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Monday, February 09, 2009
So Two Months Ago: Top 37 of 2008 2008 was a year of recession for more than just the world economy. Musically, my growth and exploration has been stunted. My daily blog-list has shrunken dramatically, and my own blogging has trickled to a Chinese Democracy pace as well. This might have something to do with the fact that I'm spending more time in meeting rooms and much less time in front of my computer with my headphones on. No matter the reason, the raw amount of new music that my brain has processed in 2008 fell starkly off my usual rate. In some other dimension, the 22-year-old me is kicking my ass right now.
So lame is the 2008 me, my big discovery of the year -- years in the making -- is already a huge band (TV on the Radio), and I didn't truly find anything on my own. Most years, I can usually point to one or two records that: a) aren't Billboard Top 10s; b) aren't Pitchfork-reviewed; and c) aren't from an artist I already love.
But not this year. No surprises this year. Other than the comeback-of-the-year Phantom Planet record, this list is purely Blog-By-Numbers. Insert one cup mega-indie-star-bands, two cups cute-girly-pop, a splash of singer-songwriter LPs (heavy on the ladies), stir, and voila -- you have Hanson's year end list. The usual secret ingredient that makes this a little less predictable is absent this year.
Meh. It's not that I care less; it's just the way it is. In fact, I can't even fill up my usual top 37! With no EPs, live albums, and compilations, I can probably fill it out with LPs that I merely found decent, but I just can't do it. Unless I can truly classify it as being "good" -- 7.5 rating minimum -- it just ain't going on the list.
I'm sorry Ladytron -- Velocifero is blah. Vivian Girls -- I don't get the hype. High Places -- I see where you're going, but I don't follow. Weezer -- please stop. My Brightest Diamond -- what happened?? Dido -- zzzzzzz. Hercules and Love Affair -- I really wish you hadn't hooked up with Antony.
So here it is -- two months late - Hanson's Top 37 31 Records of 2008. Remember the days when I actually annotated this list? Maybe I'll do it next year...
01. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
02. Tilly & The Wall - O
03. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
04. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
05. Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
06. Haley Bonar - Big Star
07. Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
08. Sarah Slean - The Baroness
09. Bon Iver - For Emma
10. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
11. Jeff Hanson - Madam Owl
12. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
13. Mirah - The Old Days Feeling
14. Land Of Talk - Some Are Lakes
15. Phantom Planet - Raise The Dead
16. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
17. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
18. Tift Merritt - Another Country
19. Chris Walla - Field Manual
20. Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - Animal/Not Animal!
21. Earlimart - Hymn And Her
22. Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer
23. She & Him - Volume One
24. Nada Surf - Lucky
25. Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
26. Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns
27. Laura Cantrell - Trains and Boats and Planes
28. Islands - Arm's Way
29. CSS - Donkey
30. Brendan Canning - Something For All Of Us...
31. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Year-End mix CD to follow...
NP: (nothing)
posted by Hanson |
12:29 AM
Sunday, December 07, 2008
I Need to Blog More Mother frakkers. It's been half a year since I last blogged. I really need to get back into it unless I want to officially retire -- which I don't.
NP: (nothing)
posted by Hanson |
11:30 PM
Monday, July 07, 2008
Tilly and the Wall Tilly and the Wall w/ The Clips
Friday, July 4, 2008 - Richard's
This is going to be a short post - I like Tilly and the Wall but I'm no where near the fan that Hanson is.
The Clips [http://www.theclips.ca/] opened the show. They were better than I was expecting them to be, very upbeat.
Tilly and the Wall [http://tillyandthewall.com/] was interesting. This was my first time seeing them so I went in with no expectations - I was pleasantly surprised to find that their live show is lots of fun. I didn't realize they had a tap dancer with them for percussion but it was really unique. I'm not sure if her dance platform was properly mic'ed because it was hard to hear her tapping over the crowd and music. For their encore they took requests from the crowd - I was hoping for "Fell Down the Stairs" but I was out of luck.
Great show, good crowd expect for the punk who showed up late, pushed his way to the front and pushed me out of my spot (that I had been standing in for about 2 hours). It's official, good manners are dead.
Next up - Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band!!!
Forever yours,
Marlon
NP: (nothing)
posted by Marlon Bookcase |
5:24 PM
Monday, June 23, 2008
Stars Shine Brightly Stars w/ Curtis Santiago and My!Gay!Husband! at Malkin Bowl
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Well, if you've seen Stars before, you know how hard they hit it in their live show - I probably don't even need to blog about them.
This was an all-ages show so the crowd was all kinds of crazy. There was everything from drunken cougars dancing as if they were at a Bon Jovi concert to wee babies with giant headphones on to protect their ears. At one point, even a bald eagle also showed up for the festivities.
