favorite music // 2016

favorite 15 songs // listen to the playlist on Spotify favorite 20 albums // top 5 albums favorite 5 eps favorite 10 videos favorite new artists
Dec 31, 2016 | Categories:music, video | Tags: 2016, 22, a million, a seat at the table, a solid wall of sound, a tribe called quest, album, all nite, alunageorge, animals, augustine, awaken, beach house, blond, blood orange, bon iver, bourbon, boyboy, carly rae jepsen, caroline polacheck, cassius, cat power, chairlift, chan marshall, childish gambino, choir of young believers, clams casino, classixx, daniel lopatin, dev hynes, devonte hynes, diana, do it, dvsn, emotion side b, end of the year, end of the year list, end of year, end of year list, everybody's heart is broken now, familiar touch, favorite albums, favorite music, favorite music films, favorite songs, favorite videos, feel like me, filmmaking, flock of dimes, frank ocean, freetown sound, front row seat to earth, gallant, grasque, house on fire, i know, i remember, i'm full, if you see me, jana hunter, Jenn Wasner, jessy lanza, junk, kaitlyn aurelia smith, kaytranada, kendrick lamar, kevin morby, king, lite spots, living hour, lower dens, m83, majid jordan, moth, music, music film, music films, music video, music videos, my love, new favorite video, nikes, niki, niki & the dove, niki and the dove, nineteen85, none of your love, nothing's real, ode to dance floor, oh no, ology, oneohtrix point never, only u, p.o.v., partynextdoor, paul jefferies, polymorphing, q-tip, real thing, say yes, segull, sept 5th, shura, sia, singing saw, solange, t-pain, tasted shapes, the dove, the greatest, the traveller, try / effortless, try it, unmastered untitled., video, vince staples, vv violence, we are king, we got it from here...thank you 4 your service, weyes blood, whatever i want, when i try | Comments Off on favorite music // 2016
favorite music // 2015

favorite 31 songs // listen to the playlist on Spotify favorite 20 albums // top 5 albums favorite 5 eps favorite 6 videos favorite new artists
Dec 31, 2015 | Categories:film, music, video | Tags: 2015, abra, alan palomo, album, all that, alright, anything, ariel rechtshaid, art angels, bahia, basecamp, beach house, beat connection, best, best blues, better looking brother, blood orange, bradford cox, by your side, carly rae jepsen, carnation, carson cox, chamber dreams, chemical brothers, choir of young believers, chvrches, comfort zone, cranekiss, crosswords, currents, cuushe, dancer on the shore, daniel lopatin, daughn gibson, david vassalotti, deadlock, dee dee, dee dee penny, deerhunter, depression cherry, dev hynes, devonte hynes, diplo, disclosure, dj snake, dornik, dreams, dum dum girls, earthee, ejecta, ellie herring, emotion, empress of, end of the year, end of the year list, end of year, end of year list, escape from evil, every open eye, everytime boots, favorite, favorite music, film, ganz wien, garden of delete, go, grimes, have you in my wilderness, here in iowa, holly herndon, illusion, ilovemakonnen, interference, jaakko eino kalevi, jack u, julia holter, justin bieber, kendrick lamar, kevin parker, korallreven, kristin chavez, kristin welchez, la bagatelle magique, lean on, leanne macomber, lemonade, let it happen, list, little wave, living my life, lockett pundt, love is free, lower dens, lust for youth, major lazer, me, merchandise, mo, morning sun, multi-love, music, music film, music video, my dreams dictate my reality, neon indian, niki, niki & the dove, niki and the dove, noah lennox, ocean hope, omen, one million bullets, oneohtrix point never, panda bear, panda bear meets the grim reaper, part time, play it on my radio, ppp, pray for rain, prince rama, product 3, pure bathing culture, ratchet, realiti, red sun, robyn, roses, sam smith, santigold, shamir, shatter you through, sia, skrillex, small black, so good, sofie winterson, soko, song, st. beauty, stealing sheep, strong, sugar fix, switch, tamaryn, tame impala, tei shi, thank your lucky stars, the chemical brothers, the planet, theesatisfaction, they, tie, to pimp a butterfly, tops, unknown mo, unknown mortal orchestra, vega intl. night school, verde, video, virgo's maze, wear out the ground, where are u now, who be lovin' me, why'd you, working it, young ejecta, young galaxy, zhu | Comments Off on favorite music // 2015
favorite music // 2014

