December 27, 2011
Mixtapes. That’s what I listened to quite a bit this year. I wasn’t feeling a lot of the major (or minor) label releases, so I ended up going straight to the source—the artists themselves—thanks to the middleman-crushing power of the Internet. A full forty percent of the albums found on this list were free downloads [...]
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January 2, 2011
Another year come and gone, with a metric ton of great music left to ponder and enjoy. In terms of trends, there was a ton of metal and rock this year that impressed me, especially the more extreme and experimental ends of the heavy genre. Lots of anger and frustration to spare, and obviously some [...]
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December 18, 2009
2009 featured a good mix of offerings from nearly every genre imaginable. But I was most impressed by the work done by harder rock and metal bands over a lot of the standard auto-tuned hip-hop and over-shined pop. Some of the indie lovefest for certain bands (*cough*Animal Collective*cough*) seemed to be based on the strength [...]
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July 10, 2009
Future of the Left, Travels With Myself And Another There was a huge void in angry noise punk when Mclusky disbanded a few years back. But singer/guitarist Andy Falkous’ darkly humorous tales have found a new home. All you need to know: There’s a song called “You Need Satan More Than He Needs You.” J [...]
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February 17, 2009
Animal Collective has been getting slightly more consistent with each release, from Sung Tongs through Strawberry Jam. Even Panda Bear’s solo joint Person Pitch was pretty listenable given AnCo’s droning love-it-or-hate-it sound. So Merriweather Post Pavilion will no doubt continue their upward trend in popularity with the indie set. Combining a Beach Boys sensibility for [...]
