New Day

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Thank y’all for all the love in ‘13. Some listicle action below. Video playlist includes 2013 video and song picks. Hit the link for a little mini-mix thank you. Otherwise, let’s keep it moving.

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2013 Videos

Starlito & Don Trip “Paper Rock Scissors”

Why not?

Mayer Hawthorne “Crime”

COPS nostalgia.

Ab-Soul “Illuminate”

From his 2012 album Control System. Video came out in ‘13. And has the “I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z / Now I feel like I run laps around Jay-Z” line.

Black Constellation (Shabazz Palaces) – Ode to Octavia part 12: (Sparkles)… Recollections of the Wraith

Beautiful people wandering through the fields.

Bill Callahan “Small Plane”

Brooklyn twee.

Chance the Rapper “NaNa”

Random observation: second Hot Karl sighting in the last month? (see Burning Love) Oh, and this is how to flip a new style over the “Red Clay” bassline.

Chance the Rapper “Smoke Again”

Even better.

Earl “Whoa” (Feat. Tyler, the Creator)

Spike Jonze nostalgia.

Brandt Brauer Frick feat Om'Mas Keith – Plastic Like Your Mother

Thanks, Marina.

Travi$ Scott “Uptown”

Mobs of white people scare me.

Duke Dumont “Need You (100%)” (Feat. A*M*E)

Good, clean fun.

Dizzee Rascal “Bassline Junkie”

Kids saying adult things > Adults yelling at kids? Eh, both have their qualities.

Rich Homie Quan “Type of Way”

Fight music.

2013 Songs

DJ Day “Land of 1000 Chances”

No need to wait for the Avalanches...

Classixx “Holding On”

Classic filter.

Kanye West “Send It Up”

Better on record than live (strangely).

NIN “Copy of A” or “Came Back Haunted”

Better live than on record.

Vampire Weekend “Step”

Cute.

Rich Kidz “Caution”

Nice build.

Future “Shit”

Future dookie chain.

Neko Case “Midnight in Honolulu”

Better than most comedy albums.

The Supremes “Stop! In The Name Of Love (Yoroku Saki ブギウギの不思議の国)”

2013 Albums

Laura Mvula Sing to the Moon

Neko Case The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You

The Knife

Lena Hughes Queen of the Flat Top Guitar

James Blake Overgrown

DJ Jazzy Jeff @ The Do-Over L.A.

Chance the Rapper Acid Rap

Albums & Joints I enjoyed

The Americanas The Rebel Sounds Of... The Americanas 7"

The Beach Boys Party!

Big L Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous

Brand Nubian Foundation

Burial Street Halo

Busdriver Temporary Forever

DFL My Crazy Life

John Cale Vintage Violence

The Carpenters “Rainy Days and Mondays” (Acapella)

Jesse Davis “You Belladonna You”

DJ Falcon & Thomas Bangalter “Call On Me”

Future Pluto (still a classic)

Nico Jaar Space Is Only Noise

Kilo America Has A Problem Cocaine

Dave Mason & Cass Elliot s/t

Tom Moulton The Sandpiper, Fire Island, New York, USA - 1974

Shuggie Otis Inspiration Information

OutKast “Morris Brown”

Les Paul & Mary Ford “Vaya Con Dios”

Pixies “Winterlong”

Prince “7”

Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks 2000 Years With Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks

Romanthony “Hold On”

Nina Simone To Love Somebody

Ultramagnetic MC’s Funk Your Head Up

Townes Van Zandt Whole Coffeehouse, Minnesota University, November 1973

V/A Pomegranates

Bill Withers ‘Justments

X “Fourth of July”

Los Xochimilcas “Y La Amo”

Young Bleed My Balls and My Word

Read (and reading). And liked.

Taylor Branch “The Shame of College Sports”

Coleman Collins “Exporting the N Word”

Jack Handey The Stench of Honolulu

Tony Judt Post-War

Brendan Koerner The Skies Belong to Us

Josh Levin “The Welfare Queen”

Robert Palmer Deep Blues

Music posts on The Toast

Helen Wecker The Golem & The Jinni

Concerts Bucket List

Prince

Tom Waits

Stevie Wonder

Aretha Franklin