
favorite songs favorite 20 albums top 5 albums top 10 eps favorite official videos favorite live videos favorite concerts
Dec 31, 2011 | Categories:music, video | Tags: 2011, 3, a silent planet, active child, album, alex, ancient eye, arcade blues, atlas sound, battles, beach fossils, believer, best albums, best coast, best songs, best videos, beth/rest, black up, blouse, bon iver, carter tanton, cass mccombs, caveman, celebrate by singing, channel pressure, christopher owens, circulation, claudia lewis, colin stetson, come to the city, county line, craft spells, cruel, crystal stilts, cults, dan bejar, demolished thoughts, destroyer, doe bay, dominant legs, dum dum girls, easy peesy, end of year list, Era Extraña, eric d. johnson, fail forever, fake pretend, far away, father, father son holy ghost, favorite albums, favorite music, favorite songs, favorite videos, fleet foxes, ford & lopatin, freaking out, freecloud, friends, fruit bats, games, gardens & villa, gary numan, geoffrey o'connor, girls, great life, gross magic, he gets me high, helplessness blues, here we go magic, holy ghost!, hoop of love, horrors, huichica, humor risk, hurry up, i'm his girl, idle labor, in heaven, in love with oblivion, inc, into black, invitation, january, joel ford, john maus, john pena, kaputt, karl blau, kelli schaefer, kelly, king krule, kurt vile, light black, live video, lopatin, m83, midnight city, millionairess, moving further away, music, my machine, neon indian, orange blossom, our deal, parallax, ponytail, proud, radiant door, ryan lynch, savage night at the opera, shabazz palaces, skying, slave ambient, smoke ring for my halo, son, song, st vincent, stop, strange mercy, stream, streaming, te amo, teen daze, teen jamz, the babies, the horrors, the paramount, the shrine / an argument, the space, the stars in his head, the war on drugs, thurston moore, top albums, top songs, top videos, toro y moi, tractor tavern, tripper, twelve roses, twin sister, underneath the pine, video, wall street, war on drugs, warehouse, washed out, we bros, we must become the pitiless censors, we're dreaming, when saints go machine, wu lyf, you are all i see, young dreams, zachary cole smith | Comments Off

Peter’s grandfather regularly remarks that he believes music continues to get better and better. Peter has to agree. Peter liked a lot of things in 2010. Mostly he liked the music. let me count the reasons: favorite songs favorite 20 albums top 5 albums top 5 eps favorite official videos favorite live videos favorite concerts [...]
Jan 02, 2011 | Categories:music, video | Tags: 2010, 6669, abe vigoda, all around and away we go, archy marshal, archy marshall, ariel pink, astro coast, at&t park, avi buffalo, avi buffaly, beach house, before today, best, best coast, best of 2010, big echo, bradford cox, broken bells, broken dreams club, bruce haack, casual, causers of this, chris chu, chris taylor, christopher owens, color your life, congratulations, crocodiles, crush, deerhunter, don't look down, dr, dr. dog, drums, end of year list, excuses, expo 86, favorite, favorite albums, favorite concerts, favorite music, favorite songs, favorite videos, fever dreaming, fight softly, ford & lopatin, ford and lopatin, forget, fortress, games, gamh, gemini, girls, great american music hall, halcyon digest, haunted grafitti, hauschka, here we go magic, hidden cameras, independent, innerspeaker, joel ford, king of the beach, live, lockett pundt, lopatin, macca, mgmt, mia dai todd, michel gondry, miniature tigers, morning benders, neon indian, new chain, no age, npr, odd blood, open your heart, out getting ribs, party machine, paul mccartney, pearl harbor, pigeons, pitchfork, play it strange, pop etc, puro instinct, put the day away, rickshaw stop, round the moon, royksopp, ruby suns, shame, sleep forever, small black, solitude is bliss, something about the chaparrals, spencer krug, summer camp, sun airways, surfer blood, tame impala, teen dream, that we can play, the drug, the fresh & onlys, toro y moi, twin shadow, twin sister, underage, wavves, what's in it for, wild beasts, wild nothing, wolf parade, yeasayer, you hid, yours truly, yourstru.ly, yourstruly, zoo kid | Comments Off

Peter liked a lot of songs in 2010. Here are the songs Peter liked the bestest. You can stream the list as a mix at my 8tracks account. (*note—there seem to be, hopefully temporary, technical difficulties on the 8tracks site currently . . . ) 20 // Niki & the Dove : Mother Protect There’s [...]
Jan 01, 2011 | Categories:music, video | Tags: 2010, a place we like, abbey road, active child, anna, arcade fire, ariel pink, back to back, bang bang bang, best songs, blonde redhead, carolina, casual, cfcf, christopher owens, closet astrologer, end of year list, favorite music, favorite songs, fool's gold, ford & lopatin, ford and lopatin, games, girls, good intentions paving company, here we go magic, hooray for earth, i am not a robot, i'm in your church at night, joanna newsom, joel ford, kate bush, korallreven, little dragon, live video, lopatin, marathon, marina & the diamonds, mark ronson, mgmt, mother protect, music, my plants are dead, neon indian, niki & the dove, panda bear, pearl harbor, puro instinct, round and round, ruby suns, siberian breaks, sleep paralysist, song, sprawl, stilyagi, taken by trees, tennis, truest faith, twin shadow, twin sister, video, wolf gang | 1 Comment »

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 »

I need to rate and sort and organize and, apparently, report back. I can’t help it. after the jump, I’ve listed my favorite albums of 2008 along with some other musical tidbits: favorite albums of 2008 top five albums of 2008 favorite songs of 2008 favorite live shows of 2008 favorite 2008 discoveries of old [...]
Mar 18, 2009 | Categories:music | Tags: a hundred things keep me up at night, abe vigoda, acid tongue, an eluardian distance, at mount zoomer, beach house, black francis, black kids, black mountain, blind, brewis brothers, british sea power, bsp, cape cod kwassa, castro, cut copy, dan bejar, daniel rossen, dear science, deerhunter, dennis wilson, department of eagles, der golem, destroyer, devotion, dexy's midnight runners, do you like rock music?, dodos, end of year list, evangelicals, favorite music, felt, fleet foxes, genesis, gila, golden age, graveyard girl, hawkwind, heartless, hemlock, hercules & love affair, hercules and love affair, i'm not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance with you, in ear park, in ghost colors, in the new year, independent, jay reatard, jenny lewis, jodi, joy ride, kanye west, killers, l.e.s. artistes, lindstrom, lockett pundt, lords of the new church, love is all, lust, m83, man man, marnie stern, matador singles 08, mbv, mezzanine, mgmt, microcastle, my bloody valentine, my favorite year, nancy & lee, neon neon, no age, no one does it like you, nouns, of montreal, oracular spectacular, out there on the ice, phil collins, portishead, rabbit habits, raveonettes, rostam batmanglij, santogold, saturdays=youth, seasick, sf design concourse, simple minds, skeletal lamping, skeleton, stainless style, stoned again, talk talk, the dodos, the evening descends, the week that was, third, this is it and i am it, time to pretend, trouble in dreams, tv on the radio, vampire weekend, visiter, walkmen, walkment, where you go i go too, white winter hymnal, wolf parade, wucan, you & me | 1 Comment »