Jacuzzi Boys, The War on Drugs, Chad Valley, and Echo Lake are some of the artists whose new music is featured within these 38 featured tracks. Download them below in one easy iTunes friendly .zip file:

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The September & October 2011 installment of our MP3 Rewind includes the following tracks:

01 The Dogs – A Decent Warning
02 Jacuzzi Boys – Cool Vapors
03 Snakes Say Hisss – Comes and Goes
04 IndianRedLopez – K.Y.S
05 Shimmering Stars – I’m Gonna Try
06 Philco Fiction – Help
07 The Sky Drops – Explain It to Me
08 The War on Drugs – Baby Missiles
09 The Irrepressibles – Forget the Past
10 Letting Up Despite Great Faults – Teenage Tide
11 Meredith Bragg – Birds of North America
12 Roadside Graves – Love Me More
13 Founds – Holograms
14 Chad Valley – Fast Challenges
15 Hospital Ships – Love or Death
16 De La Montana – Golden Soul
17 Sanders Bohlke – Quiet Ye Voices
18 German Error Message – In Comforting
19 Hess Is More – Creation Keeps the Devil Away
20 Soft Metals – Psychic Driving
21 Seeping into Cinemas – Shoot Out
22 Moonbell – Figurine
23 Doug Hoyer – Northern Lights
24 Vanish Valley – Races
25 Plant Plants – She’s No One
26 Little Deadman – Post Helado Madness
27 Sundress – Derelict
28 Bad Sports – Teenage Girls
29 Austyn Sullivan – Desolation Melody
30 Gem Club – Breakers
31 Selebrities – Can’t Make Up My Mind
32 Cookies – Summer Jam
33 I Break Horses – Winter Beats
34 Echo Lake – Another Day
35 Halloween Alaska – Dance by Accident
36 Jubilants – Antics (Dublin Aunts remix)
37 Collections of Colonies of Bees – Lawn
38 The Junkyards – Won’t Let Go

If you liked this song, you should also check out:

Chad Valley “Fast Challenges”

Plant Plants “She’s No One”

LAKE “Madagascar”

CSS, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Art Brut, The Minders, Stephin Merritt, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. are just some of the names among these 55 featured tracks. Download them below in two easy, iTunes friendly .zip files:

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01 Marina Celeste – Under My Skin
02 Golden Glow – Adore Me
03 John Maus – Believer
04 Codes in the Clouds – Look Back, Look Up
05 Algodón Egipcio – El Día Previo
06 Digitalism – 2 Hearts
07 Ringo Deathstarr – So High
08 Eleanor Friedberger – My Mistakes
09 The Inevitable Backlash – Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart
10 Gold-Bears – Record Store
11 Big Scary – Autumn
12 Miracle Fortress – Raw Spectacle (Pantha du Prince remix)
13 CSS – Hits Me Like A Rock
14 Amanda Mair – House
15 Damon & Naomi – Walking Backwards
16 Strange Talk – Climbing Walls
17 Gold Leaves – The Ornament
18 Imaginary Cities – Hummingbird
19 pursesnatchers – Wet Cement
20 Gauntlet Hair – I Was Thinking
21 Amazing Twin – A Man Does Ands
22 Gardens & Villa – Star Fire Power
23 Yourself and the Air – Sick Days
24 Dark Mean – Happy Banjo
25 Buxter Hoot’n – Blue Night
26 Street Chant – Less Chat, More Sewing
27 New Moods – Playtime
28 Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Tigers
29 The Elected – Babyface
30 The Stepkids – Shadows on Behalf
31 Kids on a Crime Spree – Sweet Tooth
32 The Great Book of John – Let Me Slide
33 Release the Sunbird – Always Like the Son
34 Xray Eyeballs – Egyptian Magician
35 John LaMonica – Heartling
36 Chucha Santamaria y Usted – Fiebre Tropical
37 Tammar – The Last Line
38 Country Mice – Morning Son
39 Arc in Round – Spirit
40 YesYou – Half of It
41 The Minders – Needle Doll
42 Minden – Swift Way On
43 Teen Daze – Surface
44 Chrome Canyon – Branches
45 The Echo-Friendly – Same Mistakes
46 Butcher the Bar – Bobby
47 Memory Tapes – Wait in the Dark
48 Art Brut – Lost Weekend
49 Rocketship Park – Fast Friends
50 Fair Ohs – Summer Lake
51 Typhoon – Summer Home
52 Idiot Glee – Trouble at the Dancehall
53 Stephin Merritt – Forever and a Day
54 Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr – Morning Thought
55 The Mekons – Space in Your Face

