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Nonplus announce Think and Change Think and Change will be released as a five-piece vinyl box set limited to 1,000 copies (complete with a download voucher), preceded two weeks earlier by a pair of vinyl samplers. All five 12-inches from the box set will also be released individually. Tracklist: A Boddika & Joy Orbison - &Fate B Lowtec - The Rhythm C Four Tet - For These Times D Boddika - Beats Me E Pearson Sound - Quiver F Endian - Straight Intention G Joy Orbison - Big Room Tech House Dj Tool - TIP! H Kassem Mosse - IP Mirrors I Instra:mental & dBridge - White Snares J Martyn - Bad Chicago Sampler 1 A Boddika & Joy Orbison - Mercy (Boddika's VIP) AA Kassem Mosse - Broken Patterns Sampler 2 A SCB - Dissipate AA Basic Soul Unit - Untoward NonPlus+ will release Think and Change on February 25th, 2013. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-aioJYp4zE]Joy O - BRTHDTT (Big Room Tech House Dj Tool - Tip) - YouTube[/ame] http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=18529

Vampire Weeekend's Contra Follow-up Due This Spring In a new interview with Q [via Consequence of Sound], the group’s Ezra Koenig describes the as-yet-untitled album as “darker” and “more organic” than their last effort, 2010′s Contra, and claims that it “really does feel like the third chapter in a book” (it’s the group’s third album to date). http://www.factmag.com/2013/01/04/vampire-weekends-contra-follow-up-due-this-spring/ [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSeKa8VVWdM]Vampire Weekend Performs "Unbelievers" - YouTube[/ame]

AlunaGeorge Announce Album Title, Unveil New Song Today, the pair visited BBC Radio 1 to announce that Body Music will be released this June via Island (U.S. release details still to come). [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43cB6SEgPaE]AlunaGeorge - Diver (Teaser) - YouTube[/ame] http://pitchfork.com/news/49033-alunageorge-announce-album-title-unveil-new-song/

Check page 11. I also don't know why you put "Live on Lydverket" when there's a studio version out.

This leaked. Obviously not as good as Girls but worth a listen. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rymLSA3VjyE]Christopher Owens - Here We Go - YouTube[/ame]

This leaked :awesome: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0A36Zb1ZmI]Grouper - Vital - YouTube[/ame]

That was a very depressing top 50.

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OK composer: guitar maestro adds another string to his bow with the ACO http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/ok-composer-guitar-maestro-adds-another-string-to-his-bow-with-the-aco-20121227-2bxu3.html

This was infinitely harder than last year - so many quality songs this year... wish I could fit them all! Will probably end up revising before the deadline. FYI: I decided to limit my selections to 1 song per artist (not including collaborations) to increase awareness of some really great songs. Best Songs of 2012: 1) Burial - Ashtray Wasp 2) Miguel - Adorn 3) Sky Ferreira - Everything Is Embarrassing 4) Frank Ocean - Pyramids 5) Jessie Ware - Wildest Moments 6) Kanye West - White Dress 7) Clams Casino - I’m God 8) Jeremih - 773 Love 9) Andrés - New For U 10) Usher - Climax 11) Jai Paul - Jasmine 12) Joy Orbison - Ellipsis 13) Chromatics - Kill For Love 14) Burial/Four Tet - Nova 15) Solange - Losing You 16) Kendrick Lamar - Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe 17) Andy Stott - Numb 18) Killer Mike - Reagan 19) Bat For Lashes - Laura 20) Jessie Ware - Running (Disclosure remix) 21) AlunaGeorge - Your Drums, Your Love 22) Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Baby 23) Katy B - Aaliyah (ft. Jessie Ware) 24) Dum Dum Girls - Lord Knows 25) Girls Aloud - Something New 26) Tomas Barfod - November Skies (ft. Nina Kinert) 27) Atoms For Peace - Default 28) Scuba - Hardbody 29) Grouper - Vital 30) Bobby Womack – Please Forgive My Heart 31) Flying Lotus - Between Friends (ft. Earl Sweatshirt and Captain Murphy) 32) Rhye - The Fall 33) Todd Terje - Inspector Norse 34) Moodymann - Why Do U Feel 35) Scott Walker - Epizootics! 36) Odd Future - Oldie 37) Joy Orbison & Boddika - Froth 38) Earl Sweatshirt - Chum 39) Captain Murphy - Mighty Morphin Foreskin 40) Angel Haze - New York 41) Actress - N.E.W. 42) M.I.A. – Bad Girls 43) Laurel Halo - Light + Space 44) Icona Pop - I Love It 45) Jonny Greenwood - Application 45 Version 1 46) Charli XCX - You’re The One 47) Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms 48) Blur – Under The Westway 49) Marissa Nadler - Apostle 50) Flying Lotus - Electric Candyman (ft. Thom Yorke) 50 songs that ultimately did not make the list (in alphabetical order):

