Artwork by Adam Sarpalius
Here are Pretty Much Amazing’s Top 75 Songs of the Decade. Below you will find the entire list with three accompanying podcasts. For our reviews of the Top 25 songs, please follow this link.
Artwork by Adam Sarpalius
Here are Pretty Much Amazing’s Top 75 Songs of the Decade. Below you will find the entire list with three accompanying podcasts. For our reviews of the Top 25 songs, please follow this link.
Best Albums of 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09
Moving onto the fourth year of the decade, we continue to rely on your votes to find the best albums of each year. We’re taking an objective and fresh look at finding our favorite albums of the last 10 years.
As always, I’ve listed the 10 best albums, in accordance to top critics like the undeniable Village Voice Pazz & Jop Poll, The Onion (A.V. Club), Pitchfork, PopMatters, and Q Magazine.
Please vote for the album you think was the best in 2003. If your choice isn’t on here, we’d love to see it in the comments section (though, we’d appreciate if you’d vote for your favorite on the list anyway). Here are 2003’s finalists:
A. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever To Tell, “Y Control”
B. OutKast: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, “The Way You Move”
C. The White Stripes: Elephant, “Seven Nation Army”
D. Radiohead: Hail To The Thief ,”2+2=5”
E. The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow, “So Says I”
F. Dizzee Rascal: Boy In Da Corner, “I Luv U”
G. Death Cab For Cutie: Transatlanticism, “The Sound of Settling”
H. Sufjan Stevens: Michigan, “Holland”
I. Blur: Think Tank, “Out Of Time”
J. Four Tet: Rounds “She Moves She”
Trust me, 2003 was one of the hardest lists to make.
Calvin Harris
Ready For The Weekend
Ultra Records
out August 18th
48/100
[Rating Scale]
[rating:48/100]
Calvin Harris wants to stick to the music, and for good reason. On his sophomore effort, Ready For The Weekend he has a lot to be proud of. The album is thought out, textured, and deserves better than a treatise on 90s handbag house. As Calvin himself says, “There are a huge volume of reviews that aren’t even based on the music. They barely say anything about the record.” I do not intend for this to be one of those reviews.
In and of itself, the music on Ready For The Weekend is not bad. In each track there is at least one moment of excitement—an excitement of the sort that makes you want to ratchet up your dance moves to a new and often dangerous level. Unfortunately, the dances best suited for this album take place in the cafeteria of my old middle school. Don’t blame the music though, which is truly not bad, blame it on the vocals. Continue reading →

I have a love/hate relationship with Dizzee Rascal. I love his first two albums, I even really liked his third album. I especially loved his Calvin Harris-produced first single, “Dance Wiv Me,” but I really disliked “Bonkers.” So maybe it’s a lot more love than hate, but the point it is not. The point is that “Holiday,” the third single from Dizzee’s fourth studio album, Tongue ‘N’ Cheek, is just as good as “Dance Wiv Me,” if not better.
While I’m not completely sold on the dancey direction Dizzee Rascal has taken with his new album, I can’t deny that “Dance Wiv Me” and “Holiday” are undeniable JAMS. Listen to the “Holiday” here Continue reading →

pmaCAST #11 The “Smile! It’s Longer (Your Mom Did)” Episode Tracklist

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Listen to the ADN Project:
While you read Pretty Much Amazing
When You’re Bored at Work
When You’re Bored at Home
While you read Pretty Much Amazing
When You Want to Listen to Great Music
While you read Pretty Much Amazing
No, seriously, check this out, this is what one of the ADN DJ’s told me in an email–
I guess what we’re going for is an independent, rough around the edges show (jn that we play whatever records we want, we’re hobbyist DJs, not pros), but one that doesn’t sound like it was recorded in a mate’s bedroom with a couple of crap mics. It’s professionally recorded here in London (we use a major London radio station’s studios) and we think we’re onto something good.
There are no ads and no restrictive playlists – most of the time you’ll hear indie, acoustic, electro and hip hop, although we do try and throw anything and everything into the mix. We also feature one unsigned act each week, with an accompanying interview.
It streams here: http://adn.webradioworld.com
The show streams on a constant loop and is fully licensed – it’s not downloadable, as that infringes on copyright laws. To find out more and see previous tracklists, check us out on facebook (search ‘ADN Project’) or at www.myspace.com/adnproject
Check out their latest episode’s tracklisting:
1. Chemical Brothers – Burst Generator
2. MGMT – Electric Feel (Justice Remix)
3. Radiohead – Bodysnatchers
4. The Verve – Love Is Noise
5. Josh Rouse – London Bridges
6. The Young Knives – Turn Tail
7. The Thirst – My Everything
Album of the week – Death Cab For Cutie, ‘Narrow Stairs’
8. DCFC – Grapevine Fires
9. DCFC – Your New Twin Sized Bed
10. Jurassic 5 – A Day At The Races
11. Cool Kids – One Two
12. Atmosphere – Yesterday
13. Roots Manuva (ft. Chali 2na) – Join The Dots
14. Dizzee Rascal (ft. Calvin Harris) – Dance Wiv Me
15. Friendly Fires – In The Hospital
16. Laura Marling – Ghosts
17. Feist – I Feel It All (Britt Daniel Remix)
18. TV On The Radio
19. M83 – Kim and Jessie

