Blog: Idolator

Indie digital music vendor eMusic has released its year-end list , and I gotta say...wow! This is the deepest and most balanced list I've seen so far, and it throws consensus out the window for a broad analysis of the year in music. Sure, there are a Santogold and Deerhunter and She & Him here and there, but I don't recognize half the stuff on here, and that's a good thing. There are tens of thousands of records released every year, so I find attempts to quantify the best of anything—and the ensuing "this list sucks" arguments—downright [...]