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nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:29:03 -0700

Top Artists this Week (see more)

16 Mar 2008 – 23 Mar 2008

1		Danity Kane
2		José González
2		Zero 7
4		Ghostface
5		Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek
6		Elisabeth Withers
7		Madvillain
7		Jamie Lidell
9		Chris Joss
10		Talib Kweli

Last week's pick-ups/purchases: Ghostface Killah's Big Doe Rehab, Elisabeth Withers's It Can Happen to Anyone, Jamie Lidell's Jim (Thanks Felicia!), Lupe Fiasco's The Cool, Super Cool: California Soul 2, Zap Mama's Supermoon, and

Is Anybody Listening

Danity Kane

Hoping to get to know each other better, the guys and girls jump in a limo for a night out at on the town. The drive is filled with awkward silence, but once at the club, everyone starts to loosen up. After a round of shots, Aubrey and Donnie start dirty dancing and Dawn and Qwanell get flirty. Stay focused, guys!

The next day brings all the Making the Band 4 participants back together for the first day of recording. The girls nail a song called "Is Anybody Listening," proving that they already have a winning formula in place.

- Making The Band 4 (Season 2) | Episode 1: Battle of the Sexes, MTV

Last.fm Recommended:

I Like Giants

Kimya Dawson

Kimya Dawson is most famous (in my mind) for being the fantastically charismatic folk singer from Olympia who once photographed her own poop and posted it on her MySpace. She's also an honest and bright songwriter who plays joyful acoustic guitar while singing optimistic and sometimes weird songs. While you drive to Kent, think of the opening lines to "I Like Giants"—"When I go for a drive/I like to pull off to the side/of the road/turn out the lights/get out and look up at the sky/And I do this to remind me that I'm really, really tiny/in the grand scheme of things/and sometimes this terrifies me."

- Road Trip by Megan Selig, The Stranger, 10.24.07

Song of the Week:

Another Day

Jamie Lidell

With all the music I bought last week in a sneeze-filled haze, the song of note comes from an impromptu video chat with Felicia and her gracious file sharing. I remember being underwhelmed with Jamie Lidell's Multiply so I was prepared to find his new album nice but forgettable. This track is far from that. A bright and shiny blast of soul, this is a song you put on first thing in the morning. I might have an inexplicable love for my Danity Kane girls but I know serious music when I hear it and this is mixtape worthy now and will likely be 5 years from now.

Wake up!

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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