My!Gay!Husband! opened the show, spinning a wide range of songs for those of us who stood in line from 4:30 pm. Curtis Santiago was up next - I don't even know if I can accurately describe his set. Mix equal parts kooky stage presence and slightly off-putting lyrics about robots (?), underage love affairs and crystal meth-like love and you've got Curtis Santiago. It was truly bizarre.
Stars [http://www.arts-crafts.ca/stars/] were great as usual. They had the stage decorated with roses again, which they tossed out to the crowd over the course of the night. I really like the way Torq and Amy interact on stage, her shy presence is balanced out nicely by his theatrics - also, they both have gorgeous voices. Unfortunately, Amy was unable to crowd-surf this time as a barrier was set up between the crowd and the stage - too bad!! No suit of light either.
The set list covered their three albums -"Heart", "Set Yourself on Fire", and "In Our Bedroom After the War". I was hoping to hear "Barricade" off "In Our Bedroom After the War" but I think the song is probably too intimate for the large, open space that is Malkin Bowl. Stars always put on a good show, it's impossible to leave them without a spring in your step.
Next up - Tilly and the Wall!
Your new BFF,
Marlon
NP: (nothing)
posted by Marlon Bookcase |
8:02 PM
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Blinded by Awesomeness Shout Out Out Out Out w/ Ravens & Chimes
Commodore Ballroom
Shout Out Out Out Out played the Commodore last night as part of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival and my ears are still ringing from the sheer awesomeness of it!
The night started off with the lovely and charming Ravens & Chimes from Brooklyn, New York [http://www.ravensandchimes.com/]. They are a fine indie rock band and I feel bad for them that the crowd was kind of crappy. Hardly anyone paid attention to them except for those of us in the front row and even then there were people being loud and talky. Anyway, R & C played a good mix of upbeat and quieter songs and they even did a cover of "Say It Ain't So", that really got the crowd going. The lead singer looked like a younger, more awkward Conor Oberst!
After Ravens & Chimes, it was time to have our minds blown by Shout Out Out Out Out!! [http://www.shoutoutoutoutout.com] Two drummers + four bass players + two samplers + five synthesizers+ two vocoders + high kicks = pure awesome! The dance floor filled up the instant the Shout Out guys came on stage, everyone seemed to be having a great time. There was a surprising amount of room to dance which was great, I expected it to be the same as the last time I saw them (meaning, I would be covered in sweat that was not my own by the end of the night). We were treated to some new songs as well as old favourites like "Chicken Soup for the Fuck You", "Forever Indebted" and, "Dude You Feel Electrical". One of their new songs that I really like was "In the End, It's Your Friends That Will Fuck You Over" - Hanson got the beer-soaked play list from the stage so maybe he'll post it later.
Next up - Stars at the Malkin Bowl!
Yours,
Marlon
NP: (nothing)
posted by Marlon Bookcase |
3:18 PM
Monday, June 02, 2008
A Healthy Appreciation for Punctuation Marks! Parenthetical Girls, You Say Party! We Say Die!, and Los Campesinos! at the Plaza.
I would never say that I'm too old to enjoy music and going to shows but I think I'm too old for some kinds of music (Parenthetical Girls I'm looking at you!). I don't want to come down too hard on them, I guess I'm just not that into shoe-gazing songs with whispery, warble-y vocals but I'm sure there are plenty of young hipsters out there that are.
You Say Party! was great as always. They're nothing if not consistently entertaining performers. The sound seemed wonky and the vocals were hard to hear but I think that's the Plaza's fault and not theirs.
Los Campesinos! were lots of fun too. They seem to have good chemistry on stage and were having a good time - I've never seen such enthusiastic xylophone playing. The crowd was having just as much fun as the band, there was much dancing, singing, and fist pumping. There were sound problems during this part of the show too, so it was definitely the Plaza and not the bands. Over all, charming kids, these Los Campesinos!, so if you have the chance to see them live do so, it'll be a crazy fun party.
Next up - Stars at the Malkin Bowl.
Yours,
Marlon
NP: (nothing)
posted by Marlon Bookcase |
10:23 PM
Sunday, June 01, 2008
A Thought I'm sitting in a Starbucks at the corner of Yonge and College right now, taking in the pedestrian traffic of Toronto while catching up on some work and interwebs time. If it all goes according to plan, I'll get checking out No Gold tonight at Wavelength. It's funny that I have to go all the way across the country to see a Vancouver band that I've already heard read a good deal about. I guess that speaks to how few shows I've been to recently, especially local acts.
Perhaps in my overly-caffeinated and sleep-deprived state, I'm a bit too reflectively for my own good. But it seems to me that over the last year or so, I've had much less time for keeping up with the music scene. The volume of music I've acquired recently has declined dramatically, as have the number of new acts that I've been able to check out. Not surprisingly, these downward trends have also been correlated with a massive drop off in my blogging as well. (Massive thanks to Marlon Bookcase for picking up the slack recently!)
