Happy Holidays from the awesome The Ditty Bops

Dog Problems

The Format

Play

Boys And Girls In America

The Hold Steady

Play

That is all.

Oh No They Didn’t has 30-second samples of the new Christina Aguilera album, which is just insanely good.

They also have three new songs from the Justin Timberlake album as they were performed live in Japan.

Check out this months issue of Synthesis Magazine to find my review of Lacuna Coil’s “Karmacode”. On newsstands now!

Boo-ya to being a published music critic, I can cross that one off the list and go on to the next.

Anyone have Anna Paquin’s phone number?

• The song that Dangermouse sampled for “Crazy” is better than “Crazy”
• Think you know a thing or two about classic album covers? Take the Legacy Recordings album cover quiz, courtesy of the good chubby white boys with facial hair at Legacy Online.

First seven minutes of what was apparently a career-advancing set by legendary french house producers Daft Punk at Coachella.

They NEEEEED to tour. I need my live dance music fix since Underworld hasn’t played in a couple of years…

Old hotness: Gnarls Barkley (Cee-Lo + Dangermouse, referenced in my last post)
New Hotness: Lovestink (Cee-Lo + Plant Life)

Proof (via Gorilla vs. Bear): GangstaBoogie

The Soul Machine is on a roll this year.

Thanks to BossBlog, I (and now you) are the proud owner of the new Streets single.

Um…

it….

SUCKS.

Like, hardcore sucks. Like makes me question the first record as a fluke sucks.

Check it out at vice-recordings.com.

Sorry, Adam.

I know its work-related and I know its self-serving but dammit i dont care, I’ve got the #1 record on iTunes!

Yo-Yo Ma & John Williams iTunes Sessions with music from Memoirs of a Geisha

Get it now before we send out a nasty cease and desist letter.

http://rapidshare.de/files/10991621/Acoustic_Covers_Compilation.zip.html

1) Ben Gibbard – Thriller (Michael Jackson)
2) Sufjan Stevens – The One I Love (REM)
3) The Magic Numbers – Crazy In Love (Beyoncé )
4) Phil Weinrobe – Hey Ya ! (Outkast)
5) Mountain Goats – The Sign (Ace of Base)
6) Adam Green – What A Waster (The Libertines)
7) Colin Meloy – Sister, I’m a Poet (Morrissey)
8) José González – Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division)
9) Ted Leo – Since U Been Gone (Kelly Clarkson)
10) José González – Teardrop (Massive Attack)
11) Ben Gibbard – Complicated (Avril Lavigne)