Music of 2008 A series of posts Music of 2008: #25–#11 Music of 2008: Top ten 10. Stereolab — Chemical Chords This is more or less what you would expect from Stereolab. Fantastically jaunty and slightly idiosyncratic pop songs. This is hardly Stereolab’s best album (and I say that ...

Trip-hop is slinking its way back to Minneapolis....

Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes Jag kan fan inte odla ett respektabelt skägg. Det är deprimerande och känns… omanligt. - Peterok Glasvegas Glasvegas Att “falla� för en hype är en synd, men här är det helt klart befogat. Jag förstår verkligen de som inte gillar skivan - det är bredbent och ep...

*MP3: Radiohead - "Body Snatchers" *MP3: The Beatles - "I Want You" (She's So Heavy) - Link Removed*MP3: Guns N' Roses - "Don't Damn Me" *MP3: Portishead - "The Rip" *MP3: Neutral Milk Hotel - "Song Against Sex" *MP3: Fleet Foxes - "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" Compared to 2007, sales of vinyl recor...

When 2008 started, I was sure it was going to be awesome. "It's going to be two-thousand-great," I told anyone who would listen, ignoring the various signs (MTV ringing in the New Year with Tila Tequila, hints of economic collapse, etc.) that things wouldn't exactly go as planned. Or even be much go...

When it's a rough year, some people instinctively reach for the serotonin-spike of all-smiles pop. Though I did play the hell out of that Alphabeat song, I'm generally one of those listeners who'd rather wallow in my funk. Give me hard times and I want a wrist-scarring playlist to match. And to go b...

Let me be clear: I’m cheating and using iTunes here. Specifically … Date is in the range: 01 Jan 2008 - 31 Dec 2008 Kind does not contain AIFF [to filter out unprocessed bootlegs and demos]. Grouping does not contain Extant [to filter out where I migrated my library off of my old Mac to ...

Elbow's Mercury Prizewinning album The Seldom Seen Kid has come top of a "poll of polls" list to win the critics' album of the year....

the year started slow i have to say. for a long time i thought it would be impossible to come up with a list of top songs. but then in april or so the year got going and in the end it wasn’t that hard. in the end it was actually hard to decide what to leave out, and what style to focus on R...

Earlier this month, we examined LA Times blogger Todd Martens' attempt to predict the nominees for the Best New Artist Grammy ahead of the Sept. 30 cutoff point for next year's awards. Martens decided to take on the Album of the Year category this week, giving me (and you!) even more to post about a...