Rubin Recommends

(If they have a STAR by them, it means I’ve heard it and I like it. Album title links go to Amazon. If I miss any good releases, please add them in the comments.)

For all your MP3 needs purchase from iTunes or Amazon.

Music:
1986: Everybody Is Whatever I Think They Are
Aloha: Home Acres (2-LP vinyl) *
The Besnard Lakes: The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night (vinyl)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Beat the Devil’s Tattoo (vinyl)
Broken Bells: Broken Bells (2-CD box set) (vinyl)
Daughters: Daughters
Demon Hunter: World Is a Thorn
Frightened Rabbit: The Winter of Mixed Drinks (vinyl)
Jason Collett: Rat A Tat Tat (vinyl)
JJ: No 3 (vinyl) (not as good as no 2 but I still like it) *
Josh Rouse: El Turista (vinyl)
The Knife: Tomorrow, In A Year
Liars: Sisterworld (CD & DVD)
Ludacris: Battle Of The Sexes
Method Actors: This Is Still It
The Morning Benders: Big Echo (vinyl) *
Nervous Curtains: Out of Sync With Time (vinyl)
Pavement: Brighten the Corners (vinyl reissue)
Pavement: Crooked Rain Crooked Rain (vinyl reissue)
Pavement: Quarantine the Past: The Best of Pavement (2-LP vinyl) *
Pavement: Slanted & Enchanted (vinyl reissue)
Pavement: Terror Twilight (vinyl reissue)
Pavement: Watery Domestic (vinyl reissue)
Pavement: Wowee Zowee (vinyl reissue)
The Pharmacy: Weekend
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists: The Brutalist Bricks (vinyl)
Titus Andronicus: The Monitor (vinyl)
Via Audio: Animalore (vinyl)
White Hinterland: Kairos (vinyl) *
Woodpigeon: Die Stadt Muzikanten

DVD:
The Avon Barksdale Story: Legends of the Unwired
Precious
Tapeheads
The Who: The Kids Are Alright [Blu-ray]
Up in the Air

(If they have a STAR by them, it means I’ve heard it and I like it. Album title links go to Amazon. If I miss any good releases, please add them in the comments.)

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MP3 >> The Ruby Suns – Cranberry
(I really loved the first Ruby Suns record. I still feel like this new one has to grow on me a little.)

Music:
Athlete: Black Swan
Golden Triangle: Double Jointer (vinyl)
Japanther: Rock N Roll Ice Cream (vinyl)
Little Boots: Hands
Peter Gabriel: Scratch My Back (2-CD deluxe edition)
Portugal. The Man: American Ghetto
Rogue Wave: Permalight (vinyl)
The Ruby Suns: Fight Softly (vinyl)
Seamonter: Two Birds
Shearwater: The Golden Archipelago (vinyl)
These New Puritans: Hidden * (Kurt said it’s good)

DVDS:
Tell Them Anything You Want
Where the Wild Things Are

(If they have a STAR by them, it means I’ve heard it and I like it. Album title links go to Amazon. If I miss any good releases, please add them in the comments.)

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MP3 >> Yeasayer – Ambling Alp

MUSIC:
Beach Fossils: Daydream (iTunes)
Best Coast: Something in the Way (vinyl) (iTunes)
Hot Chip: One Life Stand (CD & DVD) (iTunes)
Massive Attack: Heligoland (iTunes)
Phantogram: Eyelid Movies (iTunes)
Yeasayer: Odd Blood (vinyl) * (iTunes)

DVD:
A Serious Man

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MP3>> Midlake – Acts Of Man MP3

(If they have a STAR by them, it means I’ve heard it and I like it. Album title links go to Amazon. If I miss any good releases, please add them in the comments.)

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The Album Leaf: A Chorus of Storytellers
Fela Kuti: Live With Ginger Baker
Lil Wayne: Rebirth (deluxe edition with bonus tracks)
Madlib & Guilty Simpson: Madlib Medicine Show 1
Midlake: The Courage of Others *
Mount Eerie: Black Wooden *
Pierced Arrows: Descending Shadows (vinyl)
Priestess: Prior to the Fire (vinyl)
Toro Y Moi: Causers of This (vinyl) *
U.S. Girls: Go Grey
Vedera: Stages

MOVIES:
Zombieland *

The first DVD I’m buying of 2010 is Zombieland, the directorial debut by my amazingly talented friend Ruben Fleischer (follow everything he does over at ruben.fm.) I saw this movie twice and think it could be one I watch often for years to come.

Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin “The horror comedy Zombieland focuses on two men who have found a way to survive a world overrun by zombies.”

Buy it on DVD or Blu-Ray over at Amazon.

(If they have a STAR by them, it means I’ve heard it and I like it. Album title links go to Amazon. If I miss any good releases, please add them in the comments.)

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Listen to Beach House: Zebra:

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Animal Collective: Campfire Songs (reissue)
Beach House: Teen Dream (vinyl) *****
Capybara: One Too Many Mornings Soundtrack
Charlotte Gainsbourg: IRM (2-LP vinyl)
Citay: Dream Get Together (vinyl)
Four Tet: There Is Love in You (2-LP vinyl) *
Fucked Up: Couple Tracks: Singles 2002 – 2008 (vinyl)
Harvey Milk: Harvey Milk
The Henry Clay People: For Cheap or for Free
Joan of Arc: Joan of Arc Presents: Don’t Mind Control (vinyl)
Los Campesinos!: Romance is Boring (vinyl)
Magnetic Fields: Realism
Moonface: Dreamland EP: Marimba and Shit-Drums (vinyl)
Oh No Ono: Eggs
Pit Er Pat: The Flexible Entertainer (vinyl)
Scout Niblett: Calcination of Scout Niblett (vinyl)
Tindersticks: Falling Down a Mountain
Volcano, I’m Still Excited: Volcano, I’m Still Excited (vinyl reissue) *

(If they have a STAR by them, it means I’ve heard it and I like it. Album title links go to Amazon. If I miss any good releases, please add them in the comments.)

For all your MP3 needs purchase from iTunes or Amazon.

Music:
Aziz Ansari: Intimate Moments For A Sensual Evening
Bob Log III: School Bus (reissue)
Cold War Kids: Behave Yourself (vinyl)
Dawn Landes: Sweet Heart Rodeo
Editors: In this Light and On This Evening
EELS: End Times (vinyl)
Fela Kuti: Music Is The Weapon (dvd)
Motion City Soundtrack: My Dinosaur Life (vinyl)
Spoon: Transference (vinyl)
Surfer Blood: Astro Coast
Tape Deck Mountain: Ghost
These New Puritans: Hidden

DVDS:
Aziz Ansari: Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening
Boogie Nights [Blu-ray]
Dallas: Seasons 1-12
Fela Kuti: Music Is The Weapon
Weeds: Season Five

Read the Exclusive Interview with Miguel Arteta over at We Love You So. It really got me more familiar with Miguel Arteta’s other work and insight into the movie. I saw the movie on Friday and really enjoyed it. I too thought the animation was a kick back to One Crazy Summer, etc surprised it wasn’t.

Fantastic Mr Fox was one of my favorite films of the year. Wes Anderson really did a great job. Defgrip has compiled a lot of great things having to do with the movie including a behind the scenes video (embedded below) and a beautiful book that Pentagram put together titled The Making of Fantastic Mr. Fox: A Film by Wes Anderson which has beautiful stills, Wes’s notes, shows the making the characters and what else went into the movie, you can see some pages here.

Buy The Making of Fantastic Mr. Fox: A Film by Wes Anderson at Amazon.

(from what I’ve heard of this Sleep Whale record I’m excited to get it today.)

(If they have a STAR by them, it means I’ve heard it and I like it. Album title links go to Amazon. If I miss any good releases, please add them in the comments.)

For all your MP3 needs purchase from iTunes.

Preview a lot of these releases at Spinner.

MUSIC:
50 Cent: Before I Self Destruct
AC/DC: Backtracks (2CD & DVD box set)
Asobi Seksu: Rewolf (vinyl)
Bobby Birdman: New Moods (vinyl)
Devendra Banhart: What Will We Be (2-LP vinyl with bonus tracks)
Little Girls: Concepts
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez: Xenophanes
Pants Yell!: Received Pronunciation (vinyl)
Sleep Whale: Houseboat
Snow Patrol: Up to Now
Wale: Attention Deficit (vinyl)

DVD:
Flight of the Conchords: The Complete First and Second Seasons
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