GIMME TINNITUS

And now it’s time for the next installment of the Best Downloadables series. You can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom of the page or download any of the tracks at your leisure. Listen…

Downloadables:

Cow (mp3) by Nikoo
      (d/l the whole EP @ their official site)

Latin America (mp3) by Holy Fuck

Latin Lover (mp3) by Mi Ami

Pillow Talk (mp3) by Double Dagger

Burn Bridges (mp3) by DOM

Heat & Depression (mp3) by Blank Dogs

Neon Beams (mp3) by Take

Oh Appalachia (railcars Remix) (mp3) by Seamonster

USA BOYS (mp3) by HEALTH

Fresh Hex (Feat. Beck) (mp3) by TOBACCO

Medulla Oblongata (mp3) by Buke And Gāss

Radical Opinion (mp3) by Archers

Tell ‘Em (mp3) by Sleigh Bells

My Whole Life (mp3) by Gun Outfit

Francis (mp3) by Gray Goods

Sun (Pollination Remix) (mp3) by Caribou
      (there’s lots more Caribou remixes @ Soundcloud)

Ace (Demo) (mp3) by The Big Sleep

Caesar (mp3) by Ty Segall

Want You Back (Phaseone Remix) (mp3) by Nite Jewel

Trees (mp3) by Thrushes

If It Feels Alright (mp3) by Woven Bones

Be sure to check out the rest of the year’s Best Downloadables:

Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | Vol. 4

Additionally, if you like what you hear you should probably purchase music from the above artists at any of these fine online retailers:

Insound | Amazon MP3 | eMusic | Other Music

Also, If you want to download all (or most of) the tracks in this post, you should probably think about installing the DownThemAll! or FlashGot Firefox extensions.

It’s time to look back and reflect again. What were we listening to one year ago?

Listen to the April 2009 Mix to find out…

Downloadables:

Die Slow (mp3) by HEALTH

Arming Eritrea (Live @ WOXY) (mp3) by Future Of The Left

Hyts Of Summer (mp3) by Knyfe Hyts

Song 17B (mp3) by The Austerity Program

Tin Birds (mp3) by Blank Dogs

Cheap Wine River (mp3) by Experimental Dental School

Pink Sabbath (mp3) by Dananananaykroyd

Billz (mp3) by Team Robespierre

Weak For Me (mp3) by Nite Jewel

Cassette Tape (mp3) by Day Of The Woman

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

Invisible Cities (mp3) by NOMO

Jungles (mp3) by Holy Fuck

Laser Cat (mp3) by Nestroyer

Power Supply (mp3) by Anamanaguchi

Psychedelic Tits (Live @ WOXY) (mp3) by Harlem

The Freak Was Clean (mp3) by Thee Oh Sees

Stop Stomp Stompin’ (mp3) by The Coathangers

Fate To Fatal (mp3) by The Breeders

Los Angeles Guitar Dream (mp3) by Spanish Prisoners

Heard You Wanna Beat Me Up (mp3) by The Strange Boys

If you like what you hear you should probably purchase additional music by the above artists from any of these fine online retailers:

Insound | Amazon MP3 | eMusic | Other Music

If you haven’t done it already, make sure you check out the other monthly mixes.

Also, If you want to download all the individual tracks in this post, you should probably think about installing the DownThemAll! or FlashGot Firefox extensions.

Blank Dogs (a/k/a Mike Sniper) is currently playing live as a three-piece band featuring Pamela Garavano-Coolbaugh (whom you may know from reading reviews on the Other Music website) and Craig Mileski (of Hunchback). The band has a new full length album in the works, which will mostly likely be released later this year. In the meantime, the band has a new 4 track EP of “dark pop” called Phrases (as well as a cassette single called Leaves) on Captured Tracks. This is the first song off of said EP. Listen.

Downloadable: Heat & Depression (mp3)

Blank Dogs is presently touring the US/Canada right now with their labelmates, Wetdog (not West Coast), and Cosmetics (West Coast). You can get the tour info at the Blank Dogs myspace.

Upcoming (NYC) Shows:
May 12 @ Home Sweet Home (for Wierd Night)
May 22 @ Knitting Factory (for NY EYE & EAR FEST III)

You can order the new Blank Dogs releases @ Captured Tracks.

