April 2010
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Playlist | Jon Caramanica
Country Grief, Soulful Gospel and Gay Lust By Jon Caramanica Published: April 2, 2010 Gary Allan “Get Off on the Pain” Marvin Sapp “Here I Am” California Swag District “Teach Me How to Dougie” Hunx and His Punx “Gay Singles” Of Mice & Men “Of Mice & Men” F “Energy Distortion” Zune Playlist The...
Apr 21st
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Playlist | Jon Pareles
Lyrics Lush and Gawky By Jon Pareles Published: April 8, 2010 Interference “Interference” Standard Fare “The Noyelle Beat” Kate Miller-Heidke “Curiouser” The Morning Benders “Big Echo” David Byrne & Fatboy Slim “Here Lies Love” Raheem DeVaughn “The Love & War MasterPeace” Zune Playlist The Playlist...
Apr 21st
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Playlist | Nate Chinen
Inside a Troubled Mind, and Mideast Musical Theories By Nate Chinen Published: March 28, 2010 Caetano Veloso “zii e zie” Frank Kimbrough “Rumors” Living Sisters “Love to Live” Bird and the Bee “Interpreting the Masters, Volume 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates” Amir ElSaffar and Hafez Modirzadeh “Radif Suite” Zune...
Apr 20th
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Playlist | Ben Ratliff
PLAYLIST; Goth Love, Hung-Over Stomps By Ben Ratliff Published: March 14, 2010 Zola Jesus “Stridulum” Joe Bushkin and Stuff Smith “Joe Bushkin Quartet Featuring Stuff Smith, Live at the Embers 1964” Dead Meat/Bat Dad “ALBUM” No More Shapes “Creesus Crisis” Walter Smith III “Live in Paris” Zune Playlist The Playlist does not...
Apr 20th
March 2010
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Take Five 3/9/2010
Five Songs, Ten Classic Tenor Titans Published: March 9, 2010 Dexter Gordon & Ben Webster “Tenor Titans” Track: Perdido Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, John Coltrane, Zoot Sims “Tenor Conclave” Track: Just You, Just Me Sonny Rollins Quartet “Tenor Madness” Track: Tenor Madness Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt “Soul Summit” Track: Dumplin’ David “Fathead” Newman “Lone Star...
Mar 11th
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Playlist | Phoenix
From France With Romance, and Broad Tastes By Melena Ryzik Published: March 5, 2010 Phoenix “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix” Phoenix’s Thomas Mars and Laurent Brancowitz mention artists and not albums. For this playlist I have selected compilations, icon or the latest albums by these artists. My Bloody Valentine “Loveless” The Smiths “The Sound of The...
Mar 11th
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Take Five 3/1/2010
Act Like You Know: Ornette Coleman Published: March 1, 2010 Ornette Coleman “Something Else!!!!:The Music of Ornette Coleman” Song: The Blessing Ornette Coleman “Shape of Jazz to Come” Song: Lonely Woman Ornette Coleman “Complete Science Fiction Sessions” Song: All My Life Ornette Coleman “Tone Dialing” Song: Street Blues Ornette Coleman “Sound Grammar” Song: Turnaround Album...
Mar 11th
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All Songs Considered 3/1/2010
The White Stripes, Sharon Jones, Chopin And More Published: March 1, 2010 Frederic Chopin “Chopin Complete Edition” Song: Fantaisie-Impromptu for piano in C sharp minor, Op. 66, CT. 46 Joanna Newsom “Have One on Me” Song: Does Not Suffice Owen Pallett “Heartland” Song: Midnight Directives Pantha du Prince “Black Noise” Song: The Splendour Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings “I Learned the...
Mar 10th
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Playlist | Nate Chinen
Making Mischief Along With the Melodies By Nate Chinen Published: February 26, 2010 Paul Motian, Chris Potter, and Jason Moran “Lost in a Dream” Freeway and Jake One “The Stimulus Package” Xiu Xiu “Dear God, I Hate Myself” Good for Cows “Audumla” Zune Playlist The Playlist does not include the album from Paul Motian, Chris Potter, and...
