Vampire Weekend is very nice but the Mars Volta are blowing my mind with The Bedlam in Goliath.
Music
Album of the Week
The album of last week was the Magnetic Fields’ Distortion.
Rhapsody 2007
It’s time once again for my year-end playlist in convenient CD length. My favorite part about all of the year-end lists is that I always find a bunch of great music that I had missed or didn’t take to the first time around, so I made a big list of that stuff, too.
Free Okkervil River Covers Album
Okkervil River have released a free MP3 album of covers that they recorded on tour. If the download is slow you can get it from Pitchfork as well.
Deutsche Grammophon MP3s
Deutshe Grammophon has launched a web store with 320kbps MP3s. I’m not sure how much of the catalog is available but several selections from NPR’s 50 essentials are there.
Album of the Week
The album of last week was LCD Soundsystem’s 45:33. It’s technically a single but it features the 45-minute track created for Nike’s jogging music releases.
Album of the Week
The album of the week is Sigur Ros’s Hvarf – Heim.
Album of the Week
The album of the week is Babyshambles’ Shotter’s Nation.
Album of the Week
The album of last week was Underworld’s Oblivion With Bells.
Album of the Week
The album of the week is Beirut’s The Flying Club Cup.