Blank Dogs is on Myspace.
Blank Dogs is on Facebook.
Blank Dogs is on elbows.
Blank Dogs is on Hype Machine.
Captured Tracks is here.
In The Red Records is here.
Woodsist is here.
Sacred Bones is here.
Troubleman Unlimited is here.
Insound page is here.
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

The LA-headquartered Dum Dum Girls is led by Dee Dee whom you remember from Grand Ole Party when she was know as Kristen Gundred (not a very Ramonesy name). Dum Dum Girls is also one half of The Mayfair Set. The fuzzed out prolific one man band Blank Dogs is the other half.

Sub Pop will be releasing the Dum Dum Girls‘ debut full length album, I Will Be sometime in late March (probably). The band looks back to the girl groups the 1960’s and to the early punk rock of the 1970’s for inspiration. I Will Be has eleven songs, and clocks in at thirty minutes. They call their sound “blissed-out buzz saw.” Listen…

Downloadable: Jail La La (mp3)

Upcoming Show:
Feb 21 @ Mercury Lounge w/ Frankie & The Outs, Happy Birthday & Coasting

Sub Pop is here.
Captured Tracks is here.
Art Fag is here.
RCRDLBL page is here.
Insound page is here.
Amazon page is here.

BONUS: Catholicked (mp3)

BONUS: Dum Dum Girls are on the latest Sub Pop Cybersex compilation. GET IT!

BONUS: Junked! (mp3) by Mayfair Set

BONUS: Download the Grand Ole Party daytrotter session… here.

So this post contains (pretty much) all of my favorite mp3s from 2009. I have not put them in any sort of preferential order. These are sorted by artist in alphabetical order.

Take your time, scroll slowly, there are some real gems here. You may notice some big names missing here. Well, you know you can find those mp3s elsewhere (right?).

I will be putting up best of 2009 posts all week, so make sure you check back here soon. Also, if you haven’t already, you should check out largehearted boy’s 2009 Year-End Online Music Lists. Good stuff.

Without any further ado, I present the Top 109 Downloadables of 2009.

The Downloadables:

Glow Wreath (mp3) by Aa (BIG A little a)

Don’t Lie (mp3) by Abe Vigoda

So Bored (Wavves Cover) (mp3) by Anamanaguchi

Two (mp3) by The Antlers

Perfect Fit (mp3) by Apostle Of Hustle

Walkabout (w/ Noah Lennox) (mp3) by Atlas Sound

Time (mp3) by Beach Fossils

Make You Mine (mp3) by Best Coast

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

Tin Birds (mp3) by Blank Dogs

Which One Of You Jerks Drank My Arnold Palmer? (mp3) by Blockhead

Name Tossers (mp3) by BOAT

Absolutely Anything (mp3) by Brilliant Colors

Rustic Arcadia (mp3) by Campfires

What’s This Magical (mp3) by Celebration

Love Is A Wave (mp3) by Crystal Stilts

Pink Sabbath (mp3) by Dananananaykroyd

We’re Not Going (mp3) by Darlings

Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell (Wallpaper. RMX) (mp3) by Das Racist

