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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 [...]

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 Dilla, Jay [...]

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 [...]

I wanted to wait until after the election to see if the outcome of November 4th would negatively affect my adoration for the latest experiment by TV On The Radio. I can dutifully report that America’s recent Hope Infusion does nothing to diminish the power and immediacy of the Brooklyn sound scientists’ newest jittery and [...]

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 [...]