Realmente é bem visto...

Encontrei esta publicidade a uma página de apostas:


E realmente faz sentido.

A obcessão

Jogar on-line.

O Vício

Esta caixa tem um prazo de validade até 07/2010, mas eu comi-a toda hoje.

Ver #9

Então e ninguém me avisa que a oitava série já começou?

Scrubs

Ver #8

Na companhia de uma gota de suor na cara.

The Road To Guantanamo (2006)

Ouvir #132

Bat For Lashes - Fur and Gold (2006)

Lá está, esqueci-me daquele génio que abriu o concerto dos Messias. Fica o desconcertante vídeo da desconcertante "What's a Girl to Do?".

Ver #7

Nip/Tuck

No passado dia 6 de Janeiro, começou a segunda parte da 5ª temporada de Nip/Tuck. Era só para dizer que a frequência do fenómeno "queixo em baixo", provocada no espectador, continua lá em cima.

Epá...

Isto são más notícias.

És nerd (Post "Sou muita bom" #2)

quando vês este vídeo e a primeira coisa que te vem à cabeça é "Olha, a equação de Schrödinger independente do tempo de uma partícula num potencial Colombiano repulsivo".
É triste, tipo "A Escolha de Sofia" triste, mas a verdade é que não tive a menor dúvida, assim que apareceu...

Estofo de campeão

não há...

Skins, 3ª temporada, episódio 1

Péssimo.

Ouvir #131

Vários - UPA 2008 (2008)

Movimento UPA da Associação Encontrar+se

Isto não vem com o timing perfeito, porque já remonta há uns meses atrás, mas...


"Levanta-te contra a discriminação das doenças mentais" é o mote do Movimento Unidos Para Ajudar (UPA) que reuniu um grupo de tubarões da música portuguesa que resultou num disco com resultados surpreendentes, no qual figuram duetos daqueles "escolhidos a dedo". Digo que surpreende porque as músicas não soam a "vamos lá juntarmos-nos, fazer um jingle qualquer só pra juntar dinheiro". Não. As músicas são mesmo boas. Nem todas serão excelentes, mas todas têm muita qualidade. Confirmem no site, onde uma contribuição pode ser feita por donativo. Outra alternativa é comprar o CD+DVD (12,95€ na fnac, ou seja, nada). A minha favorita é a dos Xutos+OIOAI. Fica aqui o anúncio.

Ouvir #130

Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light (2009)

Genial.

Ouvir #129 (outro que esquecido estava)

Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise (2005)

Ouvir #128 (esquecido ali na prateleira)

Wilco - A Ghost Is Born (2004)

Wilco - Handshake Drugs.mp3

Buraka na Pitchfork

impressiona com um 7.9!

Buraka Som Sistema tracks often have the marvelous thickness of early jungle, that sense of pushing through electronic thickets, senses on hyper-alert. But their rhythmic template is more often the relentless bounce of soca. Soca's perpetual chirpiness makes it an acquired taste, but there's no denying its kinetic power, and blended with Buraka's harder beats and harsher sounds it becomes a fearsome engine for their music.

But even if you don't have the language skills to get their full story, Buraka Som Sistema are worth your time: Black Diamond is one of the fiercest dance records in recent memory.

Apesar do conhecido snobismo dos críticos da pitchforkmedia.com, é sempre motivo de orgulho ler neste meio, mais uma vez, o reconhecimento da música feita em Portugal (isto porque Panda Bear já nos tinha dado uma boa surpresa em 2007)

No primeiro dia de Barack Hussein Obama II como Presidente dos EUA

fica aqui uma curiosidade.

2 minutos e 42 segundos fresquinhos

de Antony and the Johnsons.

Antony And The Johnsons - Epilepsy is dancing

Foi a faixa do novo disco que mais me entusiasmou na primeira passagem (para além da Another World, que já se conhecia do EP com o mesmo nome). Curiosamente o videoclip foi lançado hoje. Quanto ao resto do álbum ainda não tenho opinião formada, até porque está (muito) diferente dos anteriores (com isto quero dizer que não estou a gostar tanto como esperava). O primeiro ouvido é sempre foleiro.

14 de Maio, 21h30, Coliseu dos Recreios, Lisboa

Este senhor, que calha ser um dos meus artistas favoritos, vai lá estar.


E eu espero poder utilizar o meu bilhete que já cá canta. Entretanto, ouve-se o recém lançado The Crying Light.

Ouvir #127

The Knife - Deep Cuts (2003)

Muito mau, ter-me esquecido desta banda.

