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The Magnetic Fields have a new album coming out on March 6 called Love at the Bottom of the Sea. “Andrew In Drag” is the first video to be released from it. And in case you’re sitting at work not working, you should know that this video has nudity in it. /via NPR

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#10 on the 2011 Musical Bacon Calendar The Youth Die Young by Mad Rad The Top 10 of the 2011 Musical Bacon Calendar starts with an album that won’t be found on any other Best of 2011 list anywhere, because it came out 2010. As the list starts counting down on Dec. 1, I can’t very well include albums that come out in December on the list. Additionally, I feel an album needs at least a month of...

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#11 on the 2011 Musical Bacon Calendar Last Night On Earth by Noah and the Whale According to Last.fm, I listened to Noah and the Whale more than anyone else in 2011 with the exception of Radiohead. Before logging on to Last.fm to see just how much NatW I had listened to in the past year, I had a hunch they were at #1. But being second to the allmighty Radiohead is a comfortable spot to be...

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#14 on the 2011 Musical Bacon Calendar Hot Sauce Committee Part Two by Beastie Boys What the Beastie Boys have been able to accomplish doing the same thing for 25 years defies common sense. Creating very intelligent, highly derivative, mocking, biting, white-boy hip hop year in and year out cannot be easy, but Mike D, MCA and Ad-Rock always seem to be having the most fun possible doing pretty...

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#19 on the 2011 Musical Bacon Calendar My Goodness by My Goodness Two-musician bands — one on drums, one on guitar — seem to be quite the popular arrangement of late. White Stripes (god rest their souls), The Black Keys, and Wye Oak all fit that mode, along with My Goodness, who come in at #19 on the Musical Bacon Calendar. From Seattle, this duo really packs a punch. You’d be hard pressed...

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#23 on the 2011 Musical Bacon Calendar A New Kind of House EP by Typhoon I’ve said it before, and I’ll probably say it again: if a band has horns, strings, or any kind of orchestration, the chances that I’ll like said band go up considerably. So the fact that I love Portland-based Typhoon shouldn’t come as a surprise. Violins, cellos, trumpets, and other horns are a routine occurrence and a...

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#25 on the 2011 Musical Bacon Calendar Fan Chosen Covers (Best of) by Eef Barzelay There are some voices out there that really just do it for me. Robin Pecknold. John Roderick. Thom Yorke. They could sing the Maxwell House song and I’d quickly open my wallet and buy the special collector’s edition deluxe 45 (“With unreleased b-side ‘Dr. Pepper song!’”). Until late last year, I hadn’t...

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#26 on the 2011 Musical Bacon Calendar TKOL RMX 1234567 by Radiohead OK, this is a weird one.1 I had a different album in at #26 not 5 minutes ago, but after having listened to that album one more time, I decided I couldn’t possibly recommend it to anyone. Love is fleeting. So I was left reaching into the bin of throwaways for something else to go here. Enter a mostly OK remix album of...

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#28 on the 2011 Musical Bacon Calendar Heavy Boots & Underwoods by Ben Fisher Seattle is a great town for music, but you probably already knew that. #28 on the list is the perfect example of this, because I first heard Ben Fisher busking on a sunny Sunday afternoon at the weekly Ballard Farmers Market. Just him and his guitar, standing on the sidewalk, playing songs that he wrote,...

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Introducing the 2011 edition of the Musical Bacon Calendar. Every year, December 1 seems to come out of nowhere, leaving me scrambling to put together my list for the year. And every year, as I look over the year’s albums that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed, I’m surprised by the wealth of albums to choose from. The answers to questions that you may have of me (such as “How do you have so much time to...

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Fascinatingly dark video for The Rural Alberta Advantage’s “Tornado ’87,” from one of my favorite albums from the past year, Departing. Not sure what it means, but I like it.

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“Spencer Krug, from such bands as Wolf Parade! and Sunset Rubdown! is coming to...”

– Me, from my show review of the Moonface show at the Croc last Saturday. You can read the rest of the review over at Another Rainy Saturday.

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Just stumbled across this this evening. Had no idea Built to Spill had any music videos, let alone for one of their best-ever songs, “Untrustable Part 2,” from their best album Perfect From Now On. Granted, it’s a truncated version of the song, but it’s still quite amazing that this got produced. Thinking the band had watched Tool’s videos from Undertow one too many times when they dreamt this one...

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“For a band that’s been around just a little while but only now having settled...”

– Me, reviewing last Saturday’s Campfire OK show at the Columbia City Theater. Jump over to Another Rainy Saturday and read about what you missed.

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