GIMME TINNITUS

Let’s continue our look back on this year and it’s awesomeness (musically anyway). This time I went through the trouble of adding “buy” links, so if you find yourself listening to something on this list over and over fork some of your hard earned cashmoney, ok?

And now the 2nd installment of the Best Downloadables Of 2009…

Buried In The Nude (mp3) by Screaming Females
(buy cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

Arming Eritrea (mp3) by Future Of The Left
(buy cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

Los Angeles Guitar Dream (mp3) by Spanish Prisoners
(buy CD or LP // buy mp3 // dl the new EP for FREE)

Ruby Go Home (mp3) by Thee Oh Sees
(buy cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

To Clean (mp3) by Woods
(buy cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

Twin Of Myself (mp3) by Black Moth Super Rainbow
(buy cd // buy mp3)

Sooner Or Later (mp3) by ZAZA
(vinyl and mp3 coming next month)

How To Defeat A More Powerful Enemy (mp3) by Apostle Of Hustle
(buy cd or vinyl or mp3)

What’s This Magical (mp3) by Celebration
(dl for FREE // make a donation on their blog)

Blues Not Speed (mp3) by Mika Miko
(buy cd // buy mp3)

Billy Ocean (mp3) by Super Tennis
(buy vinyl // buy mp3)

Tambourine (mp3) by Little Girls
(buy cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

Two Weeks (mp3) by Grizzly Bear
(buy cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

Apply (mp3) by Glasser
(buy vinyl // buy mp3)

You Lose (mp3) by Cause Co-Motion!
(buy vinyl // buy mp3)

Psychic City (Voodoo City) (mp3) by YACHT
(buy cd or vinyl or mp3 + free stuff // preorder See Mystery Lights)

Roses In The Park (mp3) by Liechtenstein
(buy cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

Where Was My Brain? (mp3) by Ted Leo + Pharmacists
(buy cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

Forever (mp3) by Love Of Diagrams
(buy cd or vinyl or mp3 // buy new 7″ direct from the band)

Dreamers (mp3) by Browns
(buy cd or vinyl)

Useful Chamber (mp3) by Dirty Projectors
(buy cd or vinyl or mp3)

Heart Sweats (mp3) by Japandroids
(preorder cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

Bio Hassle (mp3) by Boogie Boarder
(buy cd w/comic // buy mp3)

Got Nuffin (mp3) by Spoon
(buy cd or vinyl // buy mp3)

If you haven’t already, check out Best Downloadables Of 2009, Vol. 1… here.

And now another installment of Stuck In My Head, where I post some mp3s that are um, stuck in my head.

Downloadables:

Little Brother (Electric) (mp3) by Grizzly Bear
(Buy some Grizzly zeros and ones… here or here)

Twin Of Myself (Go! Team Remix) (mp3) by Black Moth Super Rainbow
(Get more BMSR… here)

Useful Chamber (mp3) by Dirty Projectors
(Pick up Bitte Orca… here or here)

Young Hearts Spark Fire (are you familiar mp3) by Japandroids
(Get Post Nothing digitally… here or preorder it physically… here.)

Black Moth Super Rainbow have a new superchill promomp3 making the rounds for the release of Eating Us… their superchill new album. It comes out tomorrow and was produced by Dave “Flaming Lips” Fridmann. Look for the extradeluxe hand-numbered cd version that comes in a hairy sleeve.

Downloadable: Twin Of Myself (shorefire mp3)

Graveface “hairy dexlue” preorder is here.
The standard Amazon preorder is here.

More Black Moth Super Rainbow mp3s… here.
Myspace page is here.
Graveface page is here.
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

Eating Us BONUS: Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise (graveface mp3)
Oldie BONUS: Boatfriend (graveface mp3)
Bonus Dripper BONUS: Bonus Drippers (The Older Unreleased & Hard-To-Find Songs) (sendspace)

Streamable: Quiet Little Voices (youtube) by We Were Promised Jetpacks


Downloadable: Quiet Little Voices (sxsw mp3)

Streamable: Land Of The Freak (youtube) by King Khan & The Shrines


Downloadable: Land Of The Freak (vice mp3 w/plug at the end)

Streamable: Black Tape (youtube) by Low Scores


Downloadable: Black Tape (mp3)

Also, be sure to check out Black Moth Super Rainbow’s interactive video entitled Dark Bubbles… here. This is a screenshot:

(source: s’gum

So, I think it’s about time we start looking back on the year. I don’t know about you, but I think this is a pretty great year for music so far. Without any further ado, I give you the first installment of… The Best Downloadables Of 2009.

When Your Mask Is Your Revealing Feature (mp3) by The Oranges Band

The Mountain (fat possum mp3) by Hearltess Bastards

Housewolf (mp3) by Eula

In the Dark (mp3) by Gun Outfit

Lake House (mp3) by Vivian Girls

Pine On (sub pop mp3) by Obits

New Guitar (mp3) by Mi Ami

First Daze (jajaguwar mp3) by Pterodactyl

Gumball Machine Weekend (mp3) by Yppah

Grinding Halt (mp3) by The Muslims

Fangela (mp3) by Here We Go Magic

So Fine (mp3) by Telepathe

Digital Haircut (mp3) by dd/mm/yyyy

Don’t Lie (mp3) by Abe Vigoda

So Bored (mp3) by Wavves

I Got A Lot (New New New) (mp3) by Mika Miko

Lips (beggars mp3) by Micachu & The Shapes

Bell (mp3) by Screaming Females

For the Saints (1928 mp3) by Browns

Preparation’s Kids Choir (mp3) by Prefuse 73

Cassette Tape (mp3) by Day Of The Woman

The Lie/The Truth (mp3) by Double Dagger

Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise (graveface mp3) by Black Moth Super Rainbow

Pink Sabbath (mp3) by Dananananaykroyd

Tin Birds (mp3) by Blank Dogs