The Mercury Prize on Spotify (one prize, five playlists)

XX celebrate the Mercury

From Wikipedia: "The Mercury Prize is an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was established by the British Phonographic Industry and British Association of Record Dealers in 1992 as an alternative to the industry-dominated Brit Awards. (...) Nominations are chosen by a selected panel of musicians, music executives, journalists and other figures in the music industry in the UK and Ireland".

Few days ago the XX have been awarded with Mercury Prize 2010.

I must confess one thing. Though I was musically born with Achtung Baby and I grew with Kurt, Eddie and the other boys from the grunge generation, my musical heaven is the UK. Especially the UK of the late nineties and early naughties. Most of my favourite albums and artists have been shortlisted (and sometimes won) the Mercury Prize: Radiohead, Doves, Belle & Sebastian, Portishead, Massive Attack, Blur, Oasis, Coldplay, Verve, Elbow, Manic Street Preachers, PJ Harvey, Beth Orton, Franz Ferdinand, Gorillaz, Coral... The list is long.  So, when I read the news about XX I decided to celebrate the prize with a Spotirama special. Not just one, but five playlists about it.

Here they come. Enjoy! :o)

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THE PLAYLISTS (updated 07/09/2011!!!)

Mercury Prize 2010 - Winners and shortlisted nominees
(12 albums out of 12, bingo!)


The XX - XX (winner)
Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions
Corinne Bailey Rae – The Sea
Dizzee Rascal – Tongue n' Cheek
Foals – Total Life Forever
I Am Kloot – Sky at Night
Kit Downes Trio – Golden
Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
Paul Weller – Wake Up the Nation
Villagers – Becoming a Jackal
Wild Beasts – Two Dancers


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Mercury Prize Winners (1992-2010)
(20 albums out of 20, bingo!)

1992 Primal Scream - Screamadelica
1993 Suede - Suede
1994 M People - Elegant Slumming
1995 Portishead - Dummy
1996 Pulp - Different Class
1997 Roni Size/Reprazent - New Forms
1998 Gomez - Bring It On
1999 Talvin Singh - Ok
2000 Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of the Bewilderbeast
2001 PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
2002 Ms. Dinamyte - A Little Deeper
2003 Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
2004 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
2005 Antony and the Johnsons - I'm a Bird Now
2006 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2007 Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
2008 Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
2009 Speech Debelle - Speech Therapy
2010 The XX - XX
2011 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake


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The Complete Mercury Prize - Winners and Shortlisted Nominees, 1992-2010 (mammoth, full albums)
(207 albums out of 228, 90,78%)

(classical music albums are not always the original ones)


1992
Primal Scream - Screamadelica (winner)
Barry Adamson – Soul Murder
Jah Wobble – Rising Above Bedlam
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Honey's Dead (partially available)
Bheki Mseleku – Celebration
Saint Etienne – Foxbase Alpha
Simply Red – Stars
U2 – Achtung Baby
John Tavener & Steven Isserlis –The Protecting Veil
Young Disciples – Road to Freedom


1993
Suede - Suede (winner)
Apache Indian – No Reservations
The Auteurs – New Wave
Gavin Bryars – Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Dina Carroll – So Close
PJ Harvey – Rid of Me
New Order – Republic
Stereo MCs – Connected
Sting – Ten Summoner's Tales
Stan Tracey – Portraits Plus


1994
M People - Elegant Slumming (winner)
Blur – Parklife
Ian McNabb – Head Like A Rock
Shara Nelson – What Silence Knows
Michael Nyman – The Piano Concerto and MGV
The Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generation
Pulp – His 'n' Hers
Take That – Everything Changes
Therapy? – Troublegum
Paul Weller – Wild Wood


1995
Portishead - Dummy (winner)
Guy Barker – Into the Blue
Elastica – Elastica
PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love
Leftfield – Leftism
James MacMillan – Seven Last Words from the Cross
Van Morrison – Days Like This
Oasis – Definitely Maybe
Supergrass – I Should Coco
Tricky – Maxinquaye


