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2009
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12/20/2009
Technicolor Health
Harlem Shakes
“Niagara Falls”
Actor
St. Vincent
“The Strangers”
The Crying Light
Antony and the Johnsons
“Epilepsy is Dancing”
Hospice
The Antlers
“Bear”
Horehound
The Dead Weather
“Hang You From the Heavens”
Sigh No More
Mumford & Sons
“The Cave”
Lungs
Florence & the Machine
“Drumming Song”
Post-Nothing
Japandroids
“Heart Sweats”
Noble Beast
Andrew Bird
“Anonanimal”
Fantasies
Metric
“Gold Guns Girls”
It’s Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
“Zero”
Gorilla Manor
Local Natives
“Camera Talk”
Dark Was the Night
Various Artists
Feist & Ben Gibbard –
“Train Song”
Wolfgang
Amadeus Phoenix
Phoenix
“Lasso”
Miike Snow
Miike Snow
“Burial”
Manners
Passion Pit
“Little Secrets”
xx
The xx
“Heart Skipped a Beat”
Bitte Orca
Dirty Projectors
“Two Doves”
Merriweather
Post Pavilion
Animal Collective
“Brother Sport”
Veckatimest
Grizzly Bear
“Cheerleader”
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