
The Top 100 Artists of the Decade list and the Top 100 Albums of the Decade list will be posted over the course of 100 days. On September 23rd, we will post an artist and album and continue every day until December 31st, when we will unveil our #1 artist and #1 album of the decade! Please read our introduction to learn about our nominating and ordering process. #75 Spencer Krug Most everyone got their [...]

Every Friday we bring you our weekly batch of uploads. Download all the songs that went up the week of 10/13-10/17 right here, right now. [ play ] | [ download mp3 ] Roots Manuva - Let The Spirit (Hot Chip Remix) [ play ] | [ download mp3 ] Herbert - Leave Me Now [ play ] | [ download mp3 ] Matthew Herbert Big Band - The Story [ play ] | [ download [...]

The Top 100 Artists of the Decade list will be posted over the course of 100 days. On September 23rd, we will post one artist and continue every day until December 31st, when we will unveil our #1 artist of the decade! Please read our introduction to learn about our nominating and ordering process. #76 The Rapture I never had the proverbial cool older brother to show me what music to listen to, but I had Ryan, [...]

Top 100 Albums of the Decade list will be posted over the course of 100 days. On September 23rd, we will post one album and continue every day until December 31st, when we will unveil our #1 album of the decade! Please read our introduction to learn about our nominating and ordering process. #77 Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights Turn on the Bright Lights is laden with metropolitan imagery, both in lyrical content [...]

The Top 100 Artists of the Decade list will be posted over the course of 100 days. On September 23rd, we will post one artist and continue every day until December 31st, when we will unveil our #1 artist of the decade! Please read our introduction to learn about our nominating and ordering process. #77 Girl Talk He didn't do it first, but he's a classic example of doing it best. Ever since Night Ripper [...]

Top 100 Albums of the Decade list will be posted over the course of 100 days. On September 23rd, we will post one album and continue every day until December 31st, when we will unveil our #1 album of the decade! Please read our introduction to learn about our nominating and ordering process. #78 Herbert - Bodily Functions Bodily Functions is the third album from experimental electronic music producer Matthew Herbert . Herbert [...]

The Top 100 Artists of the Decade list will be posted over the course of 100 days. On September 23rd, we will post one artist and continue every day until December 31st, when we will unveil our #1 artist of the decade! Please read our introduction to learn about our nominating and ordering process. #78 Panda Bear For the longest time it was hard to separate Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) from his Animal Collective brethren. [...]

Top 100 Albums of the Decade list will be posted over the course of 100 days. On September 23rd, we will post one album and continue every day until December 31st, when we will unveil our #1 album of the decade! Please read our introduction to learn about our nominating and ordering process. #79 Paris - Sonic Jihad Paris' Sonic Jihad dropped harder than any album since Public Enemy's It Takes A [...]

The Top 100 Artists of the Decade list will be posted over the course of 100 days. On September 23rd, we will post one artist and continue every day until December 31st, when we will unveil our #1 artist of the decade! Please read our introduction to learn about our nominating and ordering process. #80 Godspeed You Black Emperor Perhaps the single entry that sparked the most contention (on either list), the discussion in our office that [...]

Top 100 Albums of the Decade list will be posted over the course of 100 days. On September 23rd, we will post one album and continue every day until December 31st, when we will unveil our #1 album of the decade! Please read our introduction to learn about our nominating and ordering process. #80 TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain TV on the Radio's Return To Cookie Mountain is an [...]

The Top 100 Artists of the Decade list will be posted over the course of 100 days. On September 23rd, we will post one artist and continue every day until December 31st, when we will unveil our #1 artist of the decade! Please read our introduction to learn about our nominating and ordering process. #83 Spoon Kill the Moonlight , Spoon's fourth album, is lean and muscular, without a hint of any superfluous [...]

The Top 100 Artists of the Decade list will be posted over the course of 100 days. On September 23rd, we will post one artist and continue every day until December 31st, when we will unveil our #1 artist of the decade! Please read our introduction to learn about our nominating and ordering process. #81 Cinematic Orchestra Although The Cinematic Orchestra has released five full-length albums, as well as a live album, there are two [...]

Top 100 Albums of the Decade list will be posted over the course of 100 days. On September 23rd, we will post one album and continue every day until December 31st, when we will unveil our #1 album of the decade! Please read our introduction to learn about our nominating and ordering process. #82 Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary Wolf Parade's Apologies to the Queen Mary has the persistence of [...]

Top 100 Albums of the Decade list will be posted over the course of 100 days. On September 23rd, we will post one album and continue every day until December 31st, when we will unveil our #1 album of the decade! Please read our introduction to learn about our nominating and ordering process. #83 Mum - Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK When we named Mum #93 out of our top 100 bands of the decade, [...]

The Top 100 Artists of the Decade list will be posted over the course of 100 days. On September 23rd, we will post one artist and continue every day until December 31st, when we will unveil our #1 artist of the decade! Please read our introduction to learn about our nominating and ordering process. #83 Spoon First, a simple lesson in physiology: The human eye is a concave mirror; it flips all the images that [...]

Every Friday we bring you our weekly batch of uploads. Download all the songs that went up the week of 10/6-10/10 right here, right now. [ play ] | [ download mp3 ] Mercury Rev - Sense On Fire (Fujiya & Miyagi Remix) [ play ] | [ download mp3 ] Curumin - Sambito (Total Shock) [ play ] | [ download mp3 ] Makers of Sense - Much Further [ play ] | [...]

Jeremy from Fingertips joins us every Friday as he scours the betterPropaganda archives, highlighting gems buried a few years back in our database. This week we bring you "Axons and Dendrites" from Shipping News . Perhaps it's only fitting that a song called "Axons and Dendrites" have so much depth and tension, so much implied mysteriously below the surface. As far as I can tell, this piece is built largely upon a recurring two-chord progression (the two nerve processes of the title?), but the chords are so spacious and so good--the [...]
Marnie Stern - This Is It & I Am It & You Are It & So Is That & He Is It & She Is It & It Is It & That Is That out now on Kill Rock Stars While reading up on Marnie Stern I came across an audacious claim in the New York Times . Citing Joanna Newsom and Marnie Stern among others, the writer excitedly stated that virtuosity, once the stuff of total dorkhood, is now back in fashion!! It's COOL to be super-technical!! Alright! So [...]

The Top 100 Artists of the Decade list will be posted over the course of 100 days. On September 23rd, we will post one artist and continue every day until December 31st, when we will unveil our #1 artist of the decade! Please read our introduction to learn about our nominating and ordering process. #84 Liars Liars' debut album, 2001's They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck A Monument on [...]
Top 100 Albums of the Decade list will be posted over the course of 100 days. On September 23rd, we will post one album and continue every day until December 31st, when we will unveil our #1 album of the decade! Please read our introduction to learn about our nominating and ordering process. #84 Murs- 3:16: The Ninth Edition In "The Pain" Murs spits the line, "I'm more Coldplay than I am Ice-T", which sums up [...]