Stuart McLamb offers up his favorite local songs of 2010

Stuart McLamb, the mastermind of The Love Language, has named his favorite songs from the Triangle music scene in 2010. Not only did he pick his favorites, he's made a mixtape available for everyone to download dubbed For Lokals or Street Hitz: Vol. 2.

The download is not individual songs, but the entire list as one 45-minute mp3. Among the songs is "Month of May," not the Arcade Fire song, but a song by Love Language bassist Justin Rodermond's project Beach Body.

There are also songs by The Dirty Little Heaters, Gross Ghost, Last Year's Men, Veelee, Shit Horse and more. Check out the full list of songs below along with the download link.

Luego, The Beast & Dirty Little Heaters to play free show

It's about time for another free local show organized by the folks over at The Daily Tarheel's Diversions blog. As always, the show will be at Local 506 in Chapel Hill and this semester it will feature Luego, The Beast and The Dirty Little Heaters. It'll happen on Friday, April 9, so we're still a month away so mark your calendars.

Luego's latest album Taped-Together Stories is available to download via BandCamp via the name your own price system (though there's a $3 minimum). Check out some mp3s from the other bands below.

New music from Dirty Little Heaters - "City Square"

The raucous Durham rockers known as The Dirty Little Heaters are preparing to release a new album titled Champions of Imperfection on February 22 via Churkey Records (that's the album cover to the right there). You can get a little taste of the album now by downloading the track "City Slang" right now below.

The band will launch the album with a release party at Local 506 in Chapel Hill on Saturday, February 20 with Red Collar and Pink Flag. Tickets are $7 are available via etix.com.