It impossible to listen to every album that gets released during 2009 in the many indie genres and sub-genres so it’s very easy to pass by many albums that might have deserved a chance at a slot on one of our top ten lists. For the last two weeks I’ve been going through all the [...]
January 18, 2010
Categories: Best of 2009 . Tags: Harlem Shakes, I and Love and You, If I Don't Come Home You'll Know I'm Gone, Technicolor Health, The Avett Borthers, The Wooden Sky . Author: Patrick . Comments: Leave a Comment
I have so many release dates running through my head during the year that sometimes they get mixed up and it doesn’t help to try and keep track of both US and UK dates. Normally this is not a problem until later in the year when lists are being compiled and there tends to be [...]
January 8, 2010
Categories: Best of 2009 . Tags: Island Records, Sigh No More, Mumford and Sons, Sorry . Author: Patrick . Comments: Leave a Comment
We had a bit more year-end stuff planned for you, but our department was recently cut from seven to five, and take a wild guess who got to pick up the slack? So here are our year-end reviews, in review: Patrick’s Top Ten Album Covers of 2009 Patrick’s Most Anticipated Albums for 2010 Patrick’s Top [...]
December 31, 2009
Categories: Best of 2009, Free Downloads . Tags: St. Vincent, The Bed . Author: Staff . Comments: Leave a Comment
She doesn’t remember it this way, but I do. This would have been late 2004 or early 2005. I was delirious with fever and half-sleeping, half-listening to her sing our infant son to bed. Those were the days she sang him Rufus Wainwright, and I don’t care what the man produces from here on out. [...]
December 31, 2009
Categories: Best of 2009 . Tags: Arcade Fire, Godspeed You! Black Emperor . Author: Fred . Comments: Leave a Comment
Over at Ragged Words, We Were Promised Jetpacks list their top ten albums of the decade. Go read. Some WWPJ here:
December 30, 2009
Categories: Best of 2009, Video . Tags: We Were Promised Jetpacks . Author: Fred . Comments: Leave a Comment
One of the many things that I did poorly this year was keep track of my favorite tracks as the year progressed even though I knew that this list was looming in the future. Over the past few weeks I have racked my brain trying to remember that one particular track that I heard from [...]
December 29, 2009
Categories: Best of 2009 . Tags: Beirut, Blitzen Trapper, Crystal Antlers, David Gray, Deer Tick, Great Lake Swimmers, Iron and Wine, Julian Casablancas, White Noise . Author: Patrick . Comments: Leave a Comment
by Fred. Damn! what a year. We lost Michael Jackson and we gained Girls. The Decemberists put out an LP almost as good as Picaresque, but what with the stiff competition you won’t find it on top 50 lists anywhere. Similarly, considering the new relative logic of the last twelve months, Muse and Mars Volta [...]
December 27, 2009
Categories: Best of 2009, Free Downloads . Tags: Apse, Fanfarlo, IAMX, Jonsi & Alex, Mastodon, Sea Wolf, Shinobu Nemoto, The Flaming Lips, Tune-Yards, Wildbirds and Peacedrums . Author: Fred . Comments: Leave a Comment
10. Loney Dear – Dear John Dear John was the first album I heard this year that made it onto this potential list. It also opened a great year for Sweden and all the amazing acts that are calling it home. Emil Svanangen turns a bit more to his darker and depressed side on this [...]
December 24, 2009
Categories: Best of 2009 . Tags: Beirut, Silversun Pickups, Loney Dear, Fanfarlo, The Mars Volta, Mastodon, Other Lives, Brendan Benson, AC Newman, BLK JKS . Author: Patrick . Comments: Leave a Comment
I’m not a person that would consider themself “artsy” in any way. When I watch a music video I don’t look for cinematography or camera angle, I look to be entertained for a few minutes, for something that is going to keep me interested and guessing as to what is going to happen next. That [...]
December 21, 2009
Categories: Best of 2009, Video . Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Fever Ray, Lucky Pineapple, Matt & Kim, Modest Mouse, Ramona Falls, The Avett Brothers, The Decemberists, The Low Anthem, The Swell Season, Top videos of 2009 . Author: Patrick . Comments: Leave a Comment
2009 came, dumped a crap ton of great music on our heads and is now departing so it’s time to start looking forward to what 2010 might have in store for us. The list below is not in order of what album I am most looking forward to the most but is rather in order [...]
December 18, 2009
Categories: Best of 2009 . Tags: Anticipated albums of 2010 . Author: Patrick . Comments: 2 Comments