I found an old iPod while I was at home over the holidays. My favorite playlist was entitled “Blogs,” which contained tracks from blogs that I was following at the time: My Old Kentucky Blog, Aquarium Drunkard, I Am Fuel, You Are Friends, Some Velvet Blog, Gorilla Vs. Bear, The Late Greats and Berkeley Place. Good stuff.

West Indian Girl – To Die In LA
The Black Angels – Black Grease
The Ponys – Fall Inn
Alela Diane – Pieces Of String
Your 33 Black Angels – Town & Country
Vietnam – Priest, Poet & The Pig
Ray’s Vast Basement – California’s Gone (Grapes Of Wrath)
Charlotte Gainsbourg – The Songs That We Sing
Clinic – Harvest (within you)
Bang Gang – Find What You Get

On Monday, January 11th, Now and Again Records is offering an exclusive pre-sale of their Fela Kuti-inspired anthology Black Man’s Cry on Stones Throw’s website. You’ll be able to buy the album digitally, in hardbound 20-page book with CD format, and in a limited edition 4 x 10″ vinyl box set with booklet. “Women Pin Down” is the first single off of the album. [via – SVB]

MP3: Dan Satch and his Atomic 8 Dance Band – Women Pin Down
MP3: Fela Kuti – No Agreement

Download:
Fela Kuti – Best of the Black President (iTunes)

We have two pairs of tickets to giveaway to see the Pee Wee Herman Show live at Club Nokia on Wednesday, January 13th. Please email us at rollogrady@gmail.com to claim the tickets. For further show information (click here).

Emily Haines of Metric

Having announced over 400 bands, SXSW organizers added some big names to the festival today. New additions include: Broken Social Scene, Metric, She & Him, Cheap Trick and Dan the Automator.

MP3: Metric – Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right (Bob Dylan Cover)
MP3: Broken Social Scene – Death Cock

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We meant to post this in 2009, but we ran out of time. Here’s a list of 12 artists we feel will make an impact on the music scene in 2010.

1. SHARON VAN ETTEN (Myspace)

Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
Album: Because I Was In Love (Buy)
Label: Drag City
Sharon Van Etten – Save Yourself
Sharon Van Etten – I Fold

2. ALLO, DARLIN’ (Myspace)

Hometown: United Kingdom
Album: Polaroid Song 7″ (Buy)
Label: WeePop, Fortuna Pop
Allo, Darlin’ – Dear Stephen Hawking
Allo, Darlin’ – Will You Please Spend New Year’s With Me?

3. THE HIGH WIRE (Myspace)

Hometown: London, UK
Album: The Sleep Tape (March 2010)
Label: Grandpa Stan Ltd.
The High Wire – The Midnight Bell
The High Wire – Hang From The Lights

MP3: Warpaint – Elephants

Pavement have revealed details about their forthcoming “best of” album. On March 9th, the band will offer Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement, a remastered 23-track collection of their greatest hits on Matador. No unreleased material is included on the album, but includes songs spanning from 1989 to 1999. As yet there is no track listing for the double album. Fans are instead being offered the opportunity to guess which 23 songs will make up the album.

MP3: Pavement – Gold Soundz

LA WEEKLY // The 10 Best L.A. Albums of the ’00s
10. SILVERSUN PICKUPS – CARNAVAS (DANGERBIRD, 2006) (Buy)
9. VARIOUS ARTISTS – DUBLAB PRESENTS … FREEWAYS
(DUBLAB/EMPEROR NORTON, 2001)
8. FIONA APPLE – EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE (SONY/EPIC, 2005)
7. QUASIMOTO – THE UNSEEN (STONES THROW, 2000)
6. ELLIOTT SMITH – FIGURE 8 (DREAMWORKS, 2000)
5. FLYING LOTUS – LOS ANGELES (WARP, 2008) (Buy)
4. JENNY LEWIS WITH THE WATSON TWINS – RABBIT FUR COAT (TEAM LOVE, 2006)
3. NO AGE – WEIRDO RIPPERS (FAT CAT, 2000)
2. J DILLA – DONUTS (STONES THROW, 2006) (Buy)
1. BECK – SEA CHANGE (GEFFEN, 2002)

J Dilla – The Diff’rence
Silversun Pickups – Common Reactor [Live Acoustic]
Flying Lotus – Roberta Flack (feat. Dolly)