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The Pass – “Vultures” (Guess The Blogs Contest Results)

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I’m having an ‘I Love The Internet’ moment.

A little while ago, a music blog called We Listen For You teamed up with Louisville, Kentucky band The Pass for a little experiment/contest about music blogs. They put together a music video of an epic house party, depicting and acting out clues to depict 39 different music blogs. Readers of the blog and viewers of the video were to guess as many music blogs in the video as they could. In WLFY’s words “…the video was 90% a contest and 10% trying to do a visual representation of how a song (from the needle drop) travels over the Internet through various music blogs, onto hype machine, and off to the listener”.

When I initially saw the video, I tried to guess a lot of the blogs, but couldn’t get past 20. It wasn’t that I didn’t know the blogs in the video (as the results listed are essentially part of my daily reading), I wasn’t thinking hard enough.

I also didn’t clue into the fact that I was depicted in the video. 0:44 in the sink as someone who “sifts water through tapes and cds”.

Totally flattered.

Head to We Listen For You to read more about the contest and check out the list of blogs in the video.

Mixcloud

As well as sending out September podcast to iTunes, we also uploaded it to this site called Mixcloud; a site dedicated to re-thinking radio by joining the dots between radio shows, Podcasts and DJ mixes (called Cloudcasts, audios shows stored in the ‘cloud’ and available to be streamed on-demand).

Our show is in the widget below and is featured on the main page. Check it out.

Indie Music Filter’s Best Songs Of 2008


In our opinion, here’s the best songs that we wrote about in 2008. Below is the list, click here to open the player (popup).

All The Pictures – Catherine of Aragon

Jonquil – Lions

Ladyhawk – I Don’t Always Know What You Are Saying

Okay – My

Ra Ra Riot – Each Year (RAC Remix)

School Of Language – Rockist Part 1

The Joy Formidable – Cradle

Frightened Rabbit – Head Rolls Off

Dragonette – I Get Around (Van She Remix)

Evan Voytas – The Yellow World Of ’83

The Jealous Girlfriends – Secret Identity

Red Light Company – With Lights Out

The Ting Tings – Great DJ (Calvin Harris Remix)

Mystery Jets – Two Doors Down

School Of Seven Bells – Connjur

The Broken West – Perfect Games

Bon Iver – Skinny Love

Marching Band – Feel Good About It

The Stills – Being Here

Sebastien Grainger – Ways To Come Home

Bon Iver – re: Stacks

Bikini – I Remember Being Young

Adam Franklin – Shine A Light (Wolf Parade Cover)

Hey Rosetta! – There’s An Arc

Passion Pit – Sleepyhead

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson – Buriedfed

Friendly Fires – Jump In The Pool

M83 – Kim & Jessie

Beast – Mr. Hurricane

The Dodos – Fools

Contrived – Not A Goodbye

Local Natives – Airplanes

Mason Proper – Fog

The XYZ Affair – Evening Life

Mathien – Lettuce Head

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