December 2011
4 posts
The 10 Best EPs of 2011
Nine out of ten of these EPs are electronic music. Why? Is it because I listened predominantly to electronic music this year, or is it because they are genuinely better than most of the indie rock-based EPs that I heard this year? I can honestly recall very few “rock” EPs that I even heard this year (mainly Trash Talk, which, visceral as it is, I only listened to once). At times...
The 100 Best Songs of 2011 (50-1)
50. Holy Other – Yr Love
49. Light Asylum – Dark Allies
48. The Strokes – Under Cover of Darkness
47. Kurt Vile – Jesus Fever
46. Ford & Lopatin – Too Much MIDI (Please Forgive Me)
45. Smith Westerns – All Die Young
44. Yuck – Get Away
43. Todd Terje – Snooze 4 Love
42. Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx – I’ll Take Care of U
41. A$AP Rocky - Palace
40. The Pains of...
The 100 Best Songs of 2011 (100-51)
The top tracks of 2011, as decided by me…at this point in time. If I did it an hour later, it could have been completely different. But you get the idea. Don’t make too much over the order. Generally, I think the songs have a +/-10 spot leniency.
There are some bands that had a few songs I really loved equally, but for the sake of diversity they weren’t included here. I tried to...
20 Criminally Underrated Albums of 2011
For the past 5 years I’ve done a year-end music list, but this year I’ve decided to spread it out a bit more. The sheer magnitude of it became too much to handle at once, for both readers and me. So enjoy this first part of my Music of 2011 wrap-up, starting with:
Albums that didn’t get enough love (even if they got the praise).
Listed Alphabetically:
Africa HiTech – 93...
November 2011
1 post
America- by Greg Johnson: I'll Sleep When YOU'RE... →
higregjohnson:
Thanks (?) to Keith -AMERICA’s Intern/Executive Producer- for sending me this story.
Some dude named Van (chill) in Vietnam (less chill), his wife died in 2003. Sad.
As the story begins…
According to reports, Van began by sleeping upon his wife’s grave after she died in 2003.
WTF?…
October 2011
1 post
IT WILL ALWAYS BE TOO LATE →
May 2011
0 posts
dontdiewonderingmusic:
Ghosttails
Ghosttails...
February 2011
5 posts
RADIOHEAD- "THE KING OF LIMBS" REVIEW
RATING: 8.2
Let me begin this review by saying a few things:
1. I don’t ever condone seriously reviewing albums on the first day they’re released, no matter how many times you’ve listened to them. To fully grasp an album, it takes more than multiple listens—it takes time.
2. Today I am making an exception to Rule #1. Radiohead is the biggest, most significant band in the world, and...
The Best Albums of 2010 (cntd.)
Here we are once again. Another year, another list. Is it becoming stale yet? Is it still as good for you as it is for me? Do I write these lists with complete disregard for my reader, in order to fulfill some vacuous cavern of despair left by the place where my life used to be? Well…yes. Music is my escape from law school; that’s no secret. Duh. I’m not so sure I would have made it...
The Best Albums of 2010
The Top 30 LPs of 2010
Just a quick note: for the first 20 albums, I’m just going to be writing brief…whatever comes into my head summaries. Because let’s be honest, I don’t have all the time in the world. So if it doesn’t describe the album and leaves you questioning, “What the hell is he talking about?”…it’s probably because it’s pretty close to stream-of-consciousness. I wrote this in...
Album of the Year, 2010
1. Beach House, Teen Dream
Time and time again, it came down to this. Much like 2009 with Animal Collective, this record came out at the beginning of the year, sprinted off to a head start, and never looked back. Every other album spent the year trying to catch up—hell, I even wanted some to—but nothing ever seemed as deserving. Nothing was as gorgeous. Nothing else whisked me away so...
December 2010
1 post
The 100 Best Songs of 2010
It’s extremely difficult to pick my favorite anything, hence my dilemma with songs. There are so many songs from 2010 that deserve representation on this list, so to only pick a select few is heart-wrenching, in a way. I’m trying to diversify this list as much as possible, so I’m not going to pick more than two songs per artist, if that. A lot of times I like an entire album and just want to...
November 2010
1 post
Been really digging Dead Gaze lately. Saw them...
October 2010
1 post
...Oh Yeah
I forgot I had a blog. Maybe I’ll start posting things sometimes. I don’t know if I really have the time to “review” albums, like I want to, but I can definitely give a brief writeup when I feel like it. And there will certainly be my end of the year music review, which is rather extensive. I guess I can just post whatever is new and worth a listen. I’ll do that....
May 2010
3 posts
PLAY THIS SHIT.
Sleigh Bells, Treats: 8.9
One of the most unique albums of the year, but also one of the most accessible—hip-hop beats with a searing guitar through a broken speaker.
(I was going to write reviews of all the awesome albums I’ve been listening to lately, but what’s the point in that? They’ve all been covered extensively because I’m behind. So I’m just going...
PLAY THIS SHIT.
Forgive me on updating, non-readers. I’ve been a little behind. Exams and such. But the good thing about exams is that I get to listen to a shit ton of music while I study. One of my favorite albums during this time was Male Bonding’s Nothing Hurts. Yeah Yeah, I know it was BNM’d by P4k. But I’ll tell you what…I was loving this before they said anything so I...
I long for human connexshons
I feel like I’ve lost my touch. I feel like I can’t connect with “normal people” anymore. Like a jigsaw out of place. Like a Bra w/o ngelina. I feel like I’ve become increasingly insular. I feel like people don’t understand who I is. Like they judge me when they see me. Like they’re living their lives the way they think they’re supposed to be. ...
April 2010
3 posts
PLAY THIS SHIT.
This is the best album you will hear this week, and likely one of the best you will hear all year. I’ll hopefully have a review done before the weekend’s up. It’s streaming on their website right now if you can’t access it by other means. Now Dance.
http://www.lcdsoundsystem.com/thisishappening/
Developments
Ok, so I’m going to start making this like an actual music blog. Though I won’t be able to keep it up as well as people who do this for a living, I’ll give it a shot. And so when an good new release comes out, all these blogs have ways of saying “Listen to this.” P4k has “Best New Music.” Stereogum has “Heavy Rotations,” etc. Since I have...
WatchThe new video for Best Coast’s “When I’m With You” premiered today on MTVU. That doesn’t sound right. I’m confused by this. This seems to be an attempt by MTVU to “connect” with “indiedom.” I’m also confused about why they took a somewhat funny concept and then turned it into an In-N-Out Burger commercial. Not at all what I...
March 2010
6 posts
ASTROBOTS →
February 2010
3 posts
Things My Dog Is Scared Of:
1. Dogs barking
2. Me growling at her like a dog
3. A noodle
4. A V8 bottle
5. The sound a plastic bag makes
6. Jumping
7. A jar of peanut butter
8. Vacuum
9. Pretty much everything
10. Air drumming
11. Empty beer bottles (but not full ones)
I'm here now. Feel my WRATH.
I’ve decided to start blogging to carry by the time (when I have it). But a lot of times I might be vlogging. Because I have an HD camera, by the way.