Hot days have been making me dig out all kinds hiphop/soul that i love

Gangstar
Pete Rock
Flying Lotus
Nice and Smooth
The Delfonics
Temptations
George Baker

Total Devastation
Cannibal Corpse
Yaz
Behemoth
Nocturnus
Job for a Cowboy
Morbid Angel
Gaius Acilius
Math and Physics Club
Fear Factory
Cow Army

Kyle, I love Flying Lotus. I also dig the Delfonics. Don't think I've listened to the rest of that much.
IGshr*e

Weird, I've been listening to a ton of GangStarr all Summer too! Mass Appeal is the main ringer on my phone right now I've been so addicted. It's been a kind of lame summer for new music actually...bring on the Fall rush.

In honor of todays change in weather, I have been listening to old and new music from The National. Something about their music and rainy Seattle days seem to go together perfectly!

Agreed indiesha. His voice is captivating. I also have to say that the new Byrne/Eno thing is addicting.. for me anyway. But I LOVE Eno.

Oh and Hercules and Love Affair. Love.

IGshr*e

The Eames Era's latest CD has made its way to the top of my Summer 2008 playlist. I walk to the bus stop pretty frequently in the summer (it's about a two mile walk) and theirs is one of those CDs that can make you feel like you're in a movie while you walk, or just make you appreciate all the scenery around you.

Lemming Project
Conor Oberst
Bolt Thrower
Carcass
Reign in Blood

Nice to see all that thrash mixed in with Conor and M&PC.

My actual playlist:

Rodriguez, "Cold Fact"
Mono in VCF
Parenthetical Girls, "Entanglements"
Joan As Policewoman, "To Survive"
The Saturday Knights, "Mingle"
Cars Can Be Blue, "Doubly Unbeatable"
Wire, "Object 47"
Giant Sand, "ProVISIONS"
Head Like A Kite, "There Is Loud Laughter"
Dead Science, "Villainaire"
New Faces, "Two Years"
Negativland, "Thigmotactic"
Fleetwood Mac, "Tusk"

Oh yea, the new Wire. Is that whats on your list Chris?
IGshr*e

Conor O. [sweet new album!]

Flaming Lips

Tricky

Black Angels

Beck [new one!]

Radiohead

Pixies

Jane's Addiction

NIN [the slip]

M. Ward

I thought had been listening to Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, but it turns out I just left a couple microphones in front of my speakers.

I thought had been listening to Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, but it turns out I just left a couple microphones in front of my speakers.

Hahaha Grim! Whenever I hear MMM I automatically think "someone really needs to get that refrigerator fixed".

santogold
damian marley
unforscene
culture
free the robots
if my record player was around lou rawls and nancy wilson would be in the mix.

i'm in a very formless, lyrical mood. meaning if there has to be lyrics in the song, let the song go somewhere. i'm feeling car music. journey music.

awesome blog topic, IgShrie!

Coldplay's latest
old Death Cab stuff
the Submarines
Tokyo Police Club
Magnetic Fields - "All my little words''
Little Name
Juno soundtrack

i've also been listening to my "winter in NY" playlists a lot, oddly enough -- haven't been too in the mood for the requisite summer tunes this year..

last week, when it was hot, my playlist looked something like this:

abe vigoda- "skeleton"
vivian girls- "such a joke"
no age- "ripped knees"
pavement- "pueblo"
cave singers- "cold eye"
the walkmen- "the blue route"
(their new album = SO GOOD)
silver jews- "buckingham rabbit"
(actually, i've listened to "american water" front-to-back at least twice a day for the past two months)

today, since it was sort of gloomy, it looked like this:

ghostface killah- "mighty healthy"
luke temple- "blue britches"
tiny vipers- "aron"
emily haines- "reading in bed"
raekwon- "north star (jewelz)"
sera cahoone- "long highway"
atlas sound- "without headlights"
(and, just to kick me out of a gloomy mood) modest mouse- "steam engenius"

p.s. shrie, that colonies song is really good.

Douglas, I agree. It's a sleeper, but it grows on me more and more.

Tiny Vipers sounds like an excellent pick for today, and this gloomy week actually. I second the Silver Jews amazement and the obsession of "American Water". That album is ALWAYS on my playlist ;)

IGshr*e

Yes, IGshr*e, that is the brand new Wire, and easily my favorite records of theirs in quite a few years!

Does anyone else love Shit Disco?

I just put in the new Sleeping in the Aviary album and it A-MAZ-ING! It releases Oct 14th - so there's plenty of time for us to yammer about it more.

Also, I can't seem to get over Jerad Mees (it's more than just PDX lo fi singer radness). He sent us two records and I've been listening to both of those ova and ova.

I also love that my dayjob itunes seamlessly goes from Los Campesinos to Los Halos.

This summer, it's been all about ELO and Steely Dan. I can't quite move past those, despite that it's turned to grey and rain here in Sea-town the last couple days.

New Sleeping in the Aviary?!?! WOOT WOOT!!! That is music to my ears...

Ah, Stella, I had a month of non-stop ELO and Steely Dan a few months ago. For some reason last winter-spring seemed perfect for them for me. Thank God for dollar bins and swallowing your punk rock snobbery to enjoy the sublime pleasures of intelligently crafted pop.

shrie, i totally agree. "american water" is one of my all-time favorites, and probably my absolute favorite. the joos are playing neumo's on october 2nd (which, coincidentally, happens to be my birthday). words can't express how excited i am.

also, i love listening to tiny vipers on rainy days. sometimes, i throw "hands across the void" on repeat and fall asleep to it.

excellent topic!!

Massive Attack
Conor O.
White Stripes
Ryan Adams

Since I'm currently visiting family in the Midwest, I've had an opportunity to hear a lot of mainstream music I'd missed out on. Like Paramore. Wow. They suck.

The playlist I'm throwing together for tomorrow's flight back to civilization includes The Dead Trees, the new High Places, The Smiths' Meat Is Murder, and some Elvis Costello. I need some more, though, so I'm stealing some suggestions from your comments. Thanks! ;)

Douglas, I know! I can't wait to see the Joos. I saw them at Showbox last year and that made me happy in the pants. Ahhh... Berman.
IGshr*e

I've recently been listening to a lot of Phil and the Osophers and Ra Ra Rasputin.

i've been obsessed with cute girl-pop and girl-rock this summer. all girl summer fun band, tacocat, violet vector, etc. i have a renewed tegan & sara obsession too, and some sleater-kinney and le tigre and such has been getting really heavy play lately too. and old liz phair probably because tig keeps reminding me of her!

ONE DAY AS A LION!

odd, more gang starr here as well...

bardo pond 'lapsed'
jorge ben 'africa brasil'
james brown 'the singles vol. 2'
eazy-e 'eazy-duz-it'
gang starr 'hard to earn'
ital tek 'cyclical'
the jesus and mary chain 'honey's dead'
lowrell 'lowrell'
rotary connection 'aladdin'
wu-tang clan 'enter the wu-tang (36 chambers)'

I'm an indie blogger who has denounced indie:

The Byrds - "Notorious Byrd Brothers"
Graham Nash - "Songs for Beginners"
CSN - Anthology
Joni Mitchell - "Blue"
The Turles - "Happy Together", "...The Battle of the Bands"
King Crimson - "Red"
Bob Dylan - "Highway 51"
Jefferson Airplane - "Volunteers"
America - "History"

...my zest for indie has taken a nosedive. Not that there's nothing good out now, I'm just off on another journey. Don't know when I'll be back...

Besides even my favorite stuff out this year sounds like something pumped out 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago: M83, Coldplay, Fleet Foxes...