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Featured Mixtape
Sun and Surf
| 1 | Jetpack Blues, Sunset Hues |
| 2 | surf wax america |
| 3 | Parallel Park |
| 4 | Shit Song |
| 5 | We Drink On The Job |
| 6 | Crazy For You |
| 7 | Nothing Like You |
| 8 | Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da |
| 9 | Family Waves |
| 10 | Die Die Die |
| 11 | Bicycle, Bicycle, you are my Bicycle |
| 12 | Rat Is Dead (Rage) |
| 13 | We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed |
| 14 | No Sunlight |
| 15 | Sparxxx |
| 16 | Little Little Little |
| 17 | Let Your Love Grow Tall |
| 18 | Thinking, Drinking, Sinking, Feeling |
Featured Article
IMP's Top 20 Albums of 2011
Unlike other music-related websites that strive to be arbiters of taste, IMP's primary mission is to extend the long tail. Accordingly, the annual IMP Top 20 list is scattershot and surprising, ranging from Kiwi cine-synth to Canadian hip-hop's Roman nose to not-Garfunkel pop. So publishing the cumulative year-end list is a disservice to that subjectivity, muffling the beautiful noise of each member's preferences. Meaning: do not accept this lists at face value when you can seek out the individual lists of IMP members -- on their blogs, in Facebook updates, and in their monthly mixes.
-- Ryan Mixtape
Pitchfork Music Festival 2011
Although the Pitchfork Music Festival has lost some of its DIY scruff and has begun to succumb to the gilded charms of a few large brands, the three-day festival in a small park in Chicago's West Loop still feels humane (free bottled water, affordable vegan meals) and remains the best value of any event on the summer festival circuit.
-- Ryan Mixtape
Review: Reggie Watts in San Francisco, 08/17/11
Watts's particular genius is tied to the way pop artists sound, both on the track and at the dinner table, away from the glare of celebrity. Reggie Watts is obsessed with how our voices reflect our identities, not just our images. The set of sounds that capture a rapper's intonation when discussing how he came up in the business or an R&B crooner's hesitancy when talking about anything but love in the club is then chopped up as the raw material of song.
-- Ryan Mixtape