Music faves from 2009

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

It seems that 2009 is the year when I shifted my atten­tion back to rock and pop music. Dub­step still holds my atten­tion but not to the extent that it did back in 2006 when it took over my brain. Here are the things I enjoyed most in 2009, in no par­tic­u­lar order.

Best Albums

The XX — XX
Thanks to my friend, Tony, who first men­tioned this band to me. The XX are a young bunch who make lean pop music con­sist­ing of boy/girl vocals, hand-played drum machines and per­fectly placed gui­tar lines. This album quickly became a habit.
The XX — Islands:

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The XX — Night Time:

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The XX — VCR:

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Found it!

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

I love when I find some­thing that I for­got that I was look­ing for…

I used to search for this song at every record store I vis­ited from around 1996–2000. It was not a new song at the time, but I really wanted it on 7-inch. Amoeba Records in San Fran­cisco had a cor­ner filled with shelves which were filled with long boxes of Jamaican sin­gles and I would flip blindly through those records, not really know­ing much about most of them.

I never found the record.

But today I stum­bled on the song again in mp3 form! An old old itch has finally been scratched.

Sim­ple­ton — Coca Cola Shape

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dj mumbler on-the-air

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Start­ing this Sun­day, I will be host­ing a radio show on KANM — "the col­lege sta­tion of Col­lege Sta­tion." It is an AM sta­tion, as well as cable FM on Sud­den­link Com­mu­ni­ca­tions. There is a stream avail­able at http://kanm.tamu.edu, which seems like the most nor­mal way to access the show (what is cable FM?).

The show will be free-form.

I will be shar­ing music I like, and maybe some stuff the sta­tion makes me include. The major­ity of pro­gram­ming on the sta­tion is indie rock-centered, so if I do pull from their library I should be able to find some good music. My focus will be dub­step, roots/dub reg­gae and other musics of the Jamaican dias­pora, hip-hop, pos­si­bly grime, Bollywood/filmi songs and maybe even some experimental/modern clas­si­cal music.

Mum­blings
Sun­days 12-2pm
KANM, Col­lege Sta­tion
1580 AM
cam­pus cable TV chan­nel 88
kanm.tamu.edu

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Kings of Leon?

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Here's another band who I suc­cess­fully ignored for a long time. Now I can't get this song out of my head…

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Ed's Music Picks for 2008 (where did the year go?)

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

It is hard to believe that it is Decem­ber already almost Jan­u­ary. It is even harder to believe that I had to scrape sleet off my wind­shield today last week in the mid­dle of Texas.

This year saw some big changes:
1. I now live in TX.
2. I now have a reg­u­lar job. I am not self employed so I have to wear pants and talk to peo­ple.
3. I ditched that hor­ri­ble razr. iPhone, baby!
4. I bought a house.

OK, enough chitchat. On to the music… my favorites from this past year in no par­tic­u­lar order:
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