
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. #85 Pop Levi - The Return to Form Black Magik Party A former member of Liverpool electropop band Ladytron , Pop Levi [...]

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. #85 Basement Jaxx A lot of people felt that the Basement Jaxx went down hill after their first 1999 full length [...]

The Top 100 Influential 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. We spoke a little bit yesterday about Blonde Redhead's staying power [...]

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. #86 The Streets Mike Skinner, better known as The Streets , is no rapper. His delivery is clumsy and awkward, and [...]

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. #87 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular This is one of my favorite albums of the decade. The first time I heard the opening chords of "Time [...]

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. #87 Blonde Redhead The four-year hiatus after Blonde Redhead's Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons was the result of 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. #89 Deerhoof My friend, Dane, is a tall man. He's about 6'4" and has a strong build. He's a nice guy [...]

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. #88 The Books The Books have found unexpected success in their refusal to pander. Like The Flaming Lips of this [...]

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. #90 The Microphones Phil Elverum, or Elvrum at the time, adopted the moniker The Microphones in 1998, releasing intimate bedroom recordings [...]

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. #91 Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner I remember seeing Dizzee Rascal the first time back in 2004 at the South by [...]

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. #92 Interpol I want to kick off this article with the obvious namedrop: Joy Division. Yes, Interpol championed this decade's [...]

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. #93 Girl Talk - Night Ripper Ahh, and with Girl Talk's Night Ripper I encounter one of the most frustrating blocks [...]

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. #94 Xiu Xiu Xiu Xiu broke through to a larger audience in 2004 with the release of Fabulous [...]

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. #95 Death From Above 1979 Jesse Keeler and Sebastien Grainger, the duo that is Death From Above 1979 , are notable for [...]

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. #96 Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles Xiu Xiu has always been a band that comes with a disclaimer. "It's good, but [...]

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 "Not Going Home" from The Elected . Glistening and stately, "Not Going Home" is a spiffy and captivating example of a new sort of rock that's been emerging here in the 21st century, a rock that merges the big and the small in subtle and distinctive ways. While taking a lot of sonic cues from the smooth pop-rock of the '70s, this is not [...]

The 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. #98 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take Them On, On Your Own This album got me back into "rock" music. After a long [...]

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. #100 Joanna Newsom Our 100th most influential [...]

The Top 100 Influential 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. #99 Devendra Banhart Yes, Devendra [...]

Every Friday we bring you our weekly batch of uploads. Download all the songs that went up the week of 9/15-9/19 right here, right now. [ play ] | [ download mp3 ] The Juan Maclean - Find A Way [ play ] | [ download mp3 ] Pattern Is Movement - Sounds of Your Voice (CYNE Remix) [ play ] | [ download mp3 ] Max Tundra - Which Song [ play [...]