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Hood Internet's Mixtape Volume One (the first thing I ever posted to this blog) got major points for imagination but about half of the mashups were a bit of a trainwreck. Over the past year and a half everything they've put out just gets tighter and more inspired. Oh, and it's also all free for download on their Web site.
Download Hood Internet Mixtape Volume Three
They're at home in Chicago tonight playing Sonotheque but I'll be at Diplo.

Speaking of Diplo and Mad Decent: Their latest podcast, "Love in This Bmore Club" comes from Dave Nada and combines two of my favorite things, R&B slow jams and Bmore beats. Get it here

Cheese and the Funk Doctor Spock (aka Method Man and Redman) play the House of Blues on Friday. I'll be out of town but on the plane I'll be listening to the amazing Redman mix from Cosmo Baker of The Rub, a dj trio that puts on the best dance party in New York first Saturday of every month. Holy crap, I forgot how many good Redman songs there are. Get it here.

Ol Dirty Bastard vs White Williams - Got Your Smoke
(div share)

The Whistle Stop

Andrew Bird - A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left (div share)
Autumn in Chicago has given me a serious new appreciation for local hero Andrew Bird. I'm kicking myself for skipping the Millennium Park show, which you can download here.

We Have Band - You Came Out (demo) (div share)
This has been floating around for months and I'm a little confused as to why they aren't famous yet. myspace

Minitel Rose - Magic Powder
(div share)
FUCK a Justice, I could eat these French boys up: myspace

Juelz Santana - There It Go (The Whistle Song) (div share)
dip set dip set dip set dip set

Band of Annuals

Despite the fact that dance music and hip hop make up the two biggest slices of my music-listening pie chart, the third-biggest sliver is a genre I like to call Quiet Times Music. It's what I listen to at night while washing dishes, when I know Crookers will get me too hopped up to sleep, or on the train home when the workday has worn me thin. Devendra Banhart, Elliot Smith, Neko Case: QTM.

Speaking of Neko, she used to bartend at The Hideout, which is one of my favorite places here in Chicago. A few weeks ago I saw her play their Block Party (she played again the next day with the New Pornographers), which was amazing. Sunday night I found myself there yet again to see Salt Lake City's Band of Annuals, and their beautiful performance has put them on my QTM playlist. They're on tour until the end of November, so if you're a fan of alt-country, or music that sounds like sitting in a field on a warm fall day, or just watching someone play the pedal steel guitar, go see them.

Band of Annuals - Ain't Looking Back (div share)

Band Annuals - Don't Let Me Die (div share)

Buy their album here.

no borders no boundaries

"They both wanted him back inside her."

Anoraak - Never Ending Romance Disaster (div share)

my little tornado

The Kills - Last Day of Magic (James Rutledge remix) (div share)

Four from Three

I've lost the ability to be anything resembling clever, so here's some songs off of three albums I've been listening to a lot:

Planet Asia and F.L.O. - Mikilikihi (div share)
Buy Planet F.L.O.
After I do my final Mixtape Recovery Project post I'm finally going to do one about all the East Bay rappers I got obsessed with when I lived there years ago (Andre Nickatina/E-40/Keak Da Sneak/Rasco, etc). I averted my gaze when the hyphy shit went down because the get dumb-dumb novelty sunglasses thing was cornier than krumping. I'm a sucker for whispering and finger snapping though - "Vans" still sounds white hot to me. Ok, this song smells hyphy but I like it too:
Planet Asia and F.L.O. - Dem Boyz Go (div share)

Hercules & Love Affair - Raise Me Up (div share)
Buy Hercules and Love Affair
H+LAspace
I used to fall firmly in the "hate Antony Hegarty's voice" camp but lately he's all I want to hear.

The Dodos - Winter (div share)
Buy Visiter
There's a chance I'll be sick of this album in about a month and may never listen to it again. But it was recommended to me as good fall music, and it is.

Wasn't sure I'd ever see the other side of September 2008. I'm ten years older on the inside and look about five years older on the outside, yet oddly enough I'm only about two years wiser.

Tidbitz

I'm covering the dance beat now over at Radio Free Chicago. Haha the 'dance beat,' get it?...I'm sorry.

My favorite song of the day is a Scottie B remix of a song by Chuck Brown, the so-called Godfather of Go-Go. I have a soft-spot for DC go-go even though I don't actually love the music, and Scottie B can do no wrong by me. B'more FOREVAH.
Check it over at Blastercase.

This is the first song I every heard by Scottie B and the woo! yeah!s still make me laugh:

Scottie B and King Tutt - Call Me Al remix
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Stay Classy.

I got really excited yesterday when I remembered I'd gotten a ticket to see Cut Copy and the Presets in two weeks. I bought it awhile ago and it's sold out now, apparently. It's just like that time I stuck a twenty in my pocket, and then found it drunkenly a month later after fishing those dirty jeans from some dusty corner of my closet floor and was like heeey, free money! Oh, P.S.: I'm kind of a dirtbag.

The Presets - Are You the One? (Van She rmx) (div share)

Treasure Fingers - Come True Tonight (Dub mx) (div share)