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Happy New Year! More to come soon…

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The Mountain Goats - This Year - The Sunset Tree
The Books - Be Good To Them Always - Lost and Safe
LCD Soundsystem - Disco Infiltrator - LCD Soundsystem
Trespassers William - Lie in the Sound - Different Stars
M83 - Teen Angst - Before the Dawn Heals Us
Maria Taylor - Xanax - 11:11
Harvey Danger - Little Round Mirrors - Little by Little…
Bloc Party - Like Eating Glass - Silent Alarm
Laura Veirs - Magnetized - Year of Meteors
Sufjan Stevens - The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts - Illinnois
The Blow - Parantheses - Paper Television
Grey Anne - The Liking - Facts & Figurines
Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks - Writer’s Block
Band of Horses - The Funeral - Everything All the Time
Beirut - Postcards from Italy - Gulag Orkestar
The Concretes - Song for the Songs - In Colour
Hot Chip - Boy from School - The Warning
The Decemberists - O Valencia! - The Crane Wife
Laura Gibson - Hands in Pockets - If You Come to Greet Me
Viva Voce - From the Devil Himself - Get Yr Blood Sucked Out

 

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Cat Power - Free - You Are Free
Yo La Tengo - Little Eyes - Summer Sun
The Go-Betweens - Make Her Day - Bright Yellow Bright Orange
The Arcade Fire - No Cars Go - Arcade Fire
TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun - Young Liars EP
Enon - Murder Sounds - Hocus Pocus
Ween - So Many People in the Neighborhood - Quebec
The Exploding Hearts - Sleeping Aides and Razorblades - Guitar Romantic :: OPB profile of Terry Six
Wesley Willis - Rock & Roll Superhighway - Fabian Road Warrior
Jon Brion - Knock Yourself Out - I Heart Huckabees OST
Jens Lekman - You Are the Light - When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog
Lali Puna - Faking the Books - Faking the Books
The Go! Team - Bottle Rocket - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Langley Schools Music Project - Little Deuce Coupe - Innocence & Despair
Brian Wilson - Good Vibrations - SMiLE
Feist - Mushaboom - Let It Die
Camera Obscura - Suspended from Class - Underachievers Please Try Harder
The Magnetic Fields - I Don’t Really Love You Anymore - I

 

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Blue Skies For Black Hearts - Wishing You a Merry Xmas - XO for the Holidays Vol 2 :: free download!
The Orphaned Children - Silent Night - A PDXMAS :: free download!
Run On Sentence - Christmas Don’t Be Late - Another Grey Christmas, Vol. 2
Carolyn Sills - George Bailey :: digital single [video]
Erlend Øye - Last Christmas - Seasonal Greetings - A Compilation of 13 Christmas and Winter Songs
:: Wham! cover
Betty & the Cavaleros - Hey! I’m Your Gift Today
Belle & Sebastian - Are You Coming Over For Christmas?
Elizabeth & The Catapult - Xmas With The Jews [video]
My First Earthquake - Fa La Freezing
My First Earthquake - (Together in Our) Holiday Sweaters [video]
Sally Shapiro - Anorak Christmas - Disco Romance
A Weather - Winter Wonderland - Another Grey Christmas, Vol. 2
Jessie Baylin - Mrs. Christmas
Remy Zero - Someday At Christmas
Sufjan Stevens - Christmas In The Room - Songs for Christmas Vol. 8
Laura Gibson - It Came Upon A Midnight Clear - Peace on Earth : A Charity Holiday Album Vol. II
The Raveonettes - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Wishing You A Rave Christmas
Glass Teeth - I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day - A PDXMAS :: free download!
Julian Koster - Jingle Bells - The Singing Saw At Christmastime
Jared Mees and the Grown Children - Joy to the World - A PDXMAS :: free download!

mp3s:

Blue Skies for Black Hearts - Wishing You a Merry Xmas
The Orphaned Children - Silent Night
Run On Sentence - Christmas Don’t Be Late (via Local Cut)
Belle & Sebastian - Are You Coming Over for Christmas?
Elizabeth and the Catapult - Xmas with the Jews
My First Earthquake - Fa La Freezing
My First Earthquake - Holiday Sweaters
Sally Shapiro - Anorak Christmas
Jessie Baylin - Mrs. Christmas
Remy Zero - Someday at Christmas (via O+S)
Glass Teeth - I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

 

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Here’s the next volume, finishing my coverage of 2001, and taking us through part of 2003.Coming REAL soon, this year’s Christmas special!

Also, I have the world’s most annoying cold. I feel fine, but my voice is all gravel and no butter.

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Barcelona - Fleeting Fame - Transhuman Revolution
Masters Of The Hemisphere - Anything, Anything - Protest a Dark Anniversary
Ladytron - I’m With the Pilots - 604
Fischerspooner - Emerge - #1
Röyksopp - Remind Me - Melody A.M.
:: Erlend Øye on vocals
Azure Ray - Displaced - Azure Ray
Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things - The Execution of All Things
Spoon - The Way We Get By - Kill the Moonlight
Tegan And Sara - Monday Monday Monday - If It Was You
Boards of Canada - 1969 - Geogaddi
DJ Shadow - Giving Up the Ghost - The Private Press
Sigur Ros - untitled #4 [Njosnavelin] - ( )
:: how DO you pronounce that?
Supergrass - Za - Life on Other Planets
Iron & Wine - Lion’s Mane - The Creek Drank the Cradle
The Notwist - One With the Freaks - Neon Golden
Doves - Pounding - The Last Broadcast
Aislers Set - Catherine Says - How I Learned to Write Backwards
Saturday Looks Good to Me - Meet Me by the Water - All Your Summer Songs
The Salteens - Damn You - Let Go of Your Bad Days
Manitoba [Caribou] - Hendrix with KO - Up in Flames
Menomena - Lose Yourself :: live, a cappella Eminem cover
Menomena - Cough Coughing - I Am the Fun Blame Monster!