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1. the courtneys/silver velvet/II/flying nun records 2. DD dumbo/satan/utopia defeated/4AD   3. everything is recorded (with sampha)/close but not quite/xl   4. vince staples/yeah right/big fish theory/def jam   5. frankie rose/trouble/cage tropical/slumberland records   6. the war on drugs/up all night/a deeper understanding/atlantic     7. dirty projectors/up in hudson/dirty projectors/domino      8. jens lekman/evening prayer/life will see you now/secretly canadian     9. broken social scene/hug of thunder/hug of thunder/arts and crafts     10. hailu mergia & dahlak band/wede harer guzo/1978  

New episode! Featuring Subway, Alvvays, Natalie Prass (pictured), Willie Burns, Colleen Green, White Fang, Parquet Courts, and Sleater Kinney.

Hi Guys! Here's today's playlist: Can't Do Without You / Caribou / Our Love (Merge 2014) November Skies / Tomas Barfod (feat. Nina Kinert) / 5oFoF (Friends of Friends 2014) Air Bud / Kurt Vile / Wakin' On A Pretty Daze (Matador 2013) Coronus, The Terminator / Flying Lotus / You're Dead (Warp 2014) Black Ballerina / Ariel Pink / Pom Pom (4AD 2014) New Calm Pt. 2 / Oughts / Once More With Feeling EP (Constellation Records 2014) Red Eyes / The War On Drugs / Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian 2014) Johnny & Mary (Robert Palmer cover) / Todd Terje (vocals by Bryan Ferry) / It's Album Time (Olsen Records 2014) War Paint (pictured - thumbs up from Mary Timony!) / Ex Hex / Rips (Merge 2014)  

Hi! I'm back!  Here's today's playlist: EMA / Solace / The Future's Void (Matador 2014) Jamie xx / All Under One Roof Raving (Young Turks 2014) Ty Segall / The Hand / Manipulator (Drag City 2014) Perfume Genius / Queen / Too Bright (Matador TBA) Tobias Jesso Jr. / True Love (Self-Released) (break) Sharon Van Etten / Your Love Is Killing Me / Are We There (Jagjaguwar 2014) MC Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf (pictured) / Methods / Big Shots (Stone's Throw 1993 and re-released on the soundtrack of the 2014 documentary Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton) The New Pornographers / War On The East Coast / Brill Bruisers (Matador 2014) FKA twigs / Two Weeks / LP1 (Young Turks 2014) Cam'ron & A-Track / Dipshits / Federal Reserve EP

Hi Everyone! Sorry for the extended hiatus. Here are today's songs! 1. Shut Up / Posse / Soft Opening 2. Horizon / Real Estate / Atlas 3. American Horror / Speedy Ortiz / Real Hair EP 4. Let My Baby Stay / Mac DeMarco / Salad Days 5. Digital Witness / St. Vincent / St. Vincent 6. Parallel Jalebi / Four Tet / Beautiful Rewind 7. Birthday Song / Frankie Cosmos / Zentropy 8. Simon Ferocious / Mogwai / Rave Tapes 9. Eras / Juana Molina / Eras Bye!

Hi! Hi!!! Hiiiiiii! music: Mutual Benefit / Advanced Falconry Lorde / Ribs Crystal Stilts / Star Crawl Courtney Barnet / History Eraser Bill Callahan (pictured) / Spring The Range / Metal Swing Ben Khan / Eden Julianna Barwick / One Half HAIM / Falling Fuck Buttons / The Red Wing

PLEASE NOTE: In the podcast, I keep calling this Episode 6. It's not Episode 6; it's Episode 5.  The Pastels / Check My Heart Takako Minekawa & Dustin Wong / New Circle Was Begun Eleanor Friedberger / Stare At The Sun Scout Niblett / Nasty (pictured) Kurt Vile / KV Crimes Sonny And The Sunsets / Green Blood Baths / No Eyes Hunx And His Punx / You Think You're Tuff Daft Punk / Get Lucky Deerhunter / Leather Jacket II Byeee x

Hi! I'm back! Here are some amazing new song and an episode I really love!  Veronica Falls / If You Still Want me Waxahatchee / Peace and Quiet Low / Holy Ghost No Joy / Lunar Phobia My Bloody Valentine / New You Youth Lagoon / Mute Matmos / You Steve Mason / Safe Population Smith Westerns / Varsity Rhye / The Fall x

Foxygen - San Francisco (We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic) Tegan and Sara - Closer (Heartthrob)  Toro Y Moi - So many details (Anything In Return) Alexis Taylor - You Want Me (Nayim From The Finish Line) Grouper (pictured) - Vital (The Man Who Died In His Boat) Marnie Stern - Year of The Glad (Chronicles of Marnia)  Ducktails - Under Cover (The Flower Lane) Ex Cops - James (True Hallucinations) Darkstar - Armonica (News From Nowhere) 