Mar 1st
February 2010
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Take Five 2/22/2010
Mambo! Afro-Cuban Takes On Jazz Classics Published: February 22, 2010 Cal Tjader “Monterey Concerts” Song: Night in Tunisia Dizzy Gillespie “Afro [Special Packaging]” Song: Caravan Mongo Santamaria “Watermelon Man” Song: Watermelon Man Poncho Sanchez “Conguero” Song: Shiny Stockings Bebo Valdes/Javier Colina “Live at the Village Vanguard” Song: Waltz for Debby Album Playlist Tracks...
Feb 24th
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All Songs Considered 2/22/2010
African Legends, New Music From Shearwater And More Published: February 22, 2010 Fela Kuti “Shakara/London Scene” Song: Shakara (Oloje) Ali Farka Touré/Toumani Diabaté “Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté” Song: Samba Geladio Shearwater “Golden Archipelago [Deluxe Edition]” Song: Castaways Eluvium “Similes” Song: Leaves Eclipse the Light Laura Gibson/Ethan Rose “Bridge Carols” Song:...
Feb 24th
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Playlist | Marisa Meltzer
Living With Music: A Playlist by Marisa Meltzer By Blake Wilson Published: February 10, 2010 Bikini Kill “Rebel Girl” Heavens to Betsy “My Red Self” Bratmobile “The Real Janelle” Sleater-Kinney “#1 Must Have” Excuse 17 “Forever Fired” Le Tigre “Hot Topic” Lois “Strumpet” Zune Playlist The...
Feb 23rd
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Playlist | Jon Pareles
Roots Rock and the Funk of the Firmament By Jon Pareles Published: February 19, 2010 Galactic “Ya-Ka-May” Meaghan Smith “The Cricket’s Orchestra” These New Puritans “Hidden” The Ruby Suns “Fight Softly” Danny Barnes “Pizza Box” Field Music “Field Music” Various Artists “Good God! Born Again Funk” ...
Feb 23rd
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Take Five 2/16/2010
Mississippi Delta Blues: American Cornerstone Published: February 16, 2010 Charlie Patton “Founder of the Delta Blues” Song: Mississippi Boweavil Blues Tommy Johnson “Complete Recorded Works (1928-1929)” Song: Cool Drink of Water Blues Robert Johnson “The Complete Recordings” Song: If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day Son House “Father of the Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions”...
Feb 20th
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Playlist | Jon Caramanica
Ah, Love (Statler Brothers Included) By Jon Caramanica Published: February 12, 2010 Lightspeed Champion “Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You” Dinosaur Feathers “Fantasy Memorial” Class Actress “Journey of Ardency” Dailey & Vincent “Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers” Huey Dunbar “Te Amaré” Zune Playlist The...
Feb 19th
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Playlist | Ben Ratliff
From the Nevada Desert to Roads Less Traveled By Ben Ratliff Published: February 5, 2010 Gonjasufi “A Sufi and a Killer” José James “Blackmagic” Sam Sadigursky “Words Project III: Miniatures” Joe Cuba “El Alcalde del Barrio” Irmin Schmidt & the Inner Space “Kamasutra” Zune Playlist The Playlist does not include the album from...
Feb 17th
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Take Five 2/8/2010
It’s Over Now: Songs For Heartbreakers Published: February 8, 2010 Carmen McRae “Carmen Sings Monk” Track: It’s Over Now (Well, You Needn’t) Jay McShann Orchestra With Walter Brown “Blues from Kansas City” Track: Cryin’ Won’t Make Me Stay Betty Roché “Take the “A” Train” Track: Go Away Blues Nancy Wilson “Best of Nancy Wilson: The Jazz and Blues...
