Light)
Akron/Family: Akron/Family
Akron/Family: Love Is Simple
Akron/Family: Set ’Em Wild, Set ’Em Free
Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, and Paco De Lucia: Friday Night in San Francisco
Alarm Will Sound: Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin
Alaska!: Rescue Through Tomahawk
Alasone: this.style.color.
The Album Leaf: Into the Blue Again
The Album Leaf: In a Safe Place
The Alchemist: 1st Infantry
Alexander Spence: Oar
Alias: Plane That Draws a White Line (with Tarsier)
Alias: Lillian (with
Alias: Eyes Closed EP
The Aliens: Astronomy For Dogs
Alkaline Trio: Good Mourning
Alkaline Trio: From Here to Infirmary
Alkaline Trio: Goddamnit
All Girl Summer Fun Band: 2
All Night Radio: Spirit Stereo Frequency
All-Time ¡Quarterback!: All-Time ¡Quarterback!
Allá: Es Tiempo
Lily Allen: It’s Not Me, It’s You
Ellen Allien: Thrills
Ellen Allien: SOOL
Alog: Miniatures
Aloha: Some Echoes
Aloha: Here Comes Everyone
Alter Ego: Transphormer
Alto 45: 101101
Alva Noto: Unitxt
Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez: Why Is Bear Billowing?
Alvarius B: Alvarius B
Brent Amaker: Howdy Do
Amalgamated Sons of Rest : Amalgamated Sons of Rest
Amandine: Solace in Sore Hands
Oren Ambarchi: In The Pendulum’s Embrace
Oren Ambarchi: Clockwork
Oren Ambarchi: My Days Are Darker Than Your Nights (with Johan Berthling)
Ambitious Lovers: Envy
Ambry: Holding On By The Blindfolds We Hide Behind
American Analog Set: Set Free
American Analog Set: Promise Of Love
American Music Club: The Golden Age
Amestory: Amestory
AmmonContact: One In An Infinity Of Ways
Amon Düül II: Wolf City
Tori Amos: Under the Pink
Amps for Christ: Every Eleven Seconds
Amusement Parks On Fire: Amusement Parks On Fire
aMute: Infernal Heights for a Drama
Anathallo: Canopy Glow
Ancestors: Of Sound Mind
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: So Divided
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead: The Century of Self
...And You Will Knows Us by the Trail of Dead: Worlds Apart
...And You Will Knows Us by the Trail of Dead: The Secret of Elena’s Tomb
...And You Will Knows Us by the Trail of Dead: Source Tags and Codes
Jason Anderson: The Wreath
Jason Anderson: New England
Kasey Anderson: Dead Roses
Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake: From The River To The Ocean
Jason Anderson: Tonight
Jason Anderson: The Hopeful and the Unafraid
Laurie Anderson: Big Science
Mike Andrews: Hand on String
Angel: Kalmukia
Angels Of Light: Akron/Family & Angels of Light (with Akron/Family)
Angels Of Light: Sing ’Other People’
Angels Of Light: Everything is Good Here/Please Come Home
Angels of Light: We Are Him
Angil and the Hiddntracks: Ouliposaliva
Animal: Sawn Creator
Animal Collective: Feels
Animal Collective: Prospect Hummer EP (with Vashti Bunyan)
Animal Collective: Sung Tongs
Animal Collective: Here Comes the Indian
Animal Collective: Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished
Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
Animal Collective: Water Curses [EP]
Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Hospital: Memory
Keren Ann: Nolita
Annie: Anniemal
Anoice: Remmings
The Anomoanon: Joji
Anti-Pop Consortium: Anti-Pop vs. Matthew Shipp
Anti-Pop Consortium: Fluorescent Black
Anti-Social Music: The Nitrate Hymnal (with the Gena Rowlands Band)
Antibalas: Security
The Antlers: Hospice
Antony & The Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now
Antony and The Johnsons: The Crying Light
The Apes: Baba’s Mountain
The Apes: Oddeyesee
Apes: Ghost Games
Aphex Twin: 26 Mixes for Cash
Aphex Twin: Drukqs
Apollo Sunshine: Shall Noise Upon
Apostle of Hustle: Folkloric Feel
Apostle of Hustle: National Anthem of Nowhere
Apparat: Walls
Hans Appelqvist: Sifantin Och Mörkret
The Apples in Stereo: Velocity of Sound
The Apples In Stereo: New Magnetic Wonder
The Apples In Stereo: Electronic Projects For Musicians
