Another month has come and gone, almost, and it is once again time for a little Best of the Month roundup. As I’ve said, and explained, before I have a lot more free time than you do. I don’t do much with my life other than listen to music and mess around with friends so, consequently, I have a lot of time to scour the interwebs to find the best music you probably missed on the first go round. These tracks were found using a variety of sources including Hype, Elbows, random blogs, and other music sites. Enjoy the tracks, I hope you all had a magnificent Christmas.
All the tracks in one zip file : here {zshare = left click}
mp3 : Jens Lekman - I’m Leaving You Because I Don’t Love You
mp3 : Lightspeed Champion - Heart in a Cage (Live The Strokes Cover)
mp3 : Lupe Fiasco - Streets on Fire
mp3 : Macon Grayson - Minnesota Weatherman
mp3 : Mylo - Sweet Child of Mine (Live Guns N Roses Cover)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Far Physician’s Son
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - How Can The Stone Remain
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - In the Words of the Governor
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - The Transfigurartion (Live Orchestral Version)
mp3 : The Clark Brothers - Gimme Shelter (Live Rolling Stones Cover)
mp3 : The Killers - Great Big Sled (Live)
mp3 : The Magnetic Fields - California Girls
Definitely check out the tracks by Lightspeed Champion, the newcomers The Clark Brothers, Mylo, and the new song from the upcoming Magnetic Fields album. The rest of the tracks are pretty awesome as well, especially the very rare Sufjan songs that were graciously given to my by many a concerned reader during my Seven Days of Sufjan Stevens. {if you look closely you’ll notice none of these songs are a remixed track. stay tuned for my inaugural post in the new BOTR series later this week}. Also, does anyone else think that Lupe Fiasco is very similar to Moby mixed with Will Smith? Whatever your opinion this track by Lupe Fiasco is phenomenal. Also, if Macon Greyson isn’t winning the award for ‘band who sounds the most like Lynryd Skynryd’ I don’t know who is.
This mix is rediculous you are incredible.
We are in love.
Merry Christmas and a Peaceful New Year to you. And thanks for posting all these ’specially the Gimme Shelter Cover
thank you for putting up the Clark brother version of gimme shelter I love that song, and they did it in the most incredable way, so thank you and happy new year.
you’re welcome fergy. the clark brothers have amazing potential although i’m afraid they’ll go down the country music route instead of the alt folk rock route they took on NGAB. this cover was so amazing i had to include it {after ripping it from youtube}
oh so you finally found that physician-track by sufjan! congrats! and yay, now i finally get to hear it for myself!
Perhaps you could carve out a tiny bit of time away from listening to music for some fact /spell checking.
Macon Greyson is officially spelled with an “E,” even though they are listed on the Americana charts both ways, as they are on this blog. (They currently hold two spots on the charts, FYI).
Also, the track is “Minnesota Weather Map.”
And if they heard you say they sound like Skynyrd, they would be sad.
I’m glad I found your blog. Great stuff. Rock on.
sorry zac, i’ve said it before on this series, and i’ll say it again, for the BOTM series of posts i do very little other than upload the tracks and post them. i spend time researching other material that is posted here on TWF but for the sake of my sanity the BOTM and the new BOTR posts are put up largely based on second hand information from other blogs and music sites. although apparently i just misspelled the band name in this post as the id3 tag is correctly spelled. whoops.
i don’t know why any band would feel sad to be compared to skynyrd. skynyrd was amazing and made some timeless music. now skynyrd today is pretty lame, but when they were still cutting edge american rock they dominated.