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We here, at I wanna listen to this aren't just a bunch of blog and mp3 seeking hipsters. We often dig out old records, rediscover and reconsider stuff we dismissed earlier and dig deeper into genres we never thought we would care about (cosmic disco anyone?), much less write about. Here are some of our recent favorites, in no particular order.


Jeffrey Liberatore is disco elitist, music snob and wishes Gaspard Ulliel knew he existed.


Anything on Cosmo Vitelli's I'm A Cliche label
Those Ali Renault records on Dissident
The Holy Ghost remix of "I Like to Move in Here" by Moby
"The Feeling" by Toby Tobias on Rekids
The Last Shadow Puppets record on Domino (So Scott Walker)
Yacht Rock
The Video to "Electric Feel" by MGMT


Shannon Webb-Campbell is a blogger, journalist, Perpetual Student and Girl-about-country

Them There Eyes – Billie Holiday
Paris Is Burning – St. Vincent
Euphoria – Sarah Slean
Heartbeats – Jose Gonzales
Explode – Uh Huh Her
Red Right Ankle – The Decemberists


Simon Thibault is an occasional club DJ, a weekly radio DJ and omnipresent car stereo selector.

I bought over 300 Soul and R&B 45s a few months ago. Millie Jackson, Syl Johnson (who is playing at the Atlantic Jazz Fest here in Halifax this summer), Al Green, Freda Payne and Joe Tex, just to name a few. It's a completely different listening experience from just letting your iTunes go on random.
The Magnetic Field's "69 Love Songs". Why did I not realise how amazing this was years ago...
Hercules and Love Affair- Now featured in The New York Times, not only do they make me wanna dance, they also make me dig through my old records looking for gems I might have overlooked.
Swayzak- Their Fabric Mix, their last record and my favorite, "I keep it coming" from Loops from the Bergerie.
Zapp- Forget Chromeo. Stevie wonder may have made it cool, Zapp made it funky and sexy.


Ryan Allen is the youngest yet sweetest of the crew here, but is often seen singing/screaming his guts out at all ages shows.


Bexar Bexar - Haralambos (Awesome ambient stuff, check it out!)
Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde (Very pretty shoegazey stuff. Lots of guitars, and etheral vocals)
Latterman - We Are Still Alive
Lawrence Arms - Oh Calcutta
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Jesus and Mary Chain - I Hate Rock and Roll (Why haven't I listened to this before?!)
Hot Water Music - Forever and Counting
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Tomcat Combat - I'm Okay, You're Okay
Have Heart - Songs to Scream at The Sun (Good, smart hardcore band)



Nirmala Basnayakeis a former controller and taught Nelly Furtado how to get her groove back.Mmmhmm.


Belle Epoque "Miss Broadway"
The Seeds "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" (seriously -- it took a fucking Axe body spray ad to wake me up to this one? gah)
Tom Petty's Damn the Torpedoes
Coldcut "Say Kids What Time Is It" and "More Beats + Pieces"





Loukas Crowther is a founder and DJ @Metal Disco, a designer and photographer to the unsavory.

Bubaiskull's re-releasing their stuff online has had me in some serious nostalgic bliss. Especially the Drive By Suicide EP
The Does It Offend You, Yeah? album has been in heavy rotation for like 2 weeks now.
I finally heard the rest of Santogold's album after killing the youtube video of L.E.S. Artistes, and I actually like it so much more than I thought. I was expecting more of the M.I.A. comparisons to continue, but it went in a way different direction that I expected.
The MSTRKRFT remix of the j-pop star, Ayumi Hamasaki, makes me retardedly happy.
The Presets new album, Apocalypso

Punk lives.

Yes that's right, punk is dead
It's just another cheap product for the consumers head
Bubblegum rock on plastic transistors
Schoolboy sedition backed by big time promoters
CBS promote the Clash
Ain't for revolution, it's just for cash
Punk became a fashion just like hippy used to be
Ain't got a thing to do with your or me

Movements are systems and systems kill
Movements are expressions of the public will
Punk became a movement cos we all felt lost
Leaders sold out and now we all pay the cost
Punk narcissism was a social napalm
Steve Jones started doing real harm
Preaching revolution, anarchy and change
Sucked from the system that had given him his name

Jeffrey Lewis first heard Crass while attending university in 1993. Like a handful are able to, he was able to get past the shotty production quality, repetitive instrumentation (even for punk) and appreciate the band's radicalism, wit and uncompromising sound. Crass were one of those bands who's lyrics were intended to be read rather than heard.... until Jeffrey Lewis came along and recorded his album 12 Crass Songs. The album holds twelve acoustic rendititions with minimal backing musicians and vocalists. Although I've listened to Crass for about six or seven years now, going through recent phases of pure hatred towards them, mere appreciation for their lyrics only, and at first loving everything about them, I never truly appreciated this song until now. It's aggressive, sardonic punk rock idealism blended with Lewis' own hopefulness and sunny guitarwork. Lewis plays the bearer of bad news in place of Crass here. His version is much less alientating, which may finally make people appreciate what Crass had to say. Not everyone wants to be shouted at. They'd rather be told bad news from a gentle voice.

Jeffrey Lewis - Punk is Dead

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The Felice Brothers

I discovered this group yesterday. Think Bob Dylan and the Band's "Basement Tapes" era if Dylan had formal vocal training and actualy lead the life of the trainhopping carnie that he spoke of in his early days. There's something to be said for music that adheres to old traditions that does not come off as contrived, but authentic and with so much urgency.




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