The "what are you listening to at this very moment" thread

[MarkGrace]

The new Gorillaz single: http://froutea.tumblr.com/post/34424...radio-edit-omg

Kind of an odd pick for a lead single, but love the Bobby Womack soul!

[UtahDan]

The new Gorillaz single: http://froutea.tumblr.com/post/34424...radio-edit-omg

Kind of an odd pick for a lead single, but love the Bobby Womack soul!

Love it. When does that album release?

[MarkGrace]

First week in March.

Zane Lowe was freaking out about how great it is, but he tends to be a bit of a hype machine. We shall see.

[il Padrino Ute]

In Ghost Colours - Cut Copy

Any synth-pop lovin' 80s revivalist should own this album.

I took this post as a challenge and listened to some of it via youtube and I just want to say thanks. I really liked it.

[Bastage]

Nighttiming - Coconut Records

[MarkGrace]

Thom Yorke was a co-host on Radio 1's show with Gilles Peterson last night, and I just got done listening to their two hour set. Mostly stuff that you would expect from Thom (lots of dubstep/electronica as well as some jazz and hip-hop), but some great cuts and it was really interesting to listen to him talk about music. This was the tracklist:

Christoph de Babalon — Are You Talking To Me?
Floating Points — People's Potential
Floating Points — Vacuum Boogie
Pangaea — Why
Darkstar — Need You
Gil Scott-Heron — I’ll take Care Of You
Charles Mingus — Mood Indigo
Sun Ra — On Jupiter
MF DOOM — Great Day (Fourtet remix)
Jay Eletronica — Exhibit C
Shadows Of Tomorrow — Madlib & Quasimoto
Los Silvertones — Carman
Can — Oh Yeah
George Russell — Electonic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature Part 1
Blaqstarr & Diplo — Get Off (The Rob 3 remix)
South Rakkas Crew — Mad Again (Boy 8 Bit Mix)
Rockwell — Unknown Track
Alex Cortex — Huyendo Part 2
Milton Nascimento — Pao E Agua
Clinic — Distortions
Dam-Funk — Searching For Funk's Future
Brad Mehldau — Everything In It's Right Place
João Gilberto — Aguas de Marco

Overall a good mix of stuff. I really liked that Darkstar cut, the Mingus and Sun Ra tracks, the Four Tet remix of DOOM, and the Madlib and Quasimoto.

That Mehldau cover of Radiohead was actually one that Peterson picked and Thom had never heard it before. He seemed to really dig it.

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[MarkGrace]

Rabbit Fur Coat - Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins

The country discussion inspired me to listen this little country-inspired gem.

[MarkGrace]

Spoon
Beach House
Four Tet
Autechre
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck
Los Campesinos!
Arcade Fire
LCD Soundsystem
Hot Chip
MGMT
Interpol
The National
Radiohead
Gorillaz
Massive Attack
The Avalanches
Outkast
The Wrens
The Magnetic Fields
David Byre and Fatboy Slim
Black Reberl Motorcycle Club
Liars
Drive-By Truckers
She & Him
Battles
Cat Power
Fleet Foxes (saw Robin Pecknold at the airport last night, btw)
The Hold Steady
MIA
The New Pornographers
Nine Inch Nails
Santigold
The Strokes
Wolf Parade
The Walkmen

Hot damn this year has the potential to be immense.

[Commando]

Is radiohead coming out w/ a proper release this year?

[MartyFunkhouser]

Gil Scott-Heron — I’ll take Care Of You
Charles Mingus — Mood Indigo
Sun Ra — On Jupiter

Sun Ra kicks ass and you just cannot go wrong with Mingus. Gil Scott-Heron is solid as well.

[MarkGrace]

Is radiohead coming out w/ a proper release this year?

Ed claims they will have a record out this year, but we all know they take their sweet time. We do know that they recorded with Nigel prior to last summer, they went through several weeks of rehearsals prior to Christmas to get ready for another studio session, and they are currently recording in LA right now and will be there for a solid month. How much of the album will be done at the end of the month remains to be seen. If it's not complete, then they probably won't be able to hit the studio again until summer as Thom and his ???? band will play Coachella in April and maybe a handful of other shows. That means that group will be rehearsing most of March to get ready for the April shows.

Thom's got a lot of crap going (two bands now, remixes, soundtrack stuff), I believe Jonny has to finish his second classical work for the BBC sooner or later, and Phil is recording a solo album. So we'll see if they have time to get this thing out in '10, but right now that is the expectation.

[MarkGrace]

Official tracklist for Plastic Beach just released:

01 Orchestral Intro (ft. Sinfonia ViVA)
02 Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach (ft. Snoop Dogg and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
03 White Flag (ft. Kano, Bashy, and the National Orchestra for Arabic Music)
04 Rhinestone Eyes
05 Stylo (ft. Bobby Womack and Mos Def)
06 Superfast Jellyfish (ft. Gruff Rhys and De La Soul)
07 Empire Ants (ft. Little Dragon)
08 Glitter Freeze (ft. Mark E Smith)
09 Some Kind Of Nature (ft. Lou Reed)
10 On Melancholy Hill
11 Broken
12 Sweepstakes (ft. Mos Def and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
13 Plastic Beach (ft. Mick Jones and Paul Simonon)
14 To Binge (ft. Little Dragon)
15 Cloud of Unknowing (ft. Bobby Womack and Sinfonia ViVA)
16 Pirate Jet

Albarn said Bruce Willis was going to appear on this album, but I don't see him on there.

[Mr Incredible]

The Taker - Tony MacAlpine
Shine On - Badlands

[Bastage]

Our Endless Numbered Days - Iron & Wine

[UtahDan]

Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast, Cornershop

(I love this, where the hell have these guys been my whole life?)