Appleseed Cast: Peregrine
Appleseed Cast: Two Conversations
The Appleseed Cast: Sagarmatha
Applied Communications: Heavenly Gospel
Arab Strap: Monday at the Hug and Pint
Arabian Prince: Innovative Life
Arbouretum: Song of the Pearl
The Arcade Fire: Funeral
The Arcade Fire: Arcade Fire
The Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
Archers of Loaf : Vee Vee
Luigi Archetti: Februar
Luigi Archetti: Low Tide Digitals II (w/ Bo Wiget)
Architecture in Helsinki: In Case We Die
Architecture in Helsinki: Fingers Crossed
Architecture in Helsinki: Places Like This
Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
Arctic Monkeys: Humbug
Ari Ari: There’s a New Sheriff in Town
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti : Pedestrian Pop Hits
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti: House Arrest
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti: Worn Copy
Arizona: Fameseeker and the Mono
The Ark: State of the Ark
Arms and Sleepers: Bliss Was it in that Dawn to be Alive
Aroah: El día después
Arp: In Light
Arpanet: Quantum Transposition
Art Brut: Art Brut vs. Satan
Artanker Convoy: Cozy Endings
Arthur & Yu: In Camera
Artichoke: Evaporation
As Tall As Lions: You Can’t Take It With You
Asa Irons & Swaan Miller: Asa Irons & Swaan Miller
Asana: Kupu Kupu
Ash: Free All Angels
Dorothy Ashby: Afro-Harping
Asleep in the Sea: Yay! OK. Yeah? EP
Asobi Seksu: Citrus
Asobi Seksu: Asobi Seksu
Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound: When Sweet Sleep Returned
The Association : And Then Along Comes the Association
Astral Social Club: Neon Pibroch
Asva: Futurists Against the Ocean
Asva: What You Don’t Know Is Frontier
At The Drive-In: Relationship of Command
Athletic Automation: A Journey Through Roman’s Empire
The Atlantic Manor: Failing by the Second
Atlas Sound: Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
Atlas Sound: Logos
Atmosphere: The Fun EP (Happy Clown Bad Dub 8)
Atmosphere: You Can’t Imagine How Much Fun We’re Having
Atmosphere: Seven’s Travels
Atmosphere: When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
Attractive and Popular: Money Equals Magic
Au: Au
Au : Verbs
Auburn Lull: Cast From the Platform
Audio Ovni: Control Room Secondee
Audion: Suckfish
Jon Auer: Songs From The Year of Our Demise
Auf der Maur: Auf der Maur
Aufgehoben: Khora
Augie March: Strange Bird
Augie March: Sunset Studies
August Born: August Born
Autechre: Quaristice
Autistic Daughters: Jealousy and Diamond
Autistic Daughters: Uneasy Flowers
Autolux: Future Perfect
Automato: Automato
Autumn Shade: Ezra Moon
The Autumns: The Autumns
Avail: 4AM Friday
The Avalanches: Since I Left You
Avelar: L.P. #1
Robbie Avenaim: Clockwork (with Oren Ambarchi)
Eric Avery: Help Wanted
Avey Tare & Kria Brekkan: Pullhair Rubeye
AWOL One: Self Titled
AWOL One & Factor: Only Death Can Kill You
David Axelrod: Songs of Innocence
Axolotl: Memory Theater
Albert Ayler: Spirits Rejoice
AZ : The Format
⇒ FILM REVIEWS:
Frontier of Dawn
Dir. Philippe Garrel
by
Derek Smith
⇒ DVD & DELOREAN:
Frownland
Dir. Ronald Bronstein
by
Kevin Greene
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The End of Poverty?
Dir. Philippe Diaz
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One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur
Dir. Curt Worden
⇒ TMT CERBERUS:
TMT Cerberus 09
The Heart is a Droney Hunter
by
Jspicer
,
Mangoon
⇒ ALL THAT IS SOLID:
All That Is Solid 08: Foundation Myths
What’s So Funny ’Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?
by
Brian Richardson
⇒ JAPAN THE BEATS:
Zeebra Pt. II
The Correction
by
David Morris
• As I Sweep up The Last of the Leaves
• I have been stalking my Ex-Girlfriend for three weeks and I need something to listen to while sitting outside her work.
• Soundtrack to the Bible, Oxford’s King James Version, to keep this agnostic awake and reading. And, of course, to enhance the experience.
