New Singles
1. Paul Weller & Graham Coxon - This Old Town
Paul and Graham, you did a great job guys, thank you!
Watch the live performance on youtube.
2. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Berlin (on youtube)
3. Devendra Banhart - Rosa
Devendra doesn't give up combining latin and psychedelic music, Rosa and his other track sounds good.
4. Irene - By Your Side
5. Maps – You Don’t Know Her Name (on youtube)
6. Low - "Breaker" / "Violent Past" / "In Silence" / "Sandinista"
7. Nelly Furtado - In God's Hands
8. The Coral – Who’s Gonna Find Me
The Coral return with a host of live dates and a new single, ‘Who’s Gonna Find Me’ and album, ‘Roots and Echoes’.
9. Aqualung – Pressure Suit (on youtube)
10. Beyonce - Green Light

Innocence by Björk hit the first place on previous week!

Do you ever dream that you are dancing like a professional dancer on a dance floor? Then, you'll fall in love with Soft Cell The Twelve Inch Singles. Oh! What a fun! I'd like to wear a mask that always looks eccentric. My favorite Soft Cell cut is So which is the closing track of Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. I know i love this song at heart, because its harmony means a lot to me, it reminds to me the times that i've been so exciting. No doubt, the song is sexy, a little dirty, and so passionate. What's your favourite passionate disco song?

Soft Cell - So (Twelve Inch Version)
Read more about Soft Cell.

'They’ve been playing this one live for a few years now, and it's become an exuberant anthem,
one that evokes feelings of bliss a la The Polyphonic Spree and mixes hi-fi music with lo-fi vocals. Plus, it got people in our office moving.' Filter says about the song. I'll call this song as summer happiness or sunrise. There are other definite cuts like amazing Titanic Vandalism, first single Grip Like A Vice, and many others... Pretty good record, i'll keep listening to "Proof of Youth", and sure it'll help to make my day good!

The Go! Team - Doing It Right

Calexico have certainly not been idle in the days since they have last been on the road. Aside from keeping busy with a number of collaborative projects and working on a very exciting film project, Joey and John found time to drop into Big Block studio above Wavelab to record 14 brand new instrumental tracks just in time for the upcoming European tour! It’s called Tool Box, and some tracks are good:
Calexico - Hair Like Spanish Moss
Calexico - The News About William

Named after Godard's 1959 science-fiction masterpiece and heavily influenced by '80s synth
bands like Depeche Mode, Alphaville was the Munich-based trio of Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd
and Frank Mertens. Following their all-keyboards approach longer after synth-pop was fashionable but unfortunately disbanding before artists such as Mouse On Mars made Germanic
synthesizer music hip again in the late '90s, Alphaville remained rather outside of musical trends during their mid-'80s lifespan. What i like most about 80s great synth-pop bands is you play them whenever you want!
Red Rose (Single Version '88)
Forever Young (Album Version)

For more in 80s section:
The Modern Music 80s

Singles
1. Björk - Innocence (Nice track!)
2. Manic Street Preachers – Autumnsong
3. Amy Winehouse – Tears Dry On Their Own (youtube video)
4. Ade Fenton Vs Gary Numan - The Leather Sea (listen at myspace page)
5. Architecture In Helsinki - Hold Music (watch video at Stereogum!)
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is EP
7. White Williams - New Violence
8. Kate Nash - Foundations
9. My Little Problem - Bench Sleeping (youtube video)
10. Funeral For A Friend - Walk Away (youtube video)
Such a boring song, it wasted my time, don't let waste your time.

Nothing Changes Around Here by Thrills was the winner of previous week!

