Musical Pairings Archive: Browse Album Reviews, Videos, etc.

Album Reviews & Single Servings:

• A.C. Newman – The Slow Wonder
• Aesop Rock – Bazooka Tooth
• Aesop Rock – “None Shall Pass” (Bossasaurus Remix)
• Al Green – Greatest Hits (1975)
• American Analog Set – Know By Heart
• Amy Milan (of Stars) – “Look Up” and “I Will Follow You Into the Dark”
• Andrew Bird – Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs
• Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
• Arcade Fire – Various Covers
• Architecture in Helsinki – Fingers Crossed
• Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved a Man the Way that I Loved You
• Aretha Franklin – “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” (The Supremes Cover)
• Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – “Round and Round” single
• Astor Piazzolla – Tango Para Una Ciudad
• Atahualpa Yupanqui – Grandes Exitos
• Atoms For Peace – Live at the Fox Theater 4/15/2010
• Babe Rainbow – “Screwby” single
• Beach House – Devotion
• Beach House – Teen Dream
• The Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
• The Beastie Boys – License to Ill (Remixed)
• Beck – Beck Covers Alexander “Skip” Spence’s Oar
• Beck – Beck Covers the Songs of Leonard Cohen
• Beck – Beck Covers the Velvet Underground & Nico
• Beck – “Guns In The Sky” (INXS Cover feat. Liars, Os Mutantes & St. Vincent)
• Beck – Modern Guilt (Acoustic)
• Beck – Sea Change
• Beck – “New Sensation” (INXS Cover feat. Liars, Os Mutantes and St. Vincent)
• Beirut – “Beluga“
• Beirut – Gulag Orkestar
• Beirut – Live on KEXP (10/3/2007)
• Beirut – The Flying Club Cup
• Belle & Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress
• Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister
• Ben’s Imginary Band – Trust EP
• Best Coast – When I’m With You 7″
• Big Z – Various Remixes
• Birds & Batteries – I’ll Never Sleep Again
• The Black Keys – The Big Come Up
• The Black Keys – Thickfreakness
• Blondie – Eat to the Beat
• Boards of Canada – Music Has The Right To Children
• Boards of Canada – Geogaddi
• Bobby Fuller Four – “I Fought The Law” 7″
• Bobby Williams Group – Boogaloo Mardi Gras Pt. 1 & 2 7″
• Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
• Bon Iver – Live Covers
• Broken Bells – Broken Bells
• Broken Social Scene – “World Sick” single
• Burial – Untrue
• Califone – Roomsound
• Camp Out – “Closer” single
• Cansei de Ser Sexy – Various Covers
• Caribou – “Odessa” single and Nite Jewel Remix
• Casy & Brian – Catbees and No Fiction 7″
• Cat Power – “Crazy” (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
• Cave Singers – Welcome Joy
• Chiddy Bang – Air Swell Mix
• Chiddy Bang – The Swelly Express
• CFCF – Continent
• Club 8 – “Western Hospitality” single
• Cold Cave – Love Comes Close
• Cold War Kids – Robbers & Cowards
• Colin Meloy – Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey
• Controller 7 – Left Handed Straw
• Cousin Chris – Moon Paper
• Cults – Cults 7″
• The Cure – Japanese Whispers
• The Cure – Wish
• Cymbals Eat Guitars – Cymbals Eat Guitars
• Daniel Martin Moore – Stray Age
• Death Cab For Cutie – Plans
• Death Cab For Cutie – Various Covers
• The Decemberists – Live, Unreleased Covers
• The Decemberists – Picaresque
• The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love
• Deerhoof – Milk Man
• Diplo featuring Santigold – Top Ranking
• Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
• Discovery – LP
• The Dodos – Visiter
• Dragon Turtle – Almanac
• Drake & Lil Wayne – Money to Blow (Vodka & Milk Remix)
• The Drums – Let’s Go Surfing single
• The Drums – Summertime! EP
• Dubious Ranger – Love Is The Dish (Musical Pairings Theme Song)
• Dum Dum Girls – “Heart of Stone” (Raveonettes Cover)
• Dum Dum Girls – I Will Be
• Dum Dum Girls – Jail La La 7″
