The Ten

Discover music. New Ten every Friday.

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The Ten for June 17, 2016

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Road Blaster (M83)

Lone (What So Not, Ganz, JOY.)

Open Fire (Slumberjack, Daniel Johns)

Golden Ticket (Highasakite)

Complicated (Fitz and The Tantrums)

So Tired (Hockey Dad)

Impact (The Creases)

Outcast at Last (Sticky Fingers)

Where Are You Now? (Royal Blood)

Work from Home (Tim Heidecker)

I've been sitting on four unreleased posts for quite some time now. The plan is that these four keep the posts moving as I fill in future posts and actually take the time out to post them.

The next few weeks will have releases back through April and May. Maybe you're as behind as I am and these will still be fresh for you. Also, who knew the new Tim Heidecker album would be what it is? "Work from Home" has really grown on me since the single came out.

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The Ten for April 8, 2016

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You and I (Margaret Glaspy)

Before, I Am (The Belligerents)

Ha Ha Ha Ha (Yeah) (White Denim)

How to Taste (Violent Soho)

Feeling (Bibio)

The Valley (Mayer Hawthorne)

Window Seat (Thomston, Wafia)

What If I Go? (Mura Masa)

Action (Cassius, Cat Power, Mike D)

Separate Lives (HÆLOS)

Featuring a track from the new Mayer Hawthorne album!

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The Ten for April 1, 2016

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Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part 1 (The Flaming Lips)

Butterfly (Twin Peaks)

Outside (Parquet Courts)

Pretty Mouth (Purple)

Airport Love (Jenny Broke the Window)

Money On Me (Snakehips, Anderson Paak)

Temple (Baauer, M.I.A., G-DRAGON)

Believe (Mystery Skulls)

Put Me Thru (Anderson Paak)

Courtesy Of (Running Touch)

Starting off this week's Ten taking us back 14 years to The Flaming Lips' "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part 1." I heard this on the radio a few days ago and hadn't heard it in years (probably). It deserves another listen if it has been a while.

New Mystery Skulls single! Fingers crossed that more new ones are on the way.

Double appearance from Anderson Paak this week from his latest album and a collaboration track with Snakehips. Catch the rest of his new album Malibu for more.

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The Ten for March 25, 2016

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Walk To The One You Love (Twin Peaks)

Under the Sun (DIIV)

You Know I Love You (Big White)

Bulls (The Cat Empire)

Keeping Me Under (Two Another)

Stepping Stone (Lemaitre, Mark Johns)

Marquis Marq (Stepdad)

Learning for Your Love (Marcus Marr, Chet Faker)

READY OR NOT (SBTRKT)

Down Like This (Motez, Tkay Maidza)

Turkey! You know it's going to be a good week when there's a new Stepdad EP. Officially at three in a row.

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The Ten for March 18, 2016

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Do It, Try It (M83)

Moonraker (Chrome Sparks)

Heavy As A Heartbreak (Just A Gent, Lanks)

Make Them Wheels Roll (SAFIA)

Control 2 (Dreamtrak, Amateur Best)

Marathon Man (Bear Hands)

Gamma Knife (King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard)

Peculiar (Harts)

Infinite Paradise (Sail Away) (The Lulu Raes)

Alone Again Or (The Damned)

Let's keep the momentum going. Thanks to those of you who missed this little operation while it was gone.

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The Ten for March 11, 2016

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Rolling On (The Murlocs)

I Can't Save You (Cub Sport)

Boredom (Hey Geronimo)

Blood On My Leather (DZ Deathrays)

2AM (Bear Hands)

Never Be Like You (Flume, Kai)

Chosen One (Art vs Science)

That's Desire (Client Liaison)

Landslide (Jimi Tents)

Cosmic Love (Mayer Hawthorne)

Travelers (Live Version) (The Square)

T H E E L E V E N

Six months in the making, a musical extravaganza that will resonate through time has been constructed for listening by the masses. This in no way has anything to do with a very real laziness on my part and an attempt at trying to make this sound impressive by having an extra song in this bi-annual edition of The Ten T H E E L E V E N.

Perhaps were back to this now? And the two people that I'm aware of that missed this blogs absence will be relieved that they can again listen to 10 things that I find interesting each week.

Most exciting for this week? Japanese jazz/funk powerhouse T-Square / The Square has made it to Spotify in the USA! Let's celebrate a combination of that and the release of Street Fighter V with their track "Travelers" which I will never believe was not the direct influence for Guile's Theme. Go ahead. Try and convince me.

