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Anjulie

In a time when '60s pop-soul is back in style, artists such as Amy Winehouse and Duffy are in high demand. Anjulie is right there in the mix with her catchy throwback single "Boom," which has enough bounce for the dance club yet is laid-back enough for headphone listening.

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Best of 2008

It was an amazing year for music! I know, we say that every year, but it really was hard to limit ourselves to only 10 picks each. Check out our Best of 2008 feature and the playlist below.

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"I Kissed A Girl" by Katy Perry

filed under: Rock & Pop » Pop/Rock

"Gettin' Up" by Q-Tip

filed under: Hip-Hop » Soul/Jazz Hip-Hop

"Balloons" by Foals

filed under: Alternative/Punk » Alternative Dance

"Sing" by Glen Campbell

filed under: Country » Contemporary Country

"L.E.S. Artistes" by Santogold

filed under: Alternative/Punk » New Wave

Indie To Go Vol. 15 - This iPod-friendly sampler features topnotch indie newcomers and chart-toppers. Stream now (while you work), then visit the artist pages to download the songs to go. And check out previous Indie To Go playlists.

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Audience favorites - Forget our opinions--this mix gathers top alternative artists as rated by you, the listener. We salute your tastes: from the famous (The White Stripes and Bright Eyes)--to the lesser known (BiPolar Bears, The Honorary Title)--each one strikes us right, too.

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Indie To Go Vol. 3 - This iPod-friendly sampler features topnotch indie newcomers and chart-toppers. Stream now (while you work), then visit the artist pages to download the songs to go.

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Royal beatdown - After we pulled a muscle attempting to dance to Rilo Kiley last weekend, one thing was clear: we needed some indie-style cuts that could let us shake a leg. Luckily, it's not just DFA and retro rockers who've been serving up some mad beats. All the artists here could have been smooth funkmasters, if not for that pesky minimum-muscle-mass requirement.

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Indie To Go Vol. 1 - This iPod-friendly sampler features a mix of indie chart-toppers and newcomers. Stream now (while you work), then visit the artist pages to download the songs to go.

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Dark horses - Good luck coaxing a grin out of any of these mopers, who pen gorgeously gloomy ballads like it was their job-- which in fact it is. Highlighted by a soaring Rufus Wainwright rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows," this list follows the moody bard's example and makes art of darkness.

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Dance music for hipsters - If you're too cool to shake it to Justin Timberlake, here's a mix of danceable rock featuring artists that have enough indie cred to dismiss them from being "guilty pleasures."

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Scott's Playlist: Invective and theory - My preoccupation with songs that sound serrated and lacerating has unfortunately waned over the past few years. So I thought I'd revisit some of the adrenaline-boiling anthems of the old days--and maybe commit a crime or two.

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Emo playlist - From the scrappy Midwest scene of yore to the slicker stylings of today's faux-hawked over-emoters, get to know what the kids call emo.

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Features

Top 10: The Best Music of 2008

It was a very good year. Or, at least, it was for music, as the editors and writers of Download Music can attest. In our annual year-end wrap-up, each writer, editor, and producer has assembled a stunning playlist pulling together 10 of their favorite songs from our site.

Daniel Martin Moore

If you carry as your burden a love-hate relationship with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, listen to Daniel Martin Moore and have it lightened. The Kentuckian, making his Sub Pop debut with "Stray Age," arrives with a warm, unpretentious folk that wouldn't be able to find Silver Lake on a map.

The Raveonettes

The Danish pair go a step further in their presentation of retro rock as something vicious. Surfy guitars, always packing switchblades, and dressed to kill, get matched with a sketchy programmed template. The genre's early days have been translated to its most modern.

Black Kids

Jacksonville's Black Kids now join Manchester's Ting Tings in a remarkable effort to make the Kills and Go! Team seem old. Thankfully, we need not take sides. On cleverness alone, it's hard to vote against the Kids, whose head-snapping retro beats are set off by a buffet of puns.

	"For What Reason" Death Cab for Cutie	Sample
	"Boom" Anjulie	Sample
	"Dead On Arrival" Fall Out Boy	Sample
	"Flamingo" Kellarissa	Sample
	"Savin' Me" Nickelback	Sample
	"Around The Bend" The Asteroids Galaxy Tour	Sample
	"Vampire Joe" The Volunteers	Sample
	"Cute Without The ''E'' (Cut From The Team)" Taking Back Sunday	Sample
	"Pain" Three Days Grace	Sample
	"Balloons" Foals	Sample
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Best of 2008

"I Kissed A Girl" by Katy Perry

"Gettin' Up" by Q-Tip

"Balloons" by Foals

"Sing" by Glen Campbell

"L.E.S. Artistes" by Santogold

"Lights and Music (Superdiscount Remix)" by Cut Copy

"Do You Love Me?" by The Explorers Club

"Moorestown" by Sun Kil Moon

"The Truth ft. Freeway & Brother Ali" by Jake One

"What's Real (Say My Name Remix)" by Dri

Features

Top 10: The Best Music of 2008

Daniel Martin Moore

The Raveonettes

Black Kids

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