• Eddie Bo & The Soul Finders – The Hook and Sling
• El Guincho – Alegranza
• Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve
• Electric President – The Violent Blue
• Elliott Smith – Roman Candle
• Elliott Smith – Various Covers
• Elliott Smith – Cecilia Amanda MP3
• Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Blood & Chocolate
• Elvis Costello – My Aim Is True
• Elvis Perkins in Dearland – Elvis Perkins in Dearland
• Enon -Sex Beat (The Gun Club Cover)
• Evening Empire – Build the Myth Backwards EP & The Ocean in Films EP
• Feist – The Reminder
• Field Music – Tones of Town
• The Field – From Here We Go Sublime
• The Fiery Furnaces – Take Me Round Again
• Four Tet – “Iron Man” (Black Sabbath Cover)
• Four Tet – Rounds
• The Fresh & Onlys – Grey-Eyed Girls
• French Miami – French Miami
• Fujiya & Miyagi – Transparent Things
• Future Islands – “Tin Man” single
• Geographer – Innocent Ghosts
• Gil Scott-Heron – “New York Is Killing Me” single
• Gillian Welch – Time (The Revelator)
• Girl Talk – Feed the Animals
• Girl Talk – “Knife” (Grizzly Bear vs. Clipse Remix)
• Girl Talk – Live at Chop Suey, Seattle, Washington
• Girls – Album
• Girls – Live on KDHX
• Golden Ages – Tradition
• Golden Shoulders – Get Reasonable
• Grizzly Bear – Boy From School (Hot Chip Cover)
• Grizzly Bear – Live in San Francisco (6/21/2009)
• Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
• Gucci Mane – “Excuse Me” (Memory Tapes Remix)
• Gucci Mane – “Freaky Gurl” (Vodka & Milk Remix)
• Gustavo Cerati – Bocanada
• Hallelujah the Hills – Colonial Drones
• Hercules and the Love Affair – self titled
• Here Here – The Boy With an Orange
• Here We Go Magic – self-titled
• High Places – “On Giving Up” single
• Holopaw – Oh, Glory. Oh, Wilderness
• The Holloys – “Eyes” single
• The Hood Internet – Decalogue (The Hood Internet vs. the 2000s)
• The Hood Internet – None Shall Get Up Get Out (Aesop Rock v. The Rosebuds)
• Hurricane Bells – Tonight Is the Ghost
• Iron & Wine – Live at Aquarius Records (May 7, 2009)
• Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days
• Iron & Wine – Shepherd’s Dog
• Iron & Wine – The Creek Drank The Cradle
• J. Kingz – Rockhead EP (Aesop Rock v. Portishead Mash Ups)
• Jackson 5 – The Greatest Hits (1971)
• Jay Reatard – “Francis Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle” (Nirvana Cover)
• Jay Reatard – Watch Me Fall
• Jeff Buckley – Sketches for My Sweetheart The Drunk
• Jetskiis – Spraycation
• Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me (Preview)
• Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender
• Joanna Newsom – Yarn and Glue EP
• John Vanderslice – Romanian Names
• Jose Gonzalez – Live at Yoshi’s 9/24/2008
• Jose Gonzalez – Veneer
• Justice – “Beginning of the End” single (fake)
• Kandid McFly – “Stage Fright” single
• Kid Cudi & Kanye West – “Make Her Say” (Vodka & Milk Remix)
• Kid Koala – Some of My Best Friends Are DJs
• The Kinks – Lola vs. The Powerman & The Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1
• Lemon Sun – “Tough the Lightning” single
• The Lower 48 – Everywhere To Go
• Lykke Li – Youth Novels
• Madvillain – Madvillainy
• Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
• Man/Miracle – Pushing and Shoving 7″
• Man/Miracle – The Shape of Things
• Mark David Ashworth – Bright Is the Ring of Words
• Mark Matos & Os Beaches – Words of the Knife
• Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
• Matt & Kim – Various Remixes
• Matt & Kim – Grand
• Matt & Kim – self-titled
• Maus Haus – Lark Marvels
• Memoryhouse – “Foreground” single (Grizzly Bear Cover)
• Memoryhouse – The Years E.P.
• Memory Tapes – “Graphics” single
• Memory Tapes – Seek Magic
• Metric – Acoustic Sessions
• Metric – “Black Sheep” single
• Metric – Fantasies
