
favorite 30 songs // listen to the playlist on Spotify or on 8tracks [above] favorite 20 albums // top 5 albums favorite 10 eps favorite 10 videos favorite new artists
Dec 31, 2012 | Categories:film, music, video | Tags: 2012, a great design, album, albums, amanda marsalis, amber coffman, andrea estrella, animal collective, ariel pink, ariel pink's haunted graffiti, artists, autre ne veut, backseat kissers, beach house, becky & joe, becky and joe, becky sloan, believe, best of, black marble, bloom, brains, candy bar creep show, carnation, cass mccombs, century by century, chad valley, chairlift, child actor, chris chu, chris cohen, chris taylor, christopher owens, confess, counting, craft spells, d'eon, damien jurado, daniel oh, dev hynes, doctor dog, dr. dog, dreams, easy as all that, ekstasis, emily kai bock, empty promises, end of the year, end of the year list, ep, everything's embarrasing, favorite, favorite music, favorites, feels like we only go backwards, filmmaking, flying lotus, forever, foxygen, frank ocean, friends, gallery, get free, goddess eyes, grimes, haim, heavenly beat, how to dress well, ice choir, illusion, inc, inspector norse, io echo, joe pelling, julia holter, kahlil joseph, kristoffer borgli, kurt feldman, lemonade, list, live it up, live video, lonerism, losing you, lower dens, mac demarco, major lazer, maraqopa, melina matsoukas, melody's echo chamber, messiah, miniature tigers, ms mr, music, new life, nightlife, nocturne, nootropics, nowhere, oblivion, only real, pacific blue, poor moon, pop etc, port st willow, pretend you love me, pure bathing culture, remix, run my heart, running back, runningback, sebastian schuller, shuggie, silver shore's lake, sky ferreira, softkiss, solange, song, songs, sonny, sonny & the sunsets, sonny and the sunsets, sonny smith, stream, streaming, sweet life, take the kids off broadway, taken by trees, tame impala, teletrips, the place, the sunsets, todd terje, tops, twin shadow, twin sister, until the quiet comes, video, why won't they talk to me, wild, wild nothing, wild race, world tour, wrong opinion, yelena zhelezov, young hunger | Comments Off

Animal Collective // “Centipede HZ” : 2012.09.04 : Domino genre psych noise pop sounds like a crowd of boldly-dressed people scattered on a sunny sidewalk. an inflatable palm tree. bejewelled sea creatures. electric jello. a cartoon luau. Beatles pinball. a distant Caribbean house party. spontaneous baroque sculptures. Monet waterlilies. Pollock splatter. A yellow submarine coated in crustaceans and sea [...]
Aug 27, 2012 | Categories:music | Tags: album, animal collective, avey tare, centipede hz, coming soon, domino, favorite music, music, new favorite album, panda bear | Comments Off

Animal Collective // Today’s Supernatural :
Aug 03, 2012 | Categories:music | Tags: animal collective, avey tare, david portner, deakin, favorite music, geologist, music, new song, noah lennox, panda bear, song, stream, streaming, today's supernatural | Comments Off

Animal Collective // Honeycomb + Gotham :
May 06, 2012 | Categories:music | Tags: animal collective, avey tare, coming soon, favorite music, geologist, gotham, honeycomb, music, new song, panda bear, song, stream, streaming | Comments Off

Terrorism, war, recession . . . whatever. This was a terrific decade for music. These were the albums that gripped me and never let go and remain head-and-shoulders above the rest.
Dec 31, 2009 | Categories:music | Tags: album, animal collective, arcade fire, blonde redhead, carey mercer, chris taylor, christopher owens, clinic, daft punk, dan bejar, daniel rossen, destroyer, end of year list, favorite music, girls, grizzly bear, interpol, karin dreijer, karin dreijer andersonn, knife, m.i.a., modest mouse, of montreal, radiohead, silent shout, spencer krug, sufjan stevens, swan lake, the dodos, the knife, the strokes, white stripes, wolf parade | 6 Comments »

I don’t feel complete unless I’ve compiled a list ranking my favorite music of the year (too many NYEs spent up late listening to the top 100 countdown on the headphones.) So, here goes: favorite 30 albums top 5 albums favorite 20 songs favorite 10 videos
Dec 31, 2009 | Categories:music, video | Tags: a place to bury strangers, abe vigoda, air, animal collective, atlas sound, bat for lashes, bjorn, bjorn yttling, blind man's colour, bradford cox, camera obscura, cass mccombs, chris taylor, christoph hochheim, christopher owens, cymbals eat guitars, dan deacon, daniel rossen, deerhunter, dirty projectors, discovery, drums, end of year list, fang island, favorite music, fever ray, fleet foxes, girls, grizzly bear, jj, jonathan johansson, jorge elbrecht, jorge elbrecth, karin dreijer, karin dreijer andersonn, kurt feldman, little dragon, lockett pundt, memory tapes, natasha khan, neon indian, nite jewel, peter bjorn + john, phoenix, real estate, rostam batmanglij, royksopp, small black, song, spencer krug, st vincent, sunset rubdown, swan lake, the horrors, the pains of being pure at heart, the very best, video, violens, washed out, wavves, wild beasts | 1 Comment »

These are albums I love listening to from beginning to end and have a magical appeal no matter the time, place or mood. These are not necessarily the albums I respect the most. In other words: this is a list of what I consider to be my favorite albums—but not, in all cases, what I [...]
Mar 18, 2009 | Categories:music | Tags: abbey road, animal collective, b.a.d., b.a.d. ii, bad, bang, beast moans, beatles, belle & sebastian, big audio dynamite, bjork, black francis, bossanova, bowie, brian eno, bryan ferry, buzzcocks, carey mercer, chairs missing, chameleons, clinic, daft punk, dan bejar, david bowie, debut, destroyer, discovery, echo & the bunnymen, eno, eureka farm, favorite music, frank black, green, hall & oates, his 'n' hers, i should coco, iii, kid a, led zeppelin, love bites, loveless, m.i.a., macca, magazine, mbv, mccartney, mia, michael jackson, my bloody valentine, of montreal, omd, paul mccartney, pink floyd, pixies, pulp, r.e.m., radiohead, real life, rem, roxy music, sonic youth, supergrass, swan lake, teenager of the year, the cars, the globe, the very best of, the view, thriller, velvet underground, walking with thee, walkmen, what does anything mean? basically, what does anything mean? basicaly, white stripes, wire, wolf parade, world party | 5 Comments »