You know who rocks? tina

I try, I try.

In an odd coincidence, I found out that ol' Brendan has just released a single of "Matarie" with two new versions. The odd thing about this is that that song is from his OLD album not the the one he just put out... I can't say I like the two new versions from the single anymore than the one off Lapalco, either. It's got a decent new song on it called "Let Me Roll It."

I use up my emusic monthly alottment within a couple of hours of getting it every month. Then it's Booster Packs (still a good deal) until the new months starts. Today I got my regular monthly 65 downloads and so far have sampled bits from:

• Ladytron - OK, but no real need to download the whole album based on what I have heard

• Sam Prekop (from The Sea and Cake) - Who's Your New Professor - I love it so far based on just three songs.

• Akron Family debut - also love it

• Dirty Three Cinder - It's super long and cost me 19 downloads but - so far, it's worth it.

• Danger Doom The Mouse and the Mask - This is DJ Danger Mouse (he of Grey Album fame) and MF Doom and some characters from Adult Swim (Brak and Master Shake) doing funky great hip hop. I love it. Especially "Old School."

Have downloaded but not listened to: Vashti Bunyon (English folk artist getting freaked out awesome reviews for 35-year comeback album), Thunderbirds are Now and Wilderness.

Most (if not all of these) are 2005 releases. I've got to put a drop dead cutoff on finalizing my holiday giveaway/best of the year mix or it'll never be done. My life is so hard.

G.I. Joe and his theremin

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Rock on Jon!

ITA.

Ladytron - OK, but no real need to download the whole album based on what I have heard

I got the song "Destroy Everything You Touch" from, um, some mp3 blog that someone here recommended (thanks!), and I LOVE it. I listen to it all the time. I haven't gotten around to getting the rest of their stuff yet because I don't know if it can live up to the total awesomeness of that song.

"Destroy Everything You Touch"

I am downloading that right exactly now. Thanks for the tip.

On my way to get sushi for lunch (good miso, but the rice was overcooked, boo!) I bought the new live Bright Eyes album, Motion Sickness.

I am spending Turkey Weekend in Omaha, so I thought it only fitting that I have some new Bright Eyes to get me there.

"Destroy Everything You Touch"

I like it - very fun and danceable. It's very New Order-with-a-female-singer-ish and the other one I downloaded ("Sugar, Sugar") is very Jesus and Mary Chain. I like both songs but I'm kind of 80s-bands-revisited out these days..

From Mr. Mountain Goat's blog:

Nov 17 2005The Unwell and Unwily There have been about five or ten songs this year that I've listened to on repeat with that crazed and cultlike devotion known only to pop junkies. About a third of them were released this year, which makes 2005 a good year, no matter what partisans may say. My latest obsession - about which I will not write yet, other than to urge all readers to beg borrow or steal their way to a copy of it (iTunes'll lay it on you for ninety-nine cents; it's where I got mine) - is "Killamangiro" by Babyshambles. The song, according to Libertines hagiographers, is actually a leftover from that band's latter days. According to me, it's a very nearly perfect pop song, whatever its genesis - it feels effortless, breezy, and if you're an American it practically dares you to make sense of it, which for me is a bonus. That it may have some backstory only makes it more tantalizing. Why are we so blessed, to live in an age when people make songs as marvelous and magical as this, scattershot collections of fourth-generation references that can't be put back together again, sad and brilliant and witty, which then land in the marketplace like raindrops in a great ocean? Why, indeed.

Ladytron - OK, but no real need to download the whole album based on what I have heard

What you and Kate said about "Destroy everything you touch." I really liked the first four songs or so (which is all I heard for a while because I kept using it as crash music) but the rest of the album was kinda blah.

I was hoping it would be a killer from end-to-end like the most recent New Order (which I adored all but maybe two songs on), but it didn't hold up. I owe it a relisten, though, as I really liked the first serveral songs.

Ladytron's "Light And Magic" is fairly consistent end-to-end. Those unimpressed with "Destroy" might get more out of this one; at very least people should listen to "Seventeen," which gets stuck in my head lots.

Hmm. So it seems I was right to hold off on downloading the other songs. edit: or maybe I'll check out "Light and Magic" too.

I like it - very fun and danceable. It's very New Order-with-a-female-singer-ish

Exactly! I listen to it every Saturday morning on my way to school and it wakes me up and puts me in a great mood.

For the past few days, I have been listening to nothing but Irish music. I think it's the weather. My collection is pretty limited, though: a little Altan, some Solas, everything by Susan McKeown I can get my hands on. Who else should I be checking out?