Feb 15th
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Take Five 2/1/2010
What The Heck Is That? Odd Instruments In Jazz Published: February 1, 2010 Scott Robinson “Thinking Big” Song: Basso Profundo Steve Turre “Rhythm Within” Song: Morning Rufus Harley “Courage: the Atlantic Recordings” Song: Sufur Dorothy Ashby “Afro-Harping” Song: Soul Vibrations Hal Willner “Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus” Song: Canon, Pt. 1 Hans Reichel “Yuxo: A New Daxophone...
Feb 15th
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All Songs Considered 2/10/2010
Breakup Songs, Wherein We Acknowledge Valentine’s Day Published: February 10, 2010 Shop Assistants “Will Anything Happen” Song: I Don’t Want to Be Friends with You Ramones “Rocket to Russia” Song: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow Stars “Set Yourself on Fire” Song: Your Ex-Lover Is Dead Flight of the Conchords “Distant Future” Song: I’m Not Crying Split Enz “True Colours”...
Feb 15th
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All Songs Considered 2/1/2010
The Magnetic Fields, Giant Drag, The Knife, And More Published: February 1, 2010 The Magnetic Fields “Realism” Song: You Must Be Out of Your Mind Preservation Hall Jazz Band “Preservation: An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outre” Song: Rocking Chair The Knife “Tomorrow, In A Year” Song: Annie’s Box Kayhan Kalhor/Brooklyn Rider “Silent City”...
Feb 14th
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Playlist | Nick Jonas
Pop Against the Grain, With Sounds of the ’70s By Jon Caramanica Published: January 28, 2010 Nick Jonas “Who I Am” Bill Withers “Bill Withers Live At Carnegie Hall” Stevie Wonder “Stevie Wonder’s Original Musiquarium” Robert Randolph & the Family Band “Colorblind” The Kings of Leon “Only By The Night” ...
Feb 14th
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Take Five 1/25/2010
A Hard Look At Hard Bop Published: January 25, 2010 Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers “Moanin’ [Blue Note Bonus Track]” Song: Moanin’ Art Farmer with Benny Golson “Meet the Jazztet” Song: Killer Joe Horace Silver “Song for My Father” Song: Song for My Father John Coltrane “Blue Train [Expanded Edition]” Song: Blue Train Miles Davis “Walkin’” Song: Solar Album...
Feb 12th
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All Songs Considered 1/25/2010
A Pink Floyd Cover From The Hotrats, Ethereal Sounds From Sweden, Surfer Blood And More Published: January 25, 2010 jj “jj nº 3” Song: And Now Fredrik “Trilogi” Song: Ner The Besnard Lakes “Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night” Song: And This is What We Call Progress Surfer Blood “Astro Coast” Song: Twin Peaks Midlake “The Courage of Others” Song: Core of Nature Josiah Wolf “Jet Lag” Song:...
Feb 12th
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Playlist | Nate Chinen
Several Shades of Jazz, Some Infused With Metal By Nate Chinen Published: January 20, 2010 Myra Melford’s Be Bread “The Whole Tree Gone” Shining “Blackjazz” Jerry Bergonzi “Three for All” RJD2 “The Colossus” Matthew Shipp “4D” Zune Playlist The Playlist does not include the album from Myra Melford’s Be Bread, which...
Feb 9th
January 2010
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Take Five 1/18/2010
Songs Of The Civil Rights Movement Published: January 18, 2010 Nina Simone “Anthology” Song: I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel to Be Free) Grant Green “His Majesty King Funk” Song: Selma March Larry Goldings “Quartet” Song: We Shall Overcome Sam Cooke “Sam Cooke at the Copa” Song: This Little Light of Mine Hank Crawford and Jimmy McGriff “Steppin’ Up” Song: Lift Every Voice and...
