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.

Bay Area dubpunks Tempo No Tempo sent us these answers to our questions in the latest q and also a.

q: What is the last song you (really) heard?

a: The last song I (really) heard was The Galaxist (mp3) by Deerhoof…we were jamming really hard to the last four Deerhoof records on our Oregon tour. I had lost my copy of Friend Opportunity, so we spent a lot of time revisiting that record and Milk Man. We all love that band a lot.

q: What is your favorite food?

a: Mexican food. Easy. Specifically, taco trucks in Oakland.

q: What is your favorite band to see live?

a: Either the Dirty Projectors or LCD Soundsystem. It used to be The Juan MacLean, before their drummer Jerry Fuchs died. I think, actually, that’s the first time that the death of a musician I didn’t know personally really affected me. When I heard that he died, it really brought into focus how special the shows I had seen him play were. They were amazing.

Listen: Gimme Gimme Gimme (Daytrotter Session) (mp3) by Dirty Projectors

Watch: Losing My Edge @ Music Hall of Williamsburg 4/08/10 (youtube) by LCD Soundsystem

Watch: Give Me Every Little Thing (youtube) by The Juan MacLean

q: What is your favorite venue in NYC (if applicable)?

a: We love the Cake Shop, and Death By Audio. I’ve seen a lot of shows in NY, but Tempo No Tempo has only played a handful. The Cake Shop is just awesome because the staff is rad and the room is the perfect amount of tiny and dingy.

q: OK, President Obama appoints you as the first Secretary of Culture, to whom do you give your first grant?

a: Gotta be the Numero Group folks. They consistently release the most beautiful collections of rare tracks, documented and packaged brilliantly. They’re like a funky Alan Lomax.

Listen: The founders of Numero Group on Sound Opinions with Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot (sound opinions mp3)

q: Anything we should know about your latest project (whatever that might be)?

a: Yeah, we put out a record on our own in October, Waking Heat. We wrote it in six months, after our keyboardist left for law school, and then recorded and mixed it in five days.

We’ve been having this crazy transformation, since the songs have finally settled in, where the parts are opening up and the dynamics and dialogue between our instruments are totally changing. It’s exciting, but also puts the album into perspective as this snapshot when all the songs were really fresh.

We want to make an EP and some videos soon…so stay tuned for the latest latest projects I guess.

…And here is one of the videos Tempo No Tempo said they wanted to make.

Watch: Pole Position (vimeo)

Here are a couple tracks off of Waking Heat.

Listen: Pole Position (mp3)

Listen: Kilometer (mp3)

Upcoming Shows: Tempo No Tempo will be touring around California with GT favs Dinowalrus at the end of the month. You can check dates and places… here. It is sure to be mind-expanding.

Tempo No Tempo is on Myspace
Tempo No Tempo is on Facebook
Tempo No Tempo is on Twitter
Tempo No Tempo is on Muxtape
Tempo No Tempo is on elbows
Tempo No Tempo is on Hype Machine
Tempo No Tempo is on Big Cartel
Tempo No Tempo was on Double Negative
Tempo No Tempo is on RCRDLBL
Tempo No Tempo is on Insound
Tempo No Tempo is on Amazon MP3
Tempo No Tempo is on eMusic

For the next q and also a, Alex Tween of The Forms sent us these here answers.

q: What is the last song you (really) heard?

a: bad romance (wiki) by lada gaga. i think that’s the song all of america has last heard.

q: What is your favorite food?

a: morningstar farms sausage patties. my freezer at any given point has a pile of boxes at least 5 high.

q: What is your favorite band to see live?

a: that’s a tossup between the national and dirty projectors. in general most concerts are pretty boring i think, except when you love 90%-100% of the songs. then it’s awesome.

Listen:
Fake Empire (mp3) by The National
Fucked for Life (mp3) by Dirty Projectors

q: What is your favorite venue in NYC (if applicable)?

a: i love bell house and music hall of williamsburg.

q: OK, President Obama appoints you as the first Secretary of Culture, to whom do you give your first grant?

a: i’d start with noah kalina, a really brilliant photographer based in brooklyn.

q: Anything we should know about your latest project (whatever that might be)?

a: a new EP called derealization will be out in the spring. it has lots of contributions from people in other local bands we really love. we built a studio in ridgewood, queens and recorded it there with scott solter, and we couldn’t be more thrilled with the results.

Here are a couple tracks from The Forms‘ latest self-titled album.

Listen:
Knowledge In Hand (mp3)
Getting It Back (mp3)

And here are a couple tracks from their earlier album, Icarus.

Listen:
Stravinsky (mp3)
Sunday (mp3)

We will post something from derealization as soon as it is available.

The Forms dot org is here.
Three Spheres are here.
Insound page is here.
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

And now a new feature here at GIMME TINNITUS, q and also a, where I chat/email with bands and they answer some questions. To kick off the feature I met up with Pete from Dinowalrus. Here we go…

q: What is the last song you heard?

a: The hour-long composition E2-E4 by Ash Ra Tempel guitarist, Manuel Göttsching.

Listen: E2-E4 snippet (youtube)

q: What is your favorite food?

a: St Louis style ribs (in particular, the ones at Pappy’s Smoke House).

q: What is your favorite band to see live?

a: Comets On Fire or Boredoms… a distant 3rd would probably be HEALTH.

