I thought I'd mix things up and get my best albums of the year 2009 out first then work backwards through what I listened to (According to Last.fm). I must say this was an amazing year for music and I plead with my friends who "cannot find anything new to listen to" that they just need to listen around, become an ear slut, do what you have to do to get into all this great music. Partly, this year for me has been a good one in music because I've been sitting at the computer so much after work [...]
Let me preface the following questions by first stating that this concert was phenomenal. Okay, now that that's out of the way. Was I at a Slayer concert last night? Did I buy tickets to see Animal Collective at the Electric Factory to somehow be implanted into a Slipknot crowd, with Animal Collective existing before my eyes as some sort of desert mirage? I mean, really, for a band as tripped out and sunny as Animal Collective, you would think that this crowd was either responding to something that wasn't actually going on or had never [...]
Looking around the Metro, geeked up for Animal Collective , I feared a war would break out at any moment. On one side, the high school hipsters, all glammed up for their night on the town, in from the burbs on the Metra. On the other, the unavoidable jam-bros, dudes who had a little smoke before coming to the show, pumped about the killer light show. But, as it typically does, the sound pumped out of Animal Collective's sound system united the factions, spreading peace, joy and a united Nation of Groove. Opener Sixto [...]
Happy 2009 everybody! Hope your New Years was as insane as mine. Let me take a quick minute to handle some site business before I start talking music again. First of all, in my last post of 2008, I promised a couple things to you. First, that there'd be a site redesign. That's something I'm currently working on, and it's a little buggy at the moment so I'm not gonna launch it until everything's perfect. It might be a few weeks. Secondly, I promised there'll be new segments this year. This is also true, but I'm not going to debut [...]
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