There has been so much good music this year that I had to make six of these suckers. I’ll post two a day between now and Friday.  Here’s the first one for you to download and play, in the following order (which should happen automatically) in a technology such as iTunes.
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Looking upon the completed version of this “best of” list, I realized that I’ve moved on.  Already ready to proclaim the Beach House, Lindstrøm & Christabelle, Charlotte Gainsbourg, King Midas Sound, and Tracey Thorn (revisit) that I’m listening to right now to be my “favorites” of the moment.
But I guess that is the point: media [...]

jj no. 2 The soundtrack to my summer, heard it at too many parties and in too many cars…but still not enough
Neon Indian Psychic Chasms The soundtrack to my summer, pt 2. Me and (noted Bloomingtonian) Jon Coombs jamming this in the middle of Indiana outside some greasy pizza joint, again through the corn fields [...]

Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle To be honest, Callahan could probably release anything and I would love it.  He’s one of my favorite lyricists and there’s a sort of wryness to his voice that has got me since I heard “Julius Caesar” way back.  Another sort of honest statement is that [...]

(These aren’t in any sort of hierarchical ordering, but numbers comfort me.)
1  She’s not quite everything I want from a balls-out-weirdo-pop-star, but Lady Gaga comes terribly close.  ”I want to take a ride on your disco stick”?  Disco stick.
2 Dan Bodah’s Dronecast podcast has managed to fit into my neurosis rather nicely.  I imagine (well, [...]

My brilliant friends are preparing their year-end lists, which I’ll post here to showcase my good taste in friends (last year’s).  After that, I’ll post some longer thoughts (last year’s) and even-longer mixes.  For now, a bit of my stuff for that other place.  My take on Royksopp’s Junior, which I love, is at the [...]