1996
Pulp - Different Class (winner)
Artists for War Child – Help
Black Grape – It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah
Peter Maxwell Davies/BBC Philharmonic – The Beltane Fire / Caroline Mathilde
Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go
Mark Morrison – Return of the Mack
Oasis – (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Courtney Pine – Modern Day Jazz Stories
Underworld – Second Toughest in the Infants
Norma Waterson – Norma Waterson


1997
Roni Size/Reprazent - New Forms (winner)
The Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole
Beth Orton – Trailer Park
Primal Scream – Vanishing Point
The Prodigy – The Fat of the Land
Radiohead – OK Computer
Spice Girls – Spice
Suede – Coming Up
John Tavener – Svyati
Mark-Anthony Turnage – Your Rockaby


1998
Gomez - Bring It On (winner)
4hero – Two Pages
Asian Dub Foundation – Rafi's Revenge
Eliza Carthy – Red Rice
Catatonia – International Velvet
Cornershop – When I Was Born for the 7th Time
Massive Attack – Mezzanine
Propellerheads – Decksandrumsandrockandroll
Pulp – This Is Hardcore
John Surman – Proverbs & Songs
The Verve – Urban Hymns
Robbie Williams – Life thru a Lens


1999
Talvin Singh - Ok (winner)
Thomas Adès – Asyla
Denys Baptiste – Be Where You Are
Black Star Liner – Bengali Bantam Youth Experience!
Blur – 13
The Chemical Brothers – Surrender
Faithless – Sunday 8PM
Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Beth Orton – Central Reservation
Kate Rusby – Sleepless
Stereophonics – Performance and Cocktails
Underworld – Beaucoup Fish


2000
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast (winner)
Richard Ashcroft – Alone with Everybody
Coldplay – Parachutes
M. J. Cole – Sincere
Death in Vegas – The Contino Sessions
The Delgados – The Great Eastern
Doves – Lost Souls
Helicopter Girl – How to Steal the World
Leftfield – Rhythm and Stealth
Nicholas Maw – Violin Concerto
Nitin Sawhney – Beyond Skin
Kathryn Williams – Little Black Numbers


2001
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (winner)
Basement Jaxx – Rooty
Elbow – Asleep in the Back
Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain
Gorillaz – Gorillaz (nomination withdrawn at the request of the band)
Ed Harcourt – Here Be Monsters
Tom McRae – Tom McRae
Radiohead – Amnesiac
Susheela Raman – Salt Rain
Super Furry Animals – Rings Around the World
Turin Brakes – The Optimist LP
Zero 7 – Simple Things


2002
Ms. Dynamite - A Little Deeper (winner)
Guy Barker – Soundtrack
The Bees – Sunshine Hit Me
David Bowie – Heathen
The Coral – The Coral
Doves – The Last Broadcast
The Electric Soft Parade – Holes in the Wall
Gemma Hayes – Night on My Side
Beverley Knight – Who I Am
Roots Manuva – Run Come Save Me
Joanna MacGregor – Play
The Streets – Original Pirate Material


2003
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner (winner)
Athlete – Vehicles and Animals
Eliza Carthy – Anglicana
Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
The Darkness – Permission to Land
Floetry – Floetic
Soweto Kinch – Conversations with the Unseen
Lemon Jelly – Lost Horizons
The Thrills – So Much for the City
Martina Topley-Bird – Quixotic
Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
Terri Walker – Untitled


2004
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (winner)
Basement Jaxx – Kish Kash
Belle & Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Jamelia – Thank You
Keane – Hopes and Fears
Snow Patrol – Final Straw
Joss Stone – The Soul Sessions
The Streets – A Grand Don't Come for Free
Ty – Upwards
Amy Winehouse – Frank
Robert Wyatt – Cuckooland
The Zutons – Who Killed...... The Zutons?


