Posts Tagged ‘The War On Drugs’
Saturday, September 17th, 2011
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 September 2010 Mix and find out.
Downloadables:
- Coma Summer (mp3) by Weekend
- Drifting (mp3) by Young Adults
- Fever Dreaming (mp3) by No Age
- Transparency Is the New Mystery (mp3) by Marnie Stern
- Tired (A Ceremony) (mp3) by Ghost Animal
- AWOL (mp3) by Grandfather
[d/l Why I'd Try @ grandfathermusic.com]
- Sung (Not Said) (mp3) by Magnetic Island
- Phone Home from the Edge (mp3) by Dinowalrus
- Comin’ Through (mp3) by The War On Drugs
- Kiss the Coast (mp3) by Sundelles
- Northern Islands (mp3) by Blank Dogs
- We Can Make It Out (Yppah Remix) (mp3) by Spokes
- Last Rites (mp3) by True Womanhood
- Fuguefat (mp3) by The Octopus Project
- Figurehead (mp3) by SOARS
- Lovers With Iraqis (MP3 version) (mp3) by Foot Village
- Silverfish (Junk Culture Remix) (mp3) by Signals
- I’d Be Insane To Say It (Ape School Remix) (mp3) by Day of the Woman
[d/l Day of the Woman @ exponential.bandcamp.com]
- Wax Rose Saturday (Remux Edit) (mp3) by Mux Mool
If you haven’t done it already, make sure you check out the other monthly mixes.
You can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom of the page OR if you are browsing with Chrome you can play (and scrobble) the whole page using the ex.fm extension 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.
And 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 the individual tracks in this post, you should probably think about installing the DownThemAll! or FlashGot Firefox extensions.

Tags:Ape School, Blank Dogs, Day Of The Woman, Dinowalrus, foot village, Ghost Animal, Grandfather, Junk Culture, Magnetic Island, Marnie Stern, Mux Mool, No Age, Signals, Soars, Spokes, Sundelles, The Octopus Project, The War On Drugs, True Womanhood, Weekend, Young Adults, Yppah
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Saturday, January 1st, 2011
Tags:Adult Themes, Anamanaguchi, Anni Rossi, Antimagic, Archers, Back To The Future The Ride, Balmorhea, Beck, Best Coast, Blackbird Blackbird, Blank Dogs, Blonde Redhead, Brilliant Colors, Buke And Gass, Burnt Ones, Campfires, Caribou, Cloud Nothings, Coin Under Tongue, Crystal Castles, Crystal Stilts, Cults, Deerhunter, Dinosaur Feathers, Dinowalrus, DOM, Double Dagger, Ducktails, Dum Dum Girls, Dunes, Endless Endless Endless, Erase Errata, Ernest Gonzales, Fang Island, Firebrand Boy, Follow That Bird!, foot village, Frankie Rose and the Outs, Future Of The Left, Gauntlet Hair, Ghost Animal, Gray Goods, Hands, Harlem, HEALTH, Idle Times, Japandroids, Javelin, JEFF The Brotherhood, Junk Culture, Keepaway, Kurt Vile, La Sera, Lali Puna, Magnetic Island, Marnie Stern, Mi Ami, MiniBoone, Mogwai, Motico, Nice Nice, Night Manager, No Age, No Joy, Paul A Rosales, Pollination, Procedure Club, Quilty, Ratatat, Screaming Females, Seth Smith, Shapers, Shark?, Sleepies, Sleigh Bells, Soars, Spirituals, Starscream, Su, Super Wild Horses, Susu, Take, Tanlines, The Big Sleep, The Corin Tucker Band, The Field Recordings, The Forgery Series, The Forms, The Hood Internet, The Soft Pack, The Thermals, The Vaselines, The War On Drugs, Thee Oh Sees, Times New Viking, Toro y Moi, Total Slacker, True Womanhood, Ty Segall, Warpaint, Weekend, Wet Illustrated, Wild Nothing, Women, Wonder Wheel, Woven Bones, Yeasayer, Young Adults, Zach Hill
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
And now, here are our Favorite Albums of 2010. Sorry Kanye, Sorry Arcade Fire, Sorry Sufjan, y’all are getting enough attention elsewhere. These are the albums that we really loved this year. Listen to the tracks below, (and if you have not already) fall in love and go buy some albums. Listen.
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Everything in Between by No Age

Listen: Fever Dreaming (mp3) [purchase]
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Listen: O.N.E. (mp3) [purchase]
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Sisterworld by Liars

Listen: Scissor (mp3) [purchase]
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Listen: Gay Human Bones (mp3) [purchase]
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In And Out and Back Again by Woven Bones

Listen: Your Way With My Life (mp3) [purchase]
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Listen: I Don’t Mind It (mp3) [purchase]
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Listen: Infinity Guitars (mp3) [purchase]
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Listen: IN HEAT (JAVELIN RMX) (mp3) [purchase]
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Listen: Sun (mp3) [purchase]
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Listen: Helicopter (mp3) [purchase]
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Listen: BEAD (mp3) [purchase]
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Listen: Baptism (mp3) [purchase]
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Listen: Your Face Left Before You (mp3) [purchase]
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Listen: Fried Egg (mp3) [purchase]
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Listen: City With Soul (mp3) [purchase]
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There Is Love In You by Four Tet

Listen: Angel Echoes (mp3) [purchase]
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Listen: Blessa (mp3) [purchase]
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Listen: Moscow 1980 (mp3) [purchase]
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Listen: Golden Town (mp3) [purchase]
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Listen: Bummer Summer (mp3) [purchase]
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Listen: Comin’ Through (mp3) [purchase]
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):
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.

