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Top 20 albums of 2008

Posted in Music on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
TV on the Radio – Dear Science
Raphael Saadiq – The Way I See It
Deerhunter – Microcastle
Kanye West – 808s and Heartbreak
Portishead – Third
Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
M83 – Saturdays = Youth
Los Campesinos! – Hold on Now, Youngster
Fucked Up – The Chemistry of Common Life
The Dodos – [...]

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Top 10 songs of 2008

Posted in Music on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I had a hard time coming up with even 10. Here’s to hoping 2009 will be better (so far most of my anticipated albums have been so-so).
01. Okkervil River – Lost Coastlines
02. TV on the Radio – Family Tree
03. Vampire Weekend – Walcott / Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
04. Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal / Oliver James
05. Kanye West – [...]

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The most beautiful music video

Posted in Music on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

M. Ward – Chinese Translation, a little after it came out, but I’m not the most avid music video watcher.

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Why Charlie Rose is a national treasure

Posted in Music on January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Far better than a lousy Nicolas Cage flick, Charlie Rose features a band like Dillinger Escape Plan.

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Top 50 albums of 2007

Posted in Music on January 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Okkervil River – The Stage Names
LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
Panda Bear – Person Pitch
Jens [...]

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top 20 songs of 2007

Posted in Music on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends
Just an incredible tune. The Franz Ferdinand version is also nice.
Spoon – Get yr Cherry Bomb
The Underdog should give Jon Brion a grammy for best production, but this is THE song from the beset album of the year.
Okkervil River – Plus Ones
8 Chinese brothers? There may be one too many [...]

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Top 50 albums of 2006, and others worth checking out

Posted in Music on January 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Top albums of the year
1.         Glenn Kotche – Mobile
Best drummer today, by a clear mile. Someday he’ll be mentioned in the same breath as Buddy Rich, Keith Moon, and Jack DeJohnette. But for now he’s just that guy who plays for a little band called Wilco. Peerless technique combined with a fearless will to experiment [...]

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Top 20 songs of 2006

Posted in Music on January 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
Phoenix – One Time Too Many – but never played enough
Asobi Seksu – Thursday
Willie Nelson – You Don’t Know Me
Xiu Xiu – Boy Soprano / Eau de Claire
Camera Obscura – if looks [...]

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uninspired reposting of youtube video

Posted in Music on August 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

So I’m not really sure where this blog is going. I came across this video on youtube andfound it absolutely hilarious. The whole ‘vh1 behind the music’ thing has been done, but the critique of the whole indie scene was spot-on. Indie music is losing that independent spirit when you can take the three steps [...]

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Favorite 20 songs of the year

Posted in Music on April 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

1 Kanye West – Heard em Say
2 Jose Gonzalez – Heartbeats
3 Lou Barlow – Home
4 Calexico & Iron and Wine – 16, Maybe more
5 Aqueduct – Softcore Days, Hardcore Nights
6 The new pornographers- These are the fables
7 [...]

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