Is November half-over, or do we still have half of November to go?

Anyway, I forgot to post a playlist this month. The playlist is at iTunes, but if you're savvy enough (e.g. you know what Hype Machine is), you can find most of this on the mp3 blogs around the interweb. Here's the link.

Anyway, here's some highlights of what I was listening to in October and into November - in alphabetical order cause iTunes isn't letting me post them in a specific order.

1. Brightblack Morning Light - "All We Have Broken Shines" - Brightblack Morning Light
2. Can Joann - "Indecision's Way" - Hurt People Hurt People
3. The Cardigans - "In the Round" - Super Extra Gravity
4. Cold War Kids - "We Used to Vacation" - Robbers & Cowards
5. Fat Freddy's Drop - "Dark Days" - Based on a True Story
6. Feist - "When I Was a Young Girl" - Let It Die
7. Goldfrapp - "Slide In" (DFA Remix) - DFA Remixes Ch. 2
8. Interpol - "Say Hello to the Angels" - Turn on the Bright Lights
9. Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - "Get Down Moses"- Streetcore
10. Pixeltan - "Get Up / Say What" - DFA Records Compilation #2 (Make sure not to get this on iTunes. You can find it used for cheap, and it includes a third disc that's even better than the first two. iTunes only has the first two.)
11. Ray Lamontagne - "Three More Days" - Till the Sun Turns Black
12. Robbers on High Street - "The Fatalist" - The Fatalist & Friends EP
13. Rodrigo y Gabriela - "Tamacun"- Rodrigo y Gabriela (this is going to be high on my year-end chart)
14. Scanners - "Lowlife" - Violence is Golden
15. Vetiver - "You May Be Blue" - To Find Me Gone
16. Voxtrot - "Trouble" - Your Biggest Fan EP
17. The Walkmen - "Wake Up" - Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Dead
18. Yo La Tengo - "Autumn Sweater" - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One

There were a few tracks that iTunes doesn't have yet that I really wanted to turn you guys onto, so head over to the afformentioned Hype Machine and do a search for:

Ned Collette - "Laughter Across the Street" - Jokes & Trials - This is available at cokemachineglow.com and this album is one of my two or three favorite albums I've heard this year. I want to wake up to this song for the rest of my life. More at MySpace. This album is not yet available in the states, and to import it is going to cost around $25, but you can purchase the MP3s at a high bitrate for about $17. That's more than I'm usually willing to pay for an album, but this is worth it.

Peter Bjorn and John - "Young Folks" - Apparently this was on Grey's Anatomy at some point, but I don't watch that show and therefore may be behind the times. Anyway it's a fun track.

Cabins in the Forest - Additional Sillhouette - A band out of Africa, courtesy of The Muso

Plaid - "Ladyburst"
and Telograph - "Eye for an Eye"

Happy listening.

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