Staff Recommendations: September 16th, 2012
 

Who's going to step up and be the My Bloody Valentine of hip-hop? Remember, it only counts if you bankrupt a label in the process.

Adam Pfleider

Sunny Day Real Estate's How It Feels to Be Something On; Grizzly Bear's Shields; KARP's Self-titled LP

Dre

Jean Grae's "Kill Screen"; my current reviews of Birds In Row and Propagandhi; and lots of Parks and Recreation.

Alex DiVincenzo

Junior Battles, A Wilhelm Scream, Less Than Jake

Deborah Remus

Check out Billy Talent's Dead Silence and our interview with Ian. This record definitely has some of the band's best songs yet.

Kyle Huntington

Celebrating the Mercury Prize nominations by listening to Jessie Ware - Devotion, ∆ (alt-J) - An Awesome Wave, Ben Howard - Every Kingdom, Lianne La Havas - Is Your Love Big Enough? and of course, The Maccabees - Given To The Wild.

Kelly Doherty

The xx's Coexist, Lisa Hannigan's Passenger, the debut single from Cameron Boucher's (Old Gray) new project Madeliene and Shut Up And Play The Hits, a docu-film showing the last couple of days of LCD Soundsytem's existence.

Master Fart and the Fart Train Express - Farts

Twice Nightly and the Chronic Masturbators - Don't Get It In Your Hair

I've been getting in touch with my pop side lately. Quite a bit of Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Beyonce, and Mika.

M83's Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
GOOD Music's Cruel Summer

Wheatus

Someone is gong to surgically remove those new Grizzly Bear songs out of my head. I wasn't expecting it to be that good, honestly blown away.

Plus watching her play some bangers live. It's an awesome set.

Forever Came Calling - Contender
The Sun And The Sea - Nightfalls
Every You - A Change Of Scene
A Common Year - Where The Light Still Shines

Taken By Trees - Other Worlds is easily my favorite of her albums.
GOOD Music - R Kelly and the god of rap shittin' on you, holy crap
Sky Fererria - I never thought I'd enjoy a song called "Haters Anonymous" as much as I do
Ricky Eat Acid + Arrange - moar plz
Abe Vigoda - Tropical punk. Coolest band ever.
Menomena - Skintercourse
Band of Horses - None of these plays are from Mirage Rock
Ride - Perfect, beachy shoegaze from the early 90s

Also iTunes Match might be the best $25 I've ever spent

Domestica by Cursive
Crimson by Alkaline Trio
Moms by Menomena (AOTY contender, for sure)

has iTunes match started doing the direct streaming yet, or is it just download based still?

So far I've mostly used it to replace low quality files I have saved to my computer but from what I understand if you're using your iPhone it only downloads what you're listening to while you're listening to it?