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Well I had a huge test yesterday, and for awhile there it looked like we weren’t going to go to Lollapalooza at all… but I sucked it up and we were able to make it for just one day, and that day was Saturday. Me and Kristin headed up Friday night after work/school and drove back Sunday morning, and I studied the whole way. In between, though, we heard some pretty amazing music. Click on for the rundown:
Tags: Cut Copy, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Grizzly Bear, Metric, Mimicking Birds, Phoenix, Rogue Wave, Spoon, Stars, The Morning Benders, The xx
That’s right. Tonight’s the night. The night we’ve all been waiting for. Oh man oh man. It’s actually ridiculous how excited I am for this. I’d be lying if I said I’ve been thinking of anything but this for like 2 weeks. Because I haven’t.
mp3: Coldplay – Lost!
mp3: Rilo Kiley – Plane Crash In C
mp3: The Whitest Boy Alive – Island
mp3: Joshua James – Soul And The Sea
mp3: Hurricane Bells – Monsters
mp3: The xx – Islands
mp3: The Beach Boys – I Know There’s An Answer
(video via Videogum)
Tags: Coldplay, Hurricane Bells, Joshua James, Loney Dear, Lost, Rilo Kiley, The Beach Boys, The Whitest Boy Alive, The xx
Well it’s that time again. It’s been a good year in music for sure – so much so that we’ve bumped our list up to 25 albums this time around, and even then we were having to painfully cut out some clearly great records.
Remember, this list represents our favorite albums of the year, not necessarily the best albums of the year. If we had to pick what we thought were the very best albums critically, this would probably be a very different list. But we’re no critics, so that’s not what we’re going to do. These are simply our very favorite albums of the year – the ones that made us laugh, cry, dance, smile, press repeat, wet our pants, etc. This is what we’ll remember when we look back on 2009.
Here we go:
Tags: A.A. Bondy, A.C. Newman, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Camera Obscura, Charles Spearin, Dark Was The Night, Fanfarlo, fun, Grizzly Bear, Harlem Shakes, Joshua James, Karen O, Laura Gibson, Le Loup, Loney Dear, M. Ward, Passion Pit, Portugal. The Man, The Antlers, The Decemberists, The Dodos, The Mountain Goats, The National, The xx, Winter Gloves
So it’s a couple weeks late, and it covers some stuff we’ve been listening to over the last 3-4 months. But we’re still counting it for October, and I’m sure you’ll still like it! I swear!
mp3: Dirty Projectors – Cannibal Resource
mp3: Le Loup – Grow
mp3: The xx – vcr
mp3: The Swell Season – In These Arms
mp3: Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms
Tags: Dirty Projectors, DM Stith, Le Loup, Neon Indian, The Blow, The Mountain Goats, The Swell Season, The xx
