Try as he might, Todd just couldn't keep him favorite national releases to a Top 10, here are his Top 12 releases of 2010. He'll be sharing some more locally focused favorites very soon! 1. The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards 2. The Budos Band - III 3. Black Keys - Brothers 4. Rjd2 - The Colossus 5. [...]
It's that time of year when we start getting all judgmental. Peruse our Best Albums of 2010 list and enjoy some free MP3s. More like it: Best Albums of 2008 The Obligatory Best Albums of 2009 List THE LO DOWN: Top 5 August Albums You May or Should Have Missed
Making this list of 40 of the best songs of 2010 was one of the tougher things I have done in the almost-year I have been running the blog. It has coincided with the best year in Irish music that I can remember (and that Harmless Noise can remember too). [Read more]

John Lennon, you were the one who was supposed to change the world, and in your leaving it, the world was changed. 30 years is a long time and what you had done for all of us with your music and your activism will forever be remembered and cherished in the hearts of all who have once listened and will listen again. Here are some songs that I hope will be able to hit home for others the way yours have for me. All we are saying, is give peace a chance. First up is The Arcade [...]

Well, the temperature has dropped, the snow is out, Christmas ads have been on the telly for at least 3 months, that can mean only one thing... We're in December and the run up to the new year. The time where every man and his dog start to organise things into lists. Surprisingly enough, I am no different and have done just that... So should you be in the midst of putting your Santa list together and looking for inspiration, I'd heartily [...]
1. Midlake - The Courage of Others 2. Villagers - Becoming a Jackal 3. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms 4. Spoon - Transference 5. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs 6. Shout Out Louds - Work 7. Teenage Fanclub - Shadows 8. Beach House - Teen Dream 9. Avi Buffalo - [...]
1. Midlake - The Courage of Others 2. Villagers - Becoming a Jackal 3. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms 4. Spoon - Transference 5. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs 6. Shout Out Louds - Work 7. Teenage Fanclub - Shadows 8. Beach House - Teen Dream 9. Avi Buffalo - Avi Buffalo 10. Justin [...]
Filed under: The Hit List One of our favorite parts about creating this list of top albums was reflecting on how unpredictable the year was. Be it '90s alt-rockers returning to form, music legends unearthing lost classics, Swedish indie artists producing pop jewels, cartoon bands coming out behind the curtain or disgraced rappers getting to give a "toast for the douchebags," 2010 kept our eclectic and [...]

It’s never easy to narrow down all the songs from an entire year into one, pretty brief cumulative list and this year, the task hasn’t gotten any less difficult. The songs that you find below may have been featured under our “Fresh Tracks” section earlier in time, but these are the ones that pulled me in the most. Some left me on my bed bewildered by their sheer awe and beauty, while others just made me want to get out, to anywhere, as long as it was away from where I was at the specific moment. That sort of revisiting [...]

Photography by cheskahill ... Fuck I hate this time of year! When you're a music blogger people always want to know what your favorite albums of the year were. Not surprising since you've been bugging the hell out of people all year long with your 'posts' and your 'articles' and your 'recommendations' and shit. But that doesn't make the task ahead any less daunting! Choosing 10 or 15 or 25 albums among the hundreds one listens to in a year is not easy at all. Better said, it's a pain in the ass [...]

Just Music That I Like’s Twenty Five Favourite Abums of 2010 aka The Best 25 Albums of the Year Part Four Direct Links to Albums: 25 - 21 // 20 - 16 // 15 - 11 // 10 - 6 // [...]

Photography by ME ! Well oh well oh well... here we are, once again. at the "end" of another exciting and fun and musically awesome year! What? You don't think this was a "good year for music"? You know what we always say about that right? If you ain't finding music your digging, you ain't digging deep enough. With the sheer (shear?) wealth of albums out there, from the label releases to the self-released albums on the bandcamps and blogs [...]

NME ha terminado de revelar como quedó su polémica lista anual de lo mejor del año . El “Top 75 Albums Of 2010” , el conteo de los 75 discos más valorados por esta publicación, fue revelándose poco a poco en su página web y, después de que su resultado haya sido filtrado por la red, finalmente será incluído en la próxima edición de la revista, la cual llevará la portada que puedes ver en la imagen. Mostrando orgullo nacional y reivindicando a un excelente disco de bajo perfil, coronó a [...]

Picture by young@art ... Hey Cranes! It's Neil, ya know, long-lost AdventurerNeil, checkin' in with ya to say 'howdy!', and share some muzak (mmm...sweet, sweet muzak). As you may know, I enjoy my music like the cookie monster enjoys his dough... You guys are nazis, man! So yeah, sorry for being all sorts of wicked-absent and never posting... sad story: right as the last mixtapes week was kickin' off, my computer went kaput. Since then I've been busy, sure, but [...]

El último mes del año está al caer. Antes de que comience la compulsión de noticias relacionadas con las listas de “lo mejor del año” que los medios suelen hacer durante este tiempo (aquí en Cuchara Sónica no nos quedaremos atrás y también haremos las nuestras), el diario británico The Guardian ha publicado un curioso artículo en su sitio web: la opinión de algunos artistas sobre cuáles son, a su criterio, los mejores álbumes de 2010. Resulta ser que nos olvidamos de que ellos, además de interpretar música, son fanáticos de escucharla [...]

Here is another installment of what to expect on the Best of 2010 list. This time being "Overall". I don't just focus on Canadian music, I do check out stuff from the USA and the UK. Overall being albums outside of Canada that was released in 2010. As before in the " Canadian albums of 2010 " no albums that was released in late 2009. There will be some Canadian albums that made a splash outside of Canada crossing over into this list. I really need your help/input on which albums from the USA, [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News It's been no secret that Vampire Weekend 's drummer Chris Tomson has a love for Vermont jam kings Phish -- and he seemed to relish the opportunity that his band had one of the last slots to play before Phish at this year's Austin City Limits . As he did on 'Saturday Night Live,' Tomsom donned his maroon Phish shirt that was written in Philadelphia Phillies script, timely attire for this fall, [...]
This video is slightly unrelated. I just didn't have a picture to go with this post/wanted to make you all jealous. We were standing right underneath the Commerce Bank sign. Last weekend, my co-worker/friend Dan and I ventured down to Columbia, Missouri to catch the Flaming Lips. It's interesting that Dan decided to join me, since he had never actually heard the Flaming Lips, doesn't go to concerts, and is not really interested in music. I think his main reason for wanting to tag along was to hang out with some people we knew down there. [...]

Photo taken by the amazing Anne Kieblesz - Flickr It's been a good three months since I've intentionally spent more than a few days obsessing over my music folder, reliving every memory for a better sense of direction... but Summer has finally come to an end and a call for change is the only real reason one can find to get through it. I was originally going to present this as some sort of "b-side" to my Summer Mix , but I wanted nothing to do with a format that'd have me [...]
Witam i znów przepraszam za chorobowe przestoje. Górne drogi oddechowe nadal bardziej górne niż oddechowe, ale po wczorajszych obchodach solidarnościowych z jakąś większą sympatią patrzę na mój krzywy nos. Ale do rzeczy - zrobiło się zimno! Nie żebym się cieszył, preferuję klimaty letnio-wiosenne, ale za to aura dopasowała się w końcu do tegorocznej czołówki. Zaistniały sprzyjające warunki do odsłuchów wielkiego Beach House (choć akurat Teen Dream to dzieło uniwersalne, które równie dobrze brzmi w pluchę - w plusze? - i w ciepły nadmorski wieczór ) i cudownej nowej płyty Blonde Redhead (notatki z przesłuchania Penny Sparkle [...]