James Blake

Seriously I love the holidays! I finally have a bunch more time to check out music I may have missed out on during the year.

James Blake is an artist that has caught my ear lately with his unique sounds and soulful voice. Hailing from London, Blake has been a busy man during 2010 (releasing three different EPs) and has no signs of stopping in the new year. His self-titled full length debut drops on February 7th, with the first single being a cover of Feist's "Limit To Your Love" (watch the video down below). I'm definitely looking forward to hearing the entire album because I'm sure the rest of it should be incredibly diverse from top to bottom.

Also, just a FYI, James Blake will be here in Austin performing during SXSW.

Tracklist:

1. Unluck
2. The Wilhelm Scream
3. I Never Learnt To Share
4. Lindesfarne I
5. Lindesfarne II
6. Limit To Your Love
7. Give Me My Month
8. To Care (Like You)
9. Why Don’t You Call Me
10. I Mind
11. Measurements

Radiohead | Live From Los Angeles (Haiti Benefit Concert) [FREE Download]

At the beginning of the year, Radiohead performed a benefit concert in Los Angeles to help raise money for the people of Haiti after a devastating earthquake. With only 1,400 people in attendance, this was definitely an intimate once in a lifetime chance to see the band. Too bad like pretty much everyone who reads this blog, none of us got a chance to attend this show. But we have some good news for you if you love Radiohead as much as we do.

The good people over at Inez4bears shot the two hour concert with webcams and made it available for FREE download. It seems like a lot of work went into this, so all they ask is that you donate to Oxfam, whose proceeds will benefit Haiti.

If you don't have the time or energy to spend downloading, they've also loaded it on Youtube (watch the entire twenty-four song concert below).

Set list (via At Ease):

01 Faust Arp
02 Fake Plastic Trees
03 Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
04 The National Anthem
05 Nude
06 Karma Police
07 Kid A
08 Morning Bell
09 How To Disappear Completely
10 A Wolf at the Door
11 The Bends
12 Reckoner
13 Lucky
14 Bodysnatchers
15 Dollars & Cents
16 Airbag
17 Exit Music

Encore #1
18 Everything In Its Right Place (Thom)
19 You And Whose Army?
20 Pyramid Song
21 All I Need

Encore #2:
22 Lotus Flower
23 Paranoid Android
24 Street Spirit (fade out)

Top 25 Albums of 2010

#1 - The National | High Violet

#2 - Beach House | Teen Dream

#3 - Twin Shadow | Forget

#4 - The Morning Benders | Big Echo

#5 - Arcade Fire | The Suburbs

#6 - Local Natives | Gorilla Manor

#7 - Best Coast | Crazy For You

#8 - Girls | Broken Dreams Club EP

#9 - Tame Impala | Innerspeaker

#10 - Deerhunter | Halcyon Digest

#11 - Gayngs | Relayted

#12 - Ariel Pinks Haunted Graffiti | Before Today

#13 - Wolf Parade | Expo 86

#14 - Guards | Guards [EP]

#15 - Warpaint - The Fool

#16 - Toro Y Moi | Causers of This

#17 - The Walkmen | Lisbon

#18 - Big Boi | Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty

#19 - Foals | Total Life Forever

#20 - Kanye West | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

#21 - Spoon | Transference

#22 - Yeasayer | Odd Blood

#23 - Band of Horses | Infinite Arms

#24 - Vampire Weekend | Contra

#25 - The Black Keys - Brothers

SXSW 2011 Announces Third Round of Showcasing Bands

(Menomena)

Just before Christmas, the good people at SXSW have decided to announce the third round of bands (first announcement, second announcement) scheduled to perform at the annual festival in March here in Austin. Without further adieu, the list is down below.

