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Video: Rob Dickinson @ Filter Office

Rob Dickinson of Catherine Wheel stopped by the FILTER office here in Los Angeles yesterday! Head on over to blog.filter-mag.com to watch the acoustic set.

My 30 Favorite Singles Of '06 [w/ vids]

My 30 Favorite '06 Singles [w/ vids]...

747s - "Death Of A Star" [Vid. From Zampano.]

A-ha - "Cosy Prisons" [Vid. From Analogue.]

Apartment - "10,000 Times" [Vid. They've not released an album yet.]

Battle - "Children" [Vid.  They've not released an album yet.]

Blackbud - "Forever" [Vid. From From the Sky.]

James Dean Bradfield - "An English Gentleman" [Vid. From The Great Western.]

Boy Kill Boy - "Suzie" [Vid. From Civilian.]

Cord - "Winter" [Vid. From Other People's Lives.]

Cosmic Rough Riders - "In Time" [Vid. From Stars Look Different...]

The Crimea - "White Russian Galaxy" [Vid. From Tragedy Rocks.]

Delays - "Hideaway" [Vid. From You See Colours]

Director - "Reconnect" [Vid. They've not released an album yet.]

Fell City Girl - "Swim" [Vid. They've not released an album yet.]

Fields - "If You Fail We All Fail" [Vid. They've not released an album yet.]

Goodbooks - "Leni" [Vid. They've not released an album yet.]

Guillemots - "We're Here" [Vid. From Through The Windowpane.]

Ed Harcourt - "Visit From The Dead Dog" [Vid. From The Beautiful Lie.]

Hope Of The States - "Sing It Out" [Vid. From Left.]

The Isles - "Summer Loans" [Vid. From Perfurmed Lands.]

Keith - "Back There" [Vid. From Hold That Gun.]

Lorraine - "I Feel It" [Vid. They've not released an album yet.]

Lucky Soul - "My Brittle Heart" [Vid. They've not released an album yet.]

Meeky Rose - "Forever" [Vid. They've not released an album yet.]

Mojave 3 - "Breaking The Ice" [Vid. From Puzzles Like You.]

Morning Runner - "Burning Benches" [Vid. From Wilderness Is Paradise Now.]

The Radio Dept. - "The Worst Taste In Music" [Vid. From Pet Grief.]

My Architects - "Under The Pines" [Vid. From Grand Designs.]

New Rhodes - "The History Of Britain" [Vid. From Songs From The Lodge.]

The Ordinary Boys - "Lonely At The Top" [Vid. From How To Get Everything.]

The Rifles - "Peace & Quiet" [Vid. From No Love Lost.] 

Shack - "Cup Of Tea" [Vid. From On the Corner of Miles and Gil.]

Snowfight In The City Centre - "Listen" [Vid. They've not released an album yet.]

Sunshine Underground - "Commercial Breakdown" [Vid. From Raise the Alarm.]

The Veils - "Advice For Young Mothers To Be" [Vid. From Nux Vomica.]

Mp3: Air w/ Neil Hannon

Here's a track from the new Air album Pocket Symphony which features Neil Hannon on vocals:

• "Somewhere Between Waking And Sleeping" [3:36]

The Hourly Radio Cover James

The Hourly Radio have made their cover of James' "Say Something" downloadable via their myspace.

Out in the UK on Monday

Here's the decent stuff that's out in the UK on Mon Dec 18th...

Singles:

Razorlight - "Before I Fall To Pieces" [Vid. 3rd single from their latest album.]

Eskimo Disco - "7-11" [Debut from London electro-pop trio.]

Viva Machine - "My Jet Set Radio" [Debut from Swansea indie-emo band.]

Those Shorts Are Too Short

Thanks to Chris @ Star Pilot Productions for the heads-up on his hilarious looking New Order 1984 Radio 1 session:

Moz Setlist '06

So great to see these couple of songs back in the setlist...

"Dissapointed"

"National Front Disco"

And perhaps he should bring back "Jack The Ripper" what with the recent news.

btw: here are Moz's U.S. sales numbers in the SoundScan era (aka post Nov '91)

• Ringleader ['06] - 94,419
• You Are The Quarry ['04] - 223,829 copies (22,195 from the deluxe-edition)
• Maladjusted ['97] - 88,149
• Southpaw Grammar ['95] - 66,528
• Vauxhall & I ['94] - 291,055
• Your Arsenal ['92] - 363,856

Worst Cover Ever?

This is just creepy and weird, even more so than the previous videos in this series he's been doing. Brett Anderson covering "Beautiful" (you'll know it from the Christina Aquilara version.)

If his solo album is even decent I will be amazed.

UK Chart Report

Here's the decent stuff that entered the UK charts this weekend.

Singles:

• #16 Morrissey - "I Just Want To See..." [4th single from ROTT.]
• #53 Lily Allen - "Littlest Things" [Vid. On downloads.]
• #54 Embrace - "I Can't Come Down" [Vid. 4th single from TND.]

Indie-label singles chart:

• #8 The Bluetones - "Head On A Spike" [2nd single from TBT.]
• #11 Gruff Rhys - "Candylion" [Vid. Delightful little song from the SFA guy.]

These singles did not chart:

• Goodbooks - "Leni" [Vid. Tragic that it didn't chart!]
• Palace Fires - "Never Gonna Get Away" [Vid. 7"-only 2nd single.]
• Idlewild - "If It Takes You Home" [7"-only. 1st single from new album.]

Movies Of The Year?

I finally saw Little Miss Sunshine and it might have just edged out Thank You For Smoking and The Science Of Sleep as my favorite movie of the year. But I didn't even see many movies this year, so what else was great?

Los Angeles folks: The 3 screen cinema at Beverly & Fairfax has reopened as a second-run indie theatre w/ $3 seats for all shows! I think I'll be living there.