Artwork by Adam SarpaliusAs 2009, and the decade come to a close, PMA will be looking back at our favorite songs of the last ten years. We will update a list with 75 empty slots until we reach that song that changed everything. You can keep track of this list by keeping an eye on [...]
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#21. The Strokes – The Modern Age
#22. Jay-Z & The Beatles – 99 Problems (Danger Mouse)
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Artwork by Adam SarpaliusAs 2009, and the decade come to a close, PMA will be looking back at our favorite songs of the last ten years. We will update a list with 75 empty slots until we reach that song that changed everything. You can keep track of this list by keeping an eye on [...]
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Oona – Tore My Heart
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I’ll admit it up front: I discovered Oona and the fabulous “Tore My Heart” on the real dance show on TV, So You Think You Can Dance. I was excited before the song even came out, because my favorite contestant was in this routine by SYTYCD’s hipster choreographer Sonya Tayeh. Sonya is always coming up [...]
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#23. Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
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Artwork by Adam SarpaliusAs 2009, and the decade come to a close, PMA will be looking back at our favorite songs of the last ten years. We will update a list with 75 empty slots until we reach that song that changed everything. You can keep track of this list by keeping an eye on [...]
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#24. The Knife – Heartbeats
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Artwork by Adam SarpaliusAs 2009, and the decade come to a close, PMA will be looking back at our favorite songs of the last ten years. We will update a list with 75 empty slots until we reach that song that changed everything. You can keep track of this list by keeping an eye on [...]
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Sigur Rós’ Jónsi – Boy Lilikoi
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Photo by Jonathan Percy.A few months ago I read news of Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi working on a solo album, called Go, with accomplished arranger Nico Muhly (Grizzly Brear, Anthony and the Johnsons) and producer Peter Katis, who has worked with Interpol and Frightened Rabbit.Other than that, not much is known about Jónsi’s solo album. [...]
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Vampire Weekend – California Enlgish, Pt. 2
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We're fascinated with Vampire Weekend. Some of us even obsessed. I think Pitchfork explained it best in their 8.8 review of Vampire Weekend: People spend a lot of time poking around for the edgy new underground thing, convinced that plain old pop songs have been done to death. But Vampire Weekend come along like Belle & [...]
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Vampire Weekend – California English, Pt. 2
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We’re fascinated with Vampire Weekend. Some of us even obsessed. I think Pitchfork explained it best in their 8.8 review of Vampire Weekend:People spend a lot of time poking around for the...Continue reading →
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Kid Cudi x Vampire Weekend – Cudderisback
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I’m not exactly sure when Kid Cudi left in the first place, and that’s ok, I’ve always been the kind of person that will go to a birthday party without knowing who the birdthday boy/girl was — I just want cake.On “Cudderisback”, Kid Cudi, or Cudder (terrible nickname, it just sounds dirty) raps over Vampire [...]
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The Thinking Man’s Take On: Hipsterism
Hipster Bingo by CATBIRDSEATWow. It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these bad boys, these Thinking Man’s Take On columns. But amidst rappers name dropping swine flu like it’s going out of style (which it is), I think it’s time to spread the word about a pandemic. Unless you can’t read titles, you [...]
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Lil Wayne – I Feel Like Dying (Flying Lotus Remix)
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Photo by Ryan DombalFlying Lotus’ remix of Lil Wayne’s “A Milli” turned out to be one of my favorites of 2008, and now the Lotus has reworked and undeniably improved another Lil Wayne classic. Flying Lotus’ take on one of Lil Wayne’s better odes to marijuana is chilling.Loaded with his signature “laptopper experimentalism”, Flying Lotus’ [...]
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Annie – I Don’t Like Your Band
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Annie is back! The Norwegian electropop star’s newest album Don’t Stop was finally released to the U.S on November 17th, after a label change, edits to the track listing, and more than two years of anticipation after the album was originally announced.“I Don’t Like Your Band,” the fifth song on the new album, is typical [...]
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#25. Lil Wayne – A Milli
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Artwork by Adam SarpaliusAs 2009, and the decade come to a close, PMA will be looking back at our favorite songs of the last ten years. We will update a list with 75 empty slots until we reach that song that changed everything. You can keep track of this list by keeping an eye on [...]
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Music From Gossip Girl: Season 3, Episode 11
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Courtesy of The CWIn which Gossip Girl’s music selection gives us another unneeded reason to wait eagerly for Contra’s arrival to the RapidShares, lets us dance to the fall of young love...Continue reading →
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Hot Chip – One Life Stand
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We’ve already heard the unapologetic melancholy “Take It In“, and now an mp3 for the titular track off Hot Chip’s fourth album is floating around. Everyone’s been saying...Continue reading →
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Lupe Fiasco – The National Anthem
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I posted Lupe Fiasco’s Enemy of the State mixcassette the other day, but it looks like the links have since been deleted. I won’t replenish the links because I don’t know why they...Continue reading →
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Best Album of 2009 POLL
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We are finally here. The decade’s closing year. Over these 11 months we’ve heard some groundbreaking music from old and new favorites. As always, the shortlist for 2009 won’t please...Continue reading →
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Fyfe Dangerfield – She Needs Me
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Album:Fly Yellow Moon
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Mr. Fyfe Dangerfield is giving me a lot to look forward to in 2010. “She Needs Me” is the second offering (I’m assuming) from Dangerfield’s upcoming debut solo album, Fly Yellow Moon. Go here if you haven’t heard Fyfe’s infectious debut single “When You Walk In The Room”.On the chipper “She Needs Me”, Fyfe sounds [...]
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Spoon – Written In Reverse, Single
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The first single to be released from Spoon’s forthcoming LP, Transference, will be “Written In Reverse” (not “The Mystery Zone“), if you don’t already count “Got Nuffin” as a single.Transference is out January 19th on Merge, but you can expect a 7″ slab of wax featuring “Written In Reverse” on January 5th. The single will [...]
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