MP3: || I Would Be A Great Lover For You ||

Well here’s another shameless plugs of one of my own bands! High School Girls is a love-pop duo from Lafayette, IN, and we just released our first EP, Breakfast Years, last week after recording a few tracks in the studio. Head over to our Bandcamp to listen and download the EP for free. We are also doing a Kickstarter right now to try to finish recording an album in the same studio where we did the tracks for the EP. Any help is greatly appreciated!

And it looks like Pitchfork has treated our hometown boys well.

Cloud Nothings’ third album Attack On Memory drops a week from today, but you can hear the entire album right now via Complex. Preorder for the album is up on Insound.

MP3: || Consistency ||

One of Indiana’s biggest up-and-comers Stagnant Pools just released the first taste of their upcoming 2012 record, release TBA. “Consistency” is a massive slice of punked-out sky-high shoegaze from the Bloomington brothers, and it definitely gives indications of a fantastic record from these two. Below is a video of the duo playing “Consistency” at my now-defunct basement venue Jurassic Park, and the song sounds just as huge.

MP3: || Eleven A.M. ||

Let’s start 2012 on a great note! Cleveland pop heroes Bears released their highly anticipated third album, Greater Lakes, last week after their successful Kickstarter. Here’s the first track on the album, “Eleven A.M.,” a nice and dreamy pop doodle with Bears’ signature twee tones. I don’t think I’m alone in saying this it’s fantastic to have new Bears music, and they prove exactly why they’re still one of the best pop bands in Ohio. The album is officially out on Misra Records this February, and preorder for the clear vinyl and CD is up on Bears’ site or Misra’s shop.

10. Kreayshawn – “Gucci Gucci”

9. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – “Heart In Your Heartbreak”

8. Real Estate – “It’s Real”

7. Tyler, The Creator – “Yonkers”

6. Vivian Girls – “Take It As It Comes”

5. Big Troubles – “Sad Girls”

4. Jacuzzi Boys – “Glazin’”
Go here for uncensored video: http://jacuzzigals.com/
Here’s the censored one:

3. Sleeping Bag – “Slime”

2. Titus Andronicus – “No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future”

1. Youth Lagoon – “Montana”

A Lull – “Some Love” MP3
Apache Dropout – “Teenager” VIDEO
Arches – “This Isn’t A Good Night For Walking” MP3
Arctic Monkeys – “Reckless Serenade” LIVE VIDEO
Beach Fossils – “What A Pleasure” VIDEO
BIGCOLOUR – “playing puzzles” MP3
Bon Iver – “Beth/Rest” VIDEO
Cloud Nothings – “Understand At All” MP3
Coasting – “Portland” MP3
Coldplay – “Hurts Like Heaven”

Cults – “Abducted” VIDEO
Cut Copy – “Take Me Over” STREAM
Cymbals Eat Guitars – “Definite Darkness” MP3
Deerhoof – “Behold a Marvel in the Darkness” VIDEO
Delicate Steve – “Sugar Splash” STREAM
Diarrhea Planet – “Ice Age” LIVE VIDEO
Dream Diary – “Paper Flowers’ VIDEO
Dum Dum Girls – “Bedroom Eyes” MP3
Fleet Foxes – “Battery Kinzie” VIDEO
Ford and Lopatin – “Channel Pressure” VIDEO

Forma – “FORMA 237A” MP3
Fucked Up – “Queen of Hearts” MP3
Future Days – “Carry Me Away” MP3
Gauntlet Hair – “Keep Time” MP3
Girls Names – “I Could Die” VIDEO
Gold-Bears – “Record Store” MP3
Heidecker & Wood – “Cross Country Skiing” VIDEO
Hooray For Earth – “Last Minute” VIDEO
Iceage – “Collapse” MP3

Jacuzzi Boys – “Vizcaya” MP3
James Blake – “Unluck”
Jeff The Brotherhood – “Diamond Way” MP3
John Maus – “Quantum Leap” MP3
Kids On A Crime Spree – “I Don’t Want To Call You Baby, Baby” VIDEO
Kvelertak – “Fossegrim” VIDEO
La Sera – “Never Come Around” MP3
Let’s Wrestle – “In Dreams, Part II” MP3
M83 – “Reunion” VIDEO
Male Bonding – “Tame The Sun” STREAM

Megachurch – “Receive It” STREAM
Mist – “Twin Lanes” MP3
Mr. C – “Murderous” MP3
Papercuts – “Do You Really Want To Know” STREAM
Puro Instinct – “Everybody’s Sick” VIDEO
Radio People – “A Vague Year” STREAM
Reading Rainbow – “Dead End” MP3
Real Estate – “It’s Real” MP3
Seapony – “Blue Star” MP3
Shoreway – “Daylight Dream” MP3

Sleeping Bag – “Ben” LIVE VIDEO
Smith Westerns – “Weekend” MP3
Stagnant Pools – “Dead Sailor” MP3
Swimsuit – “Sunlight” MP3
Tammar – “Heavy Tonight”
Tennis – “Long Boat Pass” VIDEO
The Babies – “Meet Me In The City” MP3
The Beets – “Doing As I Do” MP3
The Black Keys – “Gold on the Ceiling” VIDEO
The Happy Thoughts – “Indiana Girls” VIDEO