• Mi Ami – Cut Men EP
• Mickey 3D – Tu Vas Pas Mourir De Rire
• MillionYoung – Sunndreamm EP
• MillionYoung – Feel the Same single
• Mirah – C’mon Miracle
• Morningbell – Sincerely, Severely
• The Morning Benders – Big Echo
• The Morning Benders – The Bedroom Covers
• The Morning Benders – Promises single
• Mos Dub – Mos Dub Mixtape
• Mount Righteous – Open Your Mouth
• My Brightest Diamond – Various Rarities
• The National – Alligator
• The National – “Bloodbuzz Ohio” single
• The National – Live Radio Sessions: KEXP, WOXY, and PRI
• The National – Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers
• The National – Various Rarities
• Nina Simone – I Put a Spell On You
• Nouvelle Vague – Nouvelle Vague
• Or, The Whale – self-titled (2009)
• Or, The Whale – Toxic (Britney Spears Cover)
• The Pack – Skateboards 2 Scrapers
• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – self titled
• Papercuts – You Can Have What You Want
• Parlour Steps – Hidden Names
• Passion Pit – Manners
• PC Munoz – What’s Happening?
• Peru Negro – Sangre de un Don
• Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
• Phoenix – 1901 (Memory Tapes Remix)
• Pinback – Summer in Abaddon
• The Pleased – Never Complete E.P.
• Radiohead – In Rainbows
• Radiohead – Live at KROQ (12/18/1995)
• Radiohead – Rarities, Volume 1
• Radiohead – Rarities, Volume 2
• Raphael Saadiq – The Way I See It
• Ratatat – Ratatat
• Real Estate – self-titled
• R.E.M. – Murmurs
• Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street
• The Rural Alberta Advantage – Hometowns
• Ryan Adams & the Cardinals – Cold Roses
• Ryan Adams – Destroyer Sessions
• Ryan Adams – Various Covers
• Salvador Santana – Keyboard City (Dan Deacon Remix feat. GZA)
• The Sea and Cake – Everybody
• Seth Augustus – To The Pouring Rain
• The Shins – Various Covers (Pink Floyd, Van Halen & Jesus and Mary Chain)
• Silian Rail – And I You, To Pieces
• Sleigh Bells – demos
• Sleigh Bells – “Holly” and “Beach Girls” demos
• Sonace – Wiretones Jazztap
• Spank Rock – Couche Tard Mixtape
• Spiritualized – Acoustic Sessions
• Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
• Spoon – Kung Fu Bakery Mixes Apr 6 07
• Spoon – Live at Fillmore, SF (9/22/2008)(Soundboard)
• Spoon – Series of Sneaks
• Spoon – Transference
• Spoon – Various Live Covers
• Stars – Heart
• Stricken City – Songs About People I Know
• Stuart Newman – Single But Defective
• Sufjan Stevens – Ding! Dong! Songs For Christmas Vol. III
• Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans
• Sunset – Gold Dissolves to Gray
• Surfer Blood – Astro Coast
• Tassels – “Birds of Prey” & other MP3s
• Thao with The Get Down Stay Down – Know Better Learn Faster
• Theophilus London – This Charming Mixtape
• Thom Yorke – “Hearing Damage“
• Thom Yorke – Live at the Bridge School Benefit 10/26-27/2002
• Thom Yorke – Live at the Echoplex in L.A. 10/2/2009
• Tim Williams – Careful Love
• Tor – The CN Tower Can Work It Out (Final Fantasy feat. Q-Tip Remix)
• Toro y Moi – “Master of None” single
• TV on the Radio – Dear Science
• Various Artists – Dark was the Night
• Voxtrot – Raised By Wolves EP
• Voxtrot – Voxtrot EP
• War on Drugs, the – Wagonwheel Blues
• White Fence – “The Love Between” single
• Wilco – Summerteeth
• Wiretree – Luck
• Wooden Shjips – Dos
• Woods – “I Was Gone” single (At Echo Lake preview)
• Woods – Songs of Shame
• Woven Bones – If It Feels Alright
• Xaphoon Jones – Mixtape, Vol. 1
• XX – XX
• XX – “You’ve Got The Love” (Florence & The Machine cover/remix)
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
• Yeasayer – Odd Blood
• Yelle – Pop-up
• Yo La Tengo – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
• Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs
• Young Coyotes – Basement EP / Exhale EP

