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Another year, another list of the tunes I obsessed over. Some of these are likely to be popular picks all over the internet, but I also want to mention a bunch of albums that haven’t gotten the props they deserve. My favorite albums of 2008:

30. Cool Kids, The Bake Sale
Sparse electronic samples drip and drop […]

Apparently Bloc Party are big Radiohead fans, in more ways than one. They’ve adopted the online-album download paradigm that so famously sold huge for last year’s In Rainbows, along with the same piracy-dodging last-minute album announcement. But business aside, they’ve also paralelled their art rocker cousins’ penchant for dabbling with programmed rhythms and sampling. Not […]

Only halfway through the Aught Eight, there are a handful of standout discs I would recommend. There are others in the running, but the following have earned the most play time and mindshare at the halfway point.

British Sea Power, Do You Like Rock Music?
The bravado in the critic-baiting title is equaled only by the rafter-shaking […]

What better way to stick it to the same record execs that dumped Trent Reznor a couple months back (not that he cared much) than to immediately release a sprawling 36-track instrumental album on the Internet? The answer: Twist the knife by giving away the first nine tracks as a free download. As a fan […]

2007 was another great year to find music, whether popular or little-known. The following are a couple albums I found myself listening to more than any others. Some are recent releases, others arrived early in the year – but each seemed to hold something a little bit fresh and different from everything else on the […]