favorite 25 songs // listen to the playlist on Spotify or on 8tracks [above] favorite 20 albums // top 5 albums favorite 5 eps favorite 10 videos favorite new artists
Dec 31, 2014 | Categories:music, video | Tags: a sunny day in glasgow, a.c. newman, album, annie clark, ariel pink, ashrae fax, beat connection, caribou, caroline polachek, carson cox, dan snaith, david vassalotti, dee dee penny, deers, dum dum girls, emma ruth rundie, end of the year, end of the year list, end of year, end of year list, faris badwan, favorite music, film, filmmaking, flying lotus, future islands, haerts, horrors, hospitality, kristin chavez, kristin welchez, lemonade, linda perhacs, lust for youth, mac demarco, magic trick, maria minerva, merchandise, miniature tigers, mr. twin sister, music, music film, music video, nicholas krgovich, noah lennox, ought, panda bear, perfume genius, ramona lisa, robyn, ronika, roses, royksopp, sam perry, shabazz palaces, shamir, sia, small black, song, st vincent, stream, streaming, tennis, the fresh & onlys, the fresh and onlys, the horrors, the new pornographers, the war on drugs, tim cohen, tune-yards, twin sister, video, weyes blood, wye oak, yumi zouma | Comments Off on favorite music // 2014
favorite music // 2013
favorite songs // 2013 from peterberkley on 8tracks Radio. favorite 25 songs // listen to the playlist on Spotify or on 8tracks [above] favorite 20 albums // top 5 albums favorite 5 eps favorite 10 videos favorite new artists
Dec 31, 2013 | Categories:music | Tags: 2013, album, best, best albums, best of, best of 2013, best songs, best videos, carson cox, chan marshall, david vassalotti, end of the year, end of the year list, end of year list, favorite music, matthew mondanile, music, song, stream, streaming, video | Comments Off on favorite music // 2013
favorite music // 2011

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, alex frankel, 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, faris badwan, 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, ishmael butler, january, joel ford, john maus, john pena, justin vernon, kaputt, karl blau, kelli schaefer, kelly, king krule, kristin chavez, kurt vile, kyle forester, light black, live video, lopatin, luke temple, 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, tendai maraire, 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 on favorite music // 2011
peter likes music // 2010

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, luke temple, 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 on peter likes music // 2010
happy new year // peter likes songs 2010

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, luke temple, 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 »
favorite albums of the decade.

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 »
favorite music of 2009.

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, amber coffman, animal collective, atlas sound, avey tare, bat for lashes, bjorn, bjorn yttling, blind man's colour, bradford cox, brian weitz, camera obscura, cass mccombs, chris taylor, christoph hochheim, christopher owens, cymbals eat guitars, dan deacon, daniel rossen, Dave Longstreth, david portner, deakin, deerhunter, dirty projectors, discovery, drums, end of year list, fang island, faris badwan, favorite music, fever ray, fleet foxes, geologist, girls, grizzly bear, jj, jonathan johansson, jorge elbrecht, jorge elbrecth, Joshua Dibb, karin dreijer, karin dreijer andersonn, kip berman, kurt feldman, little dragon, lockett pundt, memory tapes, natasha khan, neon indian, nite jewel, noah lennox, panda bear, peter bjorn + john, phoenix, ramona gonzalez, 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, tracyanne campbell, video, violens, washed out, wavves, wild beasts | 1 Comment »
the year in music: 2008

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 »