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 […]
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“Expo 86 was a World’s Fair that happened in Vancouver in 1986. It’s been this thing we all talked about as a band. We all grew up in British Columbia, and we were all at Expo, which lasted about three or four days. It’s a weird little thought experiment– basically, we were all young children […]
Apr 27, 2010 | Categories:music | Tags: album, album cover, coming soon, dan boeckner, expo 86, favorite music, mbv, pitchfork, spencer krug, wolf parade | 1 Comment »
“Expo 86 was a World’s Fair that happened in Vancouver in 1986. It’s been this thing we all talked about as a band. We all grew up in British Columbia, and we were all at Expo, which lasted about three or four days. It’s a weird little thought experiment– basically, we were all young children […]
Apr 27, 2010 | Categories:music | Tags: album, album cover, coming soon, dan boeckner, expo 86, favorite music, mbv, pitchfork, spencer krug, wolf parade | Comments Off on coming soon // Wolf Parade : “Expo 86”
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, avey tare, blonde redhead, brian weitz, carey mercer, chris taylor, christopher owens, clinic, daft punk, dan bejar, daniel rossen, david portner, deakin, destroyer, end of year list, favorite music, geologist, girls, grizzly bear, interpol, Joshua Dibb, karin dreijer, karin dreijer andersonn, knife, m.i.a., modest mouse, noah lennox, of montreal, olef dreijer, panda bear, radiohead, silent shout, spencer krug, sufjan stevens, swan lake, the dodos, the knife, the strokes, white stripes, wolf parade | 6 Comments »
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, avey tare, b.a.d., b.a.d. ii, bad, bang, beast moans, beatles, belle & sebastian, big audio dynamite, bjork, black francis, bossanova, bowie, brian eno, brian weitz, bryan ferry, buzzcocks, carey mercer, chairs missing, chameleons, clinic, daft punk, dan bejar, david bowie, david portner, deakin, debut, destroyer, discovery, echo & the bunnymen, eno, eureka farm, favorite music, frank black, geologist, green, hall & oates, his 'n' hers, i should coco, iii, Joshua Dibb, kid a, led zeppelin, love bites, loveless, m.i.a., macca, magazine, mbv, mccartney, mia, michael jackson, my bloody valentine, noah lennox, of montreal, omd, panda bear, 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 »
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 »