Mixtapes:

• ~ Local Pairings Mixtape, Vol. 1
• ~ Musical Pairings Mixtape Vol. 1
• ~ Musical Pairings – the October 2009 Mix
• ~ Musical Pairings – the December 2009 Mix
• ~ Musical Pairings – the January 2010 Mix
• ~ Musical Pairings – the February 2010 Mix
• ~ Musical Pairings – the March 2010 Mix
• ~ Musical Pairings – the April 2010 Mix
• ~ Musical Pairings – Chillwave Mix
• ~ Musical Pairings – the Motown Mix
• ~ Musical Pairings – the surf rock mix

Videos:

• Beck (feat. Wilco, Feist and Jamie Lidell) – Little Hands (Skip Spence Cover)
• Beirut – Postcards From Italy
• Blakroc – Preview webisode feat. Rza
• Blur – Coffee & TV
• Bobby Birdman – You’d Be Surprised
• Charlotte Gainsbourg/Beck – Heaven Can Wait
• The Chemical Brothers – Star Guitar
• Chiddy Bang – The Opposite of Adults (Kids)
• Death Cab For Cutie – The New Year
• The Decemberists – 16 Military Wives
• The Decemberists – Here Come The Waves Preview
• Emily Haines – Dr. Blind
• Enon – In This City
• Feist – 1 2 3 4
• Grizzly Bear – Ready, Able
• The Happy Hollows – Death to Vivek Kemp
• Holly Miranda – Lover, You Should Have Come Over (Jeff Buckley Cover)
• Hurricane Bells – This Year
• Iron & Wine – Dead Man’s Will (Live at Aquarius Records in SF, CA)
• Iron & Wine – Naked As We Came
• Joan Jeanrenaud – 33 1/3
• Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness
• Kylie Minogue – Come Into My World
• Luther Russell – Motorbike
• Madvillain – All Caps
• Matt & Kim – Lessons Learned
• Memoryhouse – Bonfire
• Metric – Gimme Sympathy
• The Morning Benders – Excuses (feat. Girls, Port O’Brien and John Vanderslice)
• The Natalie Portman Rap – SNL Digital Short
• The National – Runaway (Live in Q Studios)
• The National – Start A War (Live on La Blogotheque’s Take Home Show)
• OK Go – Here It Goes Again
• Or, The Whale – Rusty Gold
• Parenthetical Girls – Evelyn McHale
• Princeton – Calypso Gold
• Radiohead – House of Cards
• Spoon – Don’t You Evah
• Spoon – Everything Hits At Once
• Thao with The Get Down Stay Down – Cool Yourself
• Toro y Moi – Blessa
• Vivian Girls & Male Bonding – “Perfect Day” (Lou Reed Cover)
• Yeasayer – O.N.E.
• The xx – VCR

Misc.:

• Top Ten Indie Rock Albums of 2009
• The Best Free Mixtapes/Albums of 2009
• Ten Top Videos of the Decade (2000-2009)
• Live Gig: Thao Nguyen & Mirah at Swedish American Hall (Noise Pop 2010)