Pass this on from krft on Vimeo.

Ouvir a Ver #11

Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart
O projecto a solo da Karin Dreijer Andersson (The Knife)

Ver #6

Os neozelandeses favoritos da malta voltam para a segunda temporada.

Flight Of The Conchords - Jenny

Ouvir #126

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

E o álbum começa logo assim:
Animal Collective - In The Flowers.mp3

Ouvir a Ver #10

Nos dias em que ando a descobrir Merriweather Post Pavilion, vejo no site la blogotheque este vídeo esclarecedor da mente infinita dos Animal Collective. Uma guitarra, um conjunto de grades, um pino de tráfego e uma "ajuda digital" fazem isto:

#82.2 - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Another White Singer
by lablogotheque

Post inútil e extenso

O site betterPropaganda.com chegou ontem ao fim da sua contagem com um "muito abaixo das expectativas" top10, tanto dos artistas como dos álbuns. O n.º 1 foi para o Sr. Guillermo Scott Herren (que é o dos Prefuse 73, não conhecia), à frente de bandas como Radiohead, TVOTR, Of Montreal, Wilco, que foram remetidas para posições inferiores ao que seria razoável. A maior parte das bandas são conhecidas, aparecendo um ou outro nome menos popular. É uma boa lista de bandas, mas com péssima contagem (Caribou por exemplo, aparece à frente de Modest Mouse ou Arcade Fire...). Fica aqui a lista de artistas completa, com a descrição do site para cada um deles:

#100 Joanna Newsom - Our 100th most influential artist of the decade is probably the most unique artist on the entire list, in a worldly/otherworldly sort of way.

#99 Devendra Banhart - Yes, Devendra Banhart is next after Joanna Newsom, but, no, this is not going to be a list of 100 freak-folk artists.

#98 Kinky - It would be hard to find a more exciting live band than Kinky. Unlike many great live bands, though, all the energy, range, and diversity of their performances also infuse their studio efforts.

#97 Feist - Her voice is so amazing – not just some girl singing pop hits – but, amazing, like some sort of instrument that nobody else knows how to play.

#96 Cassius - Ostensibly a hard-edged electronic dance act, Cassius plays across multiple genres and musical textures.

#95 DFA 1979 - Jesse Keeler and Sebastien Grainger, the duo that is Death From Above 1979, are notable for their versatility.

#94 Xiu Xiu - Xiu Xiu's most definitive characteristics are unpredictability and defiance.

#93 Mum - Mum is basically strange and skewed childhood wonder in a bottle.

#92 Interpol - Interpol championed this decade's revival of dark and dreary rock, a gate they opened up for droves of imitators.

#91 The Strokes - Before they ever released their debut full-length, The Strokes toured the UK - twice - on the strength of a three song EP.

#90 The Microphones - The Microphones released intimate bedroom recordings that were as introverted as they were transparent.

#89 Deerhoof - Since Reveille, Deerhoof has been consistently releasing records that have challenged the standard structures of music.

#88 The Books - The Books cobble together stunningly romantic narratives out of found bits and pieces of audio.

#87 Blonde Redhead - The four-year hiatus after Blonde Redhead's Melody... was the result of a much-documented accident.

#86 The Streets - The Streets' debut album was a breath of fresh air, uninfluenced by genre trends and ironic detachment.

#85 Basement Jaxx - While the UK was turning to host new, stripped down stylings, the Basement Jaxx continually push the other direction, making albums that were increasingly melodic and eclectic - a direction that has become more significant than ever.

#84 Liars - Liars' debut album, 2001's They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck A Monument on Top, garnered much acclaim for it's driving sound, which fit neatly into the post-punk revival that was occurring in NYC at the time.

#83 Spoon - Britt Daniel has built a career on flipping the commonplace into the strange, and then flipping it back again into some compelling understandable thing.

#82 Common - A lot of people don't know this, but Common's been releasing albums since 1992. That's right. He had been releasing records for eight years before the "The Light" came out in 2000, which is when his career really began to soar.

#81 Cinematic Orchestra - One of Swinscoe's best attributes as a composer, which was evident on both Everyday and Ma Fleur, is his patience.

#80 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - The reason Godspeed is such a bewildering collective is because listening to them is unquestionably a singular experience.

#79 Goldfrapp - Alison Goldfrapp worked as stage and studio singer for Orbital and Tricky early in her career (she appears on Maxinquaye).

#78 Panda Bear - For the longest time it was hard to separate Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) from his Animal Collective brethren.