Iceland pop experimentalists Múm are ready to release another great record Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy on the Fat Cat label on September 24, 2007. But it was leaked on the internet. The album is a change from normal múm as it uses more live instruments than electronics, and there is a different lyrical style. I really do like instumental sections which are so harmonious, musically electronic. Playful and imaginative! Lyrically very complicated like no one wants to speak anymore. Some songs are deep and passionate like cult movie soundtrack. Especially the song named as Winter reminds famous Roman Polanski horror film Rosemary's Baby soundtrack.
MM picks: Dancing Behind My Eyelids, Blessed Brambles, A Little Bit, Sometimes

Múm - Moon Pulls
Múm - Dancing Behind My Eyelids

Arts & Crafts are pleased to announce the signing of Cardiff, Wales septet Los Campesinos! to their North American roster of artists. Los Campesinos! released their debut enhanced EP, Sticking Fingers Into Sockets, July 3. The six-song release features Los Campesinos! acclaimed UK single, We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives. Sticking Fingers Into Sockets was produced by David Newfeld (Broken Social Scene).

Los Campesinos! - We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/loscampesinos

Part I
Popular Rock Hits From 90s
I won't give up listening to these songs even if everyone knows them. Why you have to be someone else? Why do you give up listening to songs that made commercial success? Does it make you special? I asked these questions to myself, and I only listen what i like. Everything is pop. Pop is everything.

1. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
Much was made of the meaning of the title "Losing My Religion" among inquiring pop fans.
Was it an old Southern saying? Gibberish? Or an admission of something more personal by
singer and lyricist Michael Stipe? In the end, it didn't really matter, as R.E.M. took all the elements that made their previous efforts great and found themselves with a worldwide hit. The sound of gently plucked acoustic instruments, at once traditional and contemporary, and a strong sense of melody, made for the ultimate song from an already great band. Mike Mills recounted in an interview that in Israel the song was referred to as "O Life," referring to the first line of the song; in the U.S., the band scored its first Top Five hit. The album from which it was taken, Out of Time, eventually made it to number one; an accompanying video won all the top honor awards a video could that year. If R.E.M. hadn't yet charted on the radar for some folks, "Losing My Religion" ensured the band a place in pop history when it became the ubiquitous song during the summer of 1991. Amg Review

2. Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Paranoid Android absolutely makes Thom Yorke a better singer, but beauty of the song comes
from its alternative flowings, passages. Three section during the song; beginning, middle and
ending. With this song, you'll realize the best reason why you should listen to Radiohead. Because you don't need to do anything, just let it play!

3. Simply Red - Stars
Simply Red's records are maybe not my bag. The band released another great hits such as "Fairground", "If You Don't Know Me By Now". Stars was truly top of the band, sometimes simple songs are very hard to write. Stars takes simplicity and goes with the choruses which invites you to sing along.

4. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares To You
Logging the highest level of chart performance for any single in 1990, Irish singer Sinéad
O'Connor's cover of the Prince composition "Nothing Compares 2 U" catapulted her from a
college-radio favorite into international stardom, to which she responded with passionate,
controversial political stands and increasingly erratic behavior.

5. Smashing Pumpkins - Today
6. Counting Crows - Mr. Jones

7. Nirvana - In Bloom
"In Bloom" was a cryptic attack on Nirvana's more clueless fans, embodied in a working-class Joe who "likes all our pretty songs/And he likes to sing along/And he likes to shoot his gun/But he don't know what it means."

8. The Cure - Friday, I'm In Love
9. Duran Duran - Ordinary World
10. Incubus - Stellar

See more:
Drug-like Tracks of 2006
Songs To Make Love To

"Gloomy Sunday" (from Hungarian "Szomoru Vasarnap", is a song written by the Hungarian
self-taught pianist and composer Rezso Seress in 1933. According to urban legend, it inspired hundreds of suicides. When the song was first marketed in the United States, it became known as the "Hungarian suicide song".There is no systematic substantiation for such claims, as it is not documented where any such allegations appear in press coverage or other publications of the time. The song was covered several times, and these are my favorite cover versions:

Seress Rezso - Szomoru Vasarnap (original version)
Sinead O'Connor - Gloomy Sunday (great cover)
Diamanda Galas - Gloomy Sunday (a great voice)
Sarah McLachlan - Gloomy Sunday
Paul Robeson - Gloomy Sunday
Billie Holiday - Gloomy Sunday Youtube Video

