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Grizzly Bear - "While You Wait For The Others" (Live on KCRW - 2/08)

A tip of the hat to Sasha Frere Jones of the New Yorker for reminding me about this cut. You can listen to their full set at KCRW right HERE

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Foals - Balloons (2007)

This single appeared on the Oxford band's first album, Antidotes.

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Naughty By Nature - Hip Hop Hooray from the album 19 Naughty III (1993)

Old school hip-hop.

Hip Hop Hooray - Naughty By Nature

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Ladytron - Tomorrow (Vector Lovers Lucky Remix/2009)

Get it, check out their tour dates @ Brooklyn Vegan

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Pete Yorn - Your Own Worst Enemy from Hangin' Out On E Street (2009)

This is a cover of Bruce Springsteen's song - it was just released on video today.

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Kleerup - Tower of Trellick from the album Kleerup (2008)

Andreas Kleerup is a Swedish record producer, best known for producing Robyn's single, With Every Heartbeat.

Tower Of Trellick - Kleerup ft. Titiyo

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The National - Secret Meeting

This is from the Brooklyn-based band's 2005 album, Alligator

secret meeting - the national

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Quest Love dj set at Bouli Party in Paris (2006)

Quest Love is best known as the drummer of The Roots - he is also a phenomenal dj.

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Moscow Olympics - The Farthest City (Odintosovo mix)

Moscow Olympics is an indie band from the Philippines. Their ep, Cut the World, was one of my favorites last year. Some day the word is going to get out ...

Listen HERE

Since I posted the above, The Yellow Stereo has written a nice review - check it out. B)

FYI, they only released 300 records of this single, which are sold out.

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Santigold with Spank Rock (Live On Jimmy Fallon)

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Slow Jamming the News with The Roots & Jimmy Fallon

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Mammut - Svefnsykt (2009)

Mammút is an Icelandic rock band. It was just nominated for the best album (Karkari) and best singer (Kata) at the Icelandic Music Awards 2009. You can read all about them, and

Listen/Download the song @ RcrdLbl

Photo: RcrdLbl

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William Orbit - Optical Illusion (2009)

William Orbit is an English musician composer and record producer, perhaps best known to most for his work on Madonna's album Ray of Light (4 Grammy Awards, 14 million sales worldwide). I know him mostly as an electronic musician ...

I found this via our thread on KCRWs Today's Top Tune - check it out for more interesting stuff if you are so interested.

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Fever Ray - Seven (2009)

Fever Ray is the solo project of The Knife's Karin Andersson.

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Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight (2008) from Majordomo Records.

ATE are an indie band from Los Feliz in Los Angeles. This is the title track of their first full album.

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Van Morrison - Into The Mystic from "Moondance" (1970)

Van Morrison is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s. He is currently touring - a celebration of his classic Astral Weeks album.

Into The Mystic - VAN MORRISON

The song was recently covered by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová for the movie, Once.

Into The Mystic (Van Morrison) - Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová

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"Am I Evil"......Diamond Head..from the album "Lightning To The Nations" (1980)....another excellent British heavy metal band....great guitar work...heavy as an anvil...

Diamond Head are a British heavy metal band formed in 1976 in Stourbridge, England. They were one of the leading members of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) and are acknowledged by later bands like Metallica and Megadeth as an important early influence.

The name "Diamond Head" came from a Phil Manzanera album.

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"Wings of Insanity"....Derek Sherinan and Zakk Wylde from the album "Molecular Heinosity" (2009)....

Derek Sherinian (born August 25, 1966) is an American ‎rock and jazz fusion keyboardist based in Los Angeles, California. , Sherinian has been a keyboardist and sideman for a number of artists, including Alice Cooper, Billy Idol, Yngwie Malmsteen, Kiss, and Zakk Wylde. He has also played keyboards for Dream Theater and is the co-founder of the band Planet X.

Sherinian has been called the "King of the Keys" and the "Caligula of keyboards" due to his performing style. His influences include Elton John, Keith Emerson, Jan Hammer, and a variety of guitarists...including (surprise, surprise)...Zakk Wylde....

Says Wylde (who is no musical slouch himself) of Sherinan`s musical abilities...“People want to play with him because he’s that good. He can play everything from the easiest licks on a piano to the most complex Beethoven sonatas with ease.”

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"StarFleet' .....Brian May & Friends..from the album "The Starfleet Project" (1983)....

Star Fleet Project is a project of Brian May, most famous as the guitarist from Queen, which resulted in an album with the same name. The project was released as the work of "Brian May + Friends", consisting of May, guitarist Eddie Van Halen, drummer Alan Gratzer (of REO Speedwagon), Phil Chen (session bassist who played with Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart), and Fred Mandel (session keyboardist who also played on The Works). Roger Taylor, Queen's drummer, provided backing vocals for the title song..

"Star Fleet is the theme tune for a superb TV sci-fi series broadcast in England for kids of all ages; Japanese visuals and British soundtrack including music by Paul Bliss. The heroes pilot space vehicles which can assemble into a giant robot for land battles. The aliens fly fantastic insect-like craft which spawn smaller fighting machines; all intent on possession of the secret of F Zero One...Having been introduced to all this by my small boy, I became equally obsessed by it, and formed the idea of making a hard rock version of the title theme."

http://www.sfxb.co.uk/

The idea for the album came from May's son, Jimmy.

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"Strange Fruit'...Billie Holliday...wonderful to listen to...brilliant and bitter...

"Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday. It condemned American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans that had occurred chiefly in the South but also in all regions of the United States. Holiday's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1978. It was also included in the list of Songs of the Century, by the Recording Industry of America and the National Endowment for the Arts.

In time "Strange Fruit" became Holiday's biggest selling record. Though the song became a staple of her live performances, Holiday's accompanist Bobby Tucker recalled that Holiday would break down every time after she sang it.

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"Blues Breaker"...Brian May & Eddie VanHalen...Star Fleet Project (1983)..features an absolutely wicked blues guitar twin lead from May and Van Halen....

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"Freak"..Bruce Dickinson and Roy Z...from the album "Accident of Birth" (1997)...very good heavy metal...I prefer Dickinsons` work with guitarist/producer Roy Z as opposed to his Iron Maiden gig...more melodic and less prescriptive..his vocals are strong and smooth and Roy Z is a very good rock/metal guitarist...good stuff..

This is the second album made in collaboration with guitarist/producer Roy Z. It marks Bruce's return to his more melodic style of singing. Thanks to the slightly bigger success of this album, Bruce would work with Roy Z in the future on his solo albums (including his latest, Tyranny of Souls).

The cover art was done by Derek Riggs, best known for being the creator of Iron Maiden's mascot Eddie. Four versions of the album cover exist.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Z

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"Space Race"..Bruce Dickinson ..from the solo album "Skunkworks" (1996)....

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M83 - I Guess I'm Floating from the album, Before The Dawn Heals US

I saw Anthony Gonzalez @Disney Hall last night with the LA Symphony - I still have an M83 hangover :) This cut is a mood piece, but a pretty one at that.

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Royksopp - Here Comes Spring (2009)

This is the band's latest single. It's from their upcoming album, Junior.