• I’m just going to sit and obsess over you since I have zero balls to ask you out
• Fuck you meth head ex-neighbours, I’m moving into a real house with a porch and a backyard!!! Boo-ya!
Mix Tapes Feed
Friday, 11-20-2009
• Ecstatic Sunshine Ready
Yesterday’s Work
, Push Back Today’s Work Until Tomorrow
• Joan of Arc Announce New Album for 2010 Will Feature 41+ Members
• Your Daily Dose of Disappointment: Method Man, Ghostface, and Raekwon Collaboration, New Redman Record Pushed Back to 2010
• MySpace Buys imeem: Welcome to the Unholy Trinity
• Vampire Weekend Announce 2010 Shows to Coincide with
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
’s DVD Release... Oops, I Mean Their New Record... Oops, I Mean Your Life
Thursday, 11-19-2009
• Future Islands Sign to Thrill Jockey, Prep New Album for Spring; We Hope This Helps Dan Deacon’s Back Heal a Little Bit
• Ticketmaster Accused of Holding Back Tickets for Taylor Swift and Keith Urban Concerts
• Reprise Records Retroactively Decides That Wilco’s
Being There
Isn’t Selling So Hot Anymore 13 Years After Its Initial Release and Drops Wilco All Over Again!!! OMG!!! Wait, But Then Nonesuch Releases It on Vinyl + CD + MP3 and Everyone Agrees All Over Again That Wilco Are “Edgy” and “Underdogs” and “Awesome” (The Word “Handsome” Is Still Rarely Used)
• John Lydon Discusses Public Image Limited Tour, New Material, and the Delicious Taste of 100% British Butter
• Judge Rules in Favor of RIAA in Malicious Prosecution Lawsuit
Wednesday, 11-18-2009
• Belle and Sebastian Hint at New Album
• WFMU Needs Your Money Right Now; Seriously!
• Graham Lambkin Releases New Album, Book
• New Lightspeed Champion Album Due Out Early 2010; Time to Start Guessing How Weird the Cover Art Is Going to Be the Second Time Around
• It’s Almost 2010! Enjoy 704 Sweet Days of Listening to the New Clipd Beaks Album Before the Horror and Devastation of 2012
Tuesday, 11-17-2009
• RIAA Copyright Notices Being Tested by Verizon
• All Reunites for East Coast Tour; Milo Getting Seventh College Degree, I Guess
• The Pirate Bay Extinguishes Its Torrent Tracker
• Midlake Emerge from the Forest, Reveal New Album Details, Tour
• The Brian Jonestown Massacre Announce New LP
Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?
Monday, 11-16-2009
• Pixies and Pavement to Headline Primavera Sound Festival, and The ’90s Have Never Been More Awesome
• Four Tet Receives Nobel Peace Prize for Announcing New Album, Tour Details, Merely Existing... Oops, I Mean for "His Extraordinary Efforts to Strengthen International Diplomacy and Cooperation Between Peoples"
• The Music Tapes’ Julian Koster And His Singing Saw to Go Caroling Again This Year
• Antares Successfully Auto-Tunes Their Own Intellectual Property’s Illimitability; “App For That” Coming Soon
• Oneohtrix Point Never Gets Stoked on
Back to the Future
Trilogy; Decides to Try Own Hand At That Whole Trilogy Thing; No Fun Issues
Rifts
• Chocolate Grinder Mix 22:
"Dream Is Destiny"
=Eureka!=
Richard Ramirez / MSBR
Negative/Offensive
by
Paul Haney
White Mice
Ganjahovahdose
by
Chizzly St. Claw
A Sunny Day In Glasgow
Ashes Grammar
by
Embling
⇒ INTERVIEWS:
Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck
"THIS HAD TO COME. HERE WE GO. GOSSIP."
by
Andy Ortmann
Headlights:
"You know, get a job and all that stuff."
Computer Perfection:
"If I tried to swing the microphone it would hit me in the balls."
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⇒ LIVE BLOG:
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[Ryerson University; Toronto, ON]
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Fuck Buttons / Growing / Chen Santa Maria
[Bottom of the Hill; San Francisco, CA]
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Future of the Left / Ume / Team Band
[Bottom Lounge; Chicago IL]
Nirvana
Bleach [Deluxe Edition]
by
Joe Hemmerling
Dirty Three
Sad and Dangerous
by
Laura Holmes
Richard Ramirez / MSBR
Negative/Offensive
by
Paul Haney
FOUST!
Jungle Fever
by
S. Kobak