Essential Live Set - Jawbreaker - Live at the Kings Head Inn

Of all the Jawbreaker live sets this pretty much takes the cake. The nice thing here is this is a soundboard recording so the music is extremely clear (remember tho its wasn't originally digital) and it places the band at the best time in their career between Bivouac and 24 Hour Revenge Therapy. Maybe I like this stuff so much because it reminds me of growing up. Hope you love it as much as I do.

1 - Do You Still Hate Me?
2 - Ashtray Monument
3 - Chesterfield King
4 - Jinx Removing
5 - Caroline/Face Down
6 - Outpatient
7 - The Boat Dreams from the Hill
8 - Want


Jawbreaker Live at the Kings Head Inn

Essential Beats - Jamie XX - Beat For/Far Nearer

Cutting the edge with his premier beatsmithing, as well and being a full contributing member of The XX, Jamie XX is certainly one to be watching in the upcoming years. Last year he unleashed a barrage of mixes for Boiler Room, Radio 1, FACT, etc etc as well as doing an album with Gil-Scott Heron and really showcased his incoming impact on electronic music. Jamies clearly tips his hat to uk garage and dubstep fusing  a very enjoyable experience. These are two bangers he released last year.


Jamie xx - Far Nearer (limited vinyl and download out now - http://farnearer.com) by Numbers

Essential Demo - Neutral Milk Hotel - Beauty

I guess you could call this the second in what will be the eventual posting of all the NMH demos and boots.  Beauty is from 1992 and like many other NMH early demos its hard to say that its not just a collection of various recordings Jeff Magnum put together to give to friends. The first five tracks have Magnum talking before and after each track. There's some great acoustic rarities in there. Beauty in its whole is very listenable;which to me is pretty big considering Hype City Soundtrack and Invent Yourself A Shortcake have so much unlistenable ear puke on them.


NMH Beauty

Flashback MP3 - Sauce Money - Against the Grain

This is the way hip hop should be. A true ol skool banger Against the Grain was the fist single of Sauce Money's Middle Finger U as well as a contributing track to the epic basketball doc and soundtrack Soul in the Hole. Produced by Dj Premier all these new cats like OFWGKTA should take a lesson on how it should be done.

Sauce Money Against the Grain MP3

Essential Bootleg - Husker Du - Drug Party

A great bootleg to help fill in anyones Husker Du collection. Released in 1990 by Aggressive Buddhist Records it moreso was a 7" containing songs from tapes that were circulated amongst fans. A much better ,or finished rather, version of Do You Remember was released on Everything Falls Apart and More. Both versions of Drug Party are great especially the Indianapolis version. And I'm sorry about the post xmas song at the end. I perfer other Husker Du but its a nice bootleg for any collection.

A1 - Do You Remember Demo
A2 - Drug Party Live In Indianapolis 6-21-1985
B1 - Drug Party Live in Madison 3-10-1984
B2 - We Wish You A Merry Christmas - Dec 1986 Promo

Drug Party Bootleg

MP3 - The Hated - Departure

The standout track in my opinion from The Hated's legendary 'Demo 86' the energy and melodic chorus offer what was at the time were great injections of life into somewhat repetitive and stale punk. Again this song is big to me right now. Enjoy.

MP3

MP3 - The Antlers - I Don't Want Love

An amazing opening track from last years album Burst Apart... more and more I fully realise how much my mood influences my music. Its nice to have tracks like this around for the right time. Whatever that steel drum sound is I love it. Hope the snow melts soon.


I Don't Want Love MP3