Jan 24th
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All Songs Considered | 1/19/2010
Sigur Ros Frontman Jonsi Goes Solo, Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum, And More Published: January 19, 2010 Jonsi Birgisson “Go” Song: Boy Lilikoi Givers “Givers” Song: Saw You First Smith Westerns “Smith Westerns” Song: Girl In Love Drug Rug “Paint the Fence Invisible” Song: Haunting You Lawrence Arabia “Chant Darling” Song: Look Like A Fool Various Artists “Stroke: Songs for Chris...
Jan 23rd
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Playlist | Jon Pareles 1/15/2010
Globe Trotting to Iceland, Japan and Appalachia By Jon Pareles Published: January 15, 2010 Oneida “Rated O” Olof Arnalds “Vid og Vid” OK Go “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky” E. C. Ball “Through The Years, 1937-1975” Various Artists “Face a Frowning World: An E. C. Ball Memorial Album” Yura Yura Teikoku “Hollow Me” ...
Jan 19th
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All Songs Considered | 1/11/2010
GlobalFEST 2010: A World Music Showcase Published: January 11, 2010 This episode of All Songs Considered is made up of live recordings from GlobalFEST.  Where these tracks appear on studio albums by the artist there are links to those albums. Alif Naaba Song: Wend ‘n Konte Caravan Palace Song: Suzy Nguyên Lê “Saiyuki” Song: Mina Zuki Namgar “Nomad” Song: Tunka Cedric Watson...
Jan 19th
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Take Five 1/11/2010
Contractual Obligation: Pseudonyms In Jazz Published: January 11, 2010 Louis Smith Featuring Cannonball Adderley as “Buckshot La Funke” “Here Comes Louis Smith” Song: Ande Jack Wilson Featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim as “Tony Brazil” “Brazilian Mancini” Song: Night Flower Roland Kirk Featuring Sonny Boy Williamson as “Big Skol” “Kirk in Copenhagen” Song: The...
Jan 18th
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Playlist | Jon Caramanica
Tastes of Mariachi and Alabama By Jon Caramanica Published: January 6, 2010 Usher “Confessions” DJ Khaled “Fed Up” Usher “Raymond v. Raymond” Usher with Plies “Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home)” Nicki Minaj “Little Freak” Trey Songz Remix “I Invented Sex” Jenni Rivera “La Gran Señora” Wild Yaks “10 Ships (Don’t Die Yet!)” 6 Tre...
Jan 18th
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Take Five 1/4/2010
Soul-Jazz: Where Jazz, Blues And Gospel Meet Published: January 4, 2010 Jimmy Smith “Jimmy Smith’s Finest Hour” Song: Got My Mojo Workin’ Lee Morgan “Sidewinder [Bonus Track]” Song: Sidewinder Cannonball Adderley “Mercy Mercy Mercy: Live at “The Club”” Song: Mercy Mercy Mercy George Benson “George Benson Cookbook [Expanded]” Song: Benson’s Ride Eddie...
Jan 8th
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All Songs Considered 1/4/2010
New Music From Danger Mouse And The Shins’ James Mercer, Shout Out Louds, More Published: January 4, 2010 Broken Bells “Broken Bells” Song: The High Road Local Natives “Gorilla Manor” Song: World News Freelance Whales “Weathervanes” Song: Generator 2nd Floor Yeasayer “Odd Blood” Song: Ambling Alp Shout Out Louds “Work” Song: Fall Hard Gustavo Santaolalla “Ronroco” Song: Gaucho ...
Jan 8th
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All Songs Considered 12/28/2009
Viking’s Choice: Metal And Outer Sound In ‘09 Published: December 28, 2009 Krallice “Dimensional Bleedthrough” Song: Dimensional Bleedthrough Jim O’Rourke “Visitor” Song: Visitor Richard Youngs “Beyond the Valley of Ultrahits” Song: Collapsing Stars Baroness “Blue Record” Song: Jake Leg Converge “Axe to Fall” Song: Dark Horse Sun Araw “Heavy Deeds” Song: All Night...