Following The Antidote (2005), Dive Deep is their next studio album which is expected to be released in late 2007 and is expected to have several vocalists taking the stage instead of the one vocalist all throughout the album. Some of the songs bound to appear on the album have been uploaded for listening on Morcheeba's Myspace site. Songs played included; Flowers, Enjoy The Ride, Riverbed and Washed Away. I like Morcheeba, and i think Dive Deep is a great Morcheeba record. And two of my favourite songs from it are:

Morcheeba - Flowers (Feat. Manda)
Morcheeba - Blue Chair (Feat. Judy Tzuke)

If you like Morcheeba, then listen to:
Portishead - Dummy

This ain't the best Die Hard Serie for sure, but it's one of the best action movies of the summer.
If you don't like the term 'the best', it's a nice movie you can eat popcorn with. Despite John McClane's funny jokes, it still includes the most overdone action scenes that i saw in a long time.
For example, McClane learns to walk on a F-16! He also learns jumping to a long distance from the F-16. On Live Free Of Die Hard, you watch unlimited action scenes one by one, and you adore McClane as a character. By the way, typical Hollywood always has lovemaking scenes. I believe my eyes that McClane wasn't going out with a chick. Still Die Hard (1988) may be the best action/adventure series of all.

Live Free Or Die Hard Theme

Singles
1. Thrills - Nothing Changes Around Here
I always like broken voices which show how people are different from any other living creature in the world. We're sensible! It’s a pity that some of us really don't have any emotions, even soul. They kill each other for only oil, for more land and for more money! Now that really makes us different from any animal in this world. We can also be very cruel! There is literally nothing to get excited about here, the lyrics are insipid and lifeless and the music is middle of the road and uninspiring. But, this song made me think about these, and hell yeah, "Nothing Changes Around Here".

2. Joss Stone feat Common - Tell Me What We're Gonna Do Now
Joss Stone is younger than me, but she started to impress me with her god-given voice.

3. Tokyo Police Club - Your English Is Good
True to form, Canadian pop-rockers Tokyo Police Club’s latest single is another excellently jovial slice of upbeat jangles and hand-clapping try-this-at-home bits. Read on Drowned In Sound

4. Jarvis Cocker - Fat Children
5. Garbage – Tell Me Where It Hurts
6. Mya ft. Lil Wayne - Lock U Down
7. The Rakes - The World Was A Mess But His Hair Was Perfect
8. Bloc Party - Hunting For Witches
9. Under The Influence Of Giants - In The Clouds
10. Mumm-Ra - Starlight

Videos
The Coral - Who's Gonna Find Me (stream) (download video)
Joss Stone - Tell Me What We're Gonna Do Now (youtube)
Mya Ft Lil Wayne – Lock U Down (youtube)
Mika - Big Girl (you Are Beautiful) (youtube)

The Electric Soft Parade was the best single on previous week!

A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408
in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror. With John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson. I saw the film two days ago. Despite John Cusack's very small lips that i hate,
1408 was imaginative and something worth watching. When a The Carpenters song kept playing, i remembered beautiful Karen Carpenter, i thought it'd be very nice sharing with you. "We've only just begun" was playing several times in that room 1408, and song sounds more frightening than Cusack's selfish acting when you're in a locked creepy hotel room.
The Carpenters - We've only Just Begun

For More Mystery:
Pan's Labyrinth

Rating:9/10

Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger will unleash their Windy City-related sixth Fiery Furnaces album, Widow City, on the world on October 9 via their new home, Thrill Jockey (located in Chicago). It was recorded near Lake Michigan last winter, and mixed by Tortoise svengali John McEntire at Chicago Soma Studios. Matthew plays every intrument on Widow City, only the drums were played by Robert D'Amico. This is completely another Fiery Furnaces record, which
sounds like what they are. Playful and unpredictable music! Don't be surprised because of the song below. The whole album includes many different sounds, loops and witty music. They're not all complicated like this song. However, i liked energic, fool expressions on this song.
The Fiery Furnaces - Uncle Charlie
Similar artists:
The Kills
The White Stripes
PJ Harvey

