You didn't think we'd forgotten, did you? Granted, it's New Year's Eve and we're not much for best-of lists. Still, we couldn't help but think that you, dear readers, might just like to know what we had picked as our creme de la creme for the year. So, without further ado, we give you the HAD Best Records of 2009! Happy New Year! 1. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix: If this entry surprises you, [...]
The Tough Alliance - "A New Chance (Juan Maclean remix)" A problem I have with year-end lists is that mine quickly become outdated as I spend the first couple months of the following year playing acclaimed music catch-up. Last year for instance, I ranked M83 as my favorite album but over the past year, I came to appreciate 2008 releases by Air France (thanks Tuneage!), Vampire Weekend and Crystal Castles. Some spoilsports might argue that "such is life" and that it's futile to fix the [...]
Today is officially the last last day of 2009 so we thought it would be fitting to release our top songs of the year list. Maybe you can even use them to put a little NYE playlist together. As for me I'll be watching the Flaming Lips cover Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon . Everyone have fun and be safe tonight. See you next year. Goodbye year. Goodbye decade. 50. Silversun Pickups | "Growing Old [...]
Come Metacritic anche AcclaimedMusic è un aggregatore di opinioni di alcune delle più importanti testate (o siti web) musicali a livello mondiale. Su AcclaimedMusic sono al momento disponibili sei file Excel, continuamente aggiornati, due per quanto riguarda i migliori album/singoli di sempre, due per quanto riguarda i migliori album/singoli del decennio e due per quanto riguarda gli album/singoli del 2009. Aprendo i file Excel ci si imbatte in una marea di numeri e posizioni nelle varie classifiche di fine anno delle altrettanto varie testate giornalistiche. A noi quello che ci interessa però è la [...]
Not too long ago there was an article about the state of music videos in some relevant culture magazine. The alt suits were basically saying at print time (last year) that it was the best time to make music videos because of no budgets. That was the dumbest shit I have ever heard.
Continuing our Best of 2009 coverage... here are the best music videos of the year. Streamable: Run Run Run (vimeo) by Beck's Record Club Streamable: No Time, No Hope (youtube) by Times New Viking Downloadable: No Time, No Hope (mp3) Streamable: No Sugar (vimeo) by Pterodactyl Downloadable: No Sugar (mp3) Streamable: [...]
Giusto pochi giorni fa vi abbiamo mostrato la classifica dei migliori album italiani del 2009 realizzata da Stereogram , oggi invece vi proponiamo quella relativa agli album "stranieri". Su Stereogram hanno diviso la classifica in tre post differenti per un totale di 31 posizioni. Fra la 11 e la 31 hanno trovato posto dischi acclamati come ad esempio " Primary Colours " dei The Horrors (30), "Tarot Sport" dei Fuck Buttons (28) o "Logos" del progetto Atlas Sound di Bradford Cox (14). Nella top10, che vi mostriamo [...]
Plus qu'un détournement, c'est presque un hommage que fait Benjamin John Power des Fuck Buttons en crachotant talentueusement dans le micro de son magnétophone FisherPrice. Ce même micro sur lequel des générations de bambins ont fait sortir leurs premières dents. Question hygiène c'est un peu douteux mais leur électro noisy est reconnaissable à des kilomètres, et elle a fait ses preuves. Avec l'inoubliable Sweet Love For Planet Earth, leur remix déjanté de la déjà très déjantée Fever Ray (il fallait le faire), et leur 'petit' dernier, Tarot Sport. On vous souhaite fortement d'avoir assisté à un de leurs sets : [...]
E così andiamo a mostrarvi anche la classifica di fine anno targata OndaRock, da anni una delle webzine musicali più importanti e più seguite a livello nazionale. Dico subito che la numero uno mi sorprende leggermente, non che sia un brutto disco, anzi, ma vederlo lì sopra a tutti mi fa uno strano effetto. Sto parlando di "Lovetune For Vacuum" di Soap&Skin , il progetto di Anja Franziska Plaschg che, va ricordato, ha solamente 19 anni... alla faccia di tutti quel che dicono cose come "sì, ma è giovane" quando si parla di artisti teen-oriented, come a [...]
Gráfica: Ignacio Mardones Sin mayores rodeos, les entregamos la segunda parte de los mejores discos del año según nuestro sitio. Esperamos que lo disfruten y esta selección pueda marcar un espacio para el debate entre nuestros lectores. Feliz año nuevo y nos reencontramos el 2010, con mucha más música y novedades. Revisa las posiciones 45 a 21 haciendo click aquí . 20.- Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glassnote/Loyauté) [...]