Cassette Tape (mp3) by Day Of The Woman

Digital Haircut (mp3) by dd/mm/yyyy

BEAD (mp3) by Dinowalrus

Useful Chamber (mp3) by Dirty Projectors

Knotty Pine (mp3) by Dirty Projectors + David Byrne

The Lie/The Truth (mp3) by Double Dagger

Moon Fallout (mp3) by Dragon Turtle

I Remember (mp3) by Endless Endless Endless

Self Awakening (Take Remix) (mp3) by Ernest Gonzales

Housewolf (mp3) by Eula

Robots (mp3) by Exercise

Thee Only One (mp3) by Frankie Rose

Greg The Nerd (mp3) by Frat Dad

Surf Solar (Edit) (mp3) by Fuck Buttons

Arming Eritrea (mp3) by Future Of The Left

When They Fight They Fight (mp3) by Generationals

Prize Fighter (mp3) by Golden Triangle

Two Weeks (mp3) by Grizzly Bear

Dreamsucker (mp3) by Grooms

In The Dark (mp3) by Gun Outfit

Friendly Ghost (mp3) by Harlem

Die Slow (mp3) by HEALTH

Before Tigers (CFCF RMX) (mp3) by HEALTH

Fangela (mp3) by Here We Go Magic

Stats And Demographics (mp3) by Huak

Rising 5 (mp3) by Hudson Mohawke

Young Hearts Spark Fire (mp3) by Japandroids

Bone Jam (mp3) by Jeff The Brotherhood

West Coast (mp3) by Junk Culture

Dimensional Bleedthrough (mp3) by Krallice

Overnite Religion (mp3) by Kurt Vile

Beach Town (mp3) by Le Loup

Roses In The Park (mp3) by Liechtenstein

Tambourine (mp3) by Little Girls

Mysterium (mp3) by Liturgy

Red Oak Way (mp3) by Lotus Plaza

Forever (mp3) by Love Of Diagrams

100 Flowers (mp3) by Lovvers

Junked! (mp3) by The Mayfair Set

Asleep At A Party (mp3) by Memory Cassette

Lips (mp3) by Micachu & The Shapes

Blues Not Speed (mp3) by Mika Miko

1,2,3 Partyy! (mp3) by Mission Of Burma

You’re A Target (mp3) by No Age

Invisible Cities (mp3) by NOMO

Pine On (mp3) by Obits

Two-Headed Coin (mp3) by Obits

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

Young Adult Friction (mp3) by The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Fences (The Soft Pack Remix) (mp3) by Phoenix

Goth Star (mp3) by Pictureplane

Sinister Skies (mp3) by Pollination

Preparation’s Kids Choir (mp3) by Prefuse 73

First Daze (mp3) by Pterodactyl

Gigantic (Pixies Cover) (mp3) by Puttin’ On The Ritz

Passion Of Saint Edmund (Rebirth) (mp3) by railcars

Fake Blues (mp3) by Real Estate

Set-Up (mp3) by RENMINBI

FROST (mp3) by Salem

Bell (mp3) by Screaming Females

Fear! (mp3) by Shark?

Truth Is (mp3) by The Sky Drops

Crown On The Ground (mp3) by Sleigh Bells

C’mon (mp3) by The Soft Pack

Los Angeles Guitar Dream (mp3) by Spanish Prisoners

Got Nuffin (mp3) by Spoon

Billy Ocean (mp3) by Super Tennis

Kudos (mp3) by Surf City

Swim (To Reach The End) (mp3) by Surfer Blood

M.B.T. (mp3) by Susu

Ghost Colony (mp3) by Tape Deck Mountain

Where Was My Brain? (mp3) by Ted Leo + The Pharmacists

Portofino (mp3) by Teengirl Fantasy

So Fine (mp3) by Telepathe

Kilometer (mp3) by Tempo No Tempo

Ruby Go Home (mp3) by Thee Oh Sees

Move To California (mp3) by Times New Viking

Blessa (mp3) by Toro Y Moi

It #1 (mp3) by Ty Segall

Shark Suit (mp3) by UUVVWWZ

When I’m Gone (mp3) by Vivian Girls

Elephants (mp3) by Warpaint

Belong (mp3) by Washed Out

Mickey Mouse (Demo) (mp3) by Wavves

So Bored (mp3) by Wavves

Homeopathic Valtrex (mp3) by White Shit

Psychic City (mp3) by YACHT

Ambling Alp (mp3) by Yeasayer

Gumball Machine Weekend (mp3) by Yppah

Sooner Or Later (mp3) by ZAZA

UPDATE: I knew I forgot something…

Coat Of Arms (mp3) by Nosaj Thing

If you want to download all the individual tracks in this post, you should think about installing the DownThemAll! Firefox extension.


More Best of 2009 Coverage:
Albums | Videos | MP3 Blogs | Photos | Mixtape | Free Albums | Off My Radar

Charlie B. Barkin’ (mp3) by Car Stereo (Wars)

I Believe In Fate (Sebadoh Cover) (mp3) by Superchunk

You Don’t Have To (If You Don’t Want To) (mp3) by Gentleman Jesse And His Men

Starting Over (mp3) by The Black Lips

African Rhythms (mp3) by Mi Ami

Green Flag (mp3) by Growing

Harper Lewis (mp3) by Russian Circles

Daily I Will Calculate the Distance (mp3) by ((Sounder))

Hole In My Head (mp3) by Box Elders

Cuando Maavilla Fui (mp3) by El Guincho

What It’s All About (mp3) by Girl Talk

PWND (mp3) by The Mae Shi

Rize (mp3) by Blood On The Wall

Meltdown Cloud (mp3) by Blank Dogs

Finger On The Knife (mp3) by James Pants

Whenusleep (mp3) by Salem

The Offbeat (mp3) by FLYamSAM

Titus Andronicus (mp3) by Titus Andronicus

So Bored (mp3) by Wavves

Had Enough (mp3) by Gun Outfit

You Can Have A Cellphone That’s OK But Not Me (mp3) by Jonathan Richman

Red Herring (mp3) by Harlem

If you haven’t done it already, make sure you check out the other monthly mixes.

