Congrats Prince! Purple Rain has topped Vanity Fair’s list of the 50 Greatest Soundtracks of All Time. While the full list won’t be revealed until next month, here’s a preview of what their Top 10 looks like:

1. Purple Rain
2. A Hard Day’s Night
3. The Harder They Come
4. Pulp Fiction
5. The Graduate
6. Superfly
7. Trainspotting
8. Saturday Night Fever
9. American Graffiti
10. The Big Chill

It’s a pretty solid Top 10, but what do you think they overlooked? Don’t answer Garden State unless you’re Zach Braff…

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is presenting an exhibition entitled “Abstract Rhythms: Paul Klee and Devendra Banhart,” which pairs the artwork of Paul Klee with the drawings and music of freak folkster Devendra Banhart. Exploring the relationship between music and visual art, the exhibit features more than a dozen of Klee’s works on paper along with thirteen of Banhart’s drawings he created alongside his latest album Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. According to the SFMOMA:

“Music was a consistent source of inspiration for Klee (1879–1940),…[who] came from a family of musicians and, prior to turning his attention to painting, drawing, and printmaking, was an accomplished violinist who often performed in concerts. [Banhart's] relationship to music, like Klee’s, is interdependent on his visual art practice: “I sing what I can’t draw and draw what I can’t sing,” he explains.”

Though Klee and Banhart were born a century apart, looking at Klee’s “Angelus Novus” (above image on left) and Banhart’s piece (above right) one gets the sense that the two really are kindred spirits.

MP3: Devendra Banhart - “So Long Old Bean”

Now that CMJ has ended, there’s all kinds of sweet residue from the festival surfacing across the internets. For example, check out this ace live set that The Hold Steady played for KEXP’s podcast. Not only is it a great performance, leadsinger Craig Finn ends the show by making the exciting announcement that a new album is coming in the spring or summer of 2008. Alright!!!

MP3:
The Hold Steady (Live on KEXP @ CMJ 10.16.07)

Described by Hypeful friend Chris as “twee as f#ck,” the feedback on Tullycraft’s “If You Take Away the Make-Up (Then The Vampires They Will Die)” was extremely positive. So, I anticipate Hypeful readers will dig the new Tullycraft video for “Georgette Plays A Goth.” It’s a tasty track and the video is, you guessed it - “twee as f#ck.” Enjoy and thanks to YANP for the heads up!

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Just in time for Halloween, Spinner counts down the 20 craziest costumed acts who recognize that sometimes what you wear is just as important as how you sound.

Better luck on making the list next year, chain mail-clad Ryan Adams…although your metal-inspired garb is likely to haunt our dreams well through Halloween.