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The Ten for September 18, 2015

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There is Nothing Left (The Drums)

Burnout (The Lulu Raes)

Monument (Mutemath)

Light (ODESZA, Little Dragon)

Trust (Half Moon Run)

Willing & Able (Disclosure, Kwabs)

Straight Lines (Benny Sings)

Never Ending Circles (CHVRCHES)

All Night (Slum Sociable)

Them Changes (Thundercat, Flying Lotus, Kamasi Washington)

Two for two! Back on track for a second week with new music from The Drums, CHVRCHES, Benny Sings and more. Most excited about new material from Benny Sings. Hopefully this means that we can expect more singles or a full album soon.

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The Ten for September 12, 2015

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You're the Best (Wet)

Mercy Mountain (Moses Gunn Collective)

Auntie Pearl's House (Golden Rules)

Gone (Jr. Jr.)

When It Feels so Good (Strange Talk)

Leave A Trace (CHVRCHES)

Flash Drive (Wave Racer, B∆BY)

Old School (Bee's Knees, Monogem)

Embracing Me (SAFIA)

Slumlord (Neon Indian)

Let's try starting it up again. Needed an extra kick. Enjoy the music and off we go!

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The Ten for August 14, 2015

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All Time (Tiger Choir)

Don't Wait Up (Robert DeLong)

Abrasive (Ratatat)

Kooky Eyes (The Jungle Giants)

Cold Tears (AM & Shawn Lee)

A Shadow in the Dark (Cayucas)

Bend (Chet Faker)

Petals (Basenji, Scenic)

Quiet Achiever (Yeo)

STONEFIST (Health)

Better two months late than never... right? Back to it starting today!

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The Ten for June 21, 2015

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Voices (The Belligerents)

Calling Out (Penguin Prison)

Dreams (Beck)

Jungle (Panama)

The Chase (Future Islands)

Just Now (Loon Lake)

Damn Baby (Alpine)

From the Dead (Faith No More)

Devil's Whisper (Raury)

Youth (Shamir)

Plenty of new album releases to go around over the last few weeks. Included in this week's Ten are tracks from the new albums from Penguin Prison, Alpine, Faith No More and Shamir.

Beck is back this week with his first single release since last year's "Morning Phase" and Panama treats us with the decidedly different, yet familiar sounding new single.

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The Ten for June 12, 2015

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Disciples (Tame Impala)

Down The Stairs (Saskwatch)

Necessary Evil (Unknown Mortal Orchestra)

Sea Creatures (SOAK)

Moony Eyed Walrus (Cayucas)

40oz. On Repeat (FIDLAR)

Back of the Car (RAC, Nate Henricks)

Can't Feel My Face (The Weeknd)

I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times) (Jamie xx, Young Thug, Popcaan)

Cry For You (Hot Chip)

Not as much commentary on this week's Ten due to time constraints and being distracted by what is going on down the street in Dallas right now. Strong music all around with my highlight of the week being Weeknd's "Can't Feel My Face." Pop, Funk and Michael Jackson vibes abound.

Tame Impala, please let "Disciples" be an intro to a longer song in this style. One minute and 49 seconds is not nearly enough time for this.

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The Ten for June 5, 2015

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Annie (Neon Indian)

My Car (Tear Council)

Unicorns (Muscles)

Some Minds (Flume, Andrew Wyatt)

Holding On (Disclosure, Gregory Porter)

Powerful (Major Lazer, Tarrus Riley, Ellie Goulding)

Molasses (Hiatus Kaiyote)

Black Skeleton (Jenny Broke the Window)

City (Spring King)

Devil Was In My Yard (The Sleepy Jackson)

Neon Indian leads the charge this week with "Annie." An evolution from Era Extraña and a definite departure from Psychic Chasms, "Annie" sounds more like something you would hear out of Miami Horror. The track features a nostalgic callback to the earlier days of Neon Indian near the end, but I'm not disappointed with what they've given us.

New music this week from a few artists which have been quiet for too long. Muscles reappears after 2012's Manhood with "Unicorns." It's a good hold over until Muscles flexes on us again with more new music. Flerm Flume is back with "Some Minds." Fan of Flume? You'll be a fan of this.

If you hadn't heard it before you may not know that "Powerful" is a Major Lazer track. It's a great song and there's plenty of talent going around on it, but I can garuantee they're not playing this in clubs in the caribbean.

