Posted on January 27, 2009 by DrSlammy
Most years are pretty good for music if you know where to look, and 2008 was no exception. It’s a shame that you have to search so hard, of course – once upon a time all you needed to keep track of what was good in the world of music was a radio. These days [...]
Filed under: Popular Music, Reviews | Tagged: Big Head Todd & the Monsters, Black Mountain, built by snow, Dave Barnes, Doco, Don Dixon, Goldfrapp, Green Day, Hooverphonic, Marah, Marti Jones, Nine Inch Nails, REM, School of Seven Bells, She & Him, The Chevelles, The Del Bombers, The Dreaming, The Foxboro Hot Tubs, The Gaslight Anthem, The Long Blondes, The Lost Patrol, The Stills, The Well Wishers | 2 Comments »
Posted on January 26, 2009 by kingwart
OK, this is it, the final review blog of 2008. It was a great year for music, but 2009 looks like it will be hitting us with some winners. Find out more in my next exciting blog! It’s getting kinda crazy around here, what with all the winter madness shaking things up. Hey! I just [...]
Filed under: Popular Music | Tagged: shane nicholson, Reviews, for the kids, longwave, aprilsrain, tahiti 80 | 2 Comments »
Posted on January 19, 2009 by kingwart
What makes a great album anyway? I wonder about this a lot. On these reviews, I base my decisions on first impressions, based on one listen, and often, I come back to my reviews and question my decision. Because the thing that happens is you revisit records. Sometimes the stars are aligned so that something [...]
Filed under: Popular Music | Tagged: garrison starr, glen phillips, kyle andrews, little jackie, neilson hubbard, plover, remotetreechildren, Reviews, suzy & los quattro | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 14, 2009 by kingwart
I’m sure many of you face the same struggle after all those year end lists come in. People obviously have varied tastes, and it is often difficult to tell if you will like something someone puts on a list. I submit to you these reviews of 5 CD’s I saw on best of ‘08 lists [...]
Filed under: Popular Music | Tagged: paper or plastic, peter adams, Reviews, revisionists, scot sax, tim ten yen | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 13, 2009 by mattwhitby
Position
Artist / Album
Total Points
1
Cliff Hillis // The Long Now
310
2
The Major Labels // Aquavia
285
3
REM // Accelerate
259
4
Sloan // Parallel play
255
5
She & Him // Volume 1
242
6
Kelly Jones // SheBANG!
208
7
Nada Surf // Lucky
207
8
Pugwash // 11 Modern Antiquities
197
9
Roger Joseph Manning Jnr. // Catnip dynamite
192
10
Rick Springfield // Venus In Overdrive
181
11
Ike // Where To Begin
175
12
Josh Fix // Free At Last
172
13
Rob Bonfiglio // [...]
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Posted on January 6, 2009 by kingwart
OK, now that 2008 is done, we can start reviewing 2009 records, right? Well, not quite. I still have some 2008 releases to gab about. Oh wait, nobody really cares, huh? Well OK then. But most of these records were not really candidates for my best of list, so if you wanted to see one [...]
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