June | 2010 | My list of Coolness Blog

{June 28, 2010} Since I just turned 30, I’ll be watching a show about toys tonight!

James May of the BBC America show ‘Top Gear‘ has a new show about Toys! Toy Stories premieres tonight 6/28 on BBC America Mondays at 10pm EST.

{June 23, 2010} Best Music So Far UPDATED

We’re at the half point in the year, so inevitably, there’s going to be best music so far lists.

Paste Magazine’s has two lists (here’s the other list) of the top albums of the year so far.
Do you agree, on NPR you can vote for the music you have liked…UPDATE: what you picked
Flavorwire lists the 25 albums of this year you must listen to

{June 19, 2010} Hear the new Roots album + other odd ends

I’ve been pretty silent this week on the blog. I blame it on so far a slow summmer. So here’s just a bunch of items bunched together from the week that just passed.

Hear the New Roots album. It features Dirty Projectors and Joanna Newsom among others

NPR has archived a crazy amount of concerts from last week’s Bonnaroo

Listen to jazz legend Herbie Hancocks’ new album

NME magazine lists the essential music books

And, World Cup Soccor songs

{June 11, 2010} Stream the new Devo album

Very excited to hear the new Devo album. It’s there first in 20 years! It’s streaming over at the Colbert Nation website. It’s on the right side of the page. Devo will appear on the Colbert Report on June 16. The new album, Something For Everybody (Deluxe), comes out June 15.

{June 8, 2010} It’s that time again…Bonnaroo + Lollapalooza Mixtape

I’m sure I’ll have more to say about the annual gi-normous music fest called Bonnaroo, but NPR’s the first to announce their coverage:

Here’s a mixtape to listen to
Download a free 11-song sampler
Listen Live this weekend (June 11-13)…here’s a preview
Here’s a free mixtape to download from Spin Magazine

Lollapalooza

Get free songs on Itunes from 2010 Lollapalooza artists

{June 7, 2010} Cool Book Alert

I love anything that has to do with vinyl. Five Hundred 45s: A Graphic History of the Seven-Inch Record – a book of album covers. Flavorpill has pics.

{June 5, 2010} The Rumpus Bookclub

Online book club from Rumpus.net, costs $25 a month! But, you get a unreleased book in the mail and at the end of each month you will be able to participate in an online discussion with the book’s author. Here’s the details

{June 5, 2010} Mondays in June are for Gay Pride on Sundance Channel

Every Monday night at 8pm in June The Sundance Channel will feature LBGT programming. Gay Pride Month on the Channel will kick off June 7, 8pm with the 34 Miss Gay American pageant. Here’s the rest of the programming

{June 3, 2010} Interesting Reads

Ok, so my blog is a place I carall interesting stuff from the internet. There has been many articles this week that I’ve wanted to read, but just haven’t had the chance. So, I’m storing them in this blog post. So they will be here when I have a chance to get to them. Hope you find them interesting too.

From NPR: