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Very Close to, if not actually in, the CD player:

Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana

seen/heard  °  listen °  buy

Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo - Echos Hypnotiques

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Whatever Brains - Trim-Jeans and/or Gross Urge Plus Ten CD-R

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Gene Watson - A Taste of the Truth

seen/heard   °  stream album °  buy

Franco & le TPOK Jazz - Francophonic Volume 2

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Amerie - In Love & War

seen/heard   °  stream album °  buy

Nirvana - Live at Reading

seen/heard   °  stream album °  buy

Shakira - She Wolf

seen/heard   °  listen   ° preorder

Magneta Lane - Gambling with God

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Various Artists - Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

The xx - xx

seen/heard   °  listen °  preorder

Future of the Left - Travels With Myself And Another

seen/heard   °  listen°  buy

Rokia Traoré - Tchamantché

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Emmy the Great - First Love

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Shiina Ringo - Superficial Gossip

seen/heard  °  listen °  buy

Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana

seen/heard  °  listen °  buy








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October 2009



Hey Boo Four

10/30/2009 11:56 A GMT-05
2009 Halloween mix!

What Am I Gonna Do in a Submarine?

10/28/2009 12:06 P GMT-05
Craig Ferguson & Puppets, "In the Navy"

Two Ways to Approach Classic French Cinema

10/27/2009 12:43 P GMT-05
1. Dread the conclusion from the outset. You know at least one person will die at the end. Could be the matter of putting a period on an extended sentence of suffering which a character or a people or you, the viewer, has gone through. Could be a

Like a Sound of Nature

10/23/2009 10:37 A GMT-05
Dudamel's inaugural concert with the LA Philharmonic.

NaBr

10/21/2009 12:32 P GMT-05
It's unsettling how well Washed Out (myspace ) flows into Nellie McKay's Doris Day tribute album .

Urn It

10/20/2009 11:08 A GMT-05
Renate Kern und das Orchester Kai Warner - Der Wassermann (mp3)(buy) Contrived hippie anthems just haven't fulfilled their potential until they've been translated into the language of love and peace. So let's raise a quick Prost to the compilers of

Rumpus? Rump You.

10/18/2009 6:59 P GMT-05
Oh, Spike.  The creatures were lovely.  The characters were fine, I guess.  Though I don't know whose idea it was to turn the Satanic goat-thing into a self-pitying schlub.  Casting Zooey Deschanel as Max was probably a mistak

Yeti Don't Dance

10/17/2009 4:12 P GMT-05
(MP3 and vinyl on Tuesday; CD on 11/09) * Oh, the new Flaming Lips is *psychedelic.**Oh, Wes Anderson directed his animated film via e-mail , "providing short films of himself enacting certain scenes."

We Bring Good Things to Life

10/16/2009 2:19 P GMT-05
Paramore, "Ignorance." Magneta Lane, "Castles." The Shivvers, "Please Stand By."

So Far, The Only Good Thing About the New Melrose Place is How Much Ashlee Simpson-Wentz Cannot Act

10/14/2009 9:55 P GMT-05
Violet's supposedly got the Andrews sisters' DNA, but Simpson-Wentz' fierce lack of ability reveals the soul of Andrew Shue.  She's captivating.Hey writers:  Try punching up the dialogue a little!  The Whorin' Laure

A Goddamned Guide to All These Goddamned Whale Bands (Part Two, O - W)

10/14/2009 11:27 A GMT-05
Whale bands, O thru W.

Three for Three

10/12/2009 9:37 A GMT-05
An Education, Paranormal Activity, A Serious Man.

A Goddamned Guide to All These Goddamned Whale Bands (Part One, A - N)

10/09/2009 12:51 A GMT-05
Over these two entries -- to both strain the krill from the bilgewater and further confuse the issue -- I'll consider 35 current or recent Whale bands, great and small. And I'll mention an additional 25. Way more than you've heard of, way more than

The Bowery Presents... Actual Country Music!

10/07/2009 11:09 A GMT-05
Short notice: Critically acclaimed, award-winning artist Jamey Johnson (myspace) is doing what most country musicians do not: Playing Brooklyn. He'll be at the Music Hall of Williamsburg Thursday (10/8 - tix) and then at the Bowery Ballroom on Fri

It's Been a While Since Just Yesterday

10/07/2009 10:11 A GMT-05
Craig Ferguson's "MMMBop" opening.

Worldwide Pantsing

10/06/2009 7:56 A GMT-05
Craig Ferguson's first intro after Letterman's announcement.

24 Hour Party Poodles

10/04/2009 9:46 P GMT-05
(via Barthel via All Creatures , title: my brother)

Prince of Truth

10/02/2009 4:02 P GMT-05
An exceptionally gentle film that happens to be very funny. For people with good hearts and wicked senses of humor. The soundtrack can be overbearing. And really, that poster is hideous. But even when the movie locks itself on to a predictable co

Land Shark

10/02/2009 11:57 A GMT-05
Bounce Bounce Bounce Yes Please Bounce. (via )*Oh my God, you guys don’t even know.

"Do You Feel Like a Story?"

10/01/2009 11:26 P GMT-05
That's all well and good, and I seriously do not care to know more, but the end of that segment was just a starter pistol for a billion drooling gossip journos.  Press won't be satisfied until these women are lined up across the Late Sho

October

10/01/2009 12:37 P GMT-05
Carla Bozulich/Evangelista - "Baby, That's the Creeps" and "Pissing."