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Vox Hunt: Music - My Current Favorite

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:53:35 -0700

Share your current favorite song or music video.

Mark Ronson Featuring Amy Winehouse Valerie Video

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10 after 6: The Albums

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:54:24 -0700

It's that time of year isn't it? My 10 favorite 2007 releases so far.

Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation

Various Artists

No finer collection of music this year. It's a bunch of stuff you've never heard and it all sounds amazing. If you like soul music, you simply can't go wrong with this collection.

Play with the Changes

4hero

Very strong release from the downtempo veterans. It didn't hit me strongly with the first listen but has grown on me something fierce over the year. It's a great accompaniment to the album I've listened to the most this year, although not a 2007 release, Incognito's Bees + Things + Flowers.

ArtDontSleep presents From LA With Love

I don't go to Andrew Lojero's parties around town with the same regularity that I used to but this absolutely sounds like that Los Angeles. Underground. Creative. Excited. Agitated. We're under freeways and in back alleys and abandoned churches and it's 3 in the morning. The party don't stop because Art Don't Sleep.

Introducing Joss Stone

Joss Stone

What can I say? I tried to deny this album but I'm a sucker for good Raphael Saadiq production and Stone seems further along in her finding her own voice than some other young blue eyed soul singers. Where I find Amy Winehouse's Back to Black derivative and imitative of a certain sound, I somehow find Introducing... interesting and indicative of a certain sound. Joss might not have half of Winehouse's personality but, at the very least, I'm not running through the artist's her records sound like. And that is not to say that Amy Winehouse isn't great but, without fail, I keep thinking that Back to Black is that the music industry found someone to finally make a sophomore Lauryn Hill album and it just so happens to be a drunk off her ass white girl from the UK.

Emotionalism

The Avett Brothers

It's the Avett Brothers. Blue-grassy soulful indie pop harmonizing? That's my kind of cocktail.

And the rest:

6. Feist - The Reminder
7. Jay Dee - Ruff Draft
8. Evidence - The Weatherman LP
9. Peter Bjorn & John - Writer's Block
10. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

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Music after Midnight: Amy Winehouse

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:35:11 -0800

Oh my god, I should be in bed right now but I got lost in the hype machine searching for songs to sample off of my recommended artists list for this week over at last.fm (which skewed awfully rock this week. Maybe it was all the christmas music I listened to over the weekend?). Being on hype machine, however, reminded me that I wanted to post about Amy Winehouse.

Despite her newfound cache amongst American music nerds for her collabo with Ghostface...

You Know I'm No Good (f/ Amy Winehouse)

Ghostface Killah

...and that Rehab joint (which I'm convinced indie heads are all over because there is a Hot Chip remix), she's been fire since her first album which was on some stank nasty Arsenio Hall long finger type jazz-funk (which was on the Mercury Music Short List in 2004):

Take The Box

Amy Winehouse

Stronger Than Me (Intro)

Amy Winehouse

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