monsters of folk - girl from the north country

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The Monsters of Folk (Jim James, Conor Oberst, M.Ward and Mike Mogis) release their debut album on 9 September and I, for one, couldn't be more excited! They've already released three songs on iTunes (America) and they sound exactly like what you'd expect if you put these four musicians in a room together - and that is no bad thing!

Anyway, to whet your appetite here's a faithful and massively enjoyable cover of Dylan's "Girl From The North Country".
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the suge knight light...

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bon iver @ glastonbury

By all accounts Bon Iver delivered in their 3 Glastonbury performances but this one seems to have people talking. It's about half of the set from the Sunday afternoon (I think) and culminates in a great version of "Wolves".

Enjoy, it's beautiful.

Bon Iver - Creature Fear
Bon Iver - Skinny Love
Bon Iver - Blood Bank
Bon Iver - For Emma
Bon Iver - Wolves

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big fan trailer

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Patton Oswalt's stand up is excellent.

This movie is meant to be his 'Taxi Driver'.
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best albums of the year (so far!) mixtape*

Inspired by a blog I read the other day here's a mixtape of songs from my favourite albums released so far this year.

side a

Grizzly Bear - All We Ask (from Veckatimest)
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Bitch, I Love You (Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!)
Micachu - Curly Teeth (from Jewellery)
Asher Roth - La Di Da (from Asleep In The Bread Aisle)
Mos Def - Quiet Dog Bite Hard (from The Ecstatic)

side b
Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move (from Bitte Orca)
White Rabbits - Rudie Fails (from It's Frightening)
The Joy Formidable - The Last Drop (from A Balloon Called Moaning)
Animal Collective - No More Runnin' (from Merriweather Post Pavilion)
jj - Are You Still In Vallda? (from jj N^o 2)

and here's a .rar file of the whole tape

*now a slightly remixed version!

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awesome?

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jj

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Things that are known about jj:

• they're on arguably the coolest record label around, Sweden's 'Sincerely Yours'
• they're called jj
• they've released two records - jj N^o 1 and jj N^o 2

Thing that I know about jj:

• they've made a record (jj N^o 2) that is like crack in its moreishness
• their song 'Ecstasy' contains the best extrapolation of Lil' Wayne's "Lollipop" known to man
• any summer will be enhanced by this record
• I already love them

If you like 'dreampop' - I'd never heard that term until the other day when reading an article describing Beach House as dreampop. If that's the case, I thought, then I love dreampop because Beach House are brilliant - then you'll enjoy this.

jj - From Africa To Malaga

jj - Ecstasy

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