Vacations and other deadlines have conspired to make me late this month, kids - apologies for the delay. In keeping with the theme (and in an effort to finally wrap up our September lists), I'm going to make this quick: my goal was to assemble a list of songs that were just short enough to leave you wanting more, songs that made you skip back & listen to them again right away. Here we go: Ten Minute Turns, "Stars Burn OUT" A perfect combination of dusky [...]
So why did it take until 2009 for me to post this? Because, in my mind, you can't call a "best of 20083 before the end of 2008! That, and I was anticipating a rush of new, 2008-vintage music that would fill my stockings on Christmas, so I couldn't really call 2008 a done-deal until I had a chance to process the new stuff. I'm not on the receiving end of the review copies of things, and my musical horizons are defined by very odd influences, so I take a while longer to get [...]
Happy New Year, folks! Before we dive headfirst into 2009, I wanted to look back one more time. This week I realized that this was the 10th year I've put together an annual best-of compilation CD. It started out as something to give my musically-curious coworkers, and it's become an annual tradition that I share with good friends, family, coworkers, and, now, teh intarwebs . And yes, I'm well aware that some of you have actually heard some/most of the songs I include, but when I first titled the collections "The Best Songs You Didn't [...]
Here's what rocked and rolled me in '08: Ten Minute Turns, "Aluminum Shine" from Leaving Robot City The best new song from the best unsigned band in Brooklyn. Leaving Robot City adds electronic flourishes to their winning marriage of impeccably-produced indie rock and earworm-inducing hooks, and the results are pretty damn great. This was my #2 most listened-to song of the year, and it only surfaced in November. Really, really good. MGMT, "Kids" [...]
So my brother's in a band called Ten Minute Turns (in the name of journalistic transparency, I figured that was important to share right at the top). And (I swear to you, I'm not blowing fraternal smoke up your collective butts) they're pretty good (ask Matt or Rudi - they'll both vouch). Their debut album Sad Animals was in my top 10 albums of 2006, brimming with creative, everything-often-including-the -kitchen-sink sounds and über-catchy hooks. New material from their sophomore album Leaving Robot City is beginning to surface (and not just here [...]
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