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FLEET FOXES

HAPPY 2012!

The Dø - Slippery Slope

Little Dragon - Ritual Union

Amplifier Lyrics

Pupajim - 'Amplifier'

Galang my selector

Turn on the bass and the amplifier

Play that tune on the turntable

Fresh dubplate for the people

Galang my selector

Turn on the bass and the amplifier

Play that tune on the turntable

Fresh dubplate for the people

Can you feel the bass line from the speakerbox?

Everybody move and rocks

On the dance floor

Can you feel the bass line from the speakerbox?

Everybody move and rock

On the dance floor

Galang my selector

Galang

Galang my selector

Turn on the bass and the amplifier

Play that tune on the turntable

Fresh dubplate for the people

Galang my selector

Turn on the bass and the amplifier

Play that tune on the turntable

Fresh dubplate for the people

Get up stand up and rock x2

Get up stand up and rock Pupascotty's on the block

Get up stand up and rock, Three Musketeers are on the block

HipHop - Kid Cudi

Trees For Life Ghana

I am starting a project in Ghana that goes into schools and teaches them about the importance of the Environment. Please support us by giving a small donation via PayPal by clicking this button.

Thanks,

Eric

Just Dirty Greatness

BTSTU by Jai Paul

Pop -Metronomy

Great Swedish pop style from England.

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The Look

WATCH:

R. Stevie Moore

Thanks Jesse for the tip

'Wildfire' by SBTRKT feat Little Dragon

Classic Soul

New Rocksteady - Courtney John

Sounds like Cornell Campbell!

Great new Radiohead video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfOa1a8hYP8

The best soul LP I've heard in years...

Modern soul (though you couldn't tell it's not late-60s) from the The Menahan Street Band/Budos Band/Daptone gang with a killer vocal performance from Charles Bradley. It brought me out of blogging semi-retirement just to post this gem.

Buy:

No Time for Dreaming (Bonus Version) - Charles Bradley & Menahan Street Band

February Mixtape

Right click to download.

http://ericyealland.com/files/201102.mp3

0:00 - Jack Penate - Tonight's Today

3:15 - Bibio - Sugarette

6:50 - Buckingham's - Don't Want To Cry

8:56 - The Drums - Let's Go Surfing

11:49 - Ike Turner - She Made My Blood Run Cold

14:06 - Art Neville - You Won't Do Right

16:18 - Donald Height - Girl Do You Love Me

18:20 - Outsiders - Touch

21:30 - Tame Impala - Lucidity

25:53 - The Castaways - Liar, Liar

27:43 - Ripp Tide - Dynamite

29:26 - The Black Keys - She's Long Gone

32:29 - The Heavy - Coleen

35:26 - Zeus - Hot Under The Collar

39:07 - Gene Vincent - Bird Doggin'

42:38 - Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Good Morning Schoolgirl

46:28 - Doris Troy - Just One Look

48:56 - Unknown

51:37 - Unknown

54:56 - Unknown

Mixtape for Nov

http://ericyealland.com/files/201011.mp3

Jealous of Roses - Bibio

Love Dog - Tv On The Radio

Black Swan - Thom Yorke

Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat - Raga Yaman - Charanjit Singh

King Cobra -The Budos Band

What Have You Done - Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens

Fu Manchu -Desmond Dekker & The Aces

Calypso Blues -Theophilus London

Chekere Son (feat. Mayra Caridad Valdes) [Seiji Rerub] - Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band

Come Home -Chappo

Lovers' Carvings - Bibio

Don't Make Me Wait - Rob

Lady - Fela Kuti

Mixtape for Oct.

http://ericyealland.com/files/201010.mp3

Mixtape for September

http://ericyealland.com/weblog/2010/09/-_-20100901.zip

Mixtape

My first Podcast/Mixtape here, so you can check out what's in my personal playlist for August:

http://ericyealland.com/weblog/2010/08/podcast_aug.zip

What I'm listening to...

Whatever You Shoot (edit)

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What I'm listening to...

Unity

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New posts on Facebook

Some of my new posts are in the Facebook group ([-_-]) so join up there!

New in my playlist

When They Fight, They Fight

New in my playlist

Broken Bells

The Ghost Inside

Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record

I'm happy to say this record is everything I had hoped for and more. It still has the classic jams, pop songs, and aural controversy, but now the gang sounds like they are branching out a bit, experimenting in the studio with new textures. Amazingly they all hold together as 'songs' so I can imagine that they may gain a few fans. The John McEntire influence (Tortoise, Sea and Cake) does not go unnoticed - in a good way. It sounds like Broken Social Scene, just a little more grown up. Amazing.

BTW, wish John a happy birthday to John on April 9, he turns the big four-oh.

Smooth Richard Hawley

More Fleet Foxes

Fleet Foxes Frontman sings Joanna Newsom

Soul - Light: On The South Side

You've seen the YouTube preview (see Nov 18th post) now here it is baby:

Lady Margo - This Is My Prayer

Andrew Brown - You Made Me Suffer

not available (yet) on iTunes

Ghana

I'm in Ghana this month. Hopefully bringing you some new tracks asap.

