One year. Thirty albums. Two sentences. An mp3. Here are numbers 21-30 (in order from A to Z). First Aid Kit – The Big Black & The Blue Annoyingly precocious Swedish teenage sisters pen some surprisingly compelling, quirky folk music. We should all move to Sweden. First Aid Kit: Hard Believer Lindsay Fuller – The [...]
Midlake, The Courage of Others, February 2 Midlake’s 2006 Album, The Trials of VanOccupanther, has been a favorite of mine for a couple years now. This is a 21st Century Texas band channeling Fleetwood Mac, singing about things that happened in 1893 and keeping it all highly listenable. Live in Portland, March 6th, Wonder Ballroom [...]
Happy New Year! My newest mix can be downloaded here. Zip file here. I make one of these each January. There’s no theme, other than a collection of songs that were on heavy rotation in the last year, whether or not they were released in 2009. A lot of twang, a little indie rock and [...]
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Posted 02 January 2010
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Also tagged: American Aquarium, Cory Chisel, Matthew Dean Herman, Micah Schnabel, Phosphorescent, Portugal.The Man, Steve Earle, The Duke and the King, The Gaslight Anthem, The National, The Wooden Sky, Those Darlins, We Were Promised Jetpacks
2009. I’ve but putting together an annual list of top ten albums for a few years now, and sending it to anyone who would read it. This year I have my own site, and with it, a few more readers and some co-conspirators in the form of The Bird List folks. I struggled more this [...]