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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July 13, 2010
The new year is more than halfway over and we’ve been treated to a swarm of great new songs, styles, and new takes on old favorite genres. There are plenty more albums I’ve been listening to from 2010 along with a lot of great holdovers from 2009. But these ten are the albums on which [...]
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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March 13, 2009
Not sure if I can add to the discussion happening around Kutiman’s massively popular ThruYOU video experiment, except his work feels like the first strike in the beginning of something evolutionary. His work reminds me of the DangerMouse/Grey Album situation: A massively creative and original concept that found instant diehard fans and litigation lawyers; offered [...]
