“Come Closer Together”: The Beatles Mashed With Nine Inch Nails

DJ Zebra’s incredible mash up of two classic songs from a few years back is more than a gimmick, it’s a legitimate work of art in its own right: By the way, Trent Reznor just released his first album not as Nine Inch Nails, How to Destroy Angels. His new group is also called How [...]

Pomplamoose: “Another Day”

A brand new “VideoSong” posted this morning by the charming Pomplamoose: Your Thoughts?

271. Figurines

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272. Frightened Rabbit

For whatever reason I think of these guys as sort of the Scottish Counting Crows with a little more aggressive emotional frankness. Songs don’t come much more brutally blunt than this one: Your Thoughts?

280. Low Anthem

I was instantly drawn to their sublime and gorgeous meditation on Darwin, “Charlie Darwin” with its beautiful video and have enjoyed the album a great deal: Here’s what they sound like in one of the rare cases in which they rock out: And more sublime meditative stuff: Your Thoughts?

287. Martha Wainwright

The next artist on my 366 favorite artists countdown is the daughter of the last artist on the countdown.  I’d say it’s a good chance that that’s only going to happen this once… I know what you’re thinking, “what’s next–the same guy’s son tomorrow?”  Maybe.  I’ve gotta think about it. Your Thoughts?

289. Jesus Lizard

For a long time, to my discredit, I naively thought that Nirvana were either a singular phenomenon or a band whose closest cousin was Pearl Jam.  Only when I started really listening to music did I realize what different musical universes Nirvana and Pearl Jam really existed in.  And coming to this realization took some [...]

291. The Burning Hell

An exciting recent find, I found this band in the wee hours of the morning during an overnighter working on the dissertation.  I was listening to an archived October 2 interview with xkcd cartoonist Randall Munroe carried out last fall at Skeptically Speaking by Desiree Schnell.  At the end of the file with their interview, The [...]

295. Broadcast

296. Badly Drawn Boy

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297. Fleet Foxes

An atmospheric-bluegrass-folk-Beachboyharmony kind of bandwhose debut album is best listened to straight through so that it can wash over you.  The first song below is my favorite of theirs and the second is another really good one put to a claymation video, so heads up to fans of claymation. Your Thoughts?

299. The Hold Steady

The 21st Century ’70s Springsteen, Craig Finn writes songs that are anthemic, evocative, and rich with narrative and emotional detail and perceptiveness.  If his talk-singing didn’t become a slog so often, his band would rank much higher.  This song always makes me smile though: Your Thoughts?

300. Joseph Arthur

The list of my top 366 favorite bands now becomes a list of the top 300 with Joseph Arthur: Your Thoughts?

301. The Good Life

The Good Life’s Album of the Year is an album of a year long relationship and as a sucker for concept albums and songs about the complications of relationships, I eat it up.  I love this (long) song most.  It’s the only one with a female lead vocal on the album: Your Thoughts?

302. Jay Reatard

Easily one of the most prolific and promising punk rockers of the young century until his tragic and untimely death earlier this year: Your Thoughts?

305. Surfer Blood

The first terrific 2010 debuting band to make the list: Your Thoughts?

308. Dungen

Just the second of what will be many Swedish artists to make the list, but the only one who sings their songs in Swedish: Your Thoughts?

Laura Marling Whistling On Night Terror

So earlier in the month CWH webmaster Dave and I went to see Laura Marling, who is one of both of our favorite recording artists, and we featured two great videos taken during the show here on Camels With Hammers and expressed hopes that video of Laura whistling her way through the string portion of [...]

309. Wolf Parade

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310. A Sunny Day In Glasgow

I have their newest album, Ashes of Grammar, and it’s a really enjoyable hour long psychedelic atmospheric experience taken all in one straight through listen.  They’re the kind of band whose songs I wouldn’t even attempt to listen to apart from the full context of the album because they’re so jarring and hard to get [...]

311. Bloc Party

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313. Suckers

Their EP is only 4 songs long but it’s spectacular.  With a full LP this good, they’d rank way higher on the list.  Here’s their anthemic, “It Gets Your Body Movin’”.  One of those songs that felt so right to me the first time I heard it that I could have sworn I’d known it [...]

314. The Hives

Catchy melodic riff and bass heavy hard rocking punk: Their entire Veni Vidi Vicious album just never lets up and I never want it to. Your Thoughts?

315. Dead Man’s Bones

Alright, so I normally hate children’s choirs as much as the next guy, but that’s because they’re normally put to the smug indoctrinating purpose of having children innocently and preachily mouth platitudes their parents, churches, or schools want to inculcate into them.  It’s nauseating.  But there is another way to use children’s choirs and it’s [...]

317. The Long Blondes

If Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls was in the band Heavenly, it’d sound something like The Long Blondes.  It’s a shame they’re definitely done for good already.  I particularly love the first song because it gives musical expression to an anecdote I sometimes share with my 19 year old students about talking to a [...]