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Dogs doing lists #18: Faithful Unto Death

Dogs doing lists #18: Faithful Unto Death This week’s list from our favourite canine friends finds them turning their piercing gaze towards the New York Police Department.

DURRR

5 of the best live shows at DURRR As the London night prepares to celebrate its 5th birthday, we pick our favourite PAs.

7 songs about dragons to celebrate Chinese New Year

7 songs about dragons Celebrate Chinese New Year and the Year Of The Dragon with some of our favourite dragon related songs.

Dogs doing lists #17: Awards in Slapstick High Achievement

Dogs doing lists #17: Awards in Slapstick High Achievement With the internet in meltdown (sort of), the world got ever weirder than usual this week but fret not because @dogsdoingthings will always out-weird everyone.

Blue Monday

On Blue Monday, 5 great performances of Blue Monday 5 videos of New Order’s Blue Monday, on the bleakest day of the year.

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Dogs doing lists #16: Digested Reads Our dear friends @dogsdoingthings turn over a literary new leaf for the new year, yet remain as sweetly unhinged as ever.

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Dogs doing lists #15: A Christmas Creature Feature As the day draws near, @dogsdoingthings take a moment to reflect on our mad, mad world with a festive glint in their eye.

Tracks

The 52 best songs of 2011 Our favourite examples of the pop song from the last 12 months.

Drake Marvins Room

The 25 best music videos of 2011 The very best music promo clips of the year.

Music businesses of the year From a free mixtape megasite to the world’s most exquisite experimental label, we count down the most interesting and inspiring firms of the year.

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Dogs doing lists #14: Those Included in the Present Classification Deep in list season, @dogsdoingthings turn in their morbidly witty take on the act of rating and recording.

EPs

The 12 best EPs of 2011 In a year that has seen the extended player pushed into vital new shapes, we count down the form’s best examples.

Kwes

5 nice things about Kwes The newly signed Warp artist makes his live debut tonight. Here’s why you should be there.

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Dogs doing lists #13: Frankfurt Schoolhouse Rock! Amidst global economic instability and civil unrest, @dogsdoingthings make strange sense of the madness in this week’s rock’n‘roll list.

DJ Shadow

5 of DJ Shadow's weirdest samples Ahead of his UK tour, here’s a handful of some of the sample master’s strangest sources.

Martin Gore and Vince Clarke

5 songs to make you dance and cry by Depeche Mode founders As two synth pop stalwarts announce a collaborative album we celebrate the genius of Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore.

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Dogs doing lists #12: Missed Connections: #OWS 4 RADIOHEAD (Zuccotti Park) In what’s probably a career-defining moment for the ‘OK Computer’ band, @dogsdoingthings turn a political eye to the musings of Thom Yorke and co.

Post Present Medium celebrate their tenth birthday Five picks from the 10-year-old this weekend LA label ran by No Age’s Dean Spunt.

Adele Rolling In Deep

5 great videos nominated at the UK Music Video Awards Our picks in the top categories for the annual British music video industry awards ceremony.

Rick Ross, DJ Khaled, Gucci

Seven further reasons Rick Ross should get more sleep Rozzy’s recent seizures were caused by one of our age’s worst afflictions – a chronic lack of sleep. Here are seven other reasons we all need shut eye.

Halloween

11 scary songs Get the fear this Halloween with the best tracks freak out to, from Bauhaus to Burzum, Jeff Mills to Japan.

Bob Moog

5 facts about Bob Moog and his famous synth The festival celebrating the spirit of Moog kicks off today so here’s a handful of fun facts about the legendary inventor.

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Dogs doing lists #11: Camping With the Oldies (Greatest Hits) Taking a fond look back at their first ten lists, @dogsdoingthings remix the best of the bunch with the weirdness dialled up to 11.

Lana Del Rey

8 versions of Lana Del Rey's Video Games Lana Del Rey’s singular un-anthem remixed or covered by some of our generation’s greatest minds and Kasabian.

New York

The eight best off-CMJ shows Unofficial CMJ parties not to miss this Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

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Dogs doing lists #10: Postcards from Amy Winehouse Echoes of an icon in the alternate universe of @dogsdoingthings.

Patti Smith

Best Arista and Jive albums Best albums from just dissolved American pop labels.

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Dogs doing lists #9: Sitting In a Tin Can Far Above the World David Bowie’s silvery alter-ego is this week’s muse for @dogsdoingthings’ meandering musings. Bow-wow-ie.

Iceland

10 music videos that were shot in Iceland Artists love going to Iceland (the country) to shoot their music videos.

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Dogs doing lists #8: Nevermind, Whatever, Who Cares Nirvana revisited through the chlorine-rinsed eyes of @dogsdoingthing.

James Blake 'Enough Thunder' EP

7 things that the new James Blake song sounds like. James Blake’s new track, Not Long Now , which premiered on Giles Peterson’s Radio 1 show this week, has lots of interesting sounds in it.

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Dogs doing lists #7: Pulp, and Other Fictions Twitter kings @dogsdoingthings get down with the common people in this week’s list.

Beyonce announces pregnancy at the VMAs

6 moments from MTV's VMAs The Video Music Awards are never short on drama but this year was bumpier than most.

Lil Wayne

Lil Wayne's best lyrics The lyrics you suggested as Weezy’s bestest.

Dogs doing things

Dogs doing lists #6: What You'll Find on FAC 819 The agony and ecstasy of Madchester as seen through the wide-eyed gurn of @dogsdoingthings.

Pitchfork

The 15 most significant Pitchfork reviews On the 15th birthday of the most widely-renowned music e-zine around, we take a look at the most controversial, innovative and hilarious reviews posted on the site.

A @dogsdoingthings list for Dummy

Dogs doing lists #5: How I Learned to Mind the Bollocks Anarchy is alive and well as @dogsdoingthings get punk on our asses. And by ‘well’, we mean seriously, seriously twisted.

London Calling

7 lyrics from the Clash's London Calling that will probably not be included in the Olympic theme song The Clash’s London Calling is apparently to be used as the theme song for the London 2012 Olympic celebrations, somewhat inappropriately.

A @dogsdoingthings list for Dummy

Dogs doing lists #4: The Last Days of Disco The rise and fall of disco as refracted through the mirror ball of @dogsdoingthings.