As I like to do, before unveiling the year’s best of lists, I like to look back and redo my previous year’s album list to account for new finds and positional changes based on another years worth of listening. This year there hasn’t been much, mainly I just left David Bazan off last years list. [...]
5 Best Live Sets Of 2009
No one ever claimed I’m not scatterbrained. Somehow in the dysfunction of the past couple months (grad school apps, freelancing, job hunting, not posting on here enough, ect.), doing a live music recap of 2009 totally slipped my mind. It’d be a shame to omit this from the good ol’ site, because I managed to [...]
Top 50 Albums of ’00s (10-1)
Here’s a quick recap previous installments: #50-41, #40-31, #30-21, & #20-11. Without further ado, here’s the very best of the decade… 10. With Love And Squalor – We Are Scientists The brilliance of With Love And Squalor might seem confusing at first. Everything clashes, but it sounds like noting clashes. That is to say, none [...]
Top 50 Albums of ’00s (20-11)
And the beat goes on…and the beat goes on… (For those who need to catch up: #50-41, #40-31, & #30-21.) 20. The Stage Names – Okkervil River Being an actor isn’t all glitz and glamor, or at least so says Okkervil River. Over the course of nine tracks Will Scheff and company use their linguistic [...]
10 Best Songs of 2009
Songs! 10. “Satellite Heart” – Anya Marina Almost whispered, this delicate tune is enough to make anyone’s mind float lightly away, swooning the entire time. 9. “A Little Bit of Red” – Serena Ryder Okay, so technically this came out in 2008, but wasn’t released stateside until ’09. Regardless, Serena Ryder’s pipes on this little [...]