If you liked this song, you should also check out:

Rocketship Park, Fair Ohs, Typhoon, Idiot Glee, Stephin Merritt

Doug Hoyer “Northern Lights”

During June 2011 we featured new music from The Rosebuds, Peter Bjorn & John, Cass McCombs, Iceage, The Ladybug Transistor, plus world premieres from Sleeper Agent and Jim McTurnan & the Kids That Killed the Man. Here are the month’s 38 featured tracks in an easy, iTunes friendly .zip file:

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01 Jim McTurnan and the Kids That Killed the Man – Don’t Count Me Out
02 Wolf Ram Heart – Viewgirls
03 Pet Ghost Project – Glitch Shake
04 Ennui – Balance and Motion
05 No Surrender – Godda Get It
06 Julian Lynch – Terra
07 Green Like July – No Light Will Shine on Me
08 Iceage – White Rune
09 Times New Viking – Ever Falling in Love
10 Rene Breton – Fifth Ace of Anchors
11 Amor de Dias – Bunhill Fields
12 Peter Bjorn & John – Second Chance (RAC remix)
13 The Luyas – Too Beautiful to Work
14 Matt Paxton – Till the Sky Begins to Change
15 San Cisco – Golden Revolver
16 Tea Cozies – Dead Man’s Sister
17 G-Hop – I’m Strong
18 Marissa Nadler – Baby I Will Leave You in the Morning
19 Chain Gang of 1974 – Undercover
20 Mount Moriah – Lament
21 Blue Skies for Black Hearts – Majoring in the Arts
22 FM Belfast – New Year
23 Extra Classic – Give Them the Same
24 TV Ghost – Wired Trap
25 Pure X – Dry Ice
26 Cass McCombs – County Line
27 Snowmine – Beast in Air Beast in Water
28 Sleeper Agent – Love Blood
29 The Head and the Heart – Lost in My Mind
30 Tim Cohen – Don’t Give Up
31 The Ladybug Transistor – Clutching Stems
32 Girls Names – Seance on a Wet Afternoon
33 El Obo – VRGN EVL
34 Porcelain Raft – Talk to Me
35 Telepathe – Throw Away This
36 The Rosebuds – Woods
37 Radical Dads – New Age Dinosaur
38 Birds of Youth – Bombs Away She Is Here to Stay

If you liked this song, you should also check out:

Premiere: Jim McTurnan & The Kids That Killed the Man “Don’t Count Me Out”

Premiere: Sleeper Agent “Love Blood”

Tim Cohen, The Ladybug Transistor, Girls Names, El Obo, Porcelain Raft

This list is not editorial; these rankings are based on ratings feedback from the site’s visitors as of July 1st. (That’s in bold to quash some of the inevitable “these are stupid hipster songs” comments.) ]

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Here are the 10 best songs of 2011 (so far, as voted on by you)…

10: Savoir Adore “Loveliest Creature”

[ download ]  |  [ read more ]  |  Rating: 8.79

9: Icona Pop “Manners”

[ download ]  |  [ read more ]  |  Rating: 8.83

8: Torpedo “Waiting for the Fall”

[ download ]  |  [ read more ]  |  Rating: 8.86

7: Mike Adams at His Honest Weight “Bad Weather”

[ download ]  |  [ read more ]  |  Rating: 8.90

6: O’Death “Bugs”

[ download ]  |  [ read more ]  |  Rating: 8.92

5: Buried Beds “Breadcrumb Trail”

[ download ]  |  [ read more ]  |  Rating: 8.93

4: Johan Agebjörn “Watch the World Go By (with Le Prix and Lake Heartbeat)”

[ download ]  |  [ read more ]  |  Rating: 8.94

3: Hi Ho Silver Oh “Showers Without Warning”

[ download ]  |  [ read more ]  |  Rating: 8.96

2: The Rosebuds “Woods”

[ download ]  |  [ read more ]  |  Rating: 9.00

1: Milagres “Glowing Mouth”

[ download ]  |  [ read more ]  |  Rating: 9.22

If you’re hungry for more, check out Honorable Mention tracks which just missed the cut by René Breton , La Femme, David Berkeley, The Albertans, and Det Vackra Livet.

We’ve braced ourselves for the hurled insults, vitriolic disagreement, and maybe even a few nods of assent, so have at it in the comments below…

If you liked this song, you should also check out:

Trevor Giuliani “Wasting Your Town”