Jan 7th
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Playlist | Ben Ratliff
Multihued Dreams and Layers of Improvisation By Ben Ratliff Published: December 23, 2009 Danny Grissett “Form” Phill Niblock “Touch Strings” Washed Out “The Fantastic Symphony” Platform.com Washed Out “Life of Leisure” Robin Guthrie “Angel Falls” Robin Guthrie “Carousel” Robin Guthrie “Songs to Help My...
Jan 7th
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Playlist | Ben Ratliff
Notable Dispatches From the Edge of Jazz and Beyond By Ben Ratliff Published: December 18, 2009 Top Albums Vijay Iyer Trio “Historicity” Bill Callahan “Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle” Marcus Strickland Trio “Idiosyncrasies” Willem Maker “New Moon Hand” Steve Lehman Octet “Travail, Transformation and Flow” John Hollenbeck...
Jan 7th
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Playlist | Jon Caramanica
Sumptuous Hip-Hop, Nashville Punk By Jon Caramanica Published: December 18, 2009 Top Albums Drake “So Far Gone” Girls “Album” Rick Ross “Deeper Than Rap” The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart “The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart” Trey Songz “Ready” New Boyz “Skinny Jeans and a Mic” Emmy The Great “First...
Jan 6th
December 2009
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Playlist | Nate Chinen
Free Jazz, Futurism, Funk and Ferocity By Nate Chinen Published: December 18, 2009 Best Albums Steve Lehman Octet “Travail, Transformation and Flow” Dirty Projectors “Bitte Orca” Henry Threadgill’s Zooid “This Brings Us to, Volume I” Vijay Iyer Trio “Historicity” Grizzly Bear “Veckatimest” Fly “Sky &...
Dec 26th
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Playlist | Jon Pareles
Reggae and Rock Operas, Intimacies and Anthems By Jon Pareles Published: December 17, 2009 Top Albums 1. Maxwell “Blacksummers’night” 2. Animal Collective “Merriweather Post Pavilion” 3. Green Day “21st Century Breakdown” 4. U2 “No Line On The Horizon” 5. Neko Case “Middle Cyclone” 6. Grizzly Bear “Veckatimest” ...
Dec 24th
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All Songs Considered 12/18/2009
All Songs Considered Holiday Music Mix ‘09 Published: December 18, 2009 Regina Helcher Yost “Winston’s Wonderland” Song: Up On The Housetop The Raveonettes “The Christmas Song” Song: The Christmas Song Bob Dylan “Christmas in the Heart” Song: Must Be Santa Sufjan Stevens “Songs for Christmas” Song: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing Snowden “Licorice EP” Song: White...
Dec 23rd
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All Songs Considered 12/14/2009
Discussion: The Year In Music, 2009 Biggest Surprises, Best New Artists, Best Songs And More Published: December 14, 2009 Year’s Biggest Surprise: Visqueen “Message to Garcia” Song: Hand Me Down Woods “Songs of Shame” Song: The Number Taken by Trees “East of Eden” Song: To Lose Someone Coconut Records “Davy” Song: Any Fun Best New Artist: K’naan “Troubadour” Song: Take a...
Dec 23rd
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All Songs Considered 12/7/2009
All Songs Considered Listeners Pick The Best Music Of 2009 Published: December 7, 2009 1. Grizzly Bear “Veckatimest” Song: Two Weeks 2. Animal Collective “Merriweather Post Pavilion” Song: My Girls 3. Phoenix “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix” Song: Liztomania 4. Neko Case “Middle Cyclone” Song: This Tornado Loves You 5. Andrew Bird “Noble...
Dec 22nd
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All Songs Considered 11/30/2009
New Music From Spoon, Norah Jones, More Published: November 30, 2009 Spoon “Transference” Song: Written In Reverse This album will be released in January, 2010. Charlotte Gainsbourg “IRM” Song: Heaven Can Wait This album has not yet been released, but this track is available on Charlotte Gainsbourg’s website. Brother Ali “Us” Song: Fresh Air Devendra Banhart “What Will We Be” Song: 16th...
