“O.N.E.” is the second single from Yeasayer’s new album Odd Blood, which is an early (but serious) contender for one of 2010’s albums of the year. The Brooklyn band had blogs atwitter with their 2007 debut album All Hour Cymbals and its experimental yet beguiling mash of chanting psychedelia and ethno-tribal urban indie grooves.

Dirty Projectors gave music fans a post-holiday gift to celebrate a new decade today: two free songs, both unreleased, available as either a 7” vinyl single or a free download, depending on your particular audio predilection. Both songs, “Ascending Melody” and “Emblem of the World,” come from the same sessions that produced the Projectors’ indie-rock masterpiece Bitte Orca, which was universally hailed as one of the best albums of 2009 by critics and real people alike.

Increasingly desperate record companies are presently in the midst of a search for a “new MGMT” – and as ludicrous as that mission may be, they might have found it in Amazing Baby. Like all cool bands trafficking in the area of neo-psychedelic-electronic-shoegaze-folk-whatever…

Dirty Projectors have it all: the akimbo folk soul of Jeff Buckley, iconoclastic pop deconstruction a la Panda Bear, irresistibly ethereal, strange harmonies recalling School of Seven Bells, surprisingly effective ethnic cops evoking their Ivy League peers in Vampire Weekend – and contender for possibly album of 2009 in the band’s latest release, Bitte Orca.

It’s sure starting to feel like a huge afrobeat anniversary ‘round here ! The power and legacy of Fela Anikulapo Kuti (1938-97) lives on – bigger brighter and stronger than ever and oh how Fela would be smiling right about now. What with his prophecy of a Black President fulfilled; the family and community even more dynamic and vocal than ever and FELA soon to be seen and heard on Broadway by the masses, it’s clearly not as ‘upside down’ anymore. From headline shows by Femi Kuti today at the Hollywood Bowl, to Seun’s shows, Tony Allen’s and Lemi’s Fela cover art show …..

My crew in Ft Green Brooklyn is still jumpin’ and will no doubt stay that way for hours to come! as will like minded ‘hoods all across the country. With BARACK OBAMA’s win of 349 vs 144 electoral vote, no doubt the whole of the USA (and the world as it wakes) is aware that [...]