Video: WOODS - Twisted Tongue (FD Session)

PopMatters presents our 60 best albums of 2009, highlighted by a bevy of American indie rock juggernauts, the return of a hip-hop master, and a couple of the finest voices on the planet. PopMatters presents our 60 best albums of 2009, highlighted by a bevy of American indie rock juggernauts, the return of a hip-hop master, and a couple of the finest voices on the planet. Most entries have media to sample the records in the form of video and music streams. U.S. readers can listen to most of these albums in full and Lala has also set up [...]

It's Shred Yr Face Week here at Strange Glue so go ahead and grab that cheese-grater and let's get started. All jokes aside, we're pretty serious about providing you guys with some great content over the course of the week and so in an extra special, Shred Yr Face Video Of The Week feature, we've decided to share not one, not two but three entire videos with you.

Folky popsters Woods is the opener Sunday in the final day of the Adventures in Modern Music festival at the Empty Bottle . These guys are flying way below the radar in terms of getting noticed but they have a good sound. To Clean - Woods Rain On - Woods

• Woods - Rain On

So 2009 is a little more than half-way over (and there was much rejoicing). Anyhow, with the year rapidly moving by, there existed a need to document the records that have been occupying my turntable and iPod like the Germans did France circa 1940 [too soon? No, it's never too soon!]. While I did go through the effort of culling the releases of the year into this list; the efforts required to actually reflect enough to number them was far too great only being this far into our orbit around the sun. However, I was willing to expend enough effort [...]