Dec 21st
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All Songs Considered 11/16/2009
The Decade’s 50 Most Important Recordings Published: November 16, 2009 John Adams “On the Transmigration of Souls” Song: On the Transmigration of Souls Animal Collective “Merriweather Post Pavillion” Song: My Girls Arcade Fire “Funeral” Song: Wake Up The Bad Plus “These Are the Vistas” Song: Smells Like Teen Spirit Beyoncé “Dangerously in Love” Song: Crazy in Love Bon Iver...
Dec 21st
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All Songs Considered 11/2/2009
Guest DJ Kyp Malone Published: November 2, 2009 Sharon Van Etten “Because I Was in Love” Song: Tornado Kermit the Frog “Muppet Movie” Song: Rainbow Connection Rain Machine “Rain Machine” Song: Give Blood Group Doueh “Guitar Music from the Western Sahara” Song: Wazan Samat Rain Machine “Rain Machine” Song: Smiling Black Faces Diane Cluck “Macy’s Day Bird/Black with Green Leaves”...
Dec 20th
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All Songs Considered 10/27/2009
CMJ Highlights, Strokes Frontman Julian Casablancas, Rapper Kid Cudi, More Published: October 27, 2009 Several of the songs in the podcast are live versions. The following are the album cuts. Patrick Watson “Wooden Arms” Song: Fireweed The xx “XX” Song: Islands Choir of Young Believers “This Is For The White In Your Eyes” Song: Action/Reaction Phantogram “Eyelid Movies” Song: Mouthful...
Dec 20th
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All Songs Considered 10/19/2009
The Year’s Best New Jazz Published: October 19, 2009 Gretchen Parlato “In a Dream” Song: I Can’t Help It Ben Allison “Think Free” Song: Kramer vs. Kramer vs. Godzilla Stefon Harris/Blackout “Urbanus” Song: Gone Miguel Zenón “Esta Plena” Song: Despedida Jason Lindner “Now vs. Now” Song: Seven Ways Yaron Herman Trio “Muse” Song: Isobel Robert Glasper “Double Booked”...
Dec 19th
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All Songs Considered 10/13/2009
Vampire Weekend, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Frontman Alec Ounsworth, The XX And More Published: October 13, 2009 Chris Walla and J. Robbins “Project Song” Song: Mercury Watch a video on the making of this song on NPR.org. The XX “XX” Song: VCR MV & EE “Barn Nova” Song: Feelin’ Fine Espers “III” Song: I Can’t See Clear Doveman “Conformist” Song: Breathing Out Vampire...
Dec 18th
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Playlist | Jon Pareles
A Hall of Mirrors, Oom-pah and Electropop By Jon Pareles Published: December 11, 2009 Tom Waits “Glitter and Doom Live” Animal Collective “Fall Be Kind” Stricken City “Songs About People I Know” Real Estate “Real Estate” Annie “Don’t Stop” Los Cenzontles With David Hidalgo and Taj Mahal “American Horizon” ...
Dec 13th
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All Songs Considered 11/9/2009
Discussion: The Decade Defined Published: November 9, 2009 Eminem “Marshall Mathers LP” Song: Stan The Equals “Greatest Hits” Song: Hold Me Closer The Postal Service “Give Up” Song: The District Sleeps Alone Tonight Randy Newman “The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1” Song: Political Science Minutemen “Double Nickels on the Dime” Song: Theatre Is the...
Dec 8th
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Playlist | Nate Chinen
From Las Vegas, Newport, Norway and Brooklyn By Nate Chinen Published: December 4, 2009 Beyoncé “I Am … Yours. An Intimate Performance at Wynn Las Vegas” Blakroc “Blakroc” Various Artists “Daptone Gold” Various Artists “Newport Jazz Festival 1959” Wolfgang’s Vault Supersilent “Supersilent 9” Zune Playlist - The Beyonce DVD is not available...
Dec 6th