Tags:Buke And Gass, Caribou, Crystal Castles, Deerhunter, Dinowalrus, Four Tet, Grass Widow, Harlem, HEALTH, Javelin, Liars, No Age, Screaming Females, Sleigh Bells, Spirituals, Super Wild Horses, The War On Drugs, Toro y Moi, Woven Bones, Yeasayer, Young Adults
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Sunday, December 26th, 2010
Continuing our best of 2010 coverage we now look at some of the awesome songs recorded by our pals at Daytrotter this year. And I will just go and say it… Daytrotter is quite possibly my favorite places to find music on the internet. If you are not clicking over there at least one a week, you are really missing out. Yes, you have to register and use their java-based downloader thingy, but it is so worth it. These are our favorite Daytrottin’ tracks of 2010. Listen.
Downloadables:
- Youth (mp3) by Beach Fossils
(d/l the rest of the 128kbps mp3 session @ Daytrotter)
- Leave House (mp3) by Caribou
(d/l the rest of the 128kbps mp3 session @ Daytrotter)
- Go Outside (mp3) by Cults
(d/l the rest of the 128kbps mp3 session @ Daytrotter)
- Surf Solar (mp3) by Fuck Buttons
(d/l the rest of the 128kbps mp3 session @ Daytrotter)
- C Town (mp3) by Javelin
(d/l the rest of the 128kbps mp3 session @ Daytrotter)
- Heavy Days (mp3) by JEFF The Brotherhood
(d/l the rest of the 128kbps mp3 session @ Daytrotter)
- Scarecrows On A Killer Slant (mp3) by Liars
(d/l the rest of the 128kbps mp3 session @ Daytrotter)
- Wild Eyes (mp3) by The Local Natives
(d/l the rest of the 128kbps mp3 session @ Daytrotter)
- Tea Lights (mp3) by Lower Dens
(d/l the rest of the 128kbps mp3 session @ Daytrotter)
- Depletion (mp3) by No Age
(d/l the rest of the 128kbps mp3 session @ Daytrotter)
- A New Kid/Zoo of Death (mp3) by Screaming Females
(d/l the rest of the 128kbps mp3 session @ Daytrotter)
- Black Sheep (mp3) by Suckers
(d/l the rest of the 128kbps mp3 session or purchase
the lossless version @ Daytrotter)
- Solitude Is Bliss (mp3) by Tame Impala
(d/l the rest of the 128kbps mp3 session @ Daytrotter)
- Ghost Colony (mp3) by Tape Deck Mountain
(d/l the rest of the 128kbps mp3 session or purchase
the lossless version @ Daytrotter)
- Show Me The Coast (mp3) by The War On Drugs
(d/l the rest of the 128kbps mp3 session @ Daytrotter)
- Youth Haunts (mp3) by Weekend
(d/l the rest of the 128kbps mp3 session or purchase
the lossless version @ Daytrotter)
- Run To The Facts (mp3) by Yea Big & Kid Static
(d/l the rest of the 128kbps mp3 session @ Daytrotter)
Here are some more Daytrotter sessions from this year to check out:
ARMS
Balmorhea
Dinosaur Feathers
Fang Island
Ganglians
Mountain Man
No Joy
Oh No Ono
Ty Segal
SUUNS
Thank You
Unicycle Loves You
And mind you, this is but the tip of proverbial iceberg.
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):
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.

Tags:Arms, Balmorhea, Beach Fossils, Caribou, Cults, Dinosaur Feathers, Fang Island, Fuck Buttons, Ganglians, Javelin, JEFF The Brotherhood, Liars, Lower Dens, Mountain Man, No Age, No Joy, Oh No Ono, Screaming Females, Suckers, Suuns, Tame Impala, Tape Deck Mountain, Thank You, The Local Natives, The War On Drugs, Unicycle Loves You, Weekend, Yea Big + Kid Static
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Sunday, October 31st, 2010
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:
- Never Learn Not To Run (mp3) by Antimagic
- Your Face Left Before You (mp3) by Buke And Gāss
- Supertoys (mp3) by Autolux
- Still Young (mp3) by Evenings
- Memo to the Man (mp3) by Zach Hill
- Crawl Back In (Baths Remix) (mp3) by Brad Laner
- Brussels Truffles (mp3) by Archers
- Radio (mp3) by Shattered Darlings & Liquid Kisses
- Wax Rose Saturday (Remux Edit) (mp3) by Mux Mool
- Fried Egg (mp3) by Grass Widow
- I’d Be Insane To Say It (Ape School Remix) (mp3) by Day of the Woman
- Tired (A Ceremony) (mp3) by Ghost Animal
- Kiss the Coast (mp3) by Sundelles
- Phone Home from the Edge (mp3) by Dinowalrus
- Sung (Not Said) (mp3) by Magnetic Island
- Comin’ Through (mp3) by The War On Drugs
- Heavenward Grand Prix (mp3) by Japandroids
- Baptism (No Age Remix) (mp3) by Crystal Castles
- We Can Make It Out (Yppah Remix) (mp3) by Spokes
Be sure to check out the rest of the year’s Best Downloadables:
Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | Vol. 3 | Vol. 4 | Vol. 5 | Vol. 6
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):
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.

Tags:Antimagic, Ape School, Archers, Autolux, Baths, Brad Laner, Buke And Gass, Crystal Castles, Day Of The Woman, Dinowalrus, Evenings, Ghost Animal, Grass Widow, Japandroids, Magnetic Island, Mux Mool, No Age, Shattered Darlings & Liquid Kisses, Spokes, Sundelles, The War On Drugs, Yppah, Zach Hill
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