2005
Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now (winner)
Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
Coldplay – X&Y
Hard-Fi – Stars of CCTV
Kaiser Chiefs – Employment
KT Tunstall – Eye to the Telescope
M.I.A. – Arular
Maxïmo Park – A Certain Trigger
Polar Bear – Held on the Tips of Fingers
Seth Lakeman – Kitty Jay
The Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike
The Magic Numbers – The Magic Numbers


2006
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (winner)
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Ballad of the Broken Seas
Editors – The Back Room
Guillemots – Through the Windowpane
Richard Hawley – Coles Corner
Hot Chip – The Warning
Muse – Black Holes & Revelations
Zoe Rahman – Melting Pot
Lou Rhodes – Beloved One
Scritti Politti – White Bread Black Beer
Sway – This Is My Demo
Thom Yorke – The Eraser


2007
Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future (winner)
Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford – Basquiat Strings
Bat for Lashes – Fur and Gold
Dizzee Rascal – Maths + English
Maps – We Can Create
New Young Pony Club – Fantastic Playroom
Fionn Regan – The End of History
Jamie T – Panic Prevention
The View – Hats Off to the Buskers
Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
Young Knives – Voices of Animals and Men


2008
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (winner)
Adele – 19
British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?
Burial – Untrue
Estelle – Shine
The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age of the Understatement
Laura Marling – Alas, I Cannot Swim
Neon Neon – Stainless Style
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raising Sand
Portico Quartet – Knee Deep In The North Sea
Radiohead – In Rainbows
Rachel Unthank and the Winterset – The Bairns


2009
Speech Debelle - Speech Therapy (winner)
Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
Florence and the Machine – Lungs
Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires
Glasvegas – Glasvegas
Lisa Hannigan – Sea Sew
The Horrors – Primary Colours
The Invisible – The Invisible
Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
La Roux – La Roux
Led Bib – Sensible Shoes
Sweet Billy Pilgrim – Twice Born Men


2010
The xx - xx (winner)
Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions
Corinne Bailey Rae – The Sea
Dizzee Rascal – Tongue n' Cheek
Foals – Total Life Forever
I Am Kloot – Sky at Night
Kit Downes Trio – Golden
Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
Paul Weller – Wake Up the Nation
Villagers – Becoming a Jackal
Wild Beasts – Two Dancers


2011
Adele - 21
Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys!
Everything Everything - Man Alive
Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam
Gwilym Simcock - Good Days at Schloss Elmau
James Blake - James Blake
Katy B - On A Mission
King Creosote & John Hopkins - Diamond Mine
Metronomy - The English Riviera
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Tinie Tempah - Discovery

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The Complete Mercury Prize - Winners and Shortlisted Nominees, 1992-2010 (lite, one song each album)

(207 tracks out of 228, 90,78%)

This is a playlist I made for people who want just to get a taste of mercuryprized-oriented music. I selected one song (usually, the most famous) from each album of the previous playlist. Only exclusion, for length reasons: Mark-Anthony Turnage – Your Rockaby.

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The Mercury Prize 69

(69 tracks, about 4 hours)

Last but not least, this is a personal playlist. I made it essentially for myself, choosing my favourite 69 songs from winners and shortlisted albums from 1992 to 2010 (no more than one track each album). Essentially, that's because I wanted a good jogging playlist, not too big, made only by songs that I really liked (and like) to hear. Maybe some of you share similar music tastes, who knows?

Primal Scream – Movin' On Up

U2 – The Fly

Suede – So Young

Blur – End Of A Century

Paul Weller – Wild Wood

Portishead – Roads

PJ Harvey – Down By The Water

Oasis – Supersonic

Supergrass – Alright

Tricky – Hell Is Round The Corner

Pulp – Disco 2000

Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life

Oasis – Some Might Say

The Chemical Brothers – Block Rockin' Beats

Beth Orton – She Cries Your Name

Primal Scream – Star

Prodigy – Firestarter

Radiohead – Let Down

Gomez – Get Myself Arrested

Catatonia – Mulder And Scully

Massive Attack – Teardrop

Pulp – This Is Hardcore

The Verve – Sonnet

Blur – Coffee And TV

Beth Orton – Stolen Car

Badly Drawn Boy – Disillusion

Richard Ashcroft – A Song For The Lovers

Coldplay – Don't Panic

Doves – Catch The Sun

PJ Harvey – This Mess We're In

Elbow – Red

Goldfrapp – Lovely Head

Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood

Ed Harcourt – Apple Of My Eye

Radiohead – Life In A Glasshouse

Turin Brakes – Underdog (Save Me)