The reasons could probably all be grouped under the umbrella of my ascending/descending into oldness. The considerable time and money I used to devote to my musical pursuits have been slowly slipping away. In their place, I now have increased increasing responsibilities and a mortgage to keep me company. I suppose most hardcore music geeks reach this stage at one point or another in their lives; I just thought I wouldn't hit it until I'm at least 30.
So how do I cross this chasm, this earlier-than-expected sea change in my life? In the words of Buffy, I just have to deal. Human beings have an innate ability to adapt, and there's no reason why I can't make this work for me. Maybe I could explicitly schedule time in my calender to scour the internet for new music, sampling one track at a time from new artists instead of always insisting on getting the full album so as to not make a rash and uninformed judgment. And instead of writing long-ass reviews that go into the minutia of a show or a record, I could simply thrown down a couple hundred words and leave it at that. There's more than one way to butter my toast!
Yes, I can deal. If Mariah Carey can pull a comeback from her increasingly-exposed ass, so can I. Metaphorically speaking, of course -- there's no way I can rock those booty-shorts.
NP: (ambient chattering)
posted by Hanson |
5:21 AM
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Hobo raincoats, Colin Meloy, and Death Cab = a weekend in Bend, Oregon! Hahaha! First! I post first on the show!!
To begin with, I'd like to offer a postscript to my earlier post about Beirut. I feel that I didn't show enough love for the band, saving all my praise for Zach himself. Today, we ran into three members of Beirut at Jackpot Records in Portland and I was my typical calm and collected self (and by that I mean gasping loudly and then announcing in a loud whisper to Hanson that "Beirut's band is here!!", so uncool Marlon!). Later on I realized that I should have just gone up to them and thanked them for the awesome show they did in Vancouver because they are all amazing musicians. So, to all members of Beirut - you guys are amazing, please come back to Vancouver soon!
Now, onto the post. This weekend, Death Cab for Cutie played the amphitheatre in Bend, Oregon with Mates of State and the Decemberists opening. It was a mind-blowing show! Mates of State aren't one of my favourite bands but they are very adorable the way they make goo-goo eyes at each other while they play. They have a new record out and I think they mainly played songs from that - don't take my word for it since I'm not familiar with their catalogue. They had their kids with them so it was a family affair.
The Decemberists brought the house down, then built it back up and then brought it down again! It's been about a year since I last saw them and they had plenty of new songs mixed in with old favourites (including "Billy Liar", "O Valencia", "Culling of the Fold", "The Crane Wife 1", "The Perfect Crime 2", and "A Cautionary Tale"). Colin Meloy seemed in an especially charming mood and played with a lot of energy, as did Jenny, John, Chris, and Nate. At one point during "Culling of the Fold" Colin jumped into the crowd, took a lap around the amphitheatre and then crowd-surfed back to the stage! There was also more audience participation later on when they performed "A Cautionary Tale" and John Moen and Chris Funk came out into the crowd with drums and cymbals to re-enact the founding of Bend, Oregon. Their set was short but sweet and I would let Colin Meloy lick my face any day. That is all.
Death Cab for Cutie were the night's headliners and they transported the crowd to another dimension with their songs of adoration. It was the kick-off show of their new tour and Ben Gibbard and Co. were in fine form. They played songs off their new album "Narrow Stairs" including "I Will Possess Your Heart", "No Sunlight", "Long Division", "Cath", and "Bixby Canyon Bridge" and a good mix of older tracks from "Plans" and "Transatlanticism". It had been pouring rain (hence the hobo raincoats) for most of the afternoon and, during one of their more epic songs, the clouds broke and we saw a gorgeous sunset, it was pretty mind-blowing. I had tears in my eyes twice when they played "I Will Follow You Into the Dark". The crowd was also pretty good, once we moved back from the stage a little, and pretty much everyone sang along to every song. With the night sky full of stars they closed the show with "Crooked Teeth" and "Transatlanticism". All in all, it was a solid show from start to finish and a great way to spend a weekend - hopefully Death Cab and the Decemberists will be back for shows in Vancouver before too long.
Next up - Los Campesinos! at the Plaza.
Marlon out.
NP: (nothing)
posted by Marlon Bookcase |
11:27 PM
Friday, May 23, 2008
Do you like joy, or Beirut at the Commodore Marlon Bookcase here, long time reader, first time blogger on myindieworld.com.
Let me ask you a question - do you like joy? If you like joy, do yourself a favour and go see Zach Condon and his wonderful band.
