01 hot chip one life stand
02 broken social scene forgiveness rock record
03 lcd soundsystem this is happening
04 vampire weekend contra
05 the national high violet
06 apples in stereo travellers in space and time
07 josh ritter so runs the world away
08 the new pornographers together
09 yeasayer odd blood
10 spoon transference

janelle monae, beach house, lightspeed champion and titus andronicus just outside

i've just started listening to the new flying lotus, pernice brothers, crystal castles, tame impala, christina aguilera and tokyo police club.

looking forward to nada surf, how to destroy angels, robyn (!) and wolf parade in June and big boi in early July.

Updated

Free Energy Stuck On Nothing
Macy Gray The Sell Out
Henry Clay People Somewhere On The Golden Coast
Spoon Transference
The Mynabirds What We Lost In The Fire We Gained In The Flood
Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. 2
Locksley Be In Love
The Love Language Libraries
Hollerado Record In A Bag
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings I Learned The Hard Way
Ted Leo The Brutalist Bricks
Gin Wigmore Holy Smoke
Nick Curran & The Lowlifes Reform School Girl
Pernice Brothers Goodbye Killer
Candle Thieves Sunshine And Other Misfortunes

This new Macy Gray album is really surprisingly awesome.

I recently heard the Macy Gray/Velvet Revolver song used in a promo for Bravo television at a movie theater.

Surprised to see that Pernice Bros on there. I've only listened once but thought it was pretty boring and I'm much more of a sucker for his stuff than I thought you were. Also, no Hoodoo Gurus or Tift Merritt?

Dammit. That song is killer. It's going on my summer mix anyway.


Hoodoo Gurus is pretty good, but it's getting lost at the bottom of the pile.

Pernice Bros. will probably be the first one tossed off the list once I get my hands on the new Marah.

New Tift Merritt sadly sucks.

Really, eh? I'm glad to hear that as The Id is one of my favourites from the '00s.

Is Free Energy something I should hear?

I really like them. Very fun, upbeat, retro pop music. I posted a video of theirs on Facebook recently.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... =105056239

Didn't realize that the Love Language have a new album out. Has it been released yet, Rads?

Probably forgetting a few, not in any order currently other than the new Ritter, which is a runaway for #1.

Josh Ritter
Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore
Jakob Dylan
Hank Williams III
Mary Gauthier
Trampled By Turtles
Mynabirds
Joan Armatrading
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Jack Rose
Deer Tick

worth a "check it out"

its as fun as a theme park, up to you how long you stay

01. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
02. Drake - Thank Me Later
03. Marcel Dettmann - Dettmann
04. BT - These Hopeful Machines
05. Little Brother - Leftback
06. Usher - Raymond V Raymond
07. Actress - Splazsh
08. Peter Van Hoesen - Entropic City
09. Breakage - Foundation
10. Christina Aguilera - Bionic

Through the first 6 months of 2010.

My Top 13

1. Deftones || Diamond Eyes
2. So Hideous My Love || So Hideous My Love EP
3. The Black Keys || Brothers
4. Harlem || Hippies
5. Charred Walls of the Damned || Charred Walls of the Damned

Not In Order
Sleigh Bells || Treats
Broken Bells || Broken Bells
The Len Price 3 || Pictures
The Black Jaspers || The Black Jaspers
Titus Andronicus || Monitor
Coheed & Cambria || Year of the Black Rainbow
Ratt || Infestation
Nevermore || the Obsidian Conspiracy

I think it's due out July 13 but the Merge site has it streaming now. Glad to see it made Rad's list, I'm a little worried it will disappoint given how much I love the debut.

That Free Energy is the best front to back album I've heard all year. It'll fizzle out like pop rocks come September 1st, but damn if it ain't fun.

Thanks for the heads up. Gave it a listen and it sounds great. Can't wait.

This has really been catching my ear lately, then pummeling it into submission.

Early July update. (EPs/singles/7"s not numbered.)

01. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
02. Beach House - Teen Dream
03. Sightings - City of Straw
04. Rangda - False Flag
05. Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
06. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
07. Build an Ark - Love Part 1
08. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
09. Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts
10. Daughters - s/t

11. Spoon - Transference
12. Tame Impala - InnerSpeaker
__. Double Dagger - Masks EP
13. Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing
14. The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
15. Woods - At Echo Lake
16. Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
17. Skullflower - Strange Keys to Untune Gods' Firmament
__. Best Coast - Something in the Way 7"
18. Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?
19. Sleigh Bells - Treats
20. Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer


21. Liars - Sisterworld
22. Autechre - (Oversteps)
23. Toro y Moi - Causers of This
24. The Morning Benders - Big Echo
25. Janelle Monáe - The Archandroid
26. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
27. Four Tet - There Is Love in You
28. The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme
29. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
30. Fang Island - s/t

31. Retribution Gospel Choir - 2
32. Caribou - Swim
33. Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
34. Vampire Weekend - Contra
35. The National - High Violet
36. Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM

Still in not much of any relative order, other than the top 2. Additions in bold:

Josh Ritter
Alejandro Escovedo

Mark Erelli & Jeffrey Foucalt
Merle Haggard
Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore
Jakob Dylan
Hank Williams III
Mary Gauthier
Trampled By Turtles
Mynabirds
Joan Armatrading
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Jack Rose
Deer Tick

That Merle didn't catch me the way I was hoping so hard that it would.

Top Stuff in no order:

Henry Clay People - Somewhere on the Golden Coast
Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing
Harlem - Hippies
Broken Bells - S/T
Soft Pack - S/T
Alejandro Escovedo - Street Songs of Love
Black Keys - Brothers

Liked but not as much as above:
Spoon - Transference
Phosphorescent - Here's to taking it easy
National - Violet
Ben Sollee
Rogue Wave - Permalight
Deer Tick - Black Dirt Sessions

The World Cup and actually having a job have curtailed my listening habits down to about 20 minutes a day but right now my Top Ten would be

1. Spoon 'Transference'
2. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings 'I Learned The Hard Way'
3. Gorillaz 'Plastic Beach'
4. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists 'The Brutalist Bricks'
5. Tallest Man on Earth 'The Wild Hunt'
6. Drive By Truckers 'The Big To Do'
7. Four Tet 'There Is Love In You
8. Watson Twins 'Talking To You, Talking To Me'
9. Lawrence Arabia 'Chant Darling
10. Built To Spill 'There Is No Enemy' (yeah, I know it was a 2009 release in Yank Land)

I like T-Model Ford, Johnny Dowd, Konono No.1 and Television Personalities albums and they all have a chance of ousting the bottom couple of albums in the top 10 once I get to listen to them with my Clockzrank hat on.

I have about 10 albums I've actually bought with money that I've not listened to yet.

I know that there's a lot I might like that I haven't heard yet (Alejandro Escovedo, the Henry Clay People, Free Energy, Matt Keating, 500 Miles to Memphis, Orgone, Howe Gelb, Robyn Hitchcock and Johnny Dowd) and a few more things that have a chance to grow on me but we're already halfway through the year and I really only like one 2010 album -- Mary Gauthier.

I guess I get more curmudgeonly by the year.

I need to update my full list, but Big Boi's new one is near, or at, the top... lovin' it!!!

So far:

1) The National - High Violet
2) Sleigh Bells - Treats

That's all, folks.