MP3: “Revival” by Talkdemonic

Portland-based Instrumental post-rock duo Talkdemonic are releasing their fourth album, Ruins, October 4th, 2011 on Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock’s Glacial Pace Recordings. According to the press release, Ruins is “the most cohesive and exploratory Talkdemonic album to date. Building on a near-decades worth of partnership and collaboration, the pair have achieved an incredible set of instrumental tracks that slide dynamically from fluttering grooves to full on landscapes of sound. Armed with a new arsenal of processing pedals, Lisa’s viola parts teem with vibrant textures and surge from serene tenderness to wild cataclysmic intensity. Kevin expertly paces each song out, augmenting spaces with live drum beats and coloring the canvas with an array of deftly employed synth and acoustic guitar flourishes.”

Stream and download “Revival” by Talkdemonic below (click down arrow for download):

Revival by Talkdemonic by PMA

MP3: “That’ll Be The Day” by Modest Mouse

While fans patiently wait to hear a taste from the new Big Boi-produced album from Modest Mouse (these historically turn out bad — see Chris Cornell), there’s a new track appearing on the upcoming June 28 release of a Buddy Holly compilation called Rave On. Modest Mouse cover “That’ll Be The Day.” Download the track here or stream it below:

Fishpork’s 10 Favorite Shows of 2010

2010 will be remembered as the year we saw Jeff Mangum play five songs. It’s hard to compare that experience even in a year that was loaded with unforgettable performances. Deerhunter solidified themselves as Fishpork elite, Arcade Fire showed why some consider them the best band on the planet, and James Murphy all but burned down NYC. Here’s is our very biased list of our favorite shows of 2010:

1. Jeff Mangum @ Le Poisson Rouge

2. Deerhunter @ Starlight Ballroom

3. Jonsi @ Terminal 5

4. LCD Soundsystem @ Terminal 5

5. Arcade Fire/Spoon @ The Mann Center

6. Tobacco @ First Unitarian Church

7. Atoms For Peace @ Roseland Ballroom

8. Owen Pallett @ Bowery Ballroom

9. Modest Mouse @ Williamsburg Waterfront

10. Faith No More @ Williamsburg Waterfront

MP3s: “Here’s To Now” and “Lay Me Down” by Ugly Casanova

Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock’s Ugly Casanova contributed nine songs for the soundtrack of new documentary 180° South. The soundtrack is released today via Universal Republic. Amazon is streaming samples of each track here. Download “Here’s To Now” and “Lay Me Down” or stream the tracks below:

Here’s To Now:

Lay Me Down:

Fishpork’s 50 Favorite Tracks of 2009

This year really didn’t end up being that “greatest of the decade” as January-March may have suggested. With that said, our favorite tracks list became very album-heavy as it evolved throughout the year. With seven tracks from Animal Collective and Grizzly Bear in the top 20, you kinda get the point. Here is our very biased list of favorite tracks from 2009:

1. HEALTH – “Die Slow”
2. Grizzly Bear – “While You Wait for the Others“
3. Animal Collective – “Summertime Clothes”
4. Fuck Buttons – “Olympians”
5. Built to Spill – “Things Fall Apart”
6. Animal Collective – “My Girls”
7. Fever Ray – “Concrete Walls”
8. Grizzly Bear – “Ready, Able“
9. White Lies – “Farewell to the Foreground”
10. Moderat – “New Error”
11. Atlas Sound – “Attic Lights”
12. Grizzly Bear – “Two Weeks“
13. Animal Collective – “Guy’s Eyes”
14. Fuck Buttons – “The Lisbon Maru”
15. Atlas Sound – “Walkabout”
16. Animal Collective – “What Would I Want? Sky”
17. Dredg – “Information”
18. White Lies – “Death”
19. Fever Ray – “Coconut”
20. Animal Collective – “Brothersport”
21. Built to Spill – “Good Ol’ Boredom”
22. MC Rut – “I Don’t Really Know”
23. The Mars Volta – “Since We’ve Been Wrong”
24. Modest Mouse – “The Whale Song”
25. Dirty Projectors – “Cannibal Resource”
26. Deerhunter – “Game of Diamonds”
27. Morrissey – “It’s Not Your Birthday Anymore”
28. Animal Collective – “I Think I Can”
29. HEALTH – “We Are Water”
30. Dredg – “Mourning This Morning”
31. Sufjan Stevens – “You Are the Blood”
32. Fuck Buttons – “Surf Solar”
33. Phoenix – “Girlfriend”
34. The Flaming Lips – “Silver Trembling Hands”
35. White Rabbits – “Rudie Fails”
36. The Mars Volta – “With Twilight As Our Guide”
37. Radiohead – “These Are My Twisted Words”
38. Great Northern – “Fingers”
39. Royksopp – “Tricky, Tricky”
40. Dirty Projectors – “Useful Chamber”
41. St. Vincent – “The Party”
42. YACHT – “Ring The Bell”
43. Bat For Lashes – “Sleep Alone”
44. Atlas Sound – “Sheila”
45. Washed Out – “Feel It All Around”
46. Das Racist – “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell”
47. Dirty Projectors – “Stillness Is The Move”
48. Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs – “Skeletons”
49. Great Northern – “Driveway”
50. Morrissey – “I’m OK By Myself”

