Top 50 Songs from 2012 So Far

01) Animal Collective - "Gotham"
02) Bear In Heaven - "Idle Heart"
03) Bear In Heaven - "The Reflection of You"
04) Bear In Heaven - "Sinful Nature"
05) Bear In Heaven - "Kiss Me Crazy"
06) Bear In Heaven - "World of Freakout"
07) Chromatics - "Into the Black"
08) Chromatics - "Kill for Love"
09) Chromatics - "Back from the Grave"
10) Chromatics - "The Page"
11) Chromatics - "Lady"
12) Chromatics - "Birds of Paradise"
13) Cloud Nothings - "Wasted Days"
14) Cloud Nothings - "Fall In"
15) Cloud Nothings - "Stay Useless"
16) Grimes - "Genesis"
17) Grimes - "Oblivion"
18) Grimes - "Circumambient"
19) Grimes - "Vowels = Space and Time"
20) Grimes - "Be A Body"
21) Grimes - "Nightmusic" (feat. Majical Clouds)
22) Grimes - "Skin"
23) Jack White - "Sixteen Saltines"
24) Jack White - "Love Interruption"
25) Jack White - "Take Me With You When You Go"
26) Lotus Plaza - "Strangers"
27) Lotus Plaza - "Out of Touch"
28) Lotus Plaza - "Monoliths"
29) Lotus Plaza - "Jet Out of the Tundra"
30) Lotus Plaza - "Remember Our Days"
31) Lower Dens - "Alphabet Song" 
32) Lower Dens - "Brains"
33) Lower Dens - "Propagation" 
34) Lower Dens - "Lamb"
35) Miike Snow - "The Wave"
36) Miike Snow - "Devil's Work"
37) Miike Snow - "God Help This Divorce"
38) Miike Snow - "Bavarian #1 (Say You Will)"
39) Mike Snow - "Archipelago"
40) Miike Snow - "Paddling Out"
41) of Montreal - "We Will Commit Wolf Murder"
42) Porcelain Raft - "Drifting In and Out"
43) Porcelain Raft - "Shapeless & Gone"
44) Porcelain Raft - "Is It Too Deep for You?"
45) Porcelain Raft - "Put Me to Sleep"
46) Porcelain Raft - "Unless You Speak from Your Heart"
47) Sharon Van Etten - "Leonard"
48) The Shins - "The Rifle's Spiral"
49) The Shins - "Simple Song"
50) The Shins - "Port of Morrow"

The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards

Sea of Cowards, the second album from The Dead Weather, one of Jack White's many bands, is on its way.  The Dead Weather's debut album Horehound came out pretty much yesterday, so this is kind of a surprise.  But not really.  Whatever you wanna say about Jack White, the dude is incredibly prolific.  Likes to go into the studio and bang out an album in a week, or so I'm told.

But seriously, I'd be hard pressed to name anyone other than Bradford Cox (Deerhunter, Atlas Sound) and Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Swan Lake, Moonface) who rivals White in releasing so much material across multiple bands. 

I never really listened to Horehound cover-to-cover, but I dig You "Treat Me Like Your Mother" and "Cut Like a Buffalo".  Much as I might like another White Stripes record, or even a Jack White solo record, I'm definitely down to listen to another Dead Weather effort.

Here's the tracklisting:

01) Blue Blood Blues
02) Hustle and Cuss
03) The Difference Between Us
04) I'm Mad
05) Die By the Drop
06) I Can't Hear You
07) Gasoline
08) No Horse
09) Looking at the Invisible Man
10) Jawbreaker
11) Old Mary

Sea of Cowards drops May 11.  Single "Die By the Drop" is out March 30.

Meanwhile, Jack White has recorded a song with Jay-Z!  Can't wait to heat that shit, damn.

Jack White

Rolling Stone did an interview with Jack White.  I had heard that Jack announced some details about a new White Stripes album and a solo album, but that's not exactly the case.  The interviewer is asking Jack about his future plans and he says...

"I honestly could be working on a White Stripes in the next two weeks. I have no idea if that is going to happen. And the same with Dead Weather. I'd rather live like this without a calendar in front of me".

So I mean, that's an awesome attitude Jack has - I know that's how I'd like to operate if I made music for a living.  But he basically said "I don't know".  The chances of us getting a new White Stripes album in 2010 seem about 50/50 based on that statement.  As for the solo album business, the interviewer brings it up, and Jack says that "eventually" he would like to make one.

One thing that can be said with certainty is we'll see some new music from Jack in 2010, whether it's from The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, The White Stripes, a solo album, or some combination.  Reportedly Jack's methods usually call for heading into the studio and banging out a record in a matter of weeks.  The potential for getting another "oh yeah, we just did an album and it comes out in a few days", like we did with The Raconteurs' Consolers of the Lonely, is awesome.

Jack also returns the love that Jay-Z showed to indie rock with his endorsement of Grizzly Bear this summer.  Jack calls Jay-Z "just incredible" and names The Black Album as one of the best of the decade.