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DJ Tiësto's album Kaleidoscope includes guest appearances from: Jónsi of Sigur Rós, Kele of Bloc Party, Nelly Furtado, Calvin Harris, Emily Haines, and Tegan & Sara.  By the sound of the Tegan & Sara cameo, this album should be quite brilliantly entertaining.  Tiësto explains:

"The starting point was to work with different artists that I liked. It was as simple as that. Sigur Rós make beautiful music. Bloc Party are fantastic and exciting and innovative. But the hardest thing initially was to get those kind of people to collaborate. They don't work with dance artists as a rule, and especially not a dance DJ, but when we started producing these tracks, I was surprised at how well the styles work together."

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It is always a fabulous day when you get to listen to a newly released Thom Yorke or Radiohead song.  The song "All For The Best" is on the album Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy (September 29, 2009).  It is a 21 song cover album from the likes of artists: The National, Michael Stipe (R.E.M.), Dinosaur Jr., Josh Rouse, Mercury Rev, Elvis Perkins and others.  An additional 20 tracks will be released digitally including: Laura Veirs, A.C. Newman, and Buffalo Tom.  The album was created in tribute to Mulcahy's suddenly deceased wife, Melissa, leaving him to raise his three year old twins alone.   

Imogen Heap released her solo debut album, I Megaphone, a decade ago in 1998.   With the UK success and critical acclaim of Heap's debut, her original record label, Almo Sounds, gave her a deadline to construct songs for her second album.  A similar story to Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002), in that the label told her the songs lacked "hit potential" leaving her career in the palms of the label.  Soon after, Almo Sounds was sold to Universal and in the transfer Imogen was "layed off."  

A few years later she grouped up with Guy Sigsworth thus forming a British electronic duo.  They released their only album to date, Details, in 2002 and disbanded only a year later.  He left to help write and produce for other artists including Britney Spears.  Most U.S. familiarity of the band came from Frou Frou's somewhat theme song, "Let Go" for Zach Braff's film, Garden State (2006).  

After the dispersion of Frou Frou, Imogen Heap created her following two albums, Speak for Yourself (2005) and Ellipse (2009), huddled in her house conceiving various sounds on computer software programs.  Even live she brings her electronic equipment that she created the background beats etc. on while she whisk fully sings alone with no band.  Another way her eminancy flourished is when her songs "Goodnight and Go" and "Hide and Seek" from Speak for Yourself ended up on the crappy show the O.C.  Heap has a way to bring forth enjoyably indulgent songs much like Tegan and Sara.  With every pop song easy on the ear, she is sort of like graffiti on a bathroom wall, for a good time call Imogen.  There is something comforting about having consistent albums that never cease to deliver.  She is quirky and rambles in person but her lyrics are controlled, direct, and melodic.  Michael Jackson was also a weirdo, but he knew how to create a great pop song.  With the hype of Imogen Heap's new album, Ellipse (August 25, 2009), she recently went through an Ebay crisis when a record critic tried to auction off an unreleased sealed recording of Ellipse.  The album was going for a ridiculous amount of money when furious Imogen and Ebay prevented the leak.  Imogen has choronologically recorded video blogs (40 of them) of her recording process.  "First Train Home" is her first single released off of Ellipse via Stereogum.  

Stream: Imogen Heap - First Train Home

For the next two months I'll be studying away for the California Bar Exam, which will leave me with no time to update the blog. Hopefully, Melissa will update here and there to keep things fresh -- but you'll have to wait two months for my disjointed ramblings on the music industry. I'll leave you with what is probably the best song I've heard this year -- from what is my favorite album so far this year; Grizzly Bear's "Veckatimest". Unfortunately this song has not been sanctioned for free download, so you'll have to live with the stream for now. The album comes out on Tuesday.