All tracks can be downloaded for free, right now, over at the NME site.

Those who favor the tangible can bag a physical copy of the sampler by entering the magazine’s new contest. Just comment on the NME site with your favorite summertime tune, “one track that sums up lazy days in the park with good friends and a few ciders.” Winners will be chosen on Monday, May 24.

Better Pop Music
01 There Will Be Fireworks – “Foreign Thoughts”
02 The Forest & The Trees – “To the Forest”
03 Acrylics – “Molly’s Vertigo”
04 Miniature Tigers – “Cannibal Queen”
05 Fitness Club Fiasco – “Forest City”
06 Class Actress – “Journal of Ardency”
07 Memory Tapes – “Graphics Remodel Edit”
08 Caribou – “Odessa”
09 Ceremony – “Someday”
10 Jessica Lee Mayfield – “Kiss Me Again”
11 Freelance Whales – “Generator 2nd Floor”
12 The Silent League – “When Stars Attack”
13 Air France – “GBG Belongs to Us”
14 Washed Out – “Feel it All Around”
15 New Moods – “Dying Trying”
16 Memory Cassette – “Surfin’”
17 Phoenix – “1901 (Memory Tapes Remix)”
18 Fear of Tigers – “Please Don’t Leave”
19 Rest – “Drinking Again”

Ergo, each week, we round up every show’s scheduled performances and place them in a handy little list. For good measure, we’ve thrown in the other guests too. Happy watching.

“The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” *

01/25 – TBA Repeat
01/26 – TBA Repeat
01/27 – TBA Repeat
01/28 – TBA Repeat
01/29 – TBA Repeat

“The Late Show with David Letterman”

01/25 – Bradley Cooper, Rachel Maddow, Nick Jonas & the Administration, a Top Ten List presented by Homer Simpson (Repeat from 01/7/10)
01/26 – Denzel Washington, heart surgeon Dr. O. Wayne Isom, the Low Anthem (Repeat from 01/14/10)
01/27 – Whoopi Goldberg, Jason Sudeikis, Findlay Brown (Repeat from 01/12/10)
01/28 – Kiefer Sutherland, Keri Russell, the HotRats (Repeat from 01/13/10)
01/29 – Sigourney Weaver, Marv Albert, Julian Casablancas (Repeat from 01/6/10)

“Jimmy Kimmel Live”

01/25 – Joan Rivers, Dax Shepard, chef Paul Bartolotta (Repeat from 01/15/10)
01/26 – Harrison Ford, Kristen Bell, Silversun Pickups
01/27 – Mel Gibson, Kate Micucci, Mayer Hawthorne
01/28 – Will Arnett
01/29 – Josh Duhamel, Shorty Rossi, John Mayer

“The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson”

01/25 – Carl Reiner, Alicia Witt
01/26 – Quentin Tarantino, Adrianne Palicki
01/27 – Eddie Izzard
01/28 – Rosie O’Donnell, Wilco
01/29 – Jon Heder, Corinne Bailey Rae, Dana Eagle

“Late Night with Jimmy Fallon”

01/25 – Michael Cera, Ana Gasteyer, Shwayze (Repeat from 01/5/10)
01/26 – Amy Adams, John Oliver, Jim Meehan (Repeat from 01/7/10)
01/27 – Maggie Gyllenhaal, David Ortiz, Lenny Clarke (Repeat from 01/101/10)
01/28 – Ringo Starr (Repeat from 01/12/10)
01/29 – Freddie Prinze Jr., Anthony Anderson, Ke$ha (Repeat from 01/13/10)

“Last Call with Carson Daly”

01/25 – Jason Reitman, Kenna, Franz Ferdinand (Repeat from 12/17/09)
01/26 – Snoop Dogg (Repeat from 12/18/09)
01/27 – Glenn Howerton, Chad Hedrick, Cold War Kids (Repeat from 10/9/09)
01/28 – Chris Kattan, Nuttin But Stringz, Lily Allen (Repeat from 10/13/09)
01/29 – Charlie Hunnam, Erin Hamlin, Phoenix (Repeat from 10/14/09)

*The ‘cock will air repeats of “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” and Olympic Games coverage until “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” debuts March 1. Godspeed, you tall Irishman.

Glaringly obvious oversights aplenty, P4K’s “Top 100 Tracks of 2009” is, if nothing else, predictable. The list features multiple entries from many of this year’s love ‘em or hate ‘em indie acts (e.g. Animal Collective, Phoenix, Dirty Projectors, Girls) while striking the usual balance with guilty-pleasure pop and mainstream hip-hop. Grain of salt recommended.

