A few days late but stacked with excellence, here is your collection of May’s absolute jams. For optimal ease of consumption, you’ll find it here in three forms: a 12-track downloadable zip of the month’s best free MP3s, a 15-song Spotify playlist of May’s finest Spotify-enabled tracks, and to close it out, a 46-track Soundcloud set of the essential songs you ought to have in your ears and under your belt before moving your mind onto June. For your weekend:
Stereogum Monthly Mix: May 2013
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Every Radiohead album can be associated with some watershed moment in the band’s career. Pablo Honey is the one with “Creep,” still their most popular song by far if Spotify streams count for anything. The Bends is the one where they established themselves as guitar deities with staying power. OK Computer is the one that made them instantly legendary. Kid A is the one that made them permanently legendary. Amnesiac will always be in Kid A‘s shadow somewhat, but on the other hand, it’s the one where they had the balls to release a second LP from the same sessions as Kid A just eight months later. Skipping ahead, In Rainbows is the middle finger to the music industry. The King Of Limbs is (and I might be stretching here) the one where the line between Radiohead and Thom Yorke’s solo career started to blur.
Hail To The Thief Turns 10
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Run The Jewels, the badass new rap superduo of Killer Mike and El-P, will release their free album sometime this month, and I seriously cannot wait; it’s tough to imagine that it won’t be the mixtape of the year. We’ve already heard their tracks “
Run The Jewels – “36″ Chain”
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This has been a good year for bands making music that might ostensibly be referred to minimalist R&B. In addition to great offerings in that vein from the likes of inc. and Autre Ne Veut, we also have
Beacon Talk About Their Debut Album – And How They Aren’t Really Trying To Make R&B Music
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She & Him write some pretty simple songs, but when they rolled through The Tonight Show last night, they had a whole lot of help in playing one of them. Playing “I’ve Got Your Number, Son,” one of the songs from their new Volume 3, Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward had help from five backup singers and two drummers. Nobody in the supporting cast, however, was going to upstage Zooey’s tambourine skills or her pink tiered birthday cake of a dress. Watch the performance below.
Watch She & Him Play Leno
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The idea of “music video” can mean a lot of things in 2013. On the internet, many of our most memorable experiences involving music and moving images have been fringey delights: An
Stereogum’s Top 25 Music Videos Of 2013 So Far
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