#77 Girl Talk - He didn't do it first, but he's a classic example of doing it best. Ever since Night Ripper - his breakthrough after a couple of glitchy, clunky DJ albums – Girl Talk's been posterized as America's DJ.

#76 The Rapture - For better or worse, The Rapture became the posterboys of dance-punk when they came out with the 12 inch House of Jealous Lovers.

#75 Spencer Krug - Spencer Krug rips apart language like a vulture handles roadkill.

#74 Of Montreal - Much has been said about the band’s theatricality and affectations, but one shouldn’t let all of that distract from the music.

#73 Nobody - Elvin Estela is a long time musician and DJ first associated with the mid 90s Project Blowed scene in LA.

#72 Madlib - With over 10 pseudonyms (some being Yesterdays New Quintet & Quasimoto), Madlib has been producing records and creating beats since 1993.

#71 Elliott Smith - His legacy lives on through every anxious teen and every band that incorporates an acoustic guitar into their music.

#70 Brazilian Girls - As with their shows, the Brazilian Girls' albums walk the line between sultry lounge electronica and rock.

#69 Postal Service - It's Gibbard's voice and occasional lyrical wit that pushes Postal Service way up to the tippy-top.

#68 Bassnectar - Bassnectar's Lorin Ashton describes this electronic collective as "omni-tempo maximalism."

#67 Lyrics Born - In the past decade Lyrics Born has moved through the ranks of popularity like a whirlwind.

#66 Mike Patton - I love that I can never expect anything from Mike Patton because he's constantly re-inventing himself.

#65 The Shins - The Shins' 2001 debut, Oh, Inverted World, is arguably the best indie rock record of the decade.

#64 My Morning Jacket - My Morning Jacket has continued to successfully reinvent its sound over its almost ten-year tenure.

#63 Talib Kweli - Talib Kweli came out swinging with Mos Def on Blackstar, but when 2000 hit, he truly came into his own.

#62 Wilco - Wilco rose from the ashes of the seminal roots rockers Uncle Tupelo, who disbanded in 1994.

#61 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs emerged as a band that praised the fine art of not giving into anyone's bullshit.

#60 Beirut - Beirut exoticized indie rock. There isn't any way around it. While the music Zach Condon meticulously crafts isn't exactly new, there is something to be said for delivering old music to a new audience.

#59 Ladytron - Ladytron's futuristic electro-pop that filled the bytes of their first two albums were full of vintage analogue sounds that focus on dance beats first and sexy melodic vocal hooks second.

#58 Dizzee Rascal - While collaborator Wiley was responsible for many of the early innovations, Dizzee rapidly rose to become the face and the voice of the movement.

#57 Hella - Hella honed a sound that was loud and crass but inescapably grounded in technique.

#56 Herbaliser - The quintessential funky beats band, Herbaliser was also influential in the blurring of lines between hip hop, jazz, & electronic.

#55 Pinback - Known for the interlaced vocals and complex melodic pop hooks, Pinback delivers highly produced and well-constructed songs.

#54 Dan the Automator - In Dan the Automator’s world, weird is the only thing that works.

#53 J-Dilla - James Dewitt Yancey, better known as J Dilla, is easily one of the most influential hip hop producers ever.

#52 Thievery Corporation - Thievery Corporation, have remained one of the more politically outspoken acts in the music business through the Bush years.

#51 Ulrich Schnauss - No one creates imaginary worlds in your head like Ulrich Schnauss.

#50 Fennesz - Fennesz is the Beethoven of our time - piecing together beautiful compositions from nothing, as if blind to what he is working with.

#49 Fleet Foxes - If you haven't heard Fleet Foxes by now, listen. If you haven't seen Fleet Foxes live by now, go.

#48 Arcade Fire - Their music is raucous, theatrical, cathartic, and highly emotional, with all of the subtlety of a religious revival.

#47 !!! - Whatever weirdness !!! exude seems ingrained in their music, rather than forced or contrived.

#46 Ratatat - I present a simple equation: Ratatat = jams. Ratatat is not particularly innovative, but then it doesn't really matter.

#45 Aceyalone - Aceyalone's lyrical talent is unmatchable and he is recognized as a founding father of the L.A. underground.

#44 Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene use their fleet of 20+ musicians to full effect, fitting more than should be possible into their music.

#43 Herbert - Matthew Herbert's albums combine immaculately groomed dance music with subversive subject matter.

#42 Battles - As electronic music inevitably infuses into rock, there is no other band that so masterfully harnesses the power of technology as Battles.

#41 El-P - It's safe to say that El-P, otherwise known as El Producto, is a jaded man, and with good reason.

#40 Kanye West - Graduation picks up right where Late Registration left off without missing a step.

#39 Soulwax - David and Stephen cut their teeth on the turntables during the mid 90s doing dancefloor mash ups as as 2ManyDJs.

#38 Sufjan Stevens - "Symphonic indie-folk pop" is a term rife with contradiction, but Sufjan Stevens works best with incongruity.

#37 Clark - Chris Clark has emerged as one of the shining stars of cutting edge electronic music.

#36 Matthew Dear - Matthew Dear brings a vocalist's sensibility to layered progressive Detroit Techno.

#35 Dandy Warhols - Often compared to the druggy psychedelic pop of the Velvet Underground, the Dandy Warhols do possess more than just a passing resemblance to Lou Reed and company at times.

#34 Busdriver - Born Regan Farquhar, the Los Angeles MC was introduced to hip-hop culture early.

#33 The White Stripes - The White Stripes gripped listeners by the ears with a pretty basic approach: keep it simple and make it wild.

#32 Röyksopp - More than any other artist this decade, Röyksopp's music has chilled the warm blood of partygoers as they wander out of the clubs and settle down in their livingrooms, preparing them for morning slumber.

#31 Fourtet - Four Tet, with his production prowess, should be required listening for upcoming artists, electronic or otherwise.

#30 Kid606 - In addition to doing his Kid606 DJ gig, Miguel also runs the ground breaking electronic label TigerBeat6.

#29 Jurassic 5 - Although J5 disbanded in 2007, the mark they left on this decade is forever engrained.

#28 MF Doom - Zev Love disappeared for almost five years, only to remerge as MF Doom, a supervillain bent on world domination.

#27 TV on the Radio - They constantly show progression in each new effort, and it shows the immense amount of talent and creativity showcased by their members.

#26 Del tha Funkee Homosapien - Del's associated acts starts to read like an intro to "real hip hop" for the uninitiated.

#25 Modest Mouse - The band went from long-winded guitar freakouts to brooding rockers to lively jam sessions to plaintive ballads with ease.

#24 Caribou - It's impossible to give props to Caribou (aka: Dan Snaith), without also mentioning his previous work under the name, Manitoba.

#23 Blackalicious - Gab had some killer wordplay on 4th Dimensional..., & if he had released it with Xcel, it would have been their third classic album in a row.

#22 Justice - As far as single-album artists go, Justice attained what is far and away the highest position on this list.

#21 Daft Punk - Daft Punk has been heard in our lives in every way imaginable, transcending boundaries in ways few artists can.

#20 Sigur Ros - Sigur Rós creates breathtaking, orchestral pieces that recall the opulent and vast landscapes of Iceland.

#19 Aesop Rock - Aesop has defined himself as one of the foremost innovators in hip hop: he invented a style so out of left field that it should have failed.

#18 Outkast - Fourteen years later, their sound is still as unique, and has matured into something that can’t be labeled.

#17 The Knife - Illusive brother and sister duo from Stockholm, Sweden The Knife is one of the most unique and intriguing electronica groups around.

#16 CocoRosie - Their music is evocative of a loud and busy mind, a solid and graspable representation of human conflict and confusion.

#15 Amon Tobin - Amon Tobin is an explorer of sound that has discovered some of the most brilliant sonic terrains the world has ever heard.

#14 Animal Collective - A transcendental shift that marks the very truest artists: They stopped believing they were interesting and simply became interesting.

#13 M.I.A. - Her two albums are filled with healthy portions of global sounds, catchy rhymes and bumpin’ beats.

#12 Air - Air’s the full package – focused and adept at achieving a heightened mood, though that mood is always changing.

#11 M83 - Frenchman Anthony Gonzalez is the man behind the tunes of M83, and thus far has three great albums under his belt.

#10 RJD2 - RJD2 is the example I point to whenever young musicians (or artists, period) tell me they’re hesitant to experiment.

#9 Jamie Lidell - He's an actor, a vaudevillian, a musician, and a man with an absurdly sweet voice.

#8 Jay-Z - Nobody knows Jay Z better than Jay Z. So, why should we try explaining his legacy, skills, impact, and story—when he can?

#7 Spank Rock - A lot of music comes through bProp's headquarters here in SF. A lot. So, it's rare when you hear something and think: wow, that's really fresh.

#6 Daedelus - One of the most original characters in electronic music, the dashing young man with the mutton chops is non other than Daedelus.

#5 Danger Mouse - Danger Mouse is the most prolific name on our list, with six appearances topping the next highest on the list (Radiohead with four).

#4 Boards of Canada - Boards of Canada is undoubtedly one of the most groundbreaking groups in the world of electronic music.

#3 LCD Soundsytem - There are important intricacies and nuances throughout LCD Soundsystem's music.

#2 Radiohead - Revered by critics, adored by fans, & envied by peers, they've managed to become simultaneously inscrutable & immensely popular.

#1 Scott Herren - Herren melds break beats, glitchy-IDM electronic, ambient jazz and creates a true hip hop style that is all his own.

Quanto à lista de álbuns, os gajos repetem a piada. No topo aparece o Sound of Silver dos LCD Soundsystem e, por exemplo, não aparece um único dos Arcade Fire ou Arctic Monkeys.

#100 Kanye West - Graduation - Kanye West's progression from The College Dropout to Late Registration was extraordinary, despite the fact that his first album was incredible.

#99 Frog Eyes - The Golden River - The Golden River is intensely textured and yes, ultimately prophetic; it speaks greatly to its strengths that, like the wandering madman, you will never quite figure this whole thing out.

#98 BRMC - Take Them On, On Your Own - Take Them On... brought back everything that I liked about the rock genre: the grittiness, posturing, and political edginess that had been homogenized into a catalog of bland cliché.

#97 Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast - Back in 2000, Damon Gough, a.ka. Badly Drawn Boy, snuck out of British coffee shops and landed at the podium to accept the Mercury Prize. The album that catapulted him to the main stage is our 97th best album of the decade.

#96 Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles - Jamie Stewart, the mastermind behind Xiu Xiu, has always attempted to challenge the structures of rock music.

#95 OOIOO - Gold & Green - The OOIOO album Gold and Green (Thrill Jockey) is a collage of experimental ambient musical environments.

#94 Supermayer - Save the World - Supermayer's Save the World unites the seminal DJs Superpitcher & Michael Mayer, both longtime stalwarts of Cologne's Kompakt sound.

#93 Girl Talk - Night Ripper - This album made me love pop again, and indeed, most of the magic is that it connects listeners to genres they'd normally snub.

#92 Sigur Ros - Takk... - In 2005, Sigur Ros awoke from their peaceful slumber and marched down from the heavens with their best work to date.

#91 Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner - Dizzee built Boy in Da Corner on the pillars of Hip Hop, Drum and Bass, Garage, Dance Hall and Rock, and added his own unique variety of rhyme and production to the whole mix.

#90 M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, & Lost Ghosts - M83 was introduced to the world with 2003's Dead Cities... - an album that was effectively shoegaze, but significantly less guitar-driven.

#89 DJ Shadow - Private Press - Private Press brought more innovation, exploring entirely new territory. Shadow played with genres like they were going out of style.

#88 Orbital - Blue Album - Orbital's Blue Album is a sonic bath of sumptuous melodies that demonstrate a new level of sophistication and compositional excellence.

#87 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular - A few chosen artists - like these guys - are able to deftly mash truckloads of influences and churn them out into an emergent new sound.

#86 Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons is an album skewered with haphazardness, populated by an army of curious tweaks and tics - both vocal and instrumental.

#85 Pop Levi - The Return to Form Black Magik Party - A former member of Liverpool electropop band Ladytron, Pop Levi (Pop is his real middle name) released his solo album, The Return to Form Black Magick Party, in February 2007.

#84 Murs - 3:16: The Ninth Edition - Murs is a breath of fresh air in an over-saturated world of angry MC's; all Murs wants is a nice girl who can appreciate his sensitive nature.

#83 Mum - Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK - Listening to their discography feels like watching old home movies cut through with glitches, tape hiss and nearly imperceptible melting around the edges of the screen.

#82 Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary - Apologies to the Queen Mary has the persistence of an avalanche down a steep grade.

#81 Spoon - Kill the Moonlight - Kill the Moonlight, Spoon's fourth album, is lean and muscular, without a hint of any superfluous ornamentation.

#80 TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio's Return To Cookie Mountain is an aurally burdening confluence of a wide range of genres.

#79 Paris - Sonic Jihad - Paris' Sonic Jihad dropped harder than any album since Public Enemy's It Takes A Nation Of Millions, an album that Paris actually produced and penned material for.

#78 Herbert - Bodily Functions - Bodily Functions is the third album from experimental electronic music producer Matthew Herbert.

#77 Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights - Turn on the Bright Lights is laden with metropolitan imagery, both in lyrical content and in the rushing instrumentation, which streaks by like a time-lapse of New York's downtown grid.

#76 Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere - Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo Green, aka Gnarls Barkley, broke the traditional industry record release mold with St. Elsewhere.

#75 The Free Design - The Now Sound Redesigned - The Now Sound Redesigned assembled some of the best production talent of our era to reinterpret the sounds of The Free Design.

#74 The Notwist - Neon Golden - It took The Notwist a few misses to get it right but, patience is a virtue and, sometimes, genius takes time.

#73 The Octopus Project - Hello, Avalanche - Hello, Avalanche is a relentlessly buoyant ride, so chipper as to be unsinkable. But don't think for a moment that this is a one-note album.

#72 Liars - Drum's not Dead - Liars is a band that re-invents itself with each new release while maintaining its artistic integrity.

#71 Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia is packed like a junk shop with popular music references that stretch from The Rolling Stones to ambient electronica.

#70 Fugazi - The Argument - Despite the mark they made on the '90s, it was 2001's The Argument that has become Fugazi's pinnacle.

#69 Beirut - Gulag Orkestar - Beirut’s got a long, glorious career ahead of him. Gulag Orkestar was the ornate gift that launched it.

#68 Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Yoshimi pushes the band's experiments with electronic instrumentation and textures beyond their work on The Soft Bulletin.

#67 Cinematic Orchestra - Everyday - The Cinematic Orchestra came in as our 81st most influential artist of the decade, but it was Every Day that earned them that ranking.

#66 Daft Punk - Discovery - There are DJs and then there is Daft Punk. There is electronic music and then there is Discovery.

#65 Pinback - Blue Screen Life - They still haven't been able to top it, but Pinback's Blue Screen Life will carry the band for the rest of their career.

#64 Radiohead - In Rainbows - There was much hoopla about Radiohead's distribution scheme for In Rainbows.

#63 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was a fucking mess compared to Wilco's previous efforts and this was precisely what made it so brilliant.

#62 Ratatat - Classics - Classics – that word implies staying power, a residual intrigue, something you keep coming back to years later.

#61 Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming - With Sunset Rubdown's first proper full-length, the allure is most definitely in the portrayal of deformed members of our species.

#60 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois - Sufjan Stevens truly discovered his sound when he made Greetings from Michigan. However, it was 2005's Illinois that let the world know about this discovery.

#59 The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2 - Through all of his name-changes and experimental tangents, The Glow Pt. 2 will always be Phil Elverum's magnum opus.

#58 M83 - Saturday=Youth - Anthony Gonzalez, better known as M83, has built a career on ambient, yet progressive shoegaze music.

#57 Dismemberment Plan - Change - Change represents the band's change from youth to adulthood in terms of song-writing and musicianship.

#56 Jello Biafra and The Melvins - Never Breathe What You Can't See - Punk has been "over" for almost 30 years now, though, the genre continues to morph on in the mainstream.

#55 Busdriver & Radioinactive With Daedelus - The Weather - Busdriver and Radioinactive along with Daedelus released the left-field and envelope pushing album, The Weather, in 2003.

#54 Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People - Perhaps the Broken Social Scene album least bolted together, You Forgot It In People comes unhinged in all the right places.

#53 Air - Talkie Walkie - Godin and Dunckel created dreamy soundscapes and sexy lounge melodies that have a very classic feel to them.

#52 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell - Fever to Tell is arguably the grittiest record from a female vocalist this decade.

#51 Aphex Twin - Drukqs - The artist closest to garnering unanimous and unparalleled respect within any given genre might be Aphex Twin.

#50 RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke - It seems like RJD2, nervous and fidgety innovator that he is, never wants to get settled.

#49 Erlend Oye - DJ Kicks - Erlend Øye is the "singing DJ" on this - one of the best - of the !K7 DJ Kicks series.

#48 Mouse on Mars - Radical Connector - Each of these beat driven melodies is wrapped in a constant cacophony of odd bleeps, ambient sounds, and noises reverberating from every direction of the music.

#47 CocoRosie - Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn - This was by far the trippiest release of 2007. Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn saw CocoRosie spread themselves out.

#46 Caribou - Andorra - Caribou's Andorra immediately pulls you into their rich interlacing melodic sound-scapes.

#45 Danger Mouse - Grey Album - The Grey Album is legendary for finding the limelight against the odds, and thank goodness it did.

#44 Jay-Z - The Black Album - The Black Album plays out from start to finish like a Biopic film that comes full circle and touches on the tribulations of an entire life.

#43 Nobody - Revisions, Revision - Nobody teases out the minuet details hidden in the original tracks to create new scenes.

#42 Edan - Beauty and The Beat - Edan's 2nd album Beauty and The Beat creates a middle ground for jaded hip-hop loyalists and its emerging descendents.

#41 Clark - Body Riddle - There's an urge to compare Clark to other Warp Records vets like Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada.

#40 Amon Tobin - Supermodified - Supermodified is a rich, exotic piece of electronic sound assembly, both ambitiously artistic and accessible to the average listener at the same time.

#39 Le Loup - The Throne of the Third... - Questionable naming but brilliant music, which is, at least, rarer and more welcome than the inverse of that statement.

#38 The Avalanches - Since I Left You - This is one of the best sample-based albums of the decade – everything, as they say, is in its right place.

#37 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes - The sound of this album is lush and layered from the subtly stacked vocals to the perfectly executed harmonies.

#36 MF Doom - Mmm...Food? - Few artists can boast two solid and successful albums in one year — MF Doom can.

#35 Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam - With its consistency and balance, this has become one of Animal Collective’s most rational and insightful records.

#34 Matthew Dear - Asa Breed - Matthew Dear's Asa Breed is the rare flexible album that shifts with the listener's mood.

#33 Justice - Cross - It's tough to "reflect" on an album that's still sitting square in the center of the public consciousness.

#32 Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain - When you’re an artist that takes on a new moniker with each album, it's pretty safe to assume that you do exactly whatever the hell you want to do.

#31 Primal Scream - XTRMNTR - Though released in the very beginning of the decade, XTRMNTR has still managed to withold it's forward-thinking label.

#30 Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place - Ulrich Schnauss' A Strangely Isolated Place is so atmospheric that it almost seems weightless.

#29 Milosh - Meme - Meme mysteriously paints the saddest of emotions with the most beautiful colors.

#28 Postal Service - Give Up - While there have been rumors & song collaborations, The Postal Service have never bothered to make a follow up to Give Up.

#27 Radiohead - Hail to the Thief - Radiohead's Hail to the Thief is a sophisticated and powerful work of vision and innovation, a monumental record on multiple levels.

#26 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists... - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists is perhaps the most cripplingly visceral album I've ever heard.

#25 The Knife - Silent Shout - Silent Shout ultimately propelled the mostly unknown Swedish electronica outfit to quasi ‘underground deity’ status.

#24 Animal Collective - Feels - An album that sinks into your subconscious self without stopping to say hello to your logical capacity on the way.

#23 Modest Mouse - Moon and Antarctica - A shimmering echo coats the whole album, & the instruments sound like they’re reverberating throughout a vast landscape.

#22 Outkast - Stankonia - The Atlanta duo of Dre and Big Boi struck gold with Stankonia, as the album went triple platinum in a few quick months.

#21 Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 - Truth: this is the best concept album I've ever heard. That's because this isn't a gimmick for them.

#20 Panda Bear - Person Pitch - Some of our favorite albums hone a single emotion into a beautifully shaped whole. On the other side of the coin, Person Pitch seems evocative of everything.

#19 Busdriver - Roadkill Overcoat - He can rap like a melodic machine gun, then pull back and do a nice harmonious loop at quarter of the speed without a flinch.

#18 Boards of Canada - Geogaddi - Geogaddi follows in a similar electronic-IDM vein as their debut, but with a bit of a harder edge to it.

#17 Battles - Mirrored - Every note is carefully calculated, yet the songs maintain a sense of urgency and adventure.

#16 Jamie Lidell - Multiply - An album so soulful and animated with emotion that it's comparable to the greats of the 60s & 70s soul and funk era.

#15 Aesop Rock - Labor Days - With lines from jazz and blues underpinning the beats, this is the rare introspective, soul-searching hip hop album.

#14 Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow - I still maintain that Gab can keep a single thread going for longer than any other MC around.

#13 Danger Mouse - Ghetto Pop Life - Ghetto Pop Life, released in 2003 on Warp's Lex Records, was the first full-length album from Danger Mouse.

#12 CocoRosie - Noah's Ark - Like throwing twenty blankets on top of a rapidly suffocating person, the muffled voice underneath twists into something warped and haunting.

#11 Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo - The album so nice they named it... five times? Released in 2006, Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo was the quartet's first album on Big Dada.

#10 Daedelus - Exquisite Corpse - What really makes Exquisite Corpse work better than some of his previous efforts are that the sample-heavy songs are broken up with nicely fitting hip-hop and pop collaborations.

#9 DJ Spooky - Under the Influence - DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid is defining 21st Century music with more insight and intelligence than perhaps any other artists on our list.

#8 M.I.A. - Kala - Kala is as political as Arular, but rawer, more directly confrontational in tone.

#7 Royksopp - Melody AM - "So Easy" was first heard on the dance floor in the late 90s & later found its way onto Melody A.M., Röyksopp's downtempo, ambient classic.

#6 RJD2 - Deadringer - Deadringer seems allergic to categorization, scuttling as far away from whichever section of the record store you'd be tempted to shelve it in.

#5 Soulwax - Nite Versions - Nite Versions is a barreling, super-charged, relentlessly intricate album that starts and finishes with the power of a racehorse.

#4 Radiohead - Kid A - What would you do if you were Radiohead post-OK Computer? Where does a band go after having put out one of the greatest rock albums of all time?

#3 Boards of Canada - Geogaddi - Campfire Headphase is like peering in on a past that was supposed to stay hidden from you.

#2 Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher - Nobody does it quite like Scott Herren, heard hear under the moniker Prefuse 73, and this album is the perfect representation of his unique style.

#1 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver - Every track on this album is another facet of the human psyche, and wrapped together, it is a breathing bulk that represents our most honest selves.

The Shunt Lounge, London

É véspera de exame, e subitamente senti que deveria youtubar um vídeo sobre o que eu considero como o melhor sítio para passar as noites de sábado em Londres. Achei este no meio de outros tantos.

No site deles lê-se

"Shunt is a collective of 10 artists creating large-scale performance events in unexpected, abandoned or derelict buildings throughout London. Their current home is a sprawling labyrinth of railway arches under London bridge station: a bonded wine vault for the last 100 years - now an independent republic with diplomatic immunity and a vast private army."

As saudades batem quando menos preciso delas.

Golos em jogo

estão démodé.

Ouvir #125 (e eu que sempre embirrei com estes tipos, afinal...)

Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (2007)

Chromeo - Bonafied Lovin' (Tough Guys).mp3

Yep, looks good...

Ouvir a Ver #9

Rolo Tomassi - I Love Turbulence

(estou obcecado com o início da música)

Ouvir #124

The Kinks - You Really Got Me: The Very Best of the Kinks (1994)

#7

Ainda é uma criança, tem aspectos em que se porta como tal, mas já foi oficialmente o melhor do mundo. E é português.

Ouvir a Ver #8

Ssion - Heaven

(A qualidade está um bocado má. Pois está.)

Ateu

No dia em que vi o polémico "Religulous" de Larry Charles, numa altura em que se celebra o 200º aniversário de Darwin (12/02), apesar de João Paulo II, já em 1996, ter afirmado (citando da Wikipédia):

"In his encyclical Humani Generis (1950), my predecessor Pius XII has already affirmed that there is no conflict between evolution and the doctrine of the faith regarding man and his vocation, provided that we do not lose sight of certain fixed points....Today, more than a half-century after the appearance of that encyclical, some new findings lead us toward the recognition of evolution as more than an hypothesis. In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of discoveries in different scholarly disciplines. The convergence in the results of these independent studies -- which was neither planned nor sought -- constitutes in itself a significant argument in favour of the theory."
(John Paul II, Message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Evolution)

ainda leio na visão que ainda existem combatentes à teoria da evolução, só me vem à cabeça o nome de um senhor - Ricky Gervais.

Citação #1

"Então e vou atirar duas asas de frango pela janela?"
by irmã

Ouvir #123

Música genial de 1967, mas tão actual, que é a versão original do cover dos Madcon.

Ver #5

The Fall (2006)

Já alterei este post por três vezes, porque acho que não estou a conseguir transmitir o meu encanto por este filme. Posso dizer que, de todos os filmes do insignificante espectro deles que vi, este é um dos melhores. Citando a minha amiga "A Puta": "É o filme." (Sem ter a certeza de que foi exactamente isso o que ela disse... mas acho que foi.)

Agora sim, posso dizer que

sei qualquer coisa de Radiação de Sincrotrão.

Desculpem-me o desabafo.

Ver #4

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

Podem começar por aqui.

Ver #3

Os Contemporâneos.

Ver #2

One year in 40 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.

Ouvir #122

Metronomy - Nights Out (2008)

Ouvir #121