Great post, and great point about year-end “bottom ten” lists, from our favorite battery type (that’s AA, you fiends; get your minds out of the gutter): Come on, if a movie was that bad, any lay person would have avoided it. It’s nothing we’re longing to erase from our memories. We figured out not to [...]
Here come the lists
Spin has announced their top 40 albums. By this point in the year we’ll learn nothing new: Animal Collective, Bat For Lashes, The Dead Weather, Grizzly Bear, Japandroids, Phoenix, Jay Reatard (presented in alphabetical order so as to not spoil the, ahem, surprise). Or will we? The present correspondent had not once heard of Florence [...]
The Indie Rock Alphabet Book
Being added to the list of presents to get for my nieces and nephew is now The Indie Rock Alphabet Book created by Paste. Starting with A for Animal Collective and ending with Z for The Zombies, this is a way to teach kids the alphabet without having to read all those other boring child [...]
Breakfast at Sulimay’s
Breakfast at Sulimay’s is a web video series posted at Woodshop films where three elderly music fans review the latest releases from some of today’s top indie and hip-hop artist. It’s interesting to hear what they have to say about the tracks. They are obviously music fans that have opinions other than the standards that [...]
Animal Collective on Letterman
I’m not a huge fan of Animal Collective (I say that as I dodge rocks and pitchforks for all over the indie music scene). But I have to say that they did a stellar job on Letterman last night. Performing their single “Summer Clothes” they seemed to take the opportunity to win over new fans [...]
This Week on Late Night TV
More and more often late night TV shows have been spotlighting indie acts as their musical guests. I always tend to miss then ones that I want to see each week so I am going to start posting the late shows weekly schedule of the bands that you all might find interesting and want to [...]
Review-Worthy Reviews: Merriweather Post Pavilion Edition
I love a good review almost as much as a good release. Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion has been causing quite a stir in the review-niverse, so let’s highlight a few of them: Stereogum.com is calling it the best album of 2009. Considering the post is dated January 5, 2009, that’s about as bold a [...]