Fishpork’s 100 Favorite Tracks of the 2000s

This is an attempt at the impossible. Here are our 100 favorite songs of the past decade (featuring multiple tracks from Animal Collective, The Knife, Radiohead, and Elliott Smith). Our top two choices are more like 1a and 1b. Be patient, as the page needs to load the embedded songs.

1. Panda Bear – “Bros” (2007)

2. The Knife – “We Share Our Mother’s Health” (2006)

3. Animal Collective – “For Reverend Green” (2007)

4. Grizzly Bear – “While You Wait For The Others” (2009)

5. The Knife – “Heartbeats” (2003)

6. Grizzly Bear – “The Knife” (2005)

7. LCD Soundsystem – “Someone Great” (2007)

8. TV on the Radio – “Staring at the Sun” (2003)

9. Crystal Castles – “Crimewave” (2008)

10. Beirut – “Ciloqut” (2007)

11. Thom Yorke – “Harrowdown Hill

12. Animal Collective – “Derek” (2007)

13. Nine Inch Nails – “Me, I’m Not” (2007)

14. Beck – “Lonesome Tears” (2002)

15. At The Drive-in – “One Armed Scissor” (2004)

16. Animal Collective – “Grass” (2005)

17. Deerhunter – “Nothing Ever Happened” (2008)

18. Atlas Sound – “Recent Bedroom” (2008)

19. Panda Bear – “Comfy in Nautica” (2007)

20. System of a Down – “Chop Suey” (2001)

21. Animal Collective – “Peacebone” (2007)

22. Battles – “Atlas” (2007)

23. Error – “Jack the Ripper” (2004)

24. Enon – “Pleasure and the Privilege”

25. Elliott Smith – “Son of Sam” (2000)

26. Animal Collective – “Did You See the Words” (2005)

27. The Knife – “Marble House” (2006)

28. LCD Soundsystem – “All My Friends” (2007)

29. Thom Yorke – “Analyse” (2006)

30. The Flaming Lips – “Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell” (2002)

31. Girl Talk – “Smash Your Head” (2006)
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32. A Perfect Circle – “Judith” (2000)

33. Radiohead – “Idioteque” (2000)

34. Tapes N’ Tapes – “Manitoba” (2006)

35. TV On The Radio – “I Was A Lover” (2006)

36. Radiohead – “Reckoner” (2007)

37. Fever Ray – “Coconut” (2009)

38. Animal Collective – “My Girls” (2009)

39. Built to Spill – “Things Fall Apart” (2009)

40. Wilco – “I’m Trying to Break Your Heart” (2002)

41. Modest Mouse – “Tiny Cities Made of Ashes” (2000)

42. Animal Collective – “Leaf House” (2004)

43. Modeselektor – “Happy Birthday” (2007)

44. Arcade Fire – “Wake Up” (2004)

45. Autolux – “Blanket” (2004)

46. MGMT – “Time to Pretend” (2007)

47.  Built to Spill – “Conventional Wisdom” (2006)

48. Wilco – “Side With the Seeds” (2007)

49. Elliott Smith – “Happiness/The Gondola Man” (2000)

50. Avey Tare – “I’m Your Eagle Kisser” (2007)

51. Department of Eagles – “Waves of Rye” (2008)

52. Animal Collective – “Summertime Clothes” (2009)

53. Radiohead – “2+2 = 5″ (2003)

54. Dredg – “Sang Real” (2005)

55. While Lies – “Farewell to the Fairground” (2009)

56. Grizzly Bear – “Ready, Able” (2009)

57. Matisyahu – “King Without a Crown” (2005)

58. Modest Mouse – “Paper Thin Walls” (2000)

59. Dillinger Escape Plan – “When Good Dogs Do Bad Things” (2002)

60. Elliott Smith – “Twilight” (2004)

61. Deerhunter – “Flourescent Grey” (2007)

62. Holy Fuck – “Lovely Allen” (2007)

63. LCD Soundsystem – “Never As Tired As When I’m Waking Up” (2006)

64. The Notwist – “Boneless (Panda Bear Remix)” (2008)

65. Liars – “Nothing Is Ever Lost or Can Be Lost My Science Friend” (2004)

66. The Mars Volta – “Inertiatic E.S.P.” (2003)

67. The Notwist – “Solitaire” (2002)

68. Of Montreal – “The Past is a Grotesque Animal” (2007)

69. Queens of the Stone Age – “Tangled Up in Plaid” (2005)

70. Radiohead – “Jigsaw Falling Into Place” (2007)

71. Saul Williams – “Raised To Be Lowered” (2007)

72. Autolux – “Great Days for the Passenger Element” (2004)

73. Sigur Ros – “Untitled 8″ (2002)

74. Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs – “Maps” (2003)