The Coral – Dreaming Of You

Doves – There Goes The Fear

The Electric Soft Parade – There's A Silence

Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head

The Thrills – Big Sur

Radiohead – Where I End And You Begin

Franz Ferdinand – Darts Of Pleasure

Belle and Sebastian – I'm A Cuckoo

Snow Patrol – Run

The Streets – Dry Your Eyes

Bloc Party – Banquet

Coldplay – White Shadows

Hard-FI – Cash Machine

Kaiser Chiefs – I Predict A Riot

The Magic Numbers – Love Me Like You

Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor

Editors – Munich

Richard Hawley – The Ocean

Hot Chip – Over And Over

Muse – Starlight

Thom Yorke – Black Swan

Klaxons – Golden Skans

Arctic Monkeys – Fluorescent Adolescent

Amy Winehouse – Back To Black

Elbow – Grounds For Divorce

Adele – Chasing Pavements

British Sea Power – Waving Flags

The Last Shadow Puppets – Standing Next To Me

Bat For Lashes – Daniel

Friendly Fires – Paris

The xx – Crystalised

James Blake - Limit To Your Love

Anna Calvi - Desire

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L.A. Burnout 1 & 2: a blog-made mixtape from the dear old warm Los Angeles

(source: Acquarium Drunkard)

Wanna feel the warm breeze of Los Angeles in the sixties and the seventies?

This spotiplaylist is made for you. It doesn't come from an old Rolling Stone article. Nor from a Pitchfork "best music" list. Neither from an archeological L.A.-oriented version of the Billboard top 40. This time I found it in a blog, called Acquarium Drunkard.

First volume has been published in 2009, second one few days ago. With MP3s included.

"L.A. Burnout is made up of the sounds floating around Los Angeles in the late ’60s and ’70s; a faded aural imprint of the canyons, beaches, wildfires, neighborhoods, late-nights and early mornings of a bygone L.A. Play this mix around dusk while driving through Topanga with the windows rolled down — it’s the next best thing to time travel."

I don't know where do you live. Since Spotify is an European pleasure, I guess few Spotirama readers can really synch the playlist, turn off the pc and drive through Topanga, while listening to it on their portable player. But maybe it's even better. Because all these voices (Neil Young, Byrds, Love, Joni Mitchell, Mamas and Papas...) are not only good in timetravelling. They sound rather skilled in spacetravelling, too. Enjoy! :o)

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THE PLAYLIST

(36 tracks out of 61, 59%, about 2 hours)

From L.A. Burnout:

Loudon Wainwright III - Hollywood Hopeful

Johnny Darrell - Mae Jean Goes To Hollywood

The Mamas & The Papas - Safe In My Garden

Standells - Riot On Sunset Strip

Jackie DeShannon :: Laurel Canyon

The Fun & Games - Topanga Canyon Road

John Mayall - Laurel Canyon Home

Spirit - Topanga Windows

Mama Cass Eliott - California Earthquake

The Birds - Precious Kate

Albert Hammond - It Never Rains In California

Jack Nitzsche - Lower California

Guy Clark - L.A. Freeway

Thomas Jefferson Kaye - L.A.

The Beau Brummels - Bless You California

Love - Maybe The People Would Be

Gene Clark - Los Angeles

The Byrds - Bad Night At The Whiskey

David Soul - Topanga

Neil Young - L.A.

The Mamas & The Papas - Twelve Thirty

Neil Young - Sweet Joni

Joni Mitchell - For The Roses

Jackie DeShannon - L.A.

Mickey Dolenz - Beverly Hills

Flying Burrito Brothers - Sin City

Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue

Gene Clark - From A Silver Phial

Jackson Browne - Before The Deluge

Neil Young - Revolution Blues

Warren Zevon - Desperadoes Under the Eaves

Phil Ochs - The World Began In Eden And Ended In Los Angeles [Live]

Flo & Eddie - Keep It Warm

Steely Dan - Babylon Sisters

John Phillips - Topanga Canyon

John Phillips - Malibu People

From L.A. Burnout 2:

Brian Wilson – Smog High

Shango – Day After Day

The Originals – California Sunset (I added the Neil Young version)

