The Bad Plus

Care to peek at our personal playlists? Here is a collection of ten songs that we’re jamming at the moment, including work by Mike Patton, Helms Alee, 2 Foot Yard, Ocean, The Bad Plus, and more.

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1. Dinosaur Jr. “Out There” video from the album Where You Been?. First aired on MTV in 1993. Easily one of the best rock songs of the 90s.

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2. James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti singing “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World” live in 2006.

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3. The Raveonettes “Aly, Walk With Me” from their upcoming record Lust Lust Lust (out Feb. 19, 2008 on Vice Recordings). This song is so bad ass.

4. A video proving Bob Staake, a children’s book illustrator, still draws with Adobe Photoshop 3.0.

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5. This week’s note from the ALARM Department of What the Fuck:

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Because there are just five weeks until Aesop Rock returns with another full-length album, we’re bracing for the mania that will surround None Shall Pass with numerous advance listenings. (more…)

Brace yourselves; Coalesce is back. The pummeling hardcore unit’s new two-song seven-inch may not be out until September, but that doesn’t mean we can’t rock it on repeat. (more…)

It didn’t take The Material Girl to turn us onto Gogol Bordello. These unabashed Gypsy punks head this week’s list of office spinners. (more…)

This week’s In Rotation is a family affair as brothers Oh No (shown above) and Madlib battle for attention in the ALARM office. (more…)

Fates, the first album by finger-tapping phenomenon Erik Mongrain, is spinning in the ALARM office this week. (more…)

Tomahawk have fantastically fused Native American songs with rock on their new album, Anonymous, which has garnered much attention in the ALARM office. (more…)

Queens of the Stone Age, whose new album, Era Vulgaris, hits stores today and is getting heavy play in the ALARM office, are the cover artists of our forthcoming summer issue. (more…)