Here’s (Re)mixtape #28. These are some of the coolest remixes I’ve come across by this week. Kicking stuff off with another MR GASPAR, who’s material, along with all of Burn The Fire will be distributed by Hot Biscuits apparently — yep, I’m eating that shit but Beats
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Daft Punk Vs. Boys Noize – Harder Better Faster Stronger/ Lava Lava (Mr. Gaspar Mashup)
Lil Wayne – A Millie (DJ Dstar edit)
Dizzee Rascal – Dance Wiv Me (Calvin Harris Extended Mix)
Radiohead – Nude(Remix ft. Too $hort and MC Zumbi of Zion I)
Coldplay – Death And All His Friends (MMMatthias Remix)
Black Kids – I’m not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance with you (The Twelves Remix)
MSTRKRFT – Bounce (High Powered Boys Remix)
Rihanna – Don’t Stop The Music (K.W. Remix)
Feist – My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Classic Remix)

Gather ’round, lovers of live music, summertime, the great outdoors, the Windy City, and certain festive occasions where all these things come together. The time has come to announce that annual rite of indie passage, the Pitchfork Music Festival!
The 2008 edition of our yearly sonic bonanza returns to Chicago’s Union Park on Friday, July 18, Saturday, July 19, and Sunday, July 20. We’ll spare you our usual bombast and bad puns and take you straight to the initial lineup:
Friday, July 18:
Pitchfork Music Festival and All Tomorrow’s Parties present “Don’t Look Back” Public Enemy performing It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
+ more, to be announced
Saturday, July 19:
Animal Collective
!!!
Vampire Weekend
Dizzee Rascal
No Age
Atlas Sound
Fleet Foxes
+ many more!
Sunday, July 20:
Spiritualized
M. Ward
Boris
Extra Golden
El Guincho
+ many more!
Of course, that’s just the beginning, so look for further lineup announcements to grace these pages in the near future.
!!! – Is This Thing On? – Rub N Tug Remix
Vampire Weekend – Campus

This mixtape is in response to the “5 Pop Acts You Are Allowed To Like” post I made earlier this week. The post was well received and I had some requests of making a rap version of it. Instead of picking 5 Rap Acts those Pitchfork fanboys are allowed to like without ruining their indie cred, here’s a mixtape of some of the great rap artists of recent times. I enjoy rap music, it great chill, angry, and mind bending music — wrapped together with a bow (err chain?) on top.
On this mixtape, you will find some Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, and others. What you WILL NOT find are those rap songs I like to call “ringtone rap”. “Ringtone crap”, rather. I’m talking about those extra catchy songs that seem to be made for simple minded people with a short attention span. You know and loath them alright; “Party Like A Rock Star”, “Crank That”, “Laffy Taffy”, “This Is Why I’m Hot”, ring any bells?
Mhm.
Now before we start this, I already admit this may be Kanye West beefed because, well I’m a hopeless Kanye sheeple, but you know what? Fuck Off
mp3: Lil Wayne ft. Currency – Diamonds & Girls *DOWNLOAD OR DIE*
mp3: Kanye West ft Lil Wayne – Can’t Tell Me Nothing (Remix) *DOWNLOAD OR DIE*
mp3: Calipse – Hate It Or Love It *DOWNLOAD OR DIE*
mp3: Lupe Fiasco – Kick, Push *DOWNLOAD OR DIE*
mp3: T.I. - You Know What It Is *DOWNLOAD OR DIE*
mp3: Kanye West – The Glory *DOWNLOAD OR DIE*
mp3: Kanye West – Good Life *DOWNLOAD OR DIE*
mp3: Arctic Monkeys ft. Dizzee Rascal – Temptation Greets You Like Your
Naufghty Friend *DOWNLOAD OR DIE*
mp3: Lil Wayne – Did It Before
mp3: Kanye West ft. Common – Southside
mp3: Clipse – Mr. Me Too (z.a.k. Remix)
mp3: Calipse – Trill
mp3: Wu-Tang Clan – Bring Da Ruckus
mp3: Ghostface Killah – The Ghost Is Back
mp3: Kanye West – Everything I Am
mp3: Dizzee Rascal – Pussyole (Oldskool) *DOWNLOAD OR DIE*