![HOT TRAXXX: Black Bananas - Rad Times [MP3]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4011610_lg.jpg)
MP3: Black Bananas - Rad Times Hot Zapp-g-funk-tastic Batman! Jennifer Herrema sure brings the party—and what better way to kick off 2012? Enjoy!
![Lower Dens - Brains [MP3]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3994949_lg.jpg)
MP3: Lower Dens - Brains A new Lower Dens album in 2012? That's great news! They're calling it Nootropics and Ribbon Music is going to release it May 1st! But first - a single! "Brains" is the first peek of this highly anticipated beast and it will debut as a double 10" (with album track "Propagation" and b-side "Hours" along for the ride) which you can pre-order now - that's the art for it above. [...]
A new year of posting begins now, fuckers. I've basically been listening to this song at least five times a day for the past month. It's oddly intoxicating and addicting. Enjoy.
Yeah it's sort of late, you don't need to be a dick about it. Besides, it ain't official until we make it so! THE BEST OF 2011 JOEY GANTNER 1. Future Islands - On the Water (Thrill Jockey) 2. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse (Drag City) 3. Saviours - Death's Procession [...]
MP3: Cloud Nothings - Stay Useless Holy shit - Cloud Nothings went from a really cool band to something truly special in the blink of an eye! I saw them earlier in the year and it was a hell of time, and goddamn this new album is everything you would want it to be. "Stay Useless" is easily Attack on Memory 's centerpiece, a total rock song with Dylan Baldi hitting some chill inducing notes, all masterfully recorded by the great Steve Albini. It sounds [...]
MP3: Pure X - Surface Pure X "Surface" Pleasure Acéphale 2011 Director: Malcolm Elijah While putting together my best of 2011 list (coming Friday!), I've been looking a lot at Pleasure , the LP by Pure X . I didn't listen to it as much as I should've this year, which I'm trying to make up for now, but it's really a hell of a record, you know? These are essential '11 jams, children.
MP3: Colin Stetson - Those Who Didn't Run Colin Stetson "Those Who Didn't Run" Those Who Didn't Run Constellation 2011 Director: Isaac Gale
![FUCK YEAH: Personal and the Pizzas - Diet, Crime & Delinquency [MP3]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3932674_lg.jpg)
MP3: Personal and the Pizzas - Diet, Crime & Delinquency Heyyyyyy look who's back in town, huh?
MP3: Marissa Nadler - In Your Lair, Bear Marissa Nadler "In Your Lair, Bear" Marissa Nadler Box of Cedar Records 2011 Director: Alec K. Redfearn
MP3: Poor Sons - Scales Poor Sons "Scales" Dunes Burger Records /Under the Gun Records 2011 Director: Poor Sons Besides owning this on tape, you can and should download their ep for free right here . It rules.
![Catwalk - Christmas Don't Be Late [MP3]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3927541_lg.jpg)
MP3: Catwalk - Christmas Don't Be Late Not sure if we'll post any X-Men X-Mas tunes beyond this, but today's selection is certainly a keeper. I had never heard any Catwalk before this Chipmunks cover , but dude's (tiny) back catalogue is just as great as this song, so track it down.
![Bleached - Electric Chair [MP3]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3924655_lg.jpg)
MP3: Bleached - Electric Chair Did you hear this one yet? It's the b-side to Bleached 's newest single Searching Through the Past. "Electric Chair" sees them cross the finish line after a fine debut year, bringing their count to three quality 7 inches. Thanks dudes - for the hits!
![Colleen Green - Live on WMBR [ZIP/MP3]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3919268_lg.jpg)
ZIP: Colleen Green - Live on WMBR MP3s: 01. I Wanna Be Degraded 02. Only One 03. Mike 04. Darkest Eyes 05. Worship You Colleen Green was cool enough to play on the radio for my birthday this morning, wasn't that nice of her? She also played 2 new songs ("Only One" and "Darkest [...]
MP3: Tennis - Origins Tennis "Deep in the Woods" Origins Forest Family Records 2011 Directors: Scott Laidlaw & Frank Rinaldi BONUS: Enjoy an mp3 of the a side - "Origins", which will appear on their forthcoming LP2 Young and Old on Fat Possum . Excited for this one, as the group seems to have amplified everything that was charming about them and abandoned the lackluster songwriting that plagued their last effort Cape Dory, preventing it from becoming anything memorable.
![FUCK YEAH: King Blood - End of a Primitive [MP3]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3913801_lg.jpg)
MP3: King Blood - End of a Primitive Richie Records recently announced that they will be delivering the next King Blood record to a thirsty world sometime in early 2012. "Terrific" is the phrase I'd most likely use in response to that delightful bit of news. Until I can jam that, here is a selection from 2010's impossible to find Eyewash Silver .
![Summer Twins - I Don't Care [MP3]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3911519_lg.jpg)
MP3: Summer Twins - I Don't Care While the Summer Twins ' self titled debut is out already in Japan, I don't have enough gas to make it to a record store there. Good thing Burger Records is releasing it next month in the states! Apparently the US pressing will be with different artwork and completely remastered - sounds killer! Enjoy "I Don't Care", a tasty delight from the album itself.
![The Best Song Ever: I Walked With a Zombie [MP3]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3911140_lg.jpg)
MP3: Roky Erickson & the Aliens - I Walked With a Zombie The skies became seas, and the unsuspecting world below was left to drown in a flood of evil .
MP3: Gauntlet Hair - Top Bunk Gauntlet Hair "Top Bunk" Gauntlet Hair Dead Oceans 2011 Director: Neighborhood Watch
MP3: Charli XCX - Nuclear Seasons Charli XCX "Nuclear Seasons" Nuclear Seasons (Single) This Is Music 2011 Director: Ryan Andrews
![Sharon Van Etten - Serpents [MP3]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3884770_lg.jpg)
MP3: Sharon Van Etten - Serpents Today brings the first taste of Sharon Van Etten 's forthcoming LP3 (and Jagjaguwar debut) Tramp . Can't wait for this one, SVE's epic was one of last year's best and she totally fucking ripped when I saw her back in January or whenever it was. Good to know that the winter will be a bit more bearable on February 7th, when Tramp [...]
Fuck yeah! Go team!
![Charli XCX - Nuclear Seasons [OFFICIAL VIDEO]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/youtube/TGmM2l39LEs_130.jpg)
The Shins: “September” (b-side of “Simple Song” 7”)
St. Vincent - 'Cheerleader'
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Ni**as In Paris (Explicit)
OK Go - Needing/Getting - Official Video
Ladyhawke - Black White & Blue
First Aid Kit – Emmylou
Childish Gambino - "Heartbeat" (Official Music Video)
James Blake – Live Album
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