Balmorhea (Austin TX)
The Baseball Project (Portland OR)
The Bears of Blue River (Chicago IL)
Beats Antique (San Francisco CA)
James Blake (London UK-ENGLAND)
Bliss N Eso (Albert Park AUSTRALIA)
British India (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Murphy Brown (Santa Cruz CA)
Brownout (Austin TX)
Canteca de Macao (Madrid SPAIN)
Chateau Marmont (Paris FRANCE)
The Chevelles (North Fremantle WA)
Shawn Chrystopher (Inglewood CA)
Constantina (Belo Horizonte BRAZIL)
Corrosion of Conformity (Raleigh NC)
Cousins (Halifax CANADA)
Graham Coxon (London UK-ENGLAND)
DAM (Lyd PALESTINIAN TERRITORY)
Daniel Lioneye (Helsinki FINLAND)
Das Racist (Brooklyn NY)
Taelor Deatcher / Felix Cartal (Vancouver CANADA)
De Juepuchas (Bogota COLOMBIA)
Delhi 2 Dublin (Vancouver CANADA)
Kiko Dinucci (Guarulhos BRAZIL)
Dreaming in Stereo (Miami Beach FL)
Duzheknew (Halifax CANADA)
Echoes (Caracas VENEZUELA)
Egyptrixx (Toronto CANADA)
Elephant Stone (Montreal CANADA)
EMMURE (Queens NY)
Experimental Aircraft (Austin TX)
FAT PIMP (Houston TX)
Forro in the Dark (New York NY)
Glambilly (San Antonio TX)
Gobble Gobble (Edmonton CANADA)
Go Chic (Taipei TAIWAN)
God-Des & She (Austin TX)
Grieves with Budo (Seattle WA)
Grupo Fantasma (Austin TX)
DARREN HANLON (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Herencia de Timbiqui (Cali COLOMBIA)
Hey Rosetta! (St John's CANADA)
Homeboy Sandman (Queens NY)
Imaginary Cities (Winnipeg CANADA)
Intimate Stranger (Santiago CHILE)
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit (Muscle Shoals AL)
The Jefferson (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
The Joy Formidable (Mold UK-WALES)
juice (London UK-ENGLAND)
Takashi Kamide (Nara JAPAN)
Kill It Kid (Bath UK-ENGLAND)
Las Robertas (San Jose COSTA RICA)
Lazaro Valiente (Ascidvwlig MEXICO)
Sondre Lerche (Bergen NORWAY)
Les Jupes (Winnipeg CANADA)
Les Shelleys (Los Angeles CA)
Long Long Long (Halifax Upper Harbour CANADA)
Los Lonely Boys (San Angelo TX)
Menomena (Portland OR)
Fernando Milagros (Santiago CHILE)
MONARETA (Bogota COLOMBIA)
Mustard Pimp (Melun FRANCE)
Natccu (Tokyo JAPAN)
Naurea (Aracaju BRAZIL)
Nexcyx (Bridgetown BARBADOS)
Novembers Doom (Chicago IL)
Nubla (Barcelona SPAIN)
Oh Susanna (Toronto CANADA)
Operator Please (Gold Coast AUSTRALIA)
Overflow (Koprivnica CROATIA)
Norman Palm (Berlin GERMANY)
Polock (Valencia SPAIN)
Profetas (Bogota COLOMBIA)
Gabriel Prokofiev (London UK-ENGLAND)
Protistas (Santiago CHILE)
Random Recipe (Montreal CANADA)
Resplandor (Lima PERU)
REVOLVER (Paris FRANCE)
Nana Rizinni (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
Royal Canoe (Winnipeg CANADA)
Rupa & the April Fishes (San Francisco CA)
Russian Red (Madrid SPAIN)
Said The Whale (Vancouver CANADA)
Scala & Kolacny Brothers (Aarschot BELGIUM)
Shelley Short (Portland OR)
69 Nombres (Bogotá COLOMBIA)
Smiler (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sahara Smith (Wimberly TX)
Leeroy Stagger (Lethbridge CANADA)
STICK TO YOUR GUNS (Orange County CA)
Symphonic Kinky (Austin TX)
TELEPHUNKEN (Madrid SPAIN)
THE BOXER REBELLION (London UK-ENGLAND)
VALLEYS (Montreal CANADA)
Violens (New York NY)
WEINLAND (Portland OR)
Paris Wells (Melbourne CANADA)
Gary Wilson (San Diego CA)
Woodenbox with a Fistful of Fivers (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
Yearbook Committee (Terre Haute IN)
Za! (Barcelona SPAIN)
Zion I & The Grouch (Oakland CA)
ZOOBOMBS (Tokyo JAPAN)
Zoroaster (Atlanta GA)