- The Sounds: Crossing the Rubicon
- Sonic Youth: The Eternal
- Regina Spektor: Far
- Discovery: LP
- Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
- Moby: Wait For Me
- Johann Johannsson: Fordlandia
- Spoon: Got Nuffin
Category: Listening
background music for when things are awesome
- Elbow: The Seldom Seen Kid
- Silversun Pickups: Swoon
- Sliimy: Paint Your Face –(Delphine! Have you heard this yet?)
- Does It Offend You, Yeah? You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into
- Sara Watkins: Sara Watkins
- Glasvegas: Glasvegas
- Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs: It’s Blitz!
- Ra Ra Riot: The Rhumb Line
do gooder music
War Child presents Heroes: Various Artists — proceeds from this album help children in war-torn areas.
“We asked some of the biggest legends in music history (Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, David Bowie) to select a classic track from their own songwriting catalog, and nominate an artist from the next generation (Beck, The Hold Steady, Duffy, TV On The Radio) to create a modern reworking of that classic song.”
Stand-out tracks:
- “Running to Stand Still” – Elbow
- “Wonderful/Song for Children” – Rufus Wainwright
- “Straight to Hell” – Lily Allen
- “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat” – Beck
“And I’m singing ‘oh-oh’ on a Friday night…”
- Kate Nash: “Mouthwash“
prepping for paradise.
- The Walkmen: Bows and Arrows
- Lykke Li: Youth Novels
- Mew: Frengers
- Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
playing in a constant loop in my head lately:
- Ingrid Michaelson: Girls and Boys
- Track: “The Way I Am“
the new pile
Calexico: Carried to Dust
The Cure: 4:13 Dream
The Young Republic: 12 Tales from Winter City
Q-Tip: The Renaissance
The Watson Twins: Fire Songs
Music for Rewritin’
- Siouxie: Mantaray
- Rose Kemp: A Hand Full of Hurricanes
- NIN: Ghosts I-IV
- The Helio Sequence: Keep Your Eyes Ahead
- Yann Tiersen: Les Retrouvailles
went a little crazy
- The Ting Tings: We Started Nothing
- her space holiday: xoxo, panda and the new kid revival
- The Watson Twins: Fire Songs
- Murs: Murs for President
- Shelby Lynne: Just a Little Lovin’
- Jolie Holland: The Living and the Dead
- The Streets: Everything Is Borrowed
playing in the background
- Jenny Lewis: Acid Tongue
- Bloc Party: Intimacy
- The Ricky Gervais Show: Seasons 1-5
- Fan Death: Fan Death
- (And every day I remember I mean to download the new Metallica, and every day I then promptly forget to do so.)