100 Darkstar – “Aidy’s Girl’s a Computer”
99 Julianna Barwick – “Bode”
98 Future of the Left – “Arming Eritrea”
97 The Smith Westerns – “Be My Girl”
96 Gucci Mane [Feat. Plies] – “Wasted”
95 The Thermals – “Now We Can See”
94 Best Coast – “Sun Was High (So Was I)”
93 Morrissey – “Something is Squeezing My Skull”
92 Cam’ron – “I Hate My Job”
91 HEALTH – “Die Slow”
90 The-Dream – “Rockin’ That Shit”
89 No Age – “You’re a Target”
88 Passion Pit – “Moth’s Wings”
87 Here We Go Magic – “Fangela”
86 Drake – “Best I Ever Had”
85 Wavves – “No Hope Kids”
84 Junior Boys – “Parallel Lines”
83 Lady Gaga – “Paparazzi”
82 DJ Kaos – “Love the Nite Away (Tiedye remix)”
81 Bowerbirds – “Northern Lights”
80 YACHT – “Psychic City (Voodoo City)”
79 Pictureplane – “Goth Star”
78 Charlotte Gainsbourg – “IRM”
77 Frida Hyvönen – “Jesus Was a Cross Maker”
76 The Rural Alberta Advantage – “Don’t Haunt This Place”
75 Gold Panda – “Quitter’s Raga”
74 Neon Indian – “Should Have Taken Acid With You”
73 Woods – “Rain On”
72 Matt & Kim – “Daylight”
71 A Sunny Day in Glasgow – “Close Chorus”
70 Discovery – “Orange Shirt”
69 Taylor Swift – “You Belong With Me”
68 Röyksopp [Feat. Robyn] – “The Girl and the Robot”
67 Arctic Monkeys – “Cornerstone”
66 Julian Casablancas – “11th Dimension”
65 The Tough Alliance – “A New Chance (The Juan MacLean Remix)”
64 Annie – “Songs Remind Me of You”
63 Real Estate – “Fake Blues”
62 Volcano Choir – “Island, IS”
61 Atlas Sound [Feat. Lætitia Sadier] – “Quick Canal”
60 Kurt Vile – “Freeway”
59 tUnE-yArDs – “Sunlight”
58 Fever Ray – “If I Had a Heart”
57 Sleigh Bells – “Crown on the Ground”
56 John Talabot – “Sunshine”
55 Bat For Lashes – “Glass”
54 Joker & Ginz – “Purple City”
53 The xx – “Islands”
52 St. Vincent – “Actor Out of Work”
51 Antony and the Johnsons – “Aeon”
50 Matias Aguayo – “Rollerskate”
49 Yo La Tengo – “Here to Fall”
48 Destroyer – “Bay of Pigs”
47 Yeah Yeah Yeahs -”Heads Will Roll”
46 Memory Tapes – “Bicycle”
45 The Flaming Lips [Feat. Karen O] – “Watching the Planets”
44 Jay-Z [Feat. Alicia Keys] – “Empire State of Mind”
43 Camera Obscura – “French Navy”
42 The Big Pink – “Velvet”
41 Major Lazer [Feat. Nina Sky and Ricky Blaze] – “Keep It Goin’ Louder”
40 Bear in Heaven – “Lovesick Teenagers”
39 Lady Gaga – “Bad Romance”
38 Dirty Projectors and David Byrne -”Knotty Pine”
37 Surfer Blood – “Swim”
36 Fever Ray – “When I Grow Up”
35 Micachu and the Shapes – “Golden Phone”
34 Atlas Sound [Feat. Noah Lennox] – “Walkabout”
33 DJ Quik and Kurupt – “9x’s Outta 10″
32 The Very Best [Feat. Ezra Koenig] – “Warm Heart of Africa”
31 Lily Allen – “The Fear”
30 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – “Young Adult Friction”
29 jj – “Ecstasy”
28 Neko Case – “This Tornado Loves You”
27 Four Tet – “Love Cry”
26 Bon Iver – “Blood Bank”
25 Cass McCombs – “You Saved My Life”
24 Basement Jaxx – “Raindrops”
23 Animal Collective – “Brother Sport”
22 Delorean – “Seasun”
21 Raekwon [Feat. Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, & Method Man] – “House of Flying Daggers”
20 Japandroids – “Young Hearts Spark Fire”
19 Joker – “Digidesgin”
18 The Big Pink – “Dominos”
17 Fuck Buttons – “Surf Solar”
16 The xx – “Crystalised”
15 Girls – “Hellhole Ratrace”
14 Joy Orbison – “Hyph Mngo”
13 Neon Indian – “Deadbeat Summer”
12 Grizzly Bear – “While You Wait for the Others”
11 Animal Collective – “What Would I Want? Sky”
10 Washed Out – “Feel It All Around”
09 Girls – “Lust for Life”
08 Phoenix – “Lisztomania”
07 Big Boi [Feat. Gucci Mane] – “Shine Blockas”
06 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Zero”
05 Grizzly Bear – “Two Weeks”
04 Bat For Lashes – “Daniel”
03 Phoenix – “1901″
02 Dirty Projectors – “Stillness Is the Move”
01 Animal Collective – “My Girls”

Check it out for yourself at Pitchfork.

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