If you want to download all the tracks in this mix, you should install DownThemAll!.

While part one of my Best Of The Aughts list consisted of tracks I would have liked to have blogged about, part two here is sort of a Best Of GIMME TINNITUS. This list was supposed to be about 30 songs long, but it just kept growing. Download individual tracks or grab all of them in three zips or just stream them from the yahoo music dealie on the bottom left part of the window.

Here are the best songs I actually blogged about this decade.

Downloadables:

Songs 1-20 (sendspace zip)
Songs 21-40 (sendspace zip)
Songs 41-64 (sendspace zip)

1. Knowledge In Hand (mp3) by The Forms
(buy from the label)

2. Run To Your Grave (mp3) by The Mae Shi
(buy from the band)

3. Dart for My Sweetheart (mp3) by Archie Bronson Outfit
(buy it)

4. Bell (mp3) by Screaming Females
(buy from the band)

5. Die Slow (mp3) by HEALTH
(buy it)

6. Neck Escaper (mp3) by No Age
(buy from the label)

7. Enanz (mp3) by Low Scores
(not for sale)

8. Hot Pink, Distorted (mp3) by 50 Foot Wave
(download it)

9. Adeadenemyalwayssmellsgood (mp3) by Future Of The Left
(buy it)

10. All These Governors (mp3) by The Evens
(buy from the label)

11. Pine On (mp3) by Obits
(buy from the label)

12. The Psychic (mp3) by Double Dagger
(buy from the band)

13. The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth (mp3) by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
(buy it)

14. Cowbell (mp3) by Tapes ‘n Tapes
(buy from the band)

15. For Guys’ Eyes Only (mp3) by Hockey Night
(buy it)

16. “My Sword Hand’s Anger” (mp3) by Apostle Of Hustle
(buy it)

17. Crimewave (Crystal Castles vs. David Wolf) (mp3) by HEALTH
(buy from the label)

18. Extinction (mp3) by The Soft Pack
(buy it)

19. Sister Jack (mp3) by Spoon
(buy it)

20. Black Mirror (mp3) by Arcade Fire
(buy it)

21. You’re A Target (mp3) by No Age
(buy from the label)

22. Plates (mp3) by Proton Proton
(not for sale)

23. Pace Or The Patience (mp3) by Love Of Diagrams
(buy from the label)

24. Fractured Skies (mp3) by Parts & Labor
(buy from the distributor)

25. Eraser (mp3) by No Age
(buy from the label)

26. Cassette Tape (mp3) by Day Of The Woman
(download the compilation)

27. Pile Of Gold (mp3) by The Blow
(buy from the label)

28. Comfy In Nautica (mp3) by Panda Bear
(buy it)

29. Triceratops (mp3) by HEALTH
(buy from the label)

30. It #1 (mp3) by Ty Segall
(buy from the label)

31. Black Rice (mp3) by Women
(buy from the distributor)

32. Gumball Machine Weekend (mp3) by Yppah
(buy it)

33. Palmitos Park (mp3) by El Guincho
(buy from the distributor)

34. Sinister Skies (mp3) by Pollination
(buy from bandcamp)

35. The Underdog (mp3) by Spoon
(buy it)

36. Chrome’s On It (mp3) by Telepathe
(buy it)

37. We Are Gods! We Are Wolves! (mp3) by Le Loup
(buy from the label)

38. Hibernation (mp3) by Blood On The Wall
(buy it)

39. Esses (mp3) by Pterodactyl
(buy from the distributor)

40. Ride The Nuclear Wave (mp3) by The Oranges Band
(buy it)

41. Murder (mp3) by The Big Sleep
(buy from the label)

42. Lovely Weather (mp3) by The Vandelles
(buy from the band)

43. To Fix The Gash In Your Head by A Place To Bury Strangers
(buy it)

44. Capricornations (mp3) by Mika Miko
(buy it)

45. Fake Empire (mp3) by The National
(buy it)

46. Like It Is (Demo) (mp3) by Gun Outfit
(buy from label)

47. Electronic Detective (mp3) by Motico
(not for sale)

48. Civilized Worm (mp3) by Melvins
(buy it)

49. Where Do You Run To (mp3) by Vivian Girls
(buy from the label)

50. Green Seat (mp3) by Shepherdess
(buy it)

51. (I’m A) Donkey for Your Love by BOAT
(buy from the label)

