Last night’s episode of Gossip Girl relied heavily (more than usual) on its music. It also featured plenty of low-key gems to keep you going until next week’s episode. One of the most impressive playlists on the series.
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Oct 09
Music From Gossip Girl: Season 3, Episode 7
So I didn’t do a Music From Gossip Girl post last week because I didn’t really like last week’s episode nor its music selection. This week’s episode was a lot better, and Alex Pastavas threw in a tune by one of my favorite new (and broken-up 
) bands, the Harlem Shakes. Last night’s episode also featured tunes by the ever-impressive Delta Spirit.
Make sure to read this week’s recap over at the delicious Daily Intel @ NY Mag, but before you do, check out this week’s Gossip Girl playlist.
Gossip Girl, Season 3, Episode 7: How To Succeed in Bassness
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Oct 09
Music From Gossip Girl: Season 3, Episode 5
Season 3, Episode: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
Yeah, I know… I’m a day late on this, but I only watched this week’s episode last night. Musically, the episode was a winner. It included two of my favorite artists of 2009, indie rock’s cutest duo Matt & Kim and everyone’s French rockers, Phoenix. But what was more exciting was that Sonic Youth made a great cameo on Gossip Girl and not only played at, but MARRIED Lily and Rufus, thanks to a “shady internet service”. I say that is how you soundtrack good TV.
Check out Monday night’s GG playlist:
Gossip Girl, Season 3, Episode 4: Rufus Getting Married
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Oct 09
Music From Gossip Girl: Season 3, Episode 4
Season 3, Episode: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
Gossip Girl’s music selection for its third season is finally getting interesting. Last night’s star-studded episode (insert: read NY Mag’s hilarious and inspired GG recaps every Tuesday morning), was the season’s most interesting, musically and otherwise.
As always, Gossip Girl played a handful of tracks by small bands you probably never heard of, but Alex Pastavas always keeps a goodie for the Gossip Girl’s closing monologue (which was awfully good last night).
Last week they closed with Miike Snow’s “Animal,” in a cutesy scene, and but this week they turned to Passion Pit’s “Moth’s Wings” in a plot-relevant scene. I’m more impressed by Pastavas’ decision to license “Moth’s Wings” (over other delectable Passion Pit cuts like “Little Secrets” or “The Reeling”) than the actual use of the track. Check out last night’s GG playlist:
Gossip Girl, Season 3, Episode 4: Dan de Fleurette
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Sep 09
Music From Gossip Girl: Season 3, Episode 2
Season 3, Episode: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
Last night’s Gossip Girl was a bit sleepy. They played the same two songs quite a bit (one of them a nice Just Jack track that I wholly approve of, and another featuring Blair Waldorf herself). Despite showing some bias with Cobra Starship, Gossip Girl also paid tribute to one of the blogosphere’s favorite French rockers, Phoenix.
Other than that, the second episode was void of any other savvy music selections. A bit odd for Gossip Girl, but it’s been known to happen. Will the smooth, irresistible stylings of Phoenix be enough to call this episode a win?
Gossip Girl, Season 3, Episode 2: The Freshman
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Sep 09
Music From Gossip Girl: Season 3, Episode 1
We used to do this thing where Gossip Girl’s and Chuck’s episodic music selections would go head to head in a “showdown” and you, the beautiful readers, would vote for your favorite playlist. After Gossip Girl’s continual ass-kicking, I decided to move on from Chuck and onto the slightly hipper 90210. While being a bit more of a competitor, Gossip Girl still creamed 90210 in the polls. Instead of moving on to other music-savvy shows (i.e. Entourage, etc.), I think it’s time we just focused on the show that has had great music for over two seasons now.
