Around this time of year, it's usually... listomania (ah, a double pun... should I have put the z in?), and so I essentially have to come up with my own list if I want to call myself a music blogger. Here are my 20 favorite albums of '09! Don't grumble if you feel my top 10 is a little too... typical of 09; I think it's just because it really was clear which albums were the best this year, whether it's because 09 produced a couple of incredible, stand-out albums, or because a lot of the music in [...]
Here is the much-anticipated conclusion to my top 50 songs of the 2009 list (if you haven’t already take a look at the first 25 and read the foreword/ground rules). These are my favorite 25 songs of the year. As before, there’s a link by each song choice where you can download/hear the song or you can get all the tracks in a handy zip file by clicking this link . Let me know your favorite songs of the year in the comments. Thanks for reading! 25. Harlem Shakes – Sunlight [...]
The blog age lends itself to listening to singles and tracks and leaks and demos over albums. These are my 10 favorite albums of the year. Of everything I heard this year these are the albums that I came back to over and over and actually sound better as a whole than in parts. 10. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms Psychic Chasms - Neon Indian 9. Passion Pit - Manners [...]
Bye A continuación la clásica lista de lo que fué la leche en el 2009, en diferentes ramas musicales y diferentes idiomas según la opinión de su modesto, genunio y frustrado escritor, sin ningún orden específico, aleatorio, importando un carajo el genero, simplemente las mejores 15 canciones de este ya moribundo año. 1.- Joakim-Spiders [...]
Artwork by Brian Kuperman 2009 was an exceptional last year in an exceptional decade for music. In 2009 we were bombarded with solid release after great release after epic release throughout the entire year (upfront: I didn't listen to every album released in 2009), so narrowing my picks for the best albums of the year was not easy. Nonetheless, I have here Pretty Much Amazing's 25 best albums of the 2009. At the end of this list, you will have the chance to enter the [...]
Well it’s that time again. It’s been a good year in music for sure – so much so that we’ve bumped our list up to 25 albums this time around, and even then we were having to painfully cut out some clearly great records. Remember, this list represents our favorite albums of the year, not necessarily the best albums of the year. If we had to pick what we thought were the very best albums critically, this would probably be a very different list. But we’re no critics, so that's not what we're going [...]
We'll be doing some house cleaning of our playlists and album reviews as we near year end. We've got a number of album reviews we've stored away and never finished. These are albums we felt merit a review, but just couldn't work them in the schedule. However, we don't want to miss out posting them before year end, because, at the least, they had some very choice cuts of them. By the way, we'll post a complete recap of our favorite albums before year end. [...]
The fourth time compiling the best of list for YHNR was not easy. I have been neglecting this blog to make time for other commitments, nevertheless I am still keeping myself updated with the indie scene, and this blog will remain as it is as a place for me to channel out the music I love, albeit the updates will not be as regular as it used to be. To make it short, here are my top 30 tracks of year 2009. Let's cheer for another year of great music and another year running of this blog. [...]
We are finally here. The decade's closing year. Over these 11 months we've heard some groundbreaking music from old and new favorites. As always, the shortlist for 2009 won't please all of you, but we are trying our best to capture the zeitgeist in music in 2009. Please vote for your favorite of the bunch: A. The Antlers - Hospice B. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion C. The Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca D. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest E. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix F. The xx - xx [...]
Nov 30, 2009, 5:35am
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Thanks to everyone that listened and tuned in. The best of show was a lot of fun. Thank you especially to those that told us their favorite music of 2009. Send me your favorite music of 2009 to Publiceducation@thefmly.com and we'll play it on next weeks show. So without further a due, the play list for the best of 2009 show. Evan Voytas - Getting Higher Wildlife - Sea Dreamer Noah And The Whale - 2 Atoms in a Molecule David Bazan - Bless This Mess [...]
Photography by gabriele chiapparini Ah, the quarterlife crisis. Don't know much about it on a "well-read" & "technical level", but on a personal level, I think I've seen it happen. Somewhere around the 20+ year old mark, peaking as you start approaching 25, potentially hitting critical mass if nothing has been "activated" by 30, it's during that 10 year span where if things aren't going the way you dreamed/hoped/thought/prepared for/wanted/etc, a sense of panic and/or depression and/or dread and/or boredom can start to settle in... I was fortunate enough to skip it [...]
The Reader's Poll results haven't changed too much for the past few weeks, but I realized I hadn't given any statistics on the write-in poll. As 14% of the total votes have been for write-in answers, I thought I might be giving some folks the shaft by not calculating the results. Unquestionably, the funnest part of that was reading all the creative spelling choices for Merriweather Post Pavilion . That, and the clever soul that took the time to write 'None'. The XX - XX 16% Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 16% Miike [...]
The past couple of weeks have brought about some great remixes from some great acts. I haven't been able to keep up on them through the show and sometimes a single track doesn't feel like enough to warrant its own post so here are a handful of the more interesting remixes that have made their way to the inbox... Eli Escobar - Glass House (XXXChange's Yoga Mom In A Blender Mix) Basement Jaxx - Raindrops (Joker & Ginz Remix) Fever Ray - When I Grow Up (Scuba's High [...]
I watched Gigantic for the first time tonight. It was an odd movie, for sure, but I was delighted to see the movie's last few seconds scored by Animal Collective's "Did You See The Words?" It was the perfect odd-ball song to close an odd-ball film. What was better yet was the music binge I went on right after the credits closed. These songs are what make up this twentieth episode of the pmaCAST. Hopefully you'll find the track list fitting of this milestone episode. pmaCAST #20: There's Something Living [...]
One of the most remixed artists of the year decide to cash in and release a remix collection of their album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix . Buy the release at itunes here Tracklist 1. Lisztomania (Alex Metric remix) - DL 2. Fences (The Soft Pack remix) 3. 1901 Bo Flex’d (Passion Pit remix) - DL 4. Lasso (2 Door Cinema Club remix) - DL 5. Fences (25 Hrs A Day remix) 6. 1901 (L’aiglon [...]
Phoenix ’s fourth LP drop, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix , was critically praised by critics the world over and shone a light on a band that through no choice of their own, eluded immense popularity. One track off of that album that was well received was “Love Like A Sunset.” Though I do enjoy the track, I don’t hold it in as high esteem as others when compared to others from the album, however, I quite like the remixes. . [...]
So by now it's pretty obvious that over here at D.I.D., we love ourselves a good Phoenix remix , and are highly anticipating the rest of the Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix remix album. Here are two entirely different remixes of "Love Like A Sunset", one by Passion Pit drummer "Shuttle" and the second by Animal Collective . Just when you thought it wasn't possible for a Phoenix song to get any better, you realize you thought wrong. [...]
The past couple of weeks have brought about some great remixes from some great acts. I haven't been able to keep up on them through the show and sometimes a single track doesn't feel like enough to warrant its own post so here are a handful of the more interesting remixes that have made their way to the inbox... Eli Escobar - Glass House (XXXChange's Yoga Mom In A Blender Mix) Basement Jaxx - Raindrops (Joker & Ginz Remix) Fever Ray - When I Grow Up (Scuba's High [...]
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T S U R U R A D I O
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SYNTHETICROCKS
Pretty Much Amazing
Whale in a Cubicle
Wake Up and Smell The Music
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Battery In Your Leg
The Hats and Friends
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