GIMME TINNITUS

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

Listen to the June 2009 Mix to find out…

Downloadables:

Forever (mp3) by Love Of Diagrams

Paper (Hot Sax Version) (mp3) by Explode Into Colors

For The Saints (mp3) by Browns*

Tambourine (mp3) by Little Girls

BEAD (mp3) by Dinowalrus*

Dead Kid Kicks (mp3) by GROOMS née The Muggabears*

Bio Hassle (mp3) by Boogie Boarder*

Electric Pilgrim (mp3) by Screaming Females*

Transformer (mp3) by Marnie Stern*

Video Challenge (mp3) by Anamanaguchi*

Useful Chamber (mp3) by Dirty Projectors

Shine On (mp3) by Air Waves*

Don’t Talk In Your Sleep (mp3) by Magik Markers

Yellow Red (mp3) by Coyote Eyes

What’s This Magical (mp3) by Celebration

Armor All’d Out (mp3) by Diego Bernal

Tortoise Pace (mp3) by Memory Cassette

Everynight (mp3) by Gary War*

Ghost Town (pt. 1) (mp3) by Daniel Friel*

Lemonade (mp3) by Talk Normal*

Easy Answers (mp3) by These Are Powers*

* = artist performed at Northside Fest 2009; Get your 2010 badge @ Brown Paper Tickets.

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

And 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.

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

Streamable: Already Gone (vimeo) by The Shaky Hands



Streamable: Repeat It (vimeo) by Mystery Of Two


Downloadable: Repeat It (exit stencil mp3)


Streamable: Shelter (youtube) by Celebration


Note: free download is reportedly… coming soon


Streamable: Island, IS (pitchfork.tv) by Volcano Choir


Downloadable: Island, IS (jagjaguwar mp3)


Streamable: Let It Grow (pitchfork.tv) by The Black Lips

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.

B’more indie phemon Celebration are back, but not with a new album. They have rejected the physical CD/LP album, and are just releasing music digitally as they record it under a Creative Commons license. The tracks that Celebration are releasing in this manner are being grouped together under the following moniker… Electric Tarot Hello Paradise. Take a listen then read their explanation of their recent actions. All I can say is: Awesome!

Downloadable: What’s This Magical (mp3)

The Manifesto:

Greetings Dear Ones,

We, as Celebration, have felt the continual growth of web culture’s need for barrier-free exchange. We also feel that the traditional methods of releasing music have put too much distance between us. As we see it, the current music business model is crumbling. We believe their methods waste resources and time in a “print for market world” that no longer makes sense. The birth of the MP3 has dreamt the death of the CD format, and so all across the board, CD sales have dropped. What has given way is something so magical and evolutionary, music has grown, that we have only begun to understand the cultural impact of this sharing. So, past the piles of broken CD cases and badly scratched polycarbonate rainbow discs, there lies a fantastic world of freedom –freedom to share instantly with little or no impact on the environment, in a seemingly infinite, eternal and virtually cost free universe of the world wide web. This is our emancipation. Without the need for manufacturing CDs and the danse macabre of the promotional corporate machine, we can be free to release our music when and how we want –no waiting. We know nothing of the marketing world and don’t care about the vampires any more.

Our plan and experiment is to post new songs monthly, as we create and record them. Under the creative commons attribution non-commercial share alike license. all of our new music will be free to download on our website for non-commercial use. When we have enough music for an album, we will release it on vinyl for those who want to have something to hold. As artists we can only stand for our music, our art, our creation. So here it is laid bare. Some may say we are fools. If we be fools, then let us be the Fool of the tarot. The Fool card of the tarot represents a leap of faith, a leap into the unknown, a trust in the adventure of chance. It is in this spirit that we are unvailing a multidimensional, interactive musical Tarot deck, on our new website. We are constructing an experimental place to experience and share our musical vision with you. We strongly encourage you to blog, podcast, email and share links to our music and our site with others. We will post stems in the near future for remixing. If we like your remix, we will post it on our site. This experiment is funded solely by us and those of you who choose to be a part of making the music available. We’ve added a donation box to the site in hopes that you, our audience, can help support the artist’s right to autonomy. Thank you!

So with a leap of faith and fortune, we turn the fate of our future to you. We look forward to the time and moment when we share our music with you –it is our greatest joy.
Love,
Celebration

“The web is incredibly subversive, simply for the fact that all information is there and available in a world where control of access to information has always been a game. So the way I see it is, the psychedelic people need to use the new information technologies to build art, of a type, that is more powerful, more compelling than the world has ever seen before, call it virtual reality, call it multimedia, whatever you want. It’s basically walk into, walk around art, and then the boundaries will fall.” -Terrence Mckenna

“for it is in giving that we receive”- St. Francis of Assisi

There are two more tracks from Electric Tarot Hello Paradise available… here or here.

Don’t forget to paypal Celebration a donation… ilovecelebrationmusic [at] yahoo [dot] com.

I’m looking forward to hearing more, and maybe Celebration will release their stems for remixing and/or hook up with the CASH Music. Maybe?

Celebration blogspot is here.
Myspace page is here.
Beggars page is here.
Last.fm page is here.
4AD page is here.
eMusic page is here.

BONUS: Evergreen (beggars mp3)