December 2008
46 posts
Justin Vernon gets love from blogs but needs to...
bijan wrote this post about how even though Bon Iver can credit blogs for much of their success, the band’s label, jagjaguwar, sent him a takedown notice for a song he posted on his blog awhile back.
The social blogging community is a huge gift to fans and artists alike. I know i would discover less music and buy less music if it wasn’t for the rich community that I’m part of online. Fred...
Jenny Lewis - Barking at the Moon
“Given...
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Everything But The Girl - 25th December
Merry...
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Low - Just Like Christmas
Christmas songs, day...
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Belle & Sebastian - Winter Wooskie
Christmas...
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Dirty Mittens - White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Eels (38)
Sufjan Stevens (25)
Prince (9)
Belle and Sebastian (7)
Bright Eyes (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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EELS - Christmas is Going to the Dogs
Christmas...
Top 10 Real World Web Apps of 2008 →
“While a lot of these [web 2.0] services make our life on the Internet a lot easier, another group of services on the web helps to keep our offline life organized. Here is our list of the top ‘real world’ apps that have made our offline lives easier in 2008.”
ReadWriteWeb named TeachStreet one of their top 10 “real world” web apps of 2008, alongside such fine...
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Damien Rice - Happy Xmas (War is Over)
Christmas...
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Rosie Thomas - Winter Wonderland
Christmas songs,...
WatchFrom Bon Iver in a small club in Seattle, to the swarming sea of people at Austin City Limits for MGMT, I had some great live music moments this year.
Here’s an 8tracks mix of some of the bands that left the biggest memories.
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The Kinks - Father Christmas
Day 7: A classic, if...
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Harvey Danger - Sometimes, you have to work on...
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Zooey Deschanel & Leon Redbone - Baby,...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-14) →
Belle and Sebastian (23)
Band of Horses (15)
M.I.A. (15)
Sufjan Stevens (14)
She & Him (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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The Cotton Jones Basket Ride - White Christmas
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Belle & Sebastian - Santa Claus (Sonics Cover)...
On the Auto Bailout...
[The auto companies] should go out of business, and something new (and competitive) should rise from the ashes. If that means that autoworkers can’t make the same wages, I’m sorry. If it means that people who thought they had pensions now don’t, I’m sorry. (That’s happening to a lot of people…) But there will always be a huge need for pickup trucks in the US....
“M & M’s (WARNING: ABSOLUTELY NO BROWN ONES)”
– Van Halen’s Legendary M&M’s Rider via The Smoking Gun.
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Bright Eyes - Little Drummer Boy
Christmas songs,...
Microblog Tumblr Raises $4.5 Million →
Congratulations to David, Marco, Fred, Bijan, and everyone else working on tumblr.
huge:
Way to go, guys! Congrats!
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Sufjan Stevens - Hey Guys! It’s Christmas...
Belle & Sebastian's Peel Christmas Party →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-7) →
Paul Simon (27)
Ra Ra Riot (17)
Justin Vernon (14)
Conor Oberst (13)
Dr. Dog (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
The Lemonheads - Into Your Arms
Like “Fade...
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Evan Dando - Live Forever
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Gift 1: Bon Iver's 2005 Self-Release
gtmcknight:
Every day of December I’m going to try and give you guys something new and exciting. Could be music, could be me sending you something in the mail. Stay tuned and enjoy my favorite season of the year.
Today’s gift is Justin Vernon’s (aka Bon Iver) self-released album from 2005, 3 years before he released one of the best albums of this year (For Emma, Forever Ago). It’s 17 tracks...
