Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let’s look back, reflect, and contemplate… what were we listening to one year ago?
Listen to the April 2011 Mix and find out.
You can stream (and scrobble) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice.
If you want to download all the individual tracks in this post, you should probably think about installing the DownThemAll! or FlashGot Firefox extensions as we are way too lazy to zip and upload every single Monthly Mix.
Also, if you like what you hear you should probably purchase music from the above artists at any of these fine online retailers (or your local independent record store):
And now, it’s time to list my Favorite Albums of 2011. Here are 21 albums that I really loved this year. Listen to the tracks below, (and if you have not already) fall in love and go buy some albums.
You can stream (and scrobble) all the songs in this post using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice.
If you want to download all the individual tracks in this post, you should probably think about installing the DownThemAll! or FlashGot Firefox extensions as we are way too lazy to zip and upload every single mp3 in this post.
Also, if you like what you hear you should probably purchase music from the above artists at any of these fine online retailers (or your local independent record store):
You can stream (and scrobble) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice.
If you want to download all the individual tracks in this post, you should probably think about installing the DownThemAll! or FlashGot Firefox extensions as we are way too lazy to zip and upload every single mp3 in this post.
Also, if you like what you hear you should probably purchase music from the above artists at any of these fine online retailers (or your local independent record store):
It is time for the third volume of the Best Downloadables of 2011.
You can download any or all of the tracks at your leisure or you can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom left of the page. If you are using Chrome you should really think about installing the awesome ex.fm extension (especially if you use last.fm).
Oh, and be sure to check out the rest of our of best of posts.
Additionally, if you like what you hear you should probably purchase music from the above artists at any of these fine online retailers (or your local independent record store):
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.
Adam and Baxter of MIRACLES sent us these answers to our questions in this next installment of the q and also a series.
q: What is the last song you (really) heard?
a: Antimagic‘s “Shake Shake Shake” has been in heavy rotation all year. I rediscovered De La Soul‘s Stakes is High last week after not listening to it for a few years. It still rules.
b: For me, it’s a tie between Young Widows‘ “Old Skin” and “Breathe Life” by Heavy Winged. The former is a minute and a half, the latter is about 19. Both are equally rewarding, but for very different reasons.
b: I’ll second, third, and fourth The Psychic Paramount. That Santos show made my torso turn into a column of light. Do the bands need to be in existence still? If no, I’d say Don Caballero, pre-American Don. They scared the absolute shit out of me. If yes, in addition to The Psychic Paramount, I’ll throw in Converge or Rosetta. Super earnest, super intense, super inspiring.
q: What piece(s) of culture are you really really excited about right now?
a: Matt Rich‘s paintings. Jim Gallagher‘s collage work. Yoonha Park‘s videos for Small Black. But really, the culture yet to come, the end of global monoculture, the end of pattern exhaustion, a new and willful isolation, the culture quarantine. Art needs what is being celebrated in the slow/local/farm-to-table food movement – the rise of a hyperlocal style, instead of this global feeding frenzy for the next new thing whose beauty will be instantly commodified. To accomplish this, art and music would have to literally tune out globally and drop in locally, or something like that. That’s what we’re trying to get at with “Quarantine.”
b: I just think 2011 is proving itself to be an amazing year for music, live and recorded. The Psychic Paramount‘s new album is preposterously good, the new My Disco is super hypnotic, The Skull Defekts album with Dan Higgs is mind-bending, and the new Young Widows is somehow skeletal and ass-kicking at the same time. Then there’s new stuff from Liturgy, Burmese, INDIAN, The Body, Deafheaven…I could go on and on. All of these bands have such a fresh and idiosyncratic take on music, it’s incredibly invigorating to listen to.
q: Anything we should know about your latest project (whatever that might be)?
a+b: Two brand new tracks available here! Unfortunately, Chris Carson, who is responsible for the awesome drums on these songs, is focusing on solo stuff right now, so we’re writing new material with a couple of drummer friends and looking for a more permanent replacement. Drummers get in touch if you’re interested!
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