Here’s Volume 2, chock full of 09’s monster pop/rock grooves. Fashionable Kelis bookends, a couple songs about dying and murder. Expect to see Royksopp, St. Vincent, AnCo and ASDiG again later.
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1. Basement Jaxx “Scars f. Kelis” (XL)
2. Phoenix “1901″ (Loyauté/V2)
3. Yeasayer “Ambling Alp” (Secretly Canadian)
4. Memory Tapes “Bicycle” (Sincerely [...]
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 [...]
Here are my three favorite entries for the Wilco ticket contest I offered up last week. All three are very good (two are from Ghost ! All song titles have four syllables!), but “Pieholden Suite” nudged just a bit ahead of the pack. Thanks to everyone! Now, then:
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“Pieholden Suite” / Sheila [...]
Okay, so I know this is starting to look like one of those fly-by-night concert update blogs, but man, the announcements are coming in fast! It just seemed like two days ago that I learned Wilco was coming to the IU Auditorium (4/16), and as I’m typing this, I’ve got a fistful of tickets. [...]
(This is the second installment of marathonpacks’ Top 50 of the 90s list. To see #50-41, click here. The third installment, #30-21, will be posted Tuesday.)
40. Depeche Mode-Violator (Sire, 1990) (buy)
Serving diligently, along with Paul’s Boutique and, later, Nevermind as my Walkman-based school bus listening from eighth grade through the start of [...]
I’m posting this list in the interest of providing visitors an idea of what I’d consider my “canon”–for the last five years, at least. Any music aficionado would agree that a list like this actually goes together pretty quickly, by sorting one’s iTunes by year and taking a glance at the CD rack. My main [...]
At the halfway point (or a little after), I thought I’d issue my halftime top ten (then I saw the stalwart largeheartedboy’s own version–I swear I had this almost done last week). Anyhoo, here goes:
Spoon Gimme Fiction–A remarkable work from the most iconoclastic songwriter around today. A longer piece on this album will come [...]