Top 5 Music Countdown: The Raconteurs + CSS + Feist = Alternative Wedding Party Songs!

Why is it that so many wedding parties drop the same wretched cliche reception songs like “Macarena” and “Brick House” and the godawful “Celebration” when you could so easily make a track list way more fun and original?! I don’t have the answer for you, but I do have a Top 5 Music Countdown of five alternative songs to rock at your next wedding party!

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Gotta get down and dirty with some hot Brazilian electro-rock music!
5. “Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death from Above” -CSS

A little upbeat indie pop to keep the hipsters happy!
4. “I Feel It All” -Feist

French dance music will add some cool, international flair!
3. “D.A.N.C.E.” -Justice

A party isn’t complete without a little Danger Mouse in the house, just avoid the overplayed “Crazy”.
2. “Gone Daddy Gone” -Gnarls Barkley

And finally, had to squeeze in some Jack White in there somewhere, of course!
1. “Steady As She Goes”
-The Raconteurs

Tell me what alternative music you would play at a wedding party — leave your list as a comment on my blog – girllovesmusic.wordpress.com

Best New Music Alert: Massive Attack, Built to Spill, & Gossip!

Three great new albums fresh off the music tree!

My favorite trip-hoppers Massive Attack are back after three years with a new 4-song EP called “Splitting the Atom“. Quintessential dark and broody with choice special guests including Martina Topley Bird and TV on the Radio‘s Tunde Adebimpe. Look for their fifth full-length album out this Fall.

Creepy title track “Splitting the Atom” —

PS. Love the album cover!

Built to Spill, one of my all-time favorite indie bands, is back with “There Is No Enemy“. Doug Martsch’s voice just soothes me! 

Gossip‘s “Music for Men” is dance-punk goodness! Yummy mix of rock and dance and classic raw Beth Ditto, even gospelly at times! A Rick Rubin production.

One of my favorite tracks “Heavy Cross” calls to mind Stevie Nicks and is a great track to get angry to. Raw and wonderful.

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Top 5 Music Countdown: Miike Snow + School of Seven Bells = New Music Turn Ons!

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Peep this week’s Top 5 New Music Turn Ons!

5. Stardeath and White Dwarfs
If you like The Flaming Lips and Portugal the Man, you’ll love these experimental psychedelic rockers from Oklahoma!

4. School of Seven Bells
Hailing from Brooklyn, NY SVIIB was formed by Benjamin Curtis of Secret Machines. Good wholesome serving of indie rock with a side of shoegaze!

3. Miike Snow
Swedish indie with a healthy dollop of electropop!

2. Modeselektor
Berlin-based avant-garde electronica-glitch-IDM band!

1. The Mumlers
Quirky art folky band from San Jose, California!

La Roux + I Monster + Hercules and Love Affair + More New Music!

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Top 5 Music Countdown: Muse + Wolfmother + The xx = Rock & Roll Kegger

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Butler, AKA Rock and Roll Geek, is hosting a triple kegger this weekend, so my plan? Bring the music! Mission: impress Butler’s weird friends while they do keg stands with my Top 5 Favorite New Album Releases – fresh off the music tree! Whooping it up at Butler’s crib!!

Let’s kick things off with something tough — let people get the head-butting and cursing out of their system with some neo-psychadelica!

5. Wolfmother

“Cosmic Egg”

Now it’s important to keep the party hopping at this stage, so let’s drop some grungy heavy metal, shall we?

4. Alice In Chains

“Black Gives Way to Blue”

The party is in full swing by now and most of your guests are probably enjoying a pretty awesome buzz, so let’s switch gears and get them out on the dance floor!

3. Basement Jaxx

“Scars”

By now the beer bonging is getting a bit out of hand in your dirty bathtub, so let’s take them down a notch with some symphonic rock!

2. Muse

“The Resistance”

Finally, the keg has been sucked dry, people are passed out or just chillin’ out — perfect time to drop my latest obsession!

1. The xx

“xx”

Now it’s your turn! Tell me what top 5 newly released albums you’d bring to a kegger party! Leave your list as a comment on my blog – GirlLovesMusic!!

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Top 5 Music Countdown: Back to School. End of Summer Blues. Party’s Over.

Many of us are already back in school or basking in the remnants of a delightful summer slipping away. OK, the party isn’t exactly over, but the season is most definitely changing and soon it will be time for you to get out your cold weather gear. So, this week’s Top 5 Music Countdown is all about making the end of summer blues less… well, bluesy!

