On Arcade Fire's Grammy win

Americans seem to enjoy their ignorance a little too much. http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com/

But why is there this immense knowledge gap? Was the disparity between good music and popular music always this huge? Celebrity musicians, of all people, should at least try keep themselves culturally informed...

French Horn Rebellion- This Moment
Cut Copy- Strange Nostalgia For The Future
Young Galaxy- Cover Your Tracks
Mother Of The Forest- Vid Berget
When Saints Go Machine- Pick Up Your Tears And Run
Javelin- Oh! Centra
Deerhoof- Super Duper Rescue Heads!
White Sea- Cannibal Love
Lykke Li- Sadness Is A Blessing
The Russian Futurists- One Night, One Kiss
Fever Ray- Keep The Streets Empty For Me
Juliette Commagere- Hovering In The Wings
Azure Ray- Dancing Ghosts
S- This Way Always
Cruel Summer- Don't Touch
The Concretes- What We've Become
The Dears- Lamentation
Radiohead- Morning Mr Magpie
Big Troubles- Freudian Slips
Akudama- Marzipan Man
K. C. Accidental- Something For Chicago
Chad McCullough And Michal Vanoucek- Soliloquy For D.G.
Swimmingdoll- Last Take
Yo La Tengo- You Can Have It All

The new spring semester showtime is 8-10AM on Tuesday mornings!

Azure Ray- Silver Sorrow
Blonde Redhead- Will There Be Stars
Savoir Adore- Loveliest Creature (Lightwaves Remix)
French Horn Rebellion- Last Summer
The Russian Futurists- One Night, One Kiss
Young Galaxy- We Have Everything
Midnight Juggernauts- Lifeblood Flow
Destroyer- Chinatown
Gold Motel- Cold Shoulders
Arcade Fire- Crown Of Love
Elliott Smith- Ballad Of Big Nothing
Animal Collective- Peacebone
Chetreo- The Boy Without A Fairy
The Concretes- Crack In The Paint
Christine Owman- Spelling Words
Zeit- Numb
Land Of Talk- Hamburg, Noon
Mini Mansions- Kiddie Hypnogogia
C'est La Mort- Among The Ruins
Tracing Figures- Finally Gone
The Decemberists- Calamity Song
The Low Anthem- Apothecary Love
Metric- Gimme Sympathy
Fujiya And Miyagi- OK

Chilly Gonzales- I Am Europe
J+J+J- Old People (Take Back The Nite)
David Lynch- Good Day Today
Bjork- To Lee, With Love, Nick
Sufjan Stevens- Now That I'm Older
Radiohead- Where I End And You Begin
The Hundred In The Hands- Pigeons
Glasser- Home
Gold Panda- I'm With You But I'm Lonely
Wye Oak- Civilian [New stuff!]
Leland Sundries Concocts- Elegy
Abe Vigoda- Throwing Shade
Jonathan Boulet- You're A Animal
Hot Panda- The Ghost
Avey Tare- 3 Umbrellas
Mahjongg- Wardance
Ga'An- Servant Eye **Records on Ribs everything up for free download
Les Savy Fav- Clear Spirits
C'est La Mort- Paper Ships
The Bird And The Bee- Private Eyes
Florence + The Machine- Swimming (Live From Hammerstein Ballroom)
Arcade Fire- Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Bodies Of Water- I Don't Believe In The Sun [The Magnetic Fields cover]

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Noisia- Thursday
Fujiya & Miyagi- Sixteen Shades Of Black And Blue
Brian Eno- Dust Shuffle
Crystal Castles- Suffocation
SoulEye- Predestined Fate
French Horn Rebellion- Broken Heart
Shigeto- Relentless Drag
The Phenomenal Handclap Band- You'll Disappear (Horse Meat Disco Remix)
Glasser- Mirrorage
Jane Lui- Southern Winds
Regina Spektor- Apres Moi
Heylady- So Long
Zach Hill- Total Recall
Chris Scharb- I Can Live Forever If I Slowly Die
Floored By Four- Watt
Hauschka- Children
Hot Panda- Start Making Sense
Akudama- Barbershop
Tracing Figures- Distance
We Landed On The Moon- Song Of Few Words
Half-handed Cloud- Out On The Ice, We Face Our Hearts
Artichoke- Cold House
Sia- Oh Father
Jason Collett- Bitter Beauty
Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger- The World Was Made For Men
We Show Up On RadaR- Oh How I Wish To Be A Small Japanese Car

Some Thoughts on Kant and Cupcakes...

There are cupcakes, purely for consumption and gratification of physical needs, and symphonies, whose beauty stirs our feelings. There is cupcake-like music (e.g. pop songs). There is a spectrum between the two. But this whole spectral range is thrown into confusion when we consider that even the beauty of the symphony may be approached as an item to be consumed, rather than something that awes. Then the significance of the status of some in-between (e.g. oh I don't know, an Of Montreal song) as having in proportions both consumability and beauty is made insignificant as even that which we ought only be in awe of might also be consumed.

Ben Folds/Nick Hornby- From Above
Of Montreal- Coquet Coquette
S. Carey- Action
The Dresden Dolls- Coin-Operated Boy
The Octopus Project- A Phantasy
Savoir Adore- We Talk Like Machines (The Core In-Studio recording)
Les Savy Fav- High And Unhinged
April Smith- Terrible Things
Lost In The Trees- All Alone In An Empty House
The Welcome Wagon- Sold! To The Nice Rich Man ***of Resurrection Church in BK!!
Paul Hammer- Outside These City Walls ***of Savoir Adore
Land Of Talk- Playita
The Red River- When We Are Wild
Arcade Fire- Wasted Hours
Yo La Tengo- Stockholm Syndrome
Artichoke- Honey
Land Of The Look Behind- September
Belle And Sebastian- Write About Love
Ferraby Lionheart- Harry And Bess
Chilly Gonzales- Bittersuite
M83- *
Gold Panda- Snow And Taxis