O Holy Night!

Sufjan Stevens - Songs For Christmas

Only At Christmas Time
What Child Is This Anyway?
O Holy Night
That Was the Worst Christmas Ever!
All the King's Horns
Sister Winter
Star of Wonder
Holy, Holy, Holy

Best of 2013

1. Foxygen - No Destruction / We are the 21st Ambassadors of Peace and Magic
2. Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know / AM
3. Deerhunter - Back To The Middle / Monomania
4. David Bowie - The Stars (Are Out Tonight) / The Next Day
5. Arcade Fire - Flashbulb Eyes / Reflektor
6. Iron & Wine - New Mexico's No Breeze / Ghost on Ghost
7. Destroyer - María de las Nieves /Five Spanish Songs
8. Suede - Faultlines / Bloodsports
9. Daft Punk - Loose Yourself To Dance / Random Access Memories
10.Vampire Weekend - Diane Young / Modern Vampires Of The City

Best albums of 2013 (NME, Paste, etc...)

MOJO (UK, 26th Nov) 1. Bill Callahan – Dream River 2. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories 3. David Bowie – The Next Day 4. Arctic Monkeys – AM 5. John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts 6. Deerhunter – Monomania 7. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires Of The City 8. Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavalle – Perils From The Sea 9. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away 10. John Murry – The Graceless Age

Mondosonoro (Spain, 28 Nov) 1. James Blake - Overgrown 2. Arctic Monkeys - AM 3. Kanye West - Yeezus 4. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City 5. Foals - Holy Fire 6. Disclosure - Settle 7. Savages - Silence Yourself 8. Jon Hopkins - Immunity 9. Factory Floor - Factory Floor 10. The National - Trouble Will Find Me

Uncut (UK, 29th Nov) 1. My Bloody Valentine - MBV 2. David Bowie - The Next Day 3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away 4. John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts 5. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle 6. Roy Harper - Man & Myth 7. Bill Callahan - Dream River 8. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze 9. Arctic Monkeys - AM 10. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

Warpaint, Midlake, Andrew Bird, Jonathan Wilson, Marissa Nadller,...

Savages - Marshal Dear
Warpaint - Love Is To Die
Midlake - Antiphon
Thomas Cohen - Honeymoon
Andrew Bird - Pulaski At Night
Jonathan Wilson - Dear Friend
Diane Coffee - Tale of a Dead Dog
The National - Graceless
Marissa Nadler - Dead City Emily
Queens of the Stone Age - The Vampyre Of Time and Memory

Farewell Lou Reed!

On a Sunday morning, Lou Reed Reed died at the age of 71 from liver disease at his home in Southampton, New York.

Arcade Fire, Destroyer, Prefab Sprout, Paul McCartney,...

Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Destroyer - El Rito
Ex Hex - Hot and Cold
Cults - High Road
Jim James - Know Til Now
Prefab Sprout - The Best Jewel Thief In The World
Paul McCartney - New
Jacco Gardner - The End Of August
Allah Las - Had It All
Sébastien Tellier - L'Amour Naissant

Ty Segall, Anna Calvi, PJ Harvey,...

Ty Segall - Sleeper
Anna Calvi - Eliza
PJ Harvey - Shaker Aamer
Blouse - A Feeling
Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener
Cate Le Bon - I Think I Knew
She and Him - Never Wanted You
Elephant - Skyscraper
Arctic Monkeys - Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
Smith Westerns - Case and Point

White Lies, Franz Ferdinand, Washed Out,...

Bat for Lashes / TOY - The Bride
Arthur Beatrice - Carter
Shouting Matches - Gallup, NM
Ariel Pink / Jorge Elbrecht - Hang on to Life
Jonathan Rado - All Faces
White Lies - There Goes Our Love Again
Franz Ferdinand - Right Action
Washed Out - It All Feels Right
Jagwar Ma - Come And Save Me
Beth Orton - Dawn Chorus

Tame Impala Modcast

Modcasts are fine selections of choice musical cuts, prepared and curated by Modular Records bands. Here is a playlist based on Tame Impala selections:

Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia
Dungen - Fredag
Dungen - Stadsvandringar
Caribou - Melody Day
Caribou - Sandy
Panda Bear - I'm Not
Ratatat - Wildcat
Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsam
Pikelet - Endurance Hunter
The Horrors - Mirror's Image



Nick Allbrook's mixtape #1 | Dominic Simper's mixtape #2 | Jay Watson's mixtape #3 | Kevin Parker's mixtape #4 | Kevin's Parker's modcast

Rodriguez, MGMT, Adam Green, Camera Obscura,...

Rodriguez - Sugar Man
The Mint Chicks - Bad Buzz
Cass McCombs - Three Men Sitting On A Hollow Log
!!! - One Girl/One Boy
MGMT - Alien Days
Still Corners - The Trip
Adam Green & Binki Sapiro - Here I Am
Camera Obscura - Fifth In Line To The Trone
Soap & Skin - Me And The Devil
Four Tet - Unspoken

Tame Impala and Grizzly Bear live at Primavera Sound

Charles Bradley, Iron & Wine, Daft Punk, Deerhunter, Poliça,...

Charles Bradley - Strictly Reserved For You
Iron & Wine - The Desert Babbler
Daft Punk - Get Lucky
Caveman - In The City
Deerhunter - Monomania
Decades - Tonight Again
Spectrals - Milky Way
Poliça - Tiff
Villagers - The Bell
Julian Lynch - Carios kelleyi I

Phoenix, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, etc.

Phoenix - Entertainment
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Faded In The Morning
Pure X - Things In My Head
Thee Oh Sees - Minotaur
King Tuff - Sun Medallion
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege
Torres - Mother Earth, Father God
Widowspeak - The Dark Age
CocoRosie - Gravediggress
Joey Bada$$ - Wendy N Becky

The Strokes, Devendra Banhart, Miles Kane, etc.

The Strokes - One Way Trigger
Devendra Banhart - Für Hildegard von Bingen
Woods - Size Meets The Sound
Melody's Echo Chamber - Je Me Perds De Vue
Social Studies - Away For The Weekend
Sweet Baboo - Let's Go Swimming Wild
The Family Rain - Trust Me... I'm A Genius
Miles Kane - Give Up
Dr John - Revolution
Karen O - Strange Love

David Bowie, Suede, Foxygen, Low, Cass McCombs, etc.

David Bowie - Where Are We Now
Suede - Always
Wymond Miles - Pale Moon
Thee Oh Sees - Flood's New Light
Foxygen - San Francisco
Low - Just Make It Stop
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - We Know Who U R
Cass McCombs - Bradley Manning
Joey Bada$$ - FromdaTomb$
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home

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