5. “We’re Going to Be Friends“
-The White Stripes

This lovely autumnal ditty is from the album “White Blood Cells” and is featured in the opening credits of Napoleon Dynamite. It tells the story of going back to school and meeting new friends. Oh, and wearing new shoes! (Shameless plug: use code AFTOP515 to get 15% off new sneaks at EastBay.com!)

Dear Jack White,
SMOOCH!

4. “School”
-Nirvana

A new Fall chill is in the air and you’re already swamped with schoolwork and #2 pencil sharpening. There’s no rest for the wicked, but how about a good scream? This little tune is a screamer, “there’s no recess!!!”

3. “Hot For Teacher“
-Van Halen

“Sit down, Waldo!!” This song is nostalgic of my innocent days as a high schooler. I remember Sophomore year, my girlfriends and I got all glammed up for the Van Halen concert — I think it was my second rock show after getting trampled at Steve Miller Band.

2. “Another Brick in the Wall“
-Pink Floyd

We don’t need no education. ‘Nuff said.

1. “Cruel Summer“
-Bananarama

Like, OMG!! This song is quintessential high school. Daddy’s out of town — which means all night keggers, parental liquor cabinet raids, messy bathtub beer bonging and of course, the dreadful beverage that is the wine cooler. Good times!

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Top 5 Music Countdown: Best Female Music Videos of 2009 (Suck It, Kanye)!

Dearest music friends,

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired of all the hootin’ and hollerin’ about stars like Beyonce, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Pink and Taylor Swift — all nominated for Best Female Music Video at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards.

Kanye West took things a little bit too far when he jumped onstage and stole Taylor Swift‘s winning thunder by pimping out Beyonce‘s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” as the deserved winner. What was he thinking?!! It’s time for you to step down, Mr. West. Here’s who really should have won Best Female Music Videos of 2009. Mainstream music, you can SUCK IT!

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Top 5 Music Countdown: Best Female Music Videos of 2009 (IMHO)!

5. Merrill Beth Nisker AKA Peaches
“Take You On”

For being so self-assured in her extreme weirdness! You’re truly an inspiration, P.

4. Karin Dreijer Andersson better known as Fever Ray
“Triangle Walks”

For making it really hard to see what the hell is going on in this video and for your obsession with bizarre face masks!3. Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
“Heads Will Roll”

For being a genuine rockstar and a great performer with impeccable wardrobe changes!

2. Natasha Khan aka Bat For Lashes
“Pearl’s Dream”

For being a lover of fairies and all things small and fantastical!

1. Felicia Day of The Guild
“Do You Want to Date My Avatar?”

For being smart and cute and funny and geeky… and for being a potential Slayer. You rock!If you haven’t seen The Guild you really should check it out. It’s a wonderful internet-based sitcom about a group of online gamers. And get this, you don’t even have to be a gamer to enjoy it!

What do you think are the top 5 best female videos of 2009? Let me know! Leave a comment below!

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Top 5 Music Countdown: What Do True Blood Vampires Listen To?

Bloodsuckers and music heads, UNITE! Pop culture is teeming with vampires right now so what better time to ride this modern day wave and countdown the top 5 bands the evil undead rock out to!

5. Old skool, quintessential vamps like Dracula and Nosferatu and other stiff upper-lippy noble creatures of the night would most certainly listen to something classical or baroque, but since YouTube lacks any legit Mozart music videos, I thought I’d introduce the next best thing: aristocratic white boy rappers, Lord T and Eloise!

4. Anne Rice vamps like Lestat and Armand would no doubt appreciate a fine symphony, but would irrefutably geek out to something sexy and Gothic like “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” by one of my all-time favorite bands, Smashing Pumpkins!

3. Modern superhero-type vampires from films like Underworld and Blade, you know, the ones who wear tight synthetic bodysuits and use new”fang”led weaponry (see what I did there?) would listen to A Perfect Circle, naturally! That Maynard Keenan is one brooding mo-fo!

2. The beloved Cullens (Edward, Alice, Carlisle) from the Twilight series and the Buffy the Vampire Slayer evil dead (you’re the man, Spike!) suffer from that pesky teen angst. So, it’s gotta be without a doubt something dark and tweeny like “Fighter” by Christina Aguilera!

1. And finally, saving the best for last, the southern-style bloodsucking sex-pots of True Blood — the hottest, most scandalous vampire series out now — would unquestionably listen to the sultry, twangy tunes of Neko Case!

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