An absolute best al green record. I don’t know much about soul or r&b. Believe me if subject is listening to music, you don't have to be well-educated to say what sounds good or not. For God's sake, you've ears! Green's vocals are one of a kind on this marvellous production that released on July1973. Horns, fusions of country and soul, "You Ought to Be With Me," "Here I Am (Come and Take Me), and amazing opening track "Call Me," are reasons to die in front of this record. A classic.
Al Green - Call Me

Official Al Green

Walrus/Groon is a collaborative 12" EP between Merzbow (Japanese noise musician Masami Akita) and Japanese experimental doom band Boris. And The A side is a cover of "I Am the Walrus" by The Beatles, yeah baby it's the real and noisy Lennon and McCartney devotion. I always like these kind of original ideas, like covering a rock classic with great and stylish noise rock. Not only noise rock you'll hear, there are also electronics, guitar fuzz, heavy drums... Exceptional great rock music, is that too much for you?
Boris & Merzbow - Walrus

you may also love:
Melvins - A Senile Animal 2006

Singles
1. The Electric Soft Parade - Misunderstanding
The song has a comfy playing, hooks are almost exploding at the end of it. Alex White moves one step forward with enormous emotional range of his vocals. Endings are important and they're more memorable than the startings, this song proves this.

2. The New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour
You sometimes want to listen conservative guitar pop songs. New Pornographers offer this, if you want a taste of simple beauty.

3. Brett Anderson – Back To You (EP)
Brett Anderson ain't a crap record, it was nice to hear Brett's trembling voice once again. But, the artists should give their best to make a record, especially if it's a new record. Because they spend the most important thing, time! So do we. I know Brett could do better than this.

4. Bright Eyes – If The Brakeman Turns My Way
5. The National - Lucky You
6. Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
7. Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do
8. Prince – Guitar
9. Travis – Selfish Jean
10. Kings Of Leon – Fans

Videos
Boredoms - 77BOADRUM
Live Earth's Greatest Bits

Top Songs
Keri Hilson - Happy Juice Lyrics
Ciara - Can't Leave 'Em Alone Lyrics
Akon - Get Buck Lyrics
Twista - Give It Up Lyrics
Rihanna - Hotness Lyrics

Rating: 9.4/10
A fan of Led Zeppelin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Kinks, and Southern rock when he was a child, taking the power of his songwriting from David Bowie, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, King Crimson, XTC, and early Genesis, John Vanderslice has released five studio records by now. New record Emerald City (out July 24) is a lovely album while resting on seaside (believe me i tried this). Moreover it's a great choice for a sunny, beautiful Sunday. He is developing well-educated pop sound, and i recommend his Cellar Door record. If Cellar Door (2004) is ok for you, then you should listen to the other records of him. Musically, the songs from Emerald City are clean, nice and easy to get. They are fueled by an era of deep insecurity and paranoia; they develop in front of a backdrop of ritualized and mythologized current events. Lyrically, John Vanderslice's characters and storytellers track Manifest Destiny from burning wagon wheels to two-bedroom homes with full amenities in Bakersfield, California. And one of the standout songs is Time To Go! Very Nice.
John Vanderslice - Time to Go
You can listen another nice track White Dove on Barsuk Records Media section.
Also listen:
Rufus Wainwright - Release The Stars

Some of us love Animal Collective, and their new Strawberry Jam comes in September, i loved
all the songs. Yeah, it's leaked like every new record. Every song sounds great! Like Grass
and other typical Collective songs, Peacebone opens Strawberry Jam with full of Animal happiness. The longest songs such as For Reverend Green, Fireworks are the best songs for sure - slow and sure! Like what they wrote on their myspace, concrete, soul and visual!
Animal Collective - Peacebone (soon it'll be removed)

