Gonna Be Your Sugar Daddy

The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 11B: 1971,is available now.

The Jackson 5 - Sugar Daddy (mp3)
G.C. Cameron - Act Like a Shotgun (mp3)
Richard "Popcorn" Wylie - Funky Rubber Band (mp3)

Dan Auerbach on MPR's The Current, earlier today.

Dischord: Touch & Go Suspending Operations, Reorganizing

From today's Dischord newsletter:

News that Touch & Go Records has suspended label operations has been a blow to us at Dischord. We first met Corey Rusk in 1981, when he was in the Necros, and have worked closely with Touch and Go ever since. We have always looked to Corey and the wonderful people who have worked for him over the years as prime examples of good people doing good things. We may have developed different business models over time but we always considered them kindred spirits, partners in this shared musical community that they helped to create and sustain. We salute Touch & Go for all the great music they have released over the years and wish the label the very best as they reorganize.

Q & Not U/Georgie James' John Davis forms new band, 'Title Tracks'

I was hurt when Q & Not U disbanded, and stung when Georgie James did the same. Maybe it's fitting that the debut single, Every Little Bit Hurts, is out next month. This time, please don't make me love you and then die. Title Tracks' music will be available on Dischord, naturally.

Viva Voce Sing About Devotion

Kevin Robinson recently posted some factoids on VivaVoce.com about the new album:

Factoids
Posted in Viva News on March 1st, 2009 by Kevin
We leave for tour in a few days. Very excited. It’ll be nice to head south on the I5 where it’s a bit warmer than home. Been getting a bunch of emails about the new record & thought I’d post a few facts about it here:

a) Anita and I built a studio in our backyard. We recorded Rose City in 3 weeks - from pen to paper to final master. This was deliberate.

b) All photos (and cover image) were taken at a show here in town by Megan Holmes ( a pdx photog and general mover and shaker). The guitar on the cover is Anita’s Les Paul Custom Lite, a rare little number.

c) Obviously tried to make a conscious effort to keep all elements of the record based out of Portland. It’s not really a concept record, but it’ll make sense when you hear it.

See you out on the open road. All the venues with pre-sale ticket links are up at our concert page & all of our confirmed SXSW performances are listed.
See you soon.

Viva Voce - Devotion (mp3)

Curumin, Live on KEXP 3-6-2009

Brazilian jazz funk. Accent on 'funk.'

This Sao Paolo multi-instrumentalist/producer blends Samba and other Brazilian flavors with a creative mix of reggae, funk, rock and hip-hop. He warms up the KEXP studios with this exclusive live set. Listen up and mellow out. Recorded on 1/24/09 - 4 songs: Mal Estar Card, Compacto, Misterio Stereo, Samba Japa

Curumin, Live on KEXP 3-6-2009 (mp3)

How To Live Without Music On YouTube

The Guardian offers 8 ways to cope, including:

1. Don't listen to any pop music at all,
5. Moan about it,
and my favorite, 7. Re-enact your favourite videos.

Annuals, Anni Rossi, and Benjy Ferree, Live on WOXY

All from WOXY.com Lounge Acts.

Annuals - 3-5-2009 (mp3)
Track Listing:
Always Do
Springtime
- interview -
Confessor
Wake

Anni Rossi - 3-2-2009 (mp3)
Track Listing:
Machine
Venice
- interview -
Living In Danger (Ace of Base cover, not included in podcast)
Wheelpusher

Benjy Ferree - 2-26-2009 (mp3)
Track Listing:
Big Business
Come To Me, Coming To Me
I Get No Love
- interview -
Fear
The Grips

Angus & Julia Stone, Live on KCRW, earlier today

I love her voice.

M83's Anthony Gonzales, live on KCRW, 3-6-2009

M. Ward on KCRW, 3-3-2009

10,000 Volts

I listened to The Priscillas' 10,000 Volts,which you must have, just before bed last night. It made me feel so good I felt all right about Monday. Here are the first and last songs.

All The Way To Holloway (mp3)
Dirty Old T-Shirt (mp3)

Anni Rossi and her Viola, Live on The Current

Smart's Palace, with a dedication to Bachelor dumpee Melissa Rycroft

Here are two songs from Numero's next rare soul offering, Smart's Palace, which documents and preserves the 1963-1975 Wichita, Kansas soul scene, with a generous 19 selections from the Solo, Kanwic, Vantage, and Lee-Mac labels. CD available April 21st, mp3s available now ($10) at Numerogroup.com.

Smart Brothers - I've Got A Funny Feeling (mp3) ....this one's for Melissa, who was quoted by Us Magazine's omg:

Even though Mesnick initially denied he was dating Malaney, Rycroft says she had a feeling.

"Being a girl, you get that feeling," she says. "Anybody that's been cheated on, you know. And being a woman, I got that feeling, because he just backed away from me, and I knew he had contacted her."

BASTARD.

Melissa is later quoted:

"I said, 'I hope you know why I got that mad.' We weren't talking at that point, so it was my way off saying, 'This is my closure ... Don't reply back.'"

Asked if she could ever be friends with Mesnick or Malaney, Rycroft says, "No."

Kenneth Carr - Don't Hate Let's Communicate (mp3)

Stone Cold Rhymin', Deluxe

Young M.C.'s classic rap album, which features, as Delicious Vinyl puts it, "thirteen songs and zero curse words," gets the Digital Deluxe treatment 20 years after its original release. The update comes with rare bonus tracks and remixes, and will be available on Delicious Vinyl March 17th, 2009.

Young MC - Bust A Move (Don Rimini Ravekid Remix)(mp3)

Recess.

Antony & The Johnsons, Live at 6th & I Synagogue, Washington, DC, Feb 3, 2009

Download Antony & The Johnsons' recent concert recorded at the Sixth and I Synagogue in Washington, D.C., from NPR, here (mp3), or stream here.

The Submarines, Live on The Current

What an incredible live performance. The Submarines do not disappoint.

Angus & Julia Stone's Mango Tree

This is what I've been waiting for - the cliche-free music video.



Mango Tree (mp3)

Also, check out the cover art:


A Book Like This is out today.

People Has It Hard.

Numero has a new offering out tomorrow - Local Customs: Downriver Revival, a selection of mostly soul, funk, and gospel rarities from the Solid Rock, Cass, Compose, and Revival labels, recorded in Felton William's Ecorse, Michigan basement. Brilliant. I know you probably have other new releases to pick up tomorrow, but add this one to the list...it's essential Numero.

Gospel Supremes - Sinner Man (mp3)
Coleman Family - People Has It Hard (mp3)

Unfinished Fiction From David Foster Wallace

Lane Dean, Jr., with his green rubber pinkie finger, sat at his Tingle table in his chalk’s row in the rotes group’s wiggle room and did two more returns, then another one, then flexed his buttocks and held to a count of ten and imagined a warm pretty beach with mellow surf, as instructed in orientation the previous month.

From Wiggle Room, by David Foster Wallace, an excerpt from his unfinished novel, on the New Yorker.com.

Also, see New Yorker to Publish Part of Unfinished Wallace Novel: Manuscript Was Discovered After Novelist's Death in September, in today's Washington Post (registration required).