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10 MP3s You Need to Download for Free This Week: Tricky, Low

By Tom Hawking on

It’s Friday, which means that we’re preparing for Flavorpill’s inaugural intra-office pool competition, and also that it’s time for our regular roundup of new music to download for free. This week we’re pleasantly surprised by a new Tricky song, as well as free stuff from Low and Glass Candy, new work by Xander Harris, atmospheric weirdness from Barn Owl and William Tyler, Titus Andronicus’ Patrick Stickles covering his best friends, and more. None of this will cost you a dime, so click through and get a piece of the action! … Read More

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The 10 Albums You Need to Hear in March

By Tom Hawking on

We’ve spent most of the week trawling the depths of our record collection, but now it’s time to direct our attention to the albums we might be adding to said collection in the next few weeks — March is looking pretty decent for new releases, and as ever, we’ve selected the ten albums we reckon will be most worth listening to over the course of the month (along with all the other notable albums scheduled for release, good and bad.) We’re always interested to know what our readers are going to be listening to, too, so do let us know in the comments section. … Read More

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10 New Tracks You Need to Hear This Week: David Bowie, Suede

By Tom Hawking on

It’s Friday, which means that, yes, it’s time for us to round up the 10 most noteworthy tracks of the week that’s gone by for your listening — and, ideally, downloading — pleasure. It’s been a pretty fantastic week for new music, and thus there’s plenty of goodness to be had after the jump: the return of Suede and that Bowie chap, Jens Lekman writing a song for two big-hearted fans, Thom Yorke doing Thom Yorke things, new solo stuff from Electrelane’s Verity Susman, a kinda interesting Majical Cloudz remix, new songs from Low and La Big Vic… and more! Everything awaits you at the click of a mouse. Get into it, gentle readers! … Read More

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5 New Tracks You Need to Hear This Week: Frank Ocean, Blanck Mass

By Tom Hawking on

It’s Friday, which means we’ve come to the end of the single most barren week in the music industry’s release schedule. It’s like a snowy wasteland out there, kids! As such, we’re downscaling our regular list of 10 new tracks to hear — and, ideally, download — to five for this week, but at least they’re five good ‘uns: there’s a hitherto unreleased track from Frank Ocean (complete with an ALL CAPS lyric sheet from the man himself), along with the unexpected return of Blanck Mass, a taster from the new Low album, Dent May getting all “1999″ on our collective asses, and a present from Pulp to the denizens of the good ship Coachella. Click through and get listening. … Read More

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9 Alt and Indie Rockers’ Non-Rock Side Projects

By Michaelangelo Matos on

Sometimes you’ve gotta rock, and sometimes you want to just do something else–preferably something as not-rock as possible. That’s where a lot of alt and/or indie rock musicians have found themselves over the years, whether or not they actually act on the impulse. Here are nine artists who did just that. … Read More

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The Flavorpill Mixtape LVII: Low, Akron/Family, J. Mascis

By Margaret Eby on

You know what the best thing about Valentine’s Day really is, dear Flavorites? It’s not the cut-rate chocolate or the construction-paper hearts taped up in every window. No, Valentine’s day marks exactly halfway through the bleary, seemingly endless month of February, too far away from the glow of Christmas or the first traces of spring to seem like there’s any hope of going outside again. Luckily, we’ve got some songs to warm your heart and jolt you out of those doldrums: new tracks from Low and J. Mascis for luxuriating in that delicious winter gloom and some dance numbers from Cold Cave and J786. Don’t forget — right click and “Save As” to download them individually or scroll to the bottom for the whole mix. … Read More

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A Guide to Unconventional Christmas Music for the Whole Family

By Tobias Carroll on

The 2010 holiday season has already seen announcements of a Paul Simon song called “Get Ready for Christmas,” as well as a Target compilation headlined by a Best Coast/Wavves duet and contributions from Bishop Allen, Blackalicious, and Crystal Antlers. In other words: the abundance of Christmas music already out there is about to get even more abundant. But for listeners whose musical tastes stray away from the traditional, finding appropriate choices to spin whilst trimming the tree or setting the Yule log alight can be a difficult task indeed. Attempting to balance the musically esoteric with the varying sensibilities that can arise during familial holiday gatherings can be virtually impossible. (We have personally seen several December 24th arguments break out over the relative merits of John Fahey’s New Possibility.)

What follows is a list of 10 albums, singles, collections, and compilations that might achieve that balance between general accessibility and an intriguing, offbeat sensibility. These may be your best bet for holiday music to satisfy a wide range of musical tastes — at least, until some microhouse producer spins the dulcet tones of the Jingle Cats into bliss-inducing gold. … Read More

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Trip-Hop, etc.: A Mixtape by the Antlers’ Peter Silberman

By Stelios Phili on

Today is the first edition of Flavorpill’s artist mixtape series. To kick it off, The Antlers’ Peter Silberman has compiled a fantastic mix of trip-hop for your listening pleasure.… Read More

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All We Want for Christmas… is Less Christmas Music

By Joe Defranceschi on

Whether you’re getting (foolishly) wasted at the office holiday party or duking it out in a department store, Christmas music is utterly inescapable this time of year — and has been for at least the last month. Running the gamut from cheesy to classic, the genre spreads more simultaneous joy and seasonal depression than any other. Still, with lows that are so low, do oldies stations really need to devote all that air time to the same fifty songs?

After the jump, our thoughts and the accompanying audio for some of the world’s most adored and apocryphal holiday tunes. Got other ideas? Leave them in the comments. … Read More