Brewer & Shipley – Dreamin’ In The Shade

The Mamas & The Papas – Mansions

Hill Barbata Ethridge – L.A. Getaway

Terry Melcher – Rebecca

Terry Allen – There Oughta Be A Law Against Sunn…

The Everly Brothers – Ventura Boulevard

Boffalongo – Snow White Lady

Charles Lloyd – TM

New Riders Of The Purple Sage – High Rollers

The Main Ingredient – California My Way

Ned Doheny – Postcards From Hollywood

Orange Colored Sky – L.A. (Los Angeles)

Boz Scaggs – Hollywood

Johan Blomgren – California Sundown

Tim Buckley – Freeway Blues

Don Everly – Southern California

Terry Melcher – Beverly Hills

Bobby Womack – Daylight

Art Garfunkel – 99 Miles from L.A.

Ambulance LTD – Arbuckle’s Swan Song

Leon Ware – Why I Came to California

Gabor Szabo – Theme From Valley of the Doll

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Stereogum's 40 Best New Bands of 2010

Best Coast, Best Music

Let's go on, deep into the wild hunt for the best new music of 2010. Stereogum just published the list of its favourite 40 Best New Bands of the first eight months of the year. You can find the full list here, along with a brief description and one MP3 each band. I searched the spotisphere and I found songs by 21 of them. Not a great percentage, yep, but this time I think it's natural: most of the bands haven't published a real album, yet. Just singles or EPs. Stereogum chose an alphabetical order. I chose a more top-of-the-pops-oriented chart: a countdown based on the listenings of the Last.fm community. Best Coast gained #1.  

Enjoy!

P.S. Curiosity. Just 11 out of these 40 bands appear in the similar NME's Best 50 New Bands of 2010, already spotified here. In that case, too, Best Coast was the happy winner.  

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The Playlist 
(21 bands out of 40, 52,5%, about 1 hour)


21. Kingdom (feat. Shyvonne) – Mind Reader
20. Teengirl Fantasy – Portofino
19. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – Simple Girl
18. Blondes – Spanish Fly
17. Frankie Rose and the Outs – Little Brown Haired Girls
16. Dominant Legs – Clawing Out At The Walls
15. How To Dress Well – Ready For The World
14. Julian Lynch – Es's
13. Givers – Ceiling Of Plankton
12. Lower Dens – Hospice Gates
11. Tamaryn – Mild Confusion
10. Mountain Man – Animal Tracks
9. Glasser – Apply
8. Perfume Genius – Learning
7. Gold Panda – Back Home
6. Gayngs – The Gaudy Side of Town
5. Zola Jesus – Night
4. Tanlines – Real Life
3. CEO – Come With Me
2. Wild Nothing – Summer Holiday
1. Best Coast – Boyfriend


Missing in action:
Active Child, Balam Acab, Baths, Braids, Candy Claws, Cloud Nothings, Cults, DOM, Frank (Just Frank), Games, Minks, mndr, Mr. Dream, Prince Rama, Tame Impala, Tennis, Twin Sister, Warpaint, Wu Lyf.

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Pitchfork Best New Music of 2010 (september update)

(we're ready to start listening to Arcade Fire on Spotify, please!)
(Ready To Start, live at Rock en Seine 2010, Paris)

Exactly three nights ago I was walking out the Rock en Seine area in the Paris southwestern suburbs, shocked and amazed by a wonderful show by the Arcade Fire. Unfortunately, it was interrupted by a heavy and windy rainstorm, but culminated with a wild, tribal, wet, unplugged version of Wake Up (take a look). The excitement, apres le deluge.

Now I'm back to my country, with some good memories and a damned cold to remind me of that night. I regained my possessions, including the pc and this blog. And I find myself thinking about Arcade Fire again. Their latest album The Suburbs has been included in Pitchfork selection of best new music of 2010, but I cannot find it on Spotify yet. It's the same destiny of Funeral and Neon Bible. Merge Records and canadian great guys, please, come on... you are technology-oriented, you even just made that lovely nostalgic streetviewesque video with Google, why not Spotify?

Anyway, ceci ce n'est pas un post about Arcade Fire, this is the update of the mixtape I started a couple of months, featuring Pitchfork Best New Music of 2010. Three songs each album, to get a taste of them. In bold, the albums I added today. Enjoy!