The Modern Electric – “Northcoast Christmas” MP3
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – “Heaven’s Gonna Happen Now” VIDEO
The Strokes – “Under Cover Of Darkness” VIDEO
Thundercat – “Fleer Ultra” VIDEO
Total Babes – “Don’t Have To Run” STREAM
Triptides – “Going Under” MP3
Troubles Books and Mark McGuire – “Floating Through Summer” STREAM
tUnE-yArDs – “Gangsta” VIDEO
TV Ghost – “Sleep Composite” VIDEO
Tyler, The Creator – “Yonkers” VIDEO

Unknown Mortal Orchestra – “Nerve Damage” STREAM
Veronica Falls – “Bad Feeling” STREAM
Vivian Girls – “Take It As It Comes” VIDEO
Washed Out – “Eyes Be Closed” MP3
White Denim – “It’s Him!” LIVE VIDEO
Why I Like Robins – “LR” MP3
Wild Beasts – “Bed of Nails” VIDEO
WU LYF – “L Y F” VIDEO
Youth Lagoon – “July” MP3
Yuck – “Get Away” VIDEO

Here’s a couple links with all of the above MP3s in zip files:
Favorite Songs of 2011 Pt. 1
Favorite Songs of 2011 Pt. 2

50. Thundercat – The Golden Age of Apocalypse
MP3: || Daylight ||
49. The Black Keys – El Camino
VIDEO: || Lonely Boy||
48. Wild Beasts – Smother
VIDEO: || Bed of Nails ||
47. Forma – Forma
MP3: || FORMA 237A ||
46. WU LYF – Go Tell Fire on the Mountain
VIDEO: || We Bros ||
45. Mist – House
MP3: || Twin Lanes ||
44. Tammar – Visits
MP3: || The Last Line ||
43. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Belong
VIDEO: || Heart In Your Heartbreak ||
42. Iceage – New Brigade
MP3: || Collapse ||
41. Washed Out – Within and Without
MP3: || Eyes Be Closed ||
40. The Beets – Let The Poison Out
MP3: || Doing As I Do ||
39. Real Estate – Days
MP3: || It’s Real ||
38. Ford and Lopatin – Channel Pressure
MP3: || Too Much MIDI (Please Forgive Me) ||
37. Dream Diary – You Are The Beat
VIDEO: || Something Tells Her ||
36 – Apache Dropout – Apache Dropout
MP3: || Sam Phillips Rising ||
35. La Sera – La Sera
MP3: || Never Come Around ||
34. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
MP3: || Ffunny Ffrends ||
33. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Lenses Alien
MP3: || Definite Darkness ||
32. Hooray For Earth – True Loves
MP3: || No Love ||
31. Jeff The Brotherhood – We Are The Champions
MP3: || Diamond Way ||
30. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
MP3: || Helplessness Blues ||
29. Seapony – Go With Me
MP3: || Blue Star ||
28. Girls Names – Dead To Me
MP3: || Seance On A Wet Afternoon ||
27. Shoreway – Three Years
MP3: || Daylight Dream ||
26. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
MP3: || Queen Of Hearts ||
25. Tennis – Cape Dory
MP3: || Take Me Somewhere ||
24. A Lull – Confetti
MP3: || Water & Beasts ||
23. James Blake – James Blake
VIDEO: || The Wilhelm Scream ||
22. Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto
VIDEO: || Paradise ||
21. Veronica Falls – Veronica Falls
MP3: || Found Love in a Graveyard ||
VIDEO: || Bad Feeling ||
20. Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation

MP3: || July ||

19. TV Ghost – Mass Dream

VIDEO: || Subterfuge ||

18 – Puro Instinct – Headbangers In Ecstasy

MP3: || Stilyagi ||

12. Tyler, The Creator – Goblin

VIDEO: || Yonkers ||
VIDEO: || Bitch Suck Dick ||

11. Yuck – Yuck

MP3: || Rubber ||

8. Megachurch – Megachurch II: Judgement Days

MP3: || Speak In Tongues ||

1. Cloud Nothings – Cloud Nothings


MP3: || Understand At All ||

MP3: || Stay Useless ||

Check out the newest track from Cloud Nothings’ upcoming album, Attack on Memory. Although Dylan Baldi has shown us that Cloud Nothings are going a different direction with “No Future/No Past”, “Stay Useless” still shows us why we fell in love with them in the first place. The song debuted on Rolling Stone this morning, where Dylan stated, “I’m trying to take Cloud Nothings to different areas, songwriting-wise, so I figured I should try and finish off the ‘poppy’ songs with a bang.” Attack on Memory is out January 24th on Carpark, and it’s available for preorder on Insound.

MP3: || Northcoast Christmas ||

After perhaps one of the best debuts from a Cleveland band in years, The Modern Electric have returned with a Christmas treat, “Northcoast Christmas.” They actually debuted this song about two years ago at still one of my favorite shows ever, “It’s A Beachland Christmas” 2009. When I wrote about it then, I said that “Northcoast Christmas” was just as much a song about Cleveland as it was a song about Christmas, and that still holds true. Garrett Komyati and his wonderful voice hit on subjects such as thrift store shopping, quoting A Christmas Story, and praying for a Browns’ win and snow days. Listen and download the incredible song above, and you’re bound to have this stuck in your head for the rest of the Christmas season. Head over to their Bandcamp to get the three-track “Northcoast Christmas” single for $2.