Hometime

Off the upcoming release All Balloons, here's a new One eskimO track that will tug at those heart strings. If you're planning on picking up a copy of the album, prepare to weep a little.

One eskimO - Hometime [mp3]

Dollar Deserving Discs

Hand over those hard-earned greenbacks, it's time for new music Tuesday. Our recommendations for your listening pleasure:

***Peaches - I Feel Cream***

St. Vincent - Actor

Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band - Outer South

And for purely superficial Entertainment, Fischerspooner. Seriously, don't let me catch you saying I thought this was anything more than a quick and dirty listen.
New Music Tuesday 5/5
Peaches - Talk to Me [mp3]
St. Vincent - The Neighbors [mp3]
Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band - Big Black Nothing
Fischerspooner - The Best Revenge [mp3]

Radical Listening,
LtK

Listen and Love

Today's Listen and Love is a slight throwback. I've loved on Animal Collective's latest for months now, but it's Panda Bear/Noah Lennox's 2004 release, Young Prayer that's been occupying my ear buds lately. Recorded shortly after the death of his father, the soft-spoken electronic meditation of Young Prayer is a pitch-perfect audio eulogy. If you can't get enough, check out Noah's greatest solo effort to date: 2007's Person Pitch.

Panda Bear - Track 1 [mp3]
Panda Bear - Track 3 [mp3]
Panda Bear - Track 9 [mp3]

LtK

Hard Times

New Patrick Wolf is burning up my play count. Just when you think he can't get any better. Start getting excited for the release of The Bachelor.

Patrick Wolf - Hard Times [mp3]

Embrace the Martian

I've been rocking out to Kid Cudi's Dat Kid from Cleveland mixtape for a bit now. You probably have been too. It hosts leaked/familiar tracks like "Sky Might Fall" (See Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen trailer), "I Poke Her Face," "Higher Up," "Sky High," "Switchin' Lanes," and the "09 Freestyle." I've never been able to get into mixtapes (not even Lil Wayne's massive collection), but Cudi is just so freaking likable, I'm starting to change my mind. It's close to the hate to love scenario.

But here's what makes me feel a little better about my masochism: Cudi doesn't pretend to be deep. He's not trying to be early Common Sense. He doesn't proclaim to be the best rapper alive, and he's openly admitted his rhymes lack substance. Honesty can go along way with me.

Kid Cudi - Can I Be [mp3]
Kid Cudi - Super Boo [mp3]
Kid Cudi - Higher Up [mp3]

More than anything off Cleveland, I'm loving on Kid Cudi's "Embrace the Martian." A track off the A Kid Named CuDi mixtape, it's floating around out there in the blogosphere. Go find it treasure seekers. Til you do, here's a little freestyle to keep you warm at night.

Embrace the martian,
I come in peace, but I need your rock in me,
LtK

Listen and Love

Today's Listen and Love is an installment from my own personal discovery. I'm bummed to have only come upon Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele two weeks ago. I could have been rewarding my ears with these gems since February. Don't make my mistake, get in on this right away. For fans of the quirky instrumentation of Sufjan Stevens, Beirut, or Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band. And of course, ukulele aficionados.

Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele - Meet Me in the Garden [mp3]
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele - You Can't Force a Dance Party [mp3]
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele - Girls on the Square [mp3]

Dear Silence, Here's Some Great Noise

TV on the Radio is once again at the top of my playlist with some remixes off their Dear Silence EP. My favorite is the Gang Gang Dance remix, because the self-proclaimed "underground" act always gets me. That reminds me, buy Saint Dymphna right away. If you love on Yeasayer or Deerhunter this ones for you.

Stork and Owl (Gang Gang Dance Remix) [mp3]

Shout Me Out (Willie Isz Remix by Jneiro Jarel) [mp3]

Yeah, I Have a Little 14-yr old Girl in Me