January 13, 2009
Top 50 Albums of 2008 / The Hype Machine

Great source for best music of the year.  The Hype Machine enables you to listen to every song on each album listed.  It’s a great way to discover some great music you may have missed during the year.

January 6, 2009
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travie:

For my Brother, SIEone, This song was part of the soundtrack to our college years, WORD IS LIFE, MY WORD IS LIFE!!!! I Love You Homie.

A great song.

January 5, 2009
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headunderwater:

The Walkman - In The New Year

and I’m waiting on the weather
that i know will pass
i know that its true-its gonna be a good year
outta the darkness-and into the fire

The obligatory song for the new year.

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newspeedwayboogie:

Been looking for a good entry point to get into the Heartless Bastards for a few years - finally got it - great song.  Great

stylman:

Heartless Bastards - Searching for the Ghost
These guys are playing with The Black Keys and Lucero in a few weeks - I don’t think I can make it, but I’m most certainly going to try.
January 4, 2009
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I’m not usually a big remix fan, but this is a cool one.

headunderwater:

david:

Santogold — Say Aha (Tepr Remix)
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Incredibly, intelligent people the world over remain willing to lend us money and even listen to our advice; they appear not to have realized the full extent of our madness. We have at least a brief chance to cure ourselves. But first we need to ask: of what?

“Greed” doesn’t cut it as a satisfying explanation for the current financial crisis. Greed was necessary but insufficient; in any case, we are as likely to eliminate greed from our national character as we are lust and envy. The fixable problem isn’t the greed of the few but the misaligned interests of the many.

Op-Ed Contributors - The End of the Financial World as We Know It - NYTimes.com

Good Op Ed in today’s NY Times by Michael Lewis (of Liar’s Poker and Moneyball fame) and David Einhorn (of Hedge Fund, Greenlight Capital fame)

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365rpm:

Billy Paul - Am I Black Enough For You?
Billy Paul - Am I Black Enough For You?
My current favorite jam. Fucking awesome!

My buds JB and PB would like this song.

now

simondodson:

runningfromlions:

“So fail. Be bad at things. Be embarrassed. Be afraid. Be vulnerable. Go out on a limb or two or twelve and you will fall and it’ll hurt..but the harder you fall, the farther you will rise. The louder you fall, the clearer your future becomes. Failure is a gift, welcome it. There are people who spend their whole lives wondering how they became the people they became. How certain chances pass them by, why they didn’t take the roads less traveled. Those people aren’t you. You have front row seats to your own transformation, and in transforming yourself, you might even transform the world, and it will be electric and i promise it will be terrifying. Embrace that; embrace the new person you’re becoming. This is your moment. I promise you, it is now. Now, not two minutes from now, not tomorrow, but really now. Own that; know that deep in your bones and go to sleep every night knowing that. Wake up every morning remembering that and then… keep going.”
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newspeedwayboogie:

Nick Drake - Fly

Please give me a second grace
Please give me a second face
Ive fallen far down
The first time around
Now I just sit on the ground in your way

December 14, 2008
And from another angle.

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