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With all the craziness of music blogging, from concerts to press releases to interviews to festivals, it can be hard to find time to sit down, listen to an album and give it an honest, thorough review. With that in mind, we came up with the Reviews Roundup , a way for us to look back at all of the major releases in the past month and give them an on-the-spot review. Whether we like them or not, we'll spout out a quick blurb about the album to give an overall impression of what makes it good or bad [...]
Animal Collective - Centipede Hz Cat Power - Sun Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar WWTB Big week. BIG week. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz ( buy the MP3s ) Cat Power - Sun ( buy the CD / buy the MP3s ) Jens Lekman - I [...]
Do you ever have one of those weekends that seem to go on like a whole entire day longer than most weekends? It's strange but I think I had one of those weekends that just ended yesterday. You know, some people have jobs where they don't even get weekends let alone 3 day ones. Jobs like serial killer and connivence store clerk (I would like to see the overlap of those two jobs on a ven diagram) have to work really strange hours, like nights and holiday Mondays. So if you are one of [...]
You know summer is well and truly over when the humidity recedes, the days start getting shorter and the big album releases start coming thick and fast. Yep, it's almost time for the September rush, and this year the crop is particularly good — so much so, in fact, that we've expanded our usual round-up of 10 albums you need to hear in the month to come to a bumper list of 15. As ever, we've also rounded up the rest of the month's notable releases: the good, the bad, and the ugly. So tell us: what are you looking [...]
You know summer is well and truly over when the humidity recedes, the days start getting shorter and the big album releases start coming thick and fast. Yep, it's almost time for the September rush, and this year the crop is particularly good — so much so, in fact, that we've expanded our usual round-up of 10 albums you need to hear in the month to come to a bumper list of 15. As ever, we've also rounded up the rest of the month's notable releases: the good, the bad, and the ugly. So tell us: what are you looking [...]
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photo by Dave Lichterman Phil Everum's Mount Eerie project has already released one album this year (May's Clear Moon ), but he'll keep this momentum going well into the latter half of the year with the release of a second LP and an extensive tour. The album, Ocean Roar , is due on September 4th through P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd and he'll be on tour all the way through October, including two stops in Portland (Mississippi Studios on August 27th and Backspace on October 11th) and two in Washington [...]
Download Low - "Witches".mp3 Download Animal Collective - "Also Frightened".mp3 Download Bright Eyes - "Devil Town".mp3 Download The Mountain Goats - "Damn These Vampires".mp3 Download Sebadoh - "Vampire".mp3 Download [...]
50) "Lungs", Florence And The Machine 49) "Fool's Gold", Fool's Gold 48) "Declaration Of Dependence", Kings Of Convenience 47) "Forest Fortress", Inverness 46) "The Crying Light", Antony & The Johnsons 45) "Years Of Refusal", Morrissey 44) "Wilco (The Album)", Wilco 43) "A Vontade Superstar", Bruno Morais 42) "Begone Dull Care", Junior Boys 41) "In And Out Of Control", The Raveonettes 40) "Seek Magic", Memory Tapes 39) "Sem Nostalgia", Lucas Santtana 38) "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II", Raekwon [...]
2009 is a tough year to judge. I've checked out more albums this year than any year in the past. Well over 1,000. And there have been quite a few great ones as well. When this list began, it had 110 albums. I abandoned my top 33 and 1/3 for 45, and then said "screw it" and upped the number to an even 50. These are the top notch albums of the year, all worthy of praise. Despite trouble all around, 2009 wasn't all that bad. [...]
Ve l'avevamo già proposta l'anno scorso e ovviamente non possiamo che fare lo stesso anche quest'anno, stiamo parlando della classifica degli album migliori del 2009 secondo Metacritic . Metacritic è molto importante perchè raccoglie i voti di molte testate musicali e successivamente ne fa una media complessiva. Ma non è tutto oro quello che luccica, infatti è molto USA-oriented, il che si traduce nel fatto che spesso bisogna aspettare la release statunitense di un'album per vederlo inserito nel database. Quindi prendiamolo per quel che è: un autorevole aggregatore di "valutazioni", nulla di più. [...]
So, after a lot of procrastination and seeing a LOT of other lists, I finally took up the courage to start sharing my list with you guys. It's always a lot of work, but in the end very fulfilling. First start with my young talents list. Last year, I predicted a bright future for Mumford and Sons, and I turned out to be a visionary man (The year before Bon Iver was my number 1). I must admit that I'm not that sure about this year's artists or this year's number one. there aren't any artists that will [...]
Oct 15, 2009, 12:32am
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David J. Nightingale It's been raining in Irvine lately - which is crazy for this early in October (Thank El Nino for that one) - and a complete A-side from the stagnant impeccable nature of our usual fall weather. So this morning I couldn't muster enough effort to actually make it to class and stayed at home listening to rainy songs. I want to share some of them with you. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs Mount Eerie - Voice in Headphones [...]
I decided to do something a little experimental this year with my best EP list. When I was comparing very short "full-length" albums to longer albums on my best LP list, I kept wanting to hold the time duration against the shorter album. Also, it seems the difference between EPs and LPs can be a bit arbitrary sometimes, so I decided to just draw a line completely based on album length to split up my best album lists. This list, then, is the best of all albums less than 35 minutes, regardless of what the record is labeled. I'm happy [...]
So here is a playlist comprised of many of my favourite songs from the year. Not all of my favs are here, but I think all of the essentials are in it. I tried my best to build this as a flowing playlist more than just a collection of songs, so the order and even some of the selections reflect that. I really need to do more mixtapes. Based on Hypemachine/elbow popularity, I know everyone loves that Fleet Foxes song, but I decided instead to treat you to a better song from one of the bands that [...]
This is the section where all the non-traditional albums show up. It is reserved for Ep's, singles, live albums, compilations, film scores, mash-up type albums or anything else that doesn't fit the traditional studio album bill (especially Bob Dylan's Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol. 8). Check out the list after the jump... 10. Avett Brothers – [...]
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