Just stumbled upon this list of NPR’s “Best Songs (so far) of 2009″, as voted on by its listeners. While the list is distinctly indie / folk (though, does that really surprise you from NPR?), it’s not too bad.

NPR listeners cast thousands of votes for the year’s best music (so far) and kept the race tight. In the end, Animal Collective edged out every other artist for both Best Album and Best Song. Artists like Grizzly Bear, The Decemberists and Neko Case weren’t far behind. One thing was clear: that 2009 has been one of the strongest years for new music in recent memory.

In addition to being an awesome candy substance, it’s also the title of this sweet AMV I found:

Set to “Candy Pop” by Heartsdale ft. Soul’d Out. What I found out most impressive about the music (besides the sweet beat) was the mix of Japanese and English from a Japanese group without sounding Engrishy. The video is also really well done and set to Haruhi! Definitely one of the best AMVs I’ve seen. The weird silence around 0:45 is actually part of the song.

And I realize it’s somewhat old, but I just stumbled on it and loved it, so I thought I’d poast.

Stolen Borrowed from here.

P.S.: I updated my About Page. Mostly just added my GPG public key, if any of you readers want to email me hawt n00dz (girls only apply within) secretly. Your own public key unencrypted would be nice, if you’d like me to decode them, though. :-)

This is probably one of the coolest mashups I’ve seen in a while. Rick Astley v. Nirvana. Supremely awesome.

This could possibly be the best product ever conceived. EVER.

The woman’s face they have in the foreground for the first part of the clip seems to exude a look of “kill me now, kthx.”

Via the Huffington Post