Gráfica: Ignacio Mardones Sin mayores rodeos, les entregamos la segunda parte de los mejores discos del año según nuestro sitio. Esperamos que lo disfruten y esta selección pueda marcar un espacio para el debate entre nuestros lectores. Feliz año nuevo y nos reencontramos el 2010, con mucha más música y novedades. Revisa las posiciones 45 a 21 haciendo click aquí . 20.- Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glassnote/Loyauté) [...]
für die Wahl unserer Jahrescharts habt ihr ja noch bis zum 5. Januar Zeit, um euch aber die Wahl zumindest in einer Kategorie vereinfachen zu könne, präsentiere ich euch hier die gemeinsamen Top 10 von 14 Musikblogs in Deutschland, darunter auch ich als Repräsentant dieser Seite. Platz 10: Fever Ray – s.t. Das vermeintlich kälteste Album des Jahres, zumindest wenn man die verzerrte Stimme und die dumpfen Synthiesounds die ersten Male auf sich wirken lässt. Doch hinter dem eisigen Wasserfall sind ungeahnte Landschaften zu finden. Ruhig stapft das [...]
Nadat jullie onze favoriete nummers van onze albums hebben kunnen luisteren zijn hier de nummers die we dit jaar hebben grijs gedraaid, onafhankelijk van onze favoriete albums. Luister, geniet, neem onze smaak over, ontdek muziek, en heb je je favoriete nummers van dit jaar gemist in onze lijsten en wil je ze toch even kwijt? Reageer dan lekker eventjes onderaan want we willen graag horen wat je er zelf van vind. Koen: 1. Kasabian - Fast Fuse (West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum) Dit is hoe rock hoort te [...]
Fever Ray est le projet solo de Karin Dreijer , la moitié féminine de The Knife . Son 1er album est sorti un peu avant le milieu d'année 2009. Si Freud avait eu l'occasion d'analyser cette album, il est fort probable qu'il se serait reconverti dans la vente de crocodiles haribos, au mieux. Dix morceaux qui nous font entrer dans le coté obscur de la force. Mais cette fois pas de Jedi armé d'un bâtonnet lumineux, ou autre héros en slip rouge, pour vous en sortir. Seulement [...]
Het einde van het jaar is nabij, een tijd waar elk zelfrespecterende blog, mediasite, televisiezender en bekend persoon een terugblik werpt en vertelt aan het volk wat ze nog moeten checken mochten ze het gemist hebben. Nu zijn wij aan de beurt. Wat zijn de... BESTE ALBUMS VAN 2009 VOLGENS DIARY OF COOL Emil: 1. The Antlers - Hospice Een album dat me telkens beter emotioneel weet te raken, waar instrument en zang samen werken om kippenvel [...]
The Grindin' Top 20 of 2009 [?] 01. Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo 02. Major Lazer – Pon Di Floor 03. Florence + The Machine – You Got The Love (The XX Remix) 04. L-Vis 1990 – United Groove 05. Health – Die Slow 06. Gucci Vump – Sha Shtil! (L-Vis 1990 VIP Remix) 07. F.L.Y – Party Time 08. House of House – Rushing To Paradise 09. Kingdom (ft. Shyvonne) [...]
In recent years the crowd that is claiming "the album is dead" has grown louder and louder. We couldn't disagree more. As more and more people turn to iTunes and the Hype Machine to download the latest and greatest singles, we have stuck to the traditional album listening and found that there are still some truly great records being made these days. For most of this year we have been inundated by bands breaking into the world, mainstream artists trying to recapture their former glory, and indie rock "superstars" growing into their own, it has been exciting and fun and [...]
So here's what you've all been waiting for - our top four albums of the year. Produced through complicated Venn diagrams and extended algorithms. 1- Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport Sublime. What more can we say? Rough Steez Flight Of The Feathered Serpent 2 - Brakes - Touchdown Another of those bands we love to bits - we both saw them live this year and are still [...]
Our finest 20 records of the year are the ones that are closest to our collective hearts from a San Francisco band's debut to a Kosmische pile-up between Tangerine Dream, Sunno))) and proggy ambient techno to the return of some French Anglophiles, to our highest charting Irish albums, a band on their 13th release, an icy Swedish enigma and a slew of Brooklyn based bands. Albums of 2009: 75-51 | 50-41 | 40-31 | 30-21 | 20-1 [...]
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