75. Portishead – “Threads” (2008)

76. Sufjan Stevens – “Chicago” (2005)

77. Ugly Casanova – “Things I Don’t Remember” (2002)

78. Animal Collective – “Brothersport” (2009)

79. Radiohead – “Pyramid Song” (2001)

80. Nine Inch Nails – “Only” (2005)

81. El-P – “Flyentology” (2007)

82. Queens of the Stone Age – “No One Knows” (2002)

83. Ghostface Killah – “Shakey Dog” (2006)

84. Modest Mouse – “Missed the Boat” (2007)

85. UNKLE – “Persons and Machinery” (2007)

86. Amon Tobin – “Verbal” (2002)

87. The White Stripes – “Denial Twist” (2005)
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88. Tomahawk – “Captain Midnight” (2003)

89. Modest Mouse – “Bukowski” (2004)

90. Sigur Ros – “Hoppipolia” (2005)

92. Fuck Buttons – “Sweet Love For Planet Earth” (2008)

93. Bon Iver – “Skinny Love” (2008)

94. Built to Spill – “In Your Mind” (2001)

95. The White Stripes – “Icky Thump” (2007)

96. Does It Offend You, Yeah? – “We Are Rockstars” (2008)

97. Dub Trio – “Not Alone” (2006)

98. Modest Mouse – “The World At Large”

99. The Walkmen – “In the New Year” (2008)

100. Nine Inch Nails – “The Great Destroyer (Modwheelmood Remix)” (2007)

Fishpork’s Favorite Albums of the 2000s

Compiling a list of your favorite albums for an entire decade is quite the challenge, especially when that decade was as strong as the 2000s were. Six of our favorites come from two bands (Animal Collective and Radiohead), and two were from this past year (Veckatimest and Merriweather Post Pavilion). This list is by no means a definitive statement of the best music from last decade. Instead, these are our favorite albums that were on heavy rotation in our iPods and scrobbled endlessly on Last.FM.

1. Strawberry Jam (2007) – Animal Collective

2. Silent Shout (2006) – The Knife

3. The Moon and Antarctica (2000) -  Modest Mouse

4. Kid A (2000) – Radiohead

5. Figure 8 (2000) – Elliott Smith

6. Veckatimest (2009) – Grizzly Bear

7. De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003) – The Mars Volta

8. Future Perfect (2004) – Autolux

9. The Eraser (2006) – Thom Yorke

10. Person Pitch (2007) – Panda Bear

11. Return to Cookie Mountain (2006) – TV on the Radio

12. Sea Change (2002) – Beck

13. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) – Wilco

14. High Society (2002) – Enon

15. The Loon (2006) – Tapes N’ Tapes

16. Microcastle (2008) – Deerhunter

17. Feels (2005) – Animal Collective

18. Sound of Silver (2007) – LCD Soundsystem

19. In Rainbows (2007) – Radiohead

20. Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009) – Animal Collective

July’s Fresh Pork Cuts

Mark’s

• The Mars Volta – “With Twilight As My Guide”
• Middle Class Rut – “I Don’t Really Know”
• Thom Yorke – “All For The Best (Marc Mulcahy cover)”
• Modest Mouse – “History Sticks To Your Feet”
• Moderat – “Rusty Nails”

Peter’s

• Circulatory System – Solid Forms Dissolving
• Neon Indian – Terminally Chill
• Dirty Projectors – Useful Chamber
• Kurt Vile  – Overnite Religion
• Phaseone – Tower Grove Joint

Modest Mouse Limited Edition 7″- Satellite Skin

April’s Fresh Pork Cuts

Pete’s:

• Puscifer – “The Mission”
• Neon Indian – “6669 (I Don’t Know If You Know)”
• White Lies – “Nothing To Give”
• Lily Allen – “Everyone’s At It”
• Röyksopp (featuring Karin Dreijer Andersson) – “Tricky Tricky”

Mark’s:

• Grizzly Bear – “Cheerleader”
• Atlas Sound – “Memorial Corridor”
• Nine Inch Nails – “Non-Entity (Studio Version)”
• Deerhunter – “Disappearing Ink (Live)”
Modest Mouse – “Satellite Skin (Live)”

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