Listen: Pulp Team Up With LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy for New Recording "After You" Pulp released a Christmas Day surprise: a new studio recording of an old demo, "After You", recorded with none other than James Murphy. http://pitchfork.com/news/49006-listen-pulp-team-up-with-lcd-soundsystems-james-murphy-for-new-recording-after-you/ [ame=http://soundcloud.com/brilliantmind/pulp-after-you]PULP - After You by brilliantmind on SoundCloud - Hear the world?s sounds[/ame]

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O ye of little faith: :santa2: EDIT: MBV just posted on Facebook that they finished mastering the album on 21-12-12. This is happening!!! :bliss:

This leaked. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2swv0SQI_C4]Low - The Invisible Way (Album Trailer) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRmb4v1O0SM]Nas - illmatic (Full Album) HQ [1994] - YouTube[/ame]

A$AP Rocky - Long Live A$AP [ame=http://soundcloud.com/asvpxrocky/long-live-a-ap]LONG LIVE A by asvpxrocky on SoundCloud - Hear the world?s sounds[/ame] DOOM - Doomsayer (Young Guru remix) [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te-m2176Ce8]DOOM - doomsayer (Young Guru RMX) - YouTube[/ame]

Nas - Illmatic

New Grouper Album Coming, Plus Reissue of Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill On February 4, Liz Harris, aka Grouper, will release two albums of material she made back in 2008. Alongside a reissue of her LP Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill, which has been out of print physically for years, Kranky will release The Man Who Died in His Boat, an album of unreleased material from that same period. http://pitchfork.com/news/48908-grouper-to-reissue-dragging-a-dead-deer-release-new-album-of-unreleased-material/

Grouper - Vital [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0A36Zb1ZmI]Grouper - Vital - YouTube[/ame] Yo La Tengo - Ohm [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BauiMlA0VVo]Yo La Tengo - "Ohm" - YouTube[/ame]

This leaked. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NcI6XAVnnw]ASAP Rocky - Long Live ASAP (Video Official) - YouTube[/ame]

That's because they're not very good. Especially Gossamer. One of my embarrassingly long posts where I wax poetic about the 90s The greatest years in music were 1971, 1977, 1991, and 1997. Don't believe me? Just take a look at all the classic albums that were released in those years. The 60s have been so laughingly overrated, mostly because it became unwritten rule to never speak ill of the Beatles.

The 90s were the best era in music ever. Followed closely by the 70s.

Danny Brown Reveals New Album Title, Collaborations With A$AP Rocky, Purity Ring, Rustie The album will actually be called Old ("The 'O' in ODB"), and it will be for sale, unlike the for-free XXX. It's about "75% done" and in the mixing stages: "As the actor in this movie, I'm wrapped." http://pitchfork.com/news/48975-danny-brown-reveals-new-album-title-collaborations-with-aap-rocky-purity-ring-rustie/

Would be shocked if they're not at Coachella.

What would you categorize as an assault weapon? There are fully automatic weapons, which fire continuously when the trigger is held down. Those have been strictly regulated since 1934. Then there are semiautomatic weapons that reload automatically but fire only once each time the trigger is depressed. Semiautomatic pistols and rifles come in all shapes and sizes and are extremely common in the United States (i.e. guns policemen have). You should be aware of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban in 1994, which we know didn't stop shootings like the one at Columbine. Most of the people screaming for gun control legislation cannot point to a single identifiable point on which gun laws should be strengthened. Do you not realize that Connecticut and New jersey (where the shootings happened) already have some of the strictest gun laws in the US? Do you seriously not realize that the mentally ill are already prohibited to owning firearms and have been prohibited since 1968? Do you not realize that there is already legislation that dictates the type of background checks before the purchasing of a gun (no, you cannot buy a gun like you would toothpaste... have absolutely no idea where that ridiculous claim originated). Someone mentioned limiting the number of rounds people can buy before being flagged. If you know anything about gun control legislation, then you would be aware that NJ already doesn't allow its citizens to own 30 round magazines. How well did that work here? It's convenient to point to gun control as the answer to these situations: it's easy, doesn't require much thought, and provides a nice target to rally against. But a deeper look at previous gun control laws shows that it's a complicated issue - hence all the previous loopholes and why we don't have a comprehensive solution yet. Switzerland, one of the most heavily armed countries in the world, has less than a third of the gun crime that the United States does. Furthermore, Chicago, the city with the most restrictive gun posession laws in the US, also suffers from some of the worst gun crime in the world. What we have failed to address - and continue to fail to address - is mental health legislation. I'm concerned by the number of people who think the lack of gun control is the problem, and that a law is the solution. We've got a crisis that runs deeper than paper laws. People don't shoot each other because of laws; they snap because their family and neighbors have failed them. We need stronger families, better schools, and better care. There's absolutely no reason why in 2012 there is still stigma attached to mental illnesses. This is a national problem bigger than one law that we've procrastinated far too long.