Strawberry Jam tracklist:
01 Peacebone
02 Unsolved Mysteries
03 Chores
04 For Reverend Green
05 Fireworks
06 #1
07 Winter Wonder Land
08 Cuckoo Cuckoo
09 Derek

More Music:
Panda Bear - Person Pitch

Hersh dug into her backlog of compositions for material of an intensely personal nature that she felt wouldn't be suitable for her band on her solo debut. In stark contrast to her work with Throwing Muses, Hips and Makers (1994) is almost entirely acoustic. The album opener "Your Ghost" offers a magical acustic taste with R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and it's the best song. And also i love the title song Hips And Makers. I love this record, what should i say more about it?
Kristin Hersh - Your Ghost (beautiful song!)
Kristin Hersh - Hips And Makers
You can buy this record from 4ad
you may also like:
Kristin Hersh - Learn To Sing Like A Star

You Gotta Problem With Me, Julian Cope's first new album for 18 months, he addresses such currently controversial issues as religion, misogyny and homophobia, corporate greed and the destruction of Mother Earth. Released across two 28-minute-long CDs. A obscure record that needs time to get, mostly a depressive shit. It becomes very hard to go on tolerating middle-aged artists. He loves The Doors, Scott Walker, Tim Buckley and other weird names like Pere Ubu - That's for sure. Julian Cope needs to make music in his own form, because i smell of The Doors on every song on this record. Dark Orgasm was hard to stomach. You Gotta Problem With Me is better than Dark Orgasm. It's a good thing, though.
Julian Cope - Sick Love
Similar artists:
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus Three - Ole! Tarantula
Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles

I listened the new Ash record today, and so i liked it, not very much. Don't get me wrong, i always try to do my best while listening to a record. The whole record is merely okay, some nice guitar hooks, college rock, pop punk, or maybe falling of a good band! A song from this brand new record named Dark And Stormy reminds an unforgatable hit song Under the Milky Way by The Church, and i first asked myself why i liked this song? The reason is simple, it's because of that beautiful Under the Milky Way. Watch The Church -Under the Milky Way on Youtube
Ash - Dark And Stormy

Propelled by the success of The Breakfast Club, the song became the band's only number-one U.S. hit (though, by all accounts, Simple Minds did not much care for it). And it still can be heard on music channels, radio stations. Don't You Forget About Me is not that kind of hit singles, it's not one of those. Its soft play, nice lyrics, beautiful sound are absolutely memorable!
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me

Singles
1. The Clash - London Calling(flashback!)
Don't be surprised, unfortunately they're not coming back. But i'm not satisfied enough with the new songs below. Honestly, they are crap. Yes, you heard it right, it's very hard to find some music worth writing for these days. Not only is this hard, there is also nothing that sounds like the amazing song The Clash did before 28 years ago. Where are you hardworking artists? Or we all became the money worshippers?

2. Go! Team – Grip Like Vice
Whatever you call it dance punk, electroclash or indie electronic, this song is nice!

3. Feist - Somewhere Down the Road
Joining the likes of Bright Eyes and Cat Power, Leslie Feist took a break from being everywhere to cover a song by singer/songwriter Jesse Harris for the soundtrack to upcoming film The Hottest State. Nice song! Listen up the song at Pitchfork

4. Natasha Bedingfield – Soulmate
5. Wombats - Backfire At The Disco
6. Concretes – Oh Boy
7. Robin Thicke - Lost Without U
8. Badly Drawn Boy – Promises (7” + 12”)
9. Jackknife Lee – Making Me Money
10. Shapeshifters – Pusher

Videos
Some Spinner Goods
Smashing Pumpkins, 'Zeitgeist' Full Album Stream on Spinner
Video Premiere: Smashing Pumpkins, 'Tarantula' on Spinner
Alex Gopher - The Game
Silverchair - Straight Lines
Art Brut - Direct Hit
Low - Breaker
Natasha Bedingfield – Soulmate

Elusive by Scott Matthews was winner the previous week!