Topping off The Ten for this week is The Sleepy Jackon's "Devil Was In My Yard." I feel like I've been robbed of this band for years by my own lack of due diligence. Luke Steele of Empire of the Sun also has (or it may be had) an alt rock group which was started around 1998. Luke's voice is unmistakeable in any context.

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After two years of updates consisting of Spotify playlists and the sporadic music video intermission it’s about time to add a new weekly feature.

Every now and then I come across a new track on SoundCloud that isn’t, or never makes its way to, Spotify. Today’s SoundCloud highlight is going to close that gap and today gets us started.

Track 1: Tell Me (NYUON) Picked for this week's highlight over "Your City" because "Your City" isn't on NYUON's SoundCloud for some reason. "Tell Me" is a close number two and if you like it then be sure to give "Your City" a listen.

Track 2: Light Speed Ahead (Decypher) Decypher's "Light Speed Ahead" came on late one night about a month ago. SoundCloud doesn't usually go play related tracks that I find myself taking a closer look at, but this was an exception. Being a Benny Sings fan, it had my attention at the sample from "Coconut."

Track 3: Look At Me ft. Yung Fusion (Kilter & GRMM) Simply put, the world needs more GRMM after GRMM and Father Dude's "Electrify." Definitely different. No question that it's just as strong. I'm on the lookout for more original productions out of him in the future.

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The Ten for May 29, 2015

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Ghost Ship (Blur)

Eventually (Tame Impala)

T-Shirt Weather (Circa Waves)

I'll Be Fine (Saskwatch)

Itch (Nothing but Thieves)

Cool on Fire (Daniel Johns)

When We Break (Total Giovanni)

Superspeed (Lido, Canblaster)

California Roll (Snoop Dogg, Stevie Wonder)

Ready for the Weekend (Calvin Harris)

More from the new Blur album leads this week's Ten. A funky, lower tempo jam, "Ghost Ship" is a favorite from the new album. Joining Blur this week is more new Tame Impala, Daniel Johns makes his Ten debut and new Snoop Dogg.

I don't know about this Snoop track, but every time I hear it I have to listen to it all the way through. I'll attribute that to some magic on Stevie Wonder's part.

We're going back to 2009 to pull out some classic Calvin Harris to wrap up the week. Can we get more Ready For The Weekend and I Created Disco Calvin?

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The Ten for May 23, 2015

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Hold On Together (Jeremy Neale)

Anchor (Birds Of Tokyo)

Gemini (What So Not)

Cream On Chrome (Ratatat)

Better Man (Leon Bridges)

Magic (San Cisco)

Act Yr Age (Bluejuice)

In This Together (Art vs Science)

Pusher (Sleepy Tom, Anna Lunoe)

Same Mistakes (Physique)

It's been a little while since the last Ten. Officially over a month in fact. Let's try not to have this happen again shall we?

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The Ten for April 18, 2015

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American Dream (Miami Horror)

Spell It Out (Toro Y Moi)

Every Kind of Way (The Jungle Giants)

Painted (MS MR)

Pay No Mind (Madeon, Passion Pit)

Chlorine (Title Fight)

Anywhere (Tear Council)

Terry (Action Bronson)

2SEATER (Tyler, The Creator)

Inside (Earl Sweatshirt)

This week's Ten is packed with new music. Miami Horror starts it off with an upbeat rock/pop, Toro Y Moi sets out to save rock and roll with his new album What For? and hip hop gets a triple booster shot with new Action Bronson, Tyler The Creator and Earl Sweatshirt albums.

If you only had the time to listen to one album in its entirety that has come out in the last month I would have to recommend Toro Y Moi's new album, no question. Listen to that album.

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The Ten for April 12, 2015

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'Cause I'm A Man (Tame Impala)

Forces (Japanese Wallpaper, Airling)

She's A Witch (Gengahr)

Foolish (Alpine)

1000 (Ben Khan)

Death Is A Girl (Mini Mansions)

Time (The Knocks)

Dynamite (Asta, Allday)

We Gone (Paper Diamond, Shoffy)

Superhero (Faith No More)

Tame Impala leads this week's Ten with the second released track from their upcoming album. Less funky, more airy and psychadelic, "'Cause I'm A Man" is another great precursor to the full album.

Alpine are back with a single and a new album announced for later this year.

Rounding out the Ten for this week is another single from the first Faith No More album in over 15 years. "Superhero" is getting me even more excited for the new album release, but I'm hoping the album is less "Superhero" and more "Motherfucker."