The Indie Starter Kit

The Twelves- Works for Me
Ace Enders- Rain
Always the Runner- Speaking Of Paliminos
Astronautalis- Two Years Before the Mast
Bear vs. Shark- Busess No Busess
Bloc Party- Flux (JFK Remix)
The Carps- All The Thugs I know
Caspian- Quivos
Constants- Walking Dead In East Texas
Cursive- The Casualty
The Decemberist- The Tain
Discover America- Green Eyes
Do Make Say Think- Minmin
Dredg- Ode To The Sun
Drive Like Jehu- Caress
Dustin Kensure- Blood & Wine
Every Gentle Air- The Sower (Really any thing by these guys is fantastic)
Explosions in the Sky- The Birth and Death of the Day
The Faint- The Geeks Were Right
Far- Mother Mary
Foxhole- End of Dying
Gatsbys American Dream- Margaritas And Cock
Harvey Danger- War Buddies
High and Driving- Shes So Lovely
Hilmar Örn Hilmarson- Pretty Angels
I Married My High School Sweetheart- For Keiko (It feels Like)
Innerpartysystem- Don't Stop
Intramural- Rocket
J Dilla- Geek Down
Junius- Hiding Knives (One of the best bands ever)
Kill The Noise- Hey You (Le Castle Vaina Remix)
The Kinsion- You Will Never Guess Who Died
Limbeck- Honk + Wave
Logh- Fell Into The Well
M83- Let Men Burn Stars
Mates of State- Ha Ha
Metric- Monster Hospital
Mew- Circuitry Of The Wolf
mewithoutYou- In A Sweater Poorly Knit
Mickey Factz- Rockstar Posers
Minus The Bear- Drilling (P.O.S. Redo)
Mogwai- Auto Rock
Moth- I See Sound
Mouth Of The Architect- Baobab
Murder By Death- Killbot2000
Onelinedrawing- Oh, Boys
Pedro The Line- A Mind of Her Own
Pelican- Sirius
Planes Mistaken For Stars- Copper and Stars
Portugal. The Man- AKA M80 The Wolf
The Prize Fighter Inferno- The Going Price For Home
Random- Sitges Savepoint
Ratatat- Beanie Sigel & Dirt McGirt - When You Hear That (Remixes Vol 1)
Refused- New Noise
Russian Circles- Death Rides A Horse
Sense Field- Burn
Sigur Ros- Glósóli
The Snake The Cross The Crown- Gates of Dis
Soular- Take Me Away
The Sounds Of Animals Fighting- The Heretic (Such a great song)
Sparta- Cut Your Ribbon
Steal Train- Blown Away
Stop It!!- Amen and Boys
The Stryder- Billy
Sufjan Stevens- The Dress Looks Nice On You
Telefon Tel Aviv- Fahrenheit Fair Enough
Thrice- Child of Dust
Thursday- Into the Blinding Light
Tristeza- Aereoaviones
U.N.K.L.E.- When Things Explode
The Valley Arena- Paint it Red
Waxwing- Place Called Houston
Yaphet Kotto- Torn Pictures

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Anyway. I know how you internetians love mp3s so...I will get on that.

MTV Video Music Awards 2008

Results for this joke of a show.

Best Female Video (wtf)
Britney Spears
"Piece of Me"

Best Male Video
Chris Brown
"With You"

Best Dancing In A Video (wtf)
Pussycat Dolls
"When I Grow Up"

Best Rock Video (wtf)
Linkin Park
"Shadow of the Day"

Best Hip-Hop Video (W.T.F.)
Lil Wayne
"Lollipop"

Best New Artist (I have no idea who this is)
Tokio Hotel
"Ready, Set, Go!"

Best Pop Video (...)
Britney Spears
"Piece of Me"

Video of the Year (WHAT THE...you get the idea)
Britney Spears
"Piece of Me"

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I know I shouldn't be surprised by any of this yet somehow, I am. Even the 'theme' for this year was horrible (backlot at paramount studios). Most of the acts were just uninspired to say the least.

Even more surprising perhaps is that I did find some moments that I enjoyed watching, mainly Travis Barker and the brief clips we heard of the mixes he was drumming to. Tonights whole show should just have been Travis on drums. Despite the obvious lip syncing which one must expect from the Vma's, Christina Aguilera's number was enjoyable to listen to.

As of my typing right this second, I haven't seen the entire show, just up until Paramore's performance (whom I am no ashamed to say I love). So it is here I will rest my keyboard and I will come back to finish. So, here is a type of play by play as I take in the rest of the 2008 VMA's.


*watching new artist part.
all of these guys look like they belong in 4 different band. sad because I have to wait 33min for Kayne. hm, wonder if youtube has it yet.

*LL Cool J is...making music?
All the Kayne vma vids have already been taken off YouTube :(

*Paris Hilton is on stage.
Is this Ready Set Go singing band really this big?

*...
What a tease, 1 min of Lupe giving a better show than everyone else so far. From a much smaller stage with of course, Travis and that DJ...hopefully I will catch his name. How are the awards won anyway? Do people go online and vote and then it gets rigid? Or is it just Rigid from the start?

*Drake and Josh are on stage
Who are Drake and Josh? Hey look at that, Kid Rock is back. Ha, awesome, 'This is all real, no lip syncing'. Ok, given it's been 8 or so years since I last heard kid rock, but when did he turn southern rock/country-ish? Eh, still not my cup of tea. Le Gasp! Someone got Lil' Wayne in my Kid Rock! They do look like they are having tons of fun though.

*About to give you video of the year
ajkshdfk The Jonas Brothers even have a shot at this? My brain is about to expl...THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS. WHATSDLFSLKJLFHH. Also, Russel Brandt is insane.

*FINALLY KAYNE.
This song is killer so far. Yep, Kayne > Mtv.

All in all, I miss the year Sarah Silverman hosted it and just mocked it the whole time. 2008 Vma's, huge waste of time.

I think my readership is like 5 or 6 people who like the random mp3 I throw up, BUT, if you are so inclined, tell me some videos you think people should know about and I will post them for those 5 other people to look at.



Oh yay, a post show. Sigh.