Listen: Lets Take it All (mp3) by Comets On Fire

q: What is your favorite NYC venue?

a: We’ve had really great shows at Music Hall of Williamsburg and Dead Herring.

q: OK, President Obama appoints you as the first Secretary of Culture, to whom do you give your first grant?

a: Excepter.

Listen: Kill People (mp3)

q: Anything we should know about your album, %?

a: The album was “informed by the liberation of moving to NYC in 2006 and finding that, at the time, there was an audience for pretty crazy and mutant music.” DINOWALRUS didn’t know at first whether it would fall into the “indie” scene or the “art noise” scene, though now they have found themselves to be the weirdest band on the indie scene rather than the poppiest band on the noise scene. There were a bunch of especially inspring bands around in 2006 that were “challenging” their listeners to, sonically, go places they had never been before, including Parts & Labor, Dirty Projectors, Psychic Ills, and Gang Gang Dance…and I think our approach was informed by that more than anything else. Ironically, earnest and classic indie rock appears to be all the rage now, and I’ve been pretty bored with that!

Listen:
Fractured Skies (mp3) by Parts & Labor
Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie (mp3) by Dirty Projectors
Killers (mp3) by Psychic Ills
Nicoman (mp3) by Gang Gang Dance

“If you are serious about music, when you make an album you have to take 45 years of pop/rock history in account, and I think this album was informed as much by trying to find a unique place in music history as it was by current happenings around town,” and Dinowalrus wanted to put out something that was “mind blowing.” % doesn’t really have “a direct pop sensibility,” but it will “keep on your toes” and “make you feel free.”

So, if you are bored with present form of lofipoppunk that seems to be everywhere now, check out some DINOWALRUS:

Listen:
BEAD (mp3)
Nuke Duke ‘Em (mp3)

In the future, they will probably narrow their focus a bit, and not cram as many ideas into their next album. Pete is currently working on two recording side projects, one is an album of stadium metal and the other one is a baggy Madchester acid house record.

There will be no trek to SXSW this year for Dinowalrus, but they are doing a small mid-Atlantic tour, and a New England tour Plus, they are working on setting up a tour in April of California with Tempo No Tempo. They are playing a show tomorrow (1/30) and also next Thursday (2/4)…

Upcoming Shows:
Jan 30 @ House Of Yes w/ Javelin, The Shivers, Ava Luna, and Shark?
Feb 4 @ Littlefield w/ The Vandelles and The Naked Hearts

Dinowalrus is on Myspace.
Dinowalrus is on Facebook.
Kanine Records is here.
igetrvng is here.
IMPOSE Records is here.
Insound page is here.
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

It’s time to look back and reflect again, what were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the January 2009 Mix…

Downloadables:
Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare (mp3) by Matt & Kim

Baraat (mp3) by Rude Mechanical Orchestra

Knotty Pine (mp3) by Dirty Projectors + David Byrne

The Mountain (mp3) by Heartless Bastards

Housewolf (mp3) by Eula

Digital Haircut (mp3) by dd/mm/yyyy

In The Dark (Demo) (mp3) by Gun Outfit

Misfit (mp3) by Wipers

Wretched Wisdom (mp3) by Krallice

Gumball Machine Weekend (Pollination Remix) (mp3) by Yppah

My Girls (Mexicans with Guns Remix) (mp3) by Animal Collective

Crystal Mines (mp3) by CFCF

The Moon Shifts The Sea The Sea Shapes The Shore The Shore Shakes The Sand The Sand Sinks The Ship (mp3) by A.Armada

Knowledge In Hand (mp3) by The Forms

Don’t Taunt A Tiger (mp3) by Slothbear

I Love You But You’re Worthless (mp3) by Brilliant Sweaters

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

Paper Planes (M.I.A. Cover) (mp3) by Pale Young Gentlemen

Bear (mp3) by The Antlers

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

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

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

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.

Streamable: No Hope Kids (vimeo) by Wavves


Downloadable: No Hope Kids (mp3)
Props To The Fader


Streamable: I Am Not A Gambling Man (vimeo) by A Hawk And A Hacksaw


Downloadable: I Am Not A Gambling Man (mp3)


Streamable: Stillness Is The Move (youtube) by Dirty Projectors


Downloadable: Stillness Is The Move (mp3)
Props To Culture Bully


Streamable: Die Slow (Live) (youtube) by HEALTH


Downloadable: Die Slow (Live) (mp3 from flv rip)
Props to unARTigNYC


Streamable: Your Favorite Noise Band Is Nothing Special (youtube via CHUKLET)

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.)

- PTST Band Of The Week, Slothbear is playing a show on April 16th @ Death By Audio along with Picture Books and Boo And Boo Too. Listen to some Slothbear…

Downloadable: You Make Me Choose You (mp3)

- I Rock Cleveland posts a track by the grimey Crocodiles… here. Me too!

Downloadable: I Wanna Kill (mp3)

- To get the new Dirty Projectors mp3, type your junk email address… here.

- New New New electronicgoodness in the form of a Nosaj Thing “freeload” over @ the FADER… here.

- Dig on an awesome Mission Of Burma track and check out some photos of the recent Slaughterama @ SUCKA PANTS… here.