Alex Pastavas, the music supervisor for Gossip Girl (as well as Grey’s Anatomy, Chuck, The OC, Mad Men, and Twilight) has done a great job on the show’s music and is keeping it up for the show’s third season, which premiered last night. The season premiere featured one of this year’s favorite new artists, Miike Snow, as well as the cute, indie-pop duo Matt & Kim. They also brought in fresh faces (to me anyway), Brakes with their catchy tune “Oh! Forever.” Here is Episode 1’s full playlist:
Gossip Girl, Season 3, Episode 1: Reversals of Fortune Continue reading →
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May 09
Leighton Meester with Awesome New Republic, Cobra Starship & Bette Davis
Gorgeous Gossip Girl bitch Blair Waldorf Leighton Meester has reportedly been recording an “electropop” album that is slated to release later this Fall. Last year, Leighton’s cover of “Bette Davis Eyes” hit the web to an unsuspecting fanbase. The girl singing sounded nothing like our beloved Blair Waldorf. This, of course, was not a bad thing.
Since then, Meester has hooked up with Awesome New Republic on “Birthday” and she has now recorded with Cobra Starship on a track for their upcoming album. Using these two songs as markers, I think it’s safe to assume that Leighton Meester will give Katy Perry a run for her money.
Haven’t you heard? She’s the crazy bitch around here. Told ya.
Catch Leighton’s 3 songs after the jump. Continue reading →
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Jan 09
The REAL MTV- Music On TV
You go, Gossip Girl!
They only used three songs in “You’ve Got Yale,” Gossip Girl’s 16th episode of season two, but boy were they good ones. A doubling up of Cold War Kids awesomeness (”Mexican Dogs” and album opener, “Against Privacy”), along with an actual song called “The Double” by We Fell To Earth.
If you don’t have Loyalty To Loyalty yet, but you enjoyed the Kids’ last effort, what are you waiting for? The album may get too drawn out at times, and it may not have the same magic of Robbers And Cowards, but it’s still worth a listen or a ton.
The LIST:
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Jan 09
The REAL MTV- Music on TV
Another week, another recap of music from GG, 90210, and CHUCK. Let’s do this.
Gossip Girl’s fifteenth episode of season two wasn’t particularly music-heavy. They had the smarts to go with brand spankin’ new Franz Ferdinand (No You Girls, You Never Know). Unfortunately, this isn’t that great of a song, and based off of Stereogum’s review, my anticipation for the album has been lower. Still, the chorus is great, and I’m pulling out for what could be a good album- Tonight drops on January 26th.
The episode also used The Faint’s robotic “Mirror Error” to bop along the show. Cool song.
The List: Continue reading →
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Jan 09
The Real MTV- Music on MTV
Here we go again, this time with music recaps of the most recent episodes of Gossip Girl and 90210, along with the second third of Chuck’s season two.
Starting with Gossip Girl’s fourteenth episode in season two, “In The Realm Of The Basses.” This annoyingly-titled episode contains one of the show’s best song selections to date- Department of Eagles’ catchy and beautiful “No One Does It Like You.” It also featured a song from the great rising band The Little Ones. Their song “Morning Tide” was stuck in my head for a while, and the song used on GG, “Like A Spoke on a Wheel,” is great as well. Another fantastic song used was “Who’s Crying” by The Temporary Thing. I’m going to check out more of their music right now.
OK, I’m back. It’s a guy named Andrew Gleason. He’s really good.
The list:
- No One Does It Like You- Department of Eagles
- Who’s Crying- The Temporary Thing
- Like A Spoke on a Wheel – The Little Ones
- Scarlet- Magic Bullets
- I’m Not Cool- Sohodolls
- Mayday- Unkle featuring The Duke Spirit
- Ricochet!- Shiny Toy Guns
- My Crown- The Sugar Migration
- E.S.T- White Lies
90210 had a good music week as well, with “Hello, Goodbye, Amen,” episode 12, featuring one of my favorite songs of 2008, “Spaceman.” By none other than Brandon Flowers and The Killers. The episode also used a Joshua Radin song, “The Fear That You Won’t Fall.” His music is always good for television shows like these. Continue reading →