52. Bright And Shining (mp3) by Koushik
(buy it)

53. Lovely Allen (mp3) by Holy Fuck
(buy it)

54. Cat Swallow (mp3) by Royal Bangs
(buy it)

55. Head Spins (Extended Version) (mp3) by High Places
(buy it)

56. Please Visit Your National Parks (mp3) by Oxford Collapse
(buy from the label)

57. Buried Alive (Live) (mp3) by Black Lips
(buy it)

58. Mount Wroclai (Idle Days) (mp3) by Beirut
(buy from the label)

59. Fun (mp3) by Screaming Females
(buy from the band)

60. Crystal Ladies (mp3) by Blank Dogs
(buy it)

61. Letter From Mr. Smith (mp3) by The Exeter Popes
(buy it)

62. See A Penny (Pick It Up) (mp3) by YACHT
(buy it)

63. Run To The Facts (mp3) by Yea Big & Kid Static
(buy it)

64. Do The Whirlwind (mp3) by Architecture In Helsinki
(buy it)

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If figure there maybe one or possibly two songs that will get listed at the very end of the year so I am holding a couple spaces just in case there is anything totally fucking amazing that comes out between now and then.

If you want more Best Of The Decade style blog coverage head over to largehearted boy for some aggregation.

Many people do not want to think about September 2008. That is when a nice glob of economic feces totally hit the proverbial fan. Nevertheless, we here at GIMME TINNITUS choose to look back.

Downloadables:

The Hope That House Built (beggars mp3) by Future Of The Left

Crystal Ladies (mp3) by Blank Dogs

Blind Spot (mp3) by Vivian Girls

Two (mp3) by The Antlers

Teenage Lust (JAMC Cover) (mp3) by Oliver North Boy Choir

Extinction (mp3) by The Soft Pack (formerly The Muslims)

Everything With You (mp3) by The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Sugarshack (mp3) by Unrest

Suspect Device (Stiff Little Fingers Cover) (mp3) by Ted Leo + The Pharmacists

Fear And Loathing In Mahwah, NJ (mp3) by Titus Andronicus

The Melody (mp3) by The Mae Shi

Silence (mp3) by Takka Takka

Loosen Up (mp3) by The Shaky Hands

The Exceptional Bastards (mp3) by Slothbear

You Gotta Feel It (Rehearsal) (mp3) by Spoon

George Washington (mp3) by Meho Plaza

Low Tide (mp3) by O’Death

Kalise (mp3) by El Guincho

Sunchips (Ghosts On Tape Remix) (mp3) by Lemonade

Safe For The Time Being (Low Scores Remix) (mp3) by Mason Proper

From Stardust to Sentience (mp3) by High Places

If you haven’t done it already, make sure you check out the other monthly mixes.

If you like Blank Dogs and/or post-backlash pre-meltdown Wavves (and let’s not mention Joy Division or Cabaret Voltaire), then you should prolly get some Torontoindiefuzz from Little Girls. Their Tambourine EP was released by Paper Bag Records earlier this week. The band plans to release two more EPs before the end of the year.

Downloadable: Tambourine (mp3)

Now you may ask yourself… “Another band with ‘Girls’ in their name, how I am supposed to keep track of this indie band name trend”?? This post may help.

Also, I have it on good authority that that Little Girls is the offshoot of the distortedeverythingduo known as Pirate/Rock whom I had not heard of until now. Maybe they are your favorite new band? I hear they have an EP in the works.

Upcoming dates for Little Girls:
July 8 @ Cake Shop
July 10 @ Cameo Gallery with Japandroids
July 11 @ TBA

Paper Bag Records is here.
Mexican Summer is here.
Captured Tracks is on myspace.
Recent FADER post is here.
eMusic page is here.

BONUS: What We Did (mp3)

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

Lofiweirdopunkers Blank Dogs’ new album Under and Under is set to be released In The Red Records. The street date is June 2.

It looks like this.

It sounds like this.

Downloadable: Tin Birds (mp3)

It got a pretty bad review (#268!) from Christopher R. Weingarten … here. Ouch.

Blank Dogs have a bunch of upcoming dates around the NYC area in advance of the record release:
4/24 @ Monster Island
4/25 @ Silent Barn
5/08 @ Bell House
5/10 @ Market Hotel
5/16 @ No Fun Fest

In The Red Records is here.
Troubleman Unlimited is here.
S’gum Band To Watch feature is here.
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.