
The following is a list of the music that, in a lot of ways, I didn't spend enough time with. It's been a busy year around these parts. The list constitutes positions 31 through 50 of my year-end favorites. I'm pretty sure any one of these albums, given some more time, would have ended up in the top 30. As it is, here is a twenty-way tie for thirty-first place (in descending order). The 2012 Forest Gospel year-end list (in music) is coming soon... 31. [...]

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 [...]

This week, NPR’s First Listen series is streaming the new albums from Chan Marshall (AKA Cat Power ), Canadian indie-rock outfit Stars , and San Francisco noise band Deerhoof . Cat Power releases Sun , her first album in four years and the first to feature original material since 20062s The Greatest , on September 4th via Matador. Marshall self-produced the 11-track effort and performed all of the instruments herself. Stream it here . Stars will return with their sixth studio album The North on September [...]

Back from a short break and with a whole lot of musical catching up to do...here are ten new tunes we're starting with. Have a listen too. a a a a a a a a a [...]
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I had trouble keeping up with the music scene this year so many of my favorite albums of 2008 didn't become my favorite albums until very last minute. I went around to different blogs and looked up all their top albums and listened to a whole bunch of music from this year. I plan on being more on top of things in 2009, but here is my top ten albums of 2008 in alphabetical order: Beach House - Devotion Beach House - Gila [...]