Review of the Gucci Mane Diplo mixtape. Paste this: http://tinyurl.com/ykjkeng

Went to see the Cold War Kids last night on a whim. Never again.

This is good music to me. Wait for the Wayne sample. (via Nate)

Not just one thing had me lolling during this vid.

See you in Utah

Hot Chip's "One Life Stand"! There should be more light blue...

This happened last night!

I bet they just heard the Yeasayer record.

Via Briggs' Brog

Vampire Weekend last night at Webster! I forgot to buy a shirt!

Brand new Panda jams! Ako we should have went!

Nerd glasses!

I will not lie to you. I listened to this 14 times today while walking/surfing/working. Here's the vid...

Nate claims I was late on Redshape but I think it's better than never. Paste the link for the review. http://bit.ly/6OvgaD

Stop me if i've posted this before.

I seriously doubt it.

Animal Collective "Brothersport" vid. The water balloon part is rad!

Did Manchester Orchestra make the best record last year? What's the deal with Neon Indian?

They are all have Rock-Face... those parts are hard to play!

Good thing they aren't called the "Bullets" anymore.

The dude is amazing. I hope Bravo is on the phone with his agent proposing a reality show about Gilbert's Twitter account.

(Sidenote: What if the Wizards void Arenas' giant contract, trade Caron and free up enough room to sigh LeBron? Then in addition to him throwing up powder before every game, he can do so with a fake white beard.)

I listened to Vampire Weekend's first album like it was my job. (It kinda was.) Now "Contra" is out! Is it as good?

A Bones song scoring scenes about the Beatles forming is not not making me feel weird. 1:01 in. Yo Mike lend me $20!

Spiritualized reissued "Ladies and Gentlemen..." Here's the review! (Contrary to what the intro says, I listened to this LP once a week.)

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/12/30/arts/music/20091230_KUO_CHART.html?ref=music

The Dream Team! Something I made for Opening Ceremony in 2004 to celebrate the Olympics. All hand silk-screened, edition of 4. Memories!

Cap'n Jazz getting back together? Bobby? Tim? Is this true?

http://www.indierockreviews.com/2009/12/08/rumor-capn-jazz-owls-to-reunite/

King Midas Sound "Waiting For You" review. Use the link!

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/12/10/arts/10kuochart.html?ref=music

From the desk of our West Coast correspondant (Ako)

"Horchata" is dead to me.

Zomby's "Digital Flora" / "Digital Fauna" single. Is this shit over or just starting? I have no idea.

Give it a sec

This never gets old. Thanks Leo!

I agree!

How many blog posts with the title "A.I. is not the answer" are there?

How are we gonna find out if Gallinari is Kyle Korver lite, if AI takes his shots?

How are we gonna find out if Toney Douglas is Lavar Postell: The Sequel, if AI takes all his minutes?

How are we gonna find out if Nate Rob can rap, if AI takes all his verses?

Though Larry Hughes will be stoked, vintage Sixers-wise.

Monday just got better

One thing I learned in the last week. You cannot say "Radioclit" in the New York Times (paste the link)

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/11/13/arts/music/20091113_KUO_CHART.html?ref=music

This is what a typical work conversation looks like.

It's a little bit late but here's a general CMJ summary. The XX was a little worse than it reads in the chart.

!!!

Cass McCombs played on Monday. I was bummed I couldn't stay until the end. He's really sounding good these days.

This is like Warhol's "Empire" but different

Does anyone have this MP3?

Jesu "Opiate Sun" EP review revised. I changed my mind!

I've always liked Jesu but I wasn't really ready for this one!

Cold Cave is a band formed by the guy Pete Wentz stole some lines from. They sound like a dark band from Manchester. And the band formed after that.

I saw Surfer Blood 3 times last week. That was that. This is their LP review!

Lost at sea in CMJ... check the tweets? Or the Times CMJ blog.

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This basically sounds just as good as it does on the EP!

Pantha Du Prince's upcoming press photo! Can anything be as good as "This Bliss"?

Saturday tunes still sound good

This is fully jumping the gun.

"The Last 10 Years of Music" today in the paper...

There's a pdf of it here

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/music/index.html

Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx PT II! It took long enough...

The new Built To Spill LP leaked. "There Is No Enemy." I feel like I've spent half my life listening to this guy. (I have!)

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs played a show at the Music Hall the other night. I won't lie and tell you I didn't shed a tear during the "Maps" sing-along.

Of course I'm into it!

Off to France! See you in a week! Briggs get it together the bus leaves in 2 hours!

Well done.

This makes me happier on bummer days.

Today's IM discussion: "Put some sub woofers on this and you're good to go" "I know."

Whoops that last Julian Casablancas chart was messed up. I blame the jet lag! Here's a revised version...

Julian Casablancas played solo for the first time last week at the Liquid room. He was fucking terrible!