Tonight I took in Beirut at the Commodore and it was easily the best show I've seen in a long time. They must be one of the happiest bands around (and their fans are pretty cheerful as well). This was the band's Vancouver debut and they did not disappoint. Opening the show with the glorious "Nantes" the night had no where to go but up. Highlights for me included "Postcards from Italy", "A Sunday Smile", and "Brandenburg" - they also played the title track from 2005's (2006 ?) Gulag Orkestar.
After playing for at least an hour, Beirut came back for not one, not two, but three encores!!! I think they would have played all night if they could. The band was clearly enjoying themselves and when the bottle of Jameson's made an appearance on stage I knew it was going to be a good night.
If you can, try and catch their performance at the Sasquatch festival this weekend. Apparently, the European leg of the tour has been cancelled and Beirut may or may not undergo some changes. See Beirut's website for more details, www.beirutband.com.
Next up, Death Cab for Cutie with the Decemberists and Mates of State (or Rogue Wave, it seems to change daily) this weekend in Bend, Oregon. Should be a great show!
Marlon out.
posted by Marlon Bookcase |
12:50 AM
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Live Junos Blogging I haven't seen the Junos for years, but since Russell Peters is hosting, I thought I'd give it a go again. While I'm at it, I figure I'll do some live blogging too. There can't be that many people doing that, eh? This ain't no Oscars.
So I got home late after dinner, walking in while little Avril Lavigne is playing that terrible first single off her latest album. I'll pick it up from there...
8:30pm: The Reminder wins Best Pop Album! Yay Feist! And Belly? I thought that was a mid-90s band fronted by Tanya Donnelly? Who's this chunkier version Sean Paul handing Feist her award?
8:38pm: Russell Peters isn't really scratching... is he?
8:57pm: Feist is performing with a person swapping in overheads on a projector. Looks like Owen Pallet has started a trend!
9:00pm: I guess teen girls like Bublé more than Avril. And way to plug that Doritos. Who do you think you are, Stephen Colbert?
9:02pm: A special tribute to TRIUMF?
9:08pm: Anne Murray + Jann Arden = checking my fantasy baseball results
9:12pm: The Junos -- the only award show where Tom Cochrane gets any air time.
9:17pm: Oh. Triumph...
9:27pm: When it's all said and done, Jacob Hoggard will probably be the most successful Canadian Idol contestant ever. Take that to mean whatever you want.
9:52pm: At this rate, Feist will win the Best Male Artist award too. Wow. Best Album. Move over Bublé, Celine, and Avril: prepared to be crushed by Hurricane Leslie.
9:59pm: Wah? That's it? Ending with Jully "Who?" Black? A bit anti-climatic. Well, that's the Junos for ya...
NP: Junos
posted by Hanson |
8:35 PM
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Brave New World I've been doing this blog on my own for over five years now. Over the the past year, my output has significantly declined, due primarily to an increasingly busy schedule. It seems like I have two choices: keep the status quo and accept the fact that it will be infrequently updated, or bring in some help; I have chosen the latter.
Yes sir, My Indie World is turning into Our Indie World. My smart and funny friends will start joining the fray in the coming weeks to make this a group blog. The content won't change much; this blog will still keep its music-heavy, pop-culture savvy focus. But you'll start seeing more viewpoints, different writing styles, and an overall increase in classiness (just by virtue of my contribution dropping below 100%). And most importantly, you'll start seeing more content. Woo!
This is not my withdrawal from the blogosphere by any stretch of the imagination -- I'll still be around. The fact that I've got Tift Merritt, the Blow, Colin Meloy, and Sarah Slean coming up in the next month almost guarantees it. And I do very much enjoy ranting, raving, and expressing my often ill-informed opinions, so I ain't going anywhere.
But yeah, other people. Cheers to that!
NP: (basketball)
posted by Hanson |
7:04 PM
Friday, March 28, 2008
Douchebaggary on High, or What Happened at Vampire Weekend So there I was, at the hotly anticipated Vampire Weekend show tonight, wondering why I was throwing elbows to keep ass-monkeys at bay.
Let me start from the beginning. Usually, I head into a show with an idea of the kind of crowd I'd be expecting. The people at a Be Your Own Pet gig will generally give off a different vibe than, say, people at a Sarah Slean show. While I'd be prepared for a goodly amount of ruckus at the former, anything more than enthused sing-alongs and loud hooting and hollering at the latter would take me completely by surprise. For Vampire Weekend, lets just say I was expecting more Slean and less BYOP.
Tonight, four guys from Columbia University descended upon Richard's on Richards, playing a unique brand of African-inspired rock and calling themselves Vampire Weekend. They comprise one of the most-blogged-about bands of this past year, continuing on the trail blazed by such bands as Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (remember those guys?). In fact, they've gotten so big, they've even hit Studio 8H for some SNL action a few week back. If you're reading this, chances are good that you know who they are.
This band, featuring a sweater-clad lead-singer and three other equally polite-looking guys, appears about as wild as mayonnