We’ve been listening to this album for weeks now and it really mellows us out. Greenwood did a fantastic job curating this compilation.

It’s no Radiohead, but it’s all you’re gettting until they sign some amazing licensing deal with a label.
Stream the album at mtvU.com. (this link is Mac friendly!)

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Here’s a little trivia for you: who won the VMA for Best New Artist in 1989? That’s right, Michael Penn!
We seem to remember spending a lot of 1989 waiting for this video to air on MTV and daydreaming that a boy would tell us he was Romeo in black jeans.
As you know, little Michael […]

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On May 22nd, Sub Pop will release an album from the Handsome Furs, which is Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade and his fiancée Alexei Perry.

We suspect all these side projects are part a larger plot by Wolf Parade to distract us from noticing the delay in the release of their next album. Or, at least […]

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We already knew she was obsessed with Nas, but we didn’t know she’d pick four of his videos in her favorites list! Give it a look — in addition to Nas she shouted out the Clash, Babyshambles and … Luadcris?

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It turns out that French-Canadians are totally where it’s at. Since the beginning of 2007, when we started reading all these fantastic reviews for Malajube’s CD, we’ve been addicted to their French Canadian pop stylings. Catch a listen to some of their songs over at their MySpace or make sure to see them at Noise […]

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