Rock

A great collection of fuzzy Matador Records tracks.

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Follow That Bird! - The Ghosts That Wake You

The Young - Blister - sound like The Grifters to anyone?

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New Look for 2010

I thought I'd put up some of my photo manipulations for you to enjoy. It's a new year and there is going to be much more art coming your way.

The word 'music' transformed into vectors and manipulated

ROCK - Peter Wolf Crier

The first thing I thought of when I heard this record was the sounds of clean Swedish pop bands put through the crunchy filter of White Stripes or the Black Keys. Quite good. I think they are self-published

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Record of the Year

Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy

END OF A DIFFICULT YEAR

I feel so greatful and excited of what's to come. Let's just say that 2010 will be a year of truth.

70s Chicago Soul Photographs

Losing My Edge - Basic Channel

Coming out of Detroit techno of the late 80s, two Berliners Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald created a style super-influential minimal dub-techno that has continued to morph into their fantastic Rhythm & Sound reggae influenced work. I was glad when LCD dropped their name since these guys have been so great for so long. A real piece of history for music fans.

LISTEN

Quadrant Dub I Edit

buy at iTunes store

back to Losing My Edge

Rock - The XX

I feel a little mainstream posting this but if you don't know this record you will probably hear it in some Ossington dinner joint and wonder what the hell it is. Pretty easy to like. I guess easy is a bit vanilla but once and a while you just want some music without the big challenge. Know what I mean?

LISTEN

Crystalised

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Jazz - Sun Ra

A stellar Mingus style record that is actually two records, We Travel The Spaceways from 1956 and Bad and Beautiful from 1961. For Sun Ra, this is extremely easy to get into, and is freaky good fun.

LISTEN

We Travel The Spaceways

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AfroFunk - Legends of Benin

Another stunning release from Analog Africa. I am seriously freaking out right now. A good mix of deep funky African grooves, James Brown breaks, and deep Latin track thrown in for good measure. This is a must.

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Dadje Von O Von Non

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Rock - zZz

It seems like someone loves Death From Above 1979. Who doesn't? Stripped down to drums and organ. This is a pretty interesting and varied record. Maybe a sprinkling of Jim Morrison? Straight outta Holland. Thanks Henan for the tip.

A crazy cockfighting art video for Running With The Beast - youTube it.

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Running With The Beast

Majeur

buy at iTunes store

Rock - Spiral Stairs

Garage Rock - Thee Oh Sees

'This is like meat and potatoes prepared by a master chef-- totally familiar but utterly delicious.'

- Pitchfork March '09

'Nuff said.

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Can You See

Enemy Destruct

Buy at iTunes Store

Rock - Surf City

It's funny that when I hear a fantastic song these days I'm thinking to myself 'this would make a great iPod commercial song'. Well this whole EP is like that.

Basically 'The Strokes' go surfing. Love it crazy time.

See also: pavement, sonic youth, the clean, velvet undergound, the jesus and mary chain, the beach boys, the zombies, the boredoms

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Headin' Inside

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Lo-Fi - Kurt Vile

Man I love this record. Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, Arthur Russel's World of Echo... this is a gem. Not everyone will get it, but I love its simplicity and devotion to a single riff. Basically just vocals and guitar with occasional drums. Plenty of echo and reverb.

I love the fact that the entire album sounds like it was recorded in one go.

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Amplifier

Heart Attack

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'Time After Time' by We Have Band

Rock - Dark Was The Night (compilation)

Wow this is a great comp! This is a must-have. I haven't even gotten to every track yet since I keep replaying over and over the first cd. I'm assuming that this is the only place you can find these tracks, since they are probably one-offs for this long-running benefit compilation. Kev, you once again manage to give me a little more info than I'm comfortable with.

Come on: Kevin Drew, Feist, Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Arcade Fire, Yo La Tengo, Iron & Wine, Cat Power and more... For real?

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Brackett, WI by Bon Iver

Tightrope by Yeasayer

I Was Young When I Left Home by Antony + Bryce Dessner

buy at iTunes

ROCK - Anne Soldaat

Great rock band out of the Netherlands, courtesy of my friend Henan, this is a great effort, a solid pop record. Some songs like Pray For Delay remind me of REM if I actually liked them, others like Runaway remind me of mid-70s Bowie/T-Rex/Supertramp, and finally Teenage View has a sick early-90s hook in the chorus.

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Pray For Delay

Runaway

Teenage View

buy on iTunes

SITE DOWN

I WAS TAKEN DOWN BY MY PROVIDER SO SOME LINKS WILL NOT WORK UNTIL I GET A CHANCE TO GO THROUGH EVERYTHING. SORRY.

E

ROCK - Animal Collective

Don't stare at this too long....

Yes, I know I need to get out more, find some bands that DON'T remind me of my love for mid-70s Beach Boys but hey, they are probably my favorite indie outfit going these days. Amazing production, so inventive, you have no idea where they are going, but you are happy to be taken on the ride.

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My Girls

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