And if you have the chance and you haven't done it yet, go to an Arcade Fire concert! C'est la pure energie de la musique, la plus belle, la plus fort. Even without the annoying epic of rainstorms, I bet. :o)
(... and pardon my french, won't happen again).

The Playlist

(99 tracks, 33 albums out of 44, 75%, about 6 hours)

Featuring three songs each from:

Contra (Vampire Weekend), Heartland (Owen Pallett), Astro Coast (Surfer Blood), There Is Love in You (Four Tet), Teen Dream (Beach House), IRM (Charlotte Gainsbourg), One Life Stand (Hot Chip), I'm New Here (Gil Scott-Heron), Gorilla Manor (Local Natives), Black Noise (Pantha du Prince), Sisterworld (Liars), Plastic Beach (Gorillaz), The Monitor (Titus Andronicus), Fang Island (Fang Island),Big Echo (The Morning Benders),The Wild Hunt (The Tallest Man on Earth), Swim (Caribou), Subiza (Delorean), Crystal Castles II (Crystal Castles), Forgiveness Rock Record (Broken Social Scene), High Violet (The National), Treats (Sleigh Bells), This Is Happening (LCD Soundsystem), CMYK EP (James Blake), Gemini (Wild Nothing),Body Talk Pt.1 (Robyn), Before Today (Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti), Does It Look Like I'm Here? (Emeralds), King of the Beach (Wavves), Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (Big Boi), Love King (The-Dream), Crazy For You (Best Coast), Black City (Matthew Dear).

Missing:

Have One On Me (Joanna Newsom), A Sufi and a Killer (Gonjasufi), Clinging To a Scheme (The Radio Dept.), Cosmogramma (Flying Lotus), Nothing Hurts (Male Bonding), The ArchAndroid (Janelle Monae), Innerspeaker (Tame Impala), Mare (Julian Lynch), White Magic (CEO), Pilot Talk (Curren$y), The Suburbs (Arcade Fire)

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50 Best New Bands of 2010 (NME)

Veronica Falls, graveyard lovers

Hi! A small break in a long holiday. Just to give you the possibility of discovering the 50 Best New Bands of 2010, according to the New Musical Express. Well, more honestly and more correctly, I should write "the 23 Best News Bands that I found on Spotify" (the full youtubized list is on NME's website). Is this the future of rock'n'roll? Who knows. Maybe yes, probably not. Sure, it's a light & fresh mixtape, good soundtrack for the last days of august. I will bring it with me in my upcoming end-of-holiday parisian week. Should I try listening to Found Love in a Graveyard at Père Lachaise? :o)
Enjoy it!

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The Playlist

(23 bands out of 50, 46%, about 1 hour)

50. Everything Everything
49. Kindness
48. Clare Maguire
47. Funeral Party
46. Active Child
45. Magic Kids – Hey Boy
44. War Paints
43. Gayngs – The Gaudy Side of Town
42. Glasser – Apply
41. Avi Buffalo
40. Kisses
39. Wild Nothing – Summer Holiday
38. Delphic – Clarion Call
37. Mona
36. Chapel Club
35. Frankie & the Heartstrings
34. Trashtalk – Explode
33. Perfume Genius – Look Out, Look Out
32. Veronica Falls – Found Love In A Graveyard
31. Jay Electronica
30. Wilder
29. MDNR
28. JJ – Let Go
27. Flats
26. Freelance Whales
25. James Blake
24. Pure Ecstasy – Voices
23. Foster the People
22. Cerebral Ballzy
21. Dom
20. Katy B
19. Mount Kimbie
18. The Diamond Rings – Wait & See
17. The Middle East – The Darkest Side
16. Cults
15. Summer Camp – Ghost Train
14. Hurts – Wonderful Life - Radio Edit - New Version
13. Giggs – Look What The Cat Dragged In
12. Zola Jesus – Night
11. Egyptian Hip Hop
10. Grouplove
9. Yuck
8. Magnetic Man – I Need Air
7. Darwin Deez – Radar Detector
6. Marina And The Diamonds – The Outsider
5. Smith Westerns – Be My Girl
4. Sleigh Bells – Crown On The Ground
3. Wu Lyf
2. The Drums – Lets Go Surfing
1. Best Coast – Boyfriend

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