As promised! Part 2 of my Best of 2012 Special - THE DANCE MIX.  This is very fun, and I hope you all really like it! Something to dance to, or for the gym or whatever.  Here's what I play: 1. Chromatics , Kill for love  2. Azealia Banks, Jumanji  3. Death Grips, I've Seen Footage 4. Solange, Losing You 5. Hot Chip, Motion Sickness  6. King Tuff, Bad thing 7. How To Dress Well, & It Was U 8. Ultraista, Bad Insect  9. Japandroids, The House That Heaven Built  10. Chairlift, I Belong In Your Arms 11. Icona Pop, I Love It 12. Royal Headache, Psychotic Episode 13. Grimes, Oblivion (pictured, style icon of 2012) x esther

Hi! Welcome back! Happy New Year! It's Season 5! Beginning with a 2-part Best of 2012 Special. Part 1 is just a lot of songs I really loved this year. Part 2 (next episode) will be the Best of 2012 DANCE MIXXX. A Sounds Ace tradition!  Today's songs: Fiona Apple / Werewolf (The Idler Wheel...) Liars / No.1 Against the Rush (WIXIW) Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti / Only In My Dreams (Mature Themes) (pictured) Cat Power / Silent Machine (Sun) Tame Impala / Feels Like We Only Go Backwards (Lonerism) Julia Holter / Goddess Eyes II (Ekstasis) Sharon Van Etten / Give Out (Tramp) Perfume Genius / Take Me Home (Put Your Back N 2 It) Dum Dum Girls / Season in Hell (End of Daze EP) Lotus Plaza / Strangers (Spooky Action At A Distance) Jens Lekman / The World Moves On (I Know What Love Isn't) Frankie Rose / Moon In My Mind (Interstellar) Dirty Projectors / Dance For You (Swing Lo Magellan) x esther

It's the final episode of Season 4! WHATTA SEASON.  Anyway here's the playlist! How to Dress Well - & It Was U Peaking Lights - Beautiful Son Divine Fits - Shivers Grizzly Bear - A Simple Answer Royal Headache - Psychotic Episode  Dum Dum Girls - Trees and Flowers (pictured, now blonde!) Actress - N.E.W. Dirty Projectors - Dance For You Port St. Willow - Amawalk Woods - Is It Honest? (intro/outro: Q-Tip - Wait Up)

Hello! I'm back after a little hiatus (SORRY!) with a Country Ladies special, as a sort of tribute to the recently departed Kitty Wells (who I may have referred to as Kitty Webb in the actual episode, thank you 3am). Featuring Dolly Parton (pictured), Jolie Holland, Emmylou Harris, Patsy Cline, The Dixie Chicks, Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, Loretta Lynn, Gillian Welch, Neko Case and of course, Kitty Wells.  Bye!

Hi everyone! This week's episode features brand new music FROM: King Tuff (pictured), Beck, Lower Dens, Fiona Apple (yes, again), Liars, Laetetia Sadier, Hot Chip, Azealia Banks, Perfume Genius and Lotus Plaza. Hooray! Just a regular episode of Sounds Ace.  x esther

Sounds Ace & Friends! Sounds Ace pal and fellow Jerusalem resident Laura Graber and I decided to make an episode about the music we were listening to when we started caring about music, I guess, or when we were finishing high school and starting university. Heads up; nostalgia for 2002-2004.  Featuring The Strokes, Wilco, Cat Power, Broadcast, Erlend Oye, Ben Kweller, The Postal Service, Broken Social Scene (pictured, and a word about this picture: I had this picture up on my wall. I thought it was beyond cool), The Flaming Lips and The Fiery Furnaces. 

I'm back i'm back i'm baaaaack. Sorry it's been so long. I was away! Anyway back now, with really a great episode with lots of new songs that I really love INCLUDING Spiritualized, Hunx and his Punx, Eleanor Friedberg (ever-photogenic, and pictured), Japandroids, Diiv (f/k/a Dive), Daniel Rossen, Chromatics, Fiona Apple, The Men and The Shins. I hope you like it!  As ever, Esther C. W. 

Sorry! I have a cold and that shit's all up in this episode. Hope you think it sounds cute, or something. So! Regular Episode here, featuring Grimes (pictured), Julia Holter, Crystal Stilts, dumbly spelled Miike Snow, Lotus Plaza, Perfume Genius, Disappears and Sleigh Bells. 

I FOUND IT!  enjoy

I'm back! From Paris! Just in time to bring you this Slumberland Records Special. Slumberland are one of my favourite labels ever, active since the late 80s and continuing to release really great music from their Oakland HQ. Featuring old and current bands from the Slumberland roster, including The Softies, The Aisler Set (pictured, with Amy Linton seated on the floor), Henry's dress, Frankie Rose, The Ropers, Boyracer, Lilys, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Veronica Falls.  I hope you like it!  x esther

Okay! Regular episode this week, featuring music both NEW and OLD! Lower Dens, Sharon Van Etten, The Partridge Family, Japanther, R. Stevie Moore (gloriously pictured), Chairlift, Nicolas Jaar, Neutral Milk Hotel, Zola Jesus and Girls At Our Best.  I hope you liiiiiiiiiike it and you can email me if you have any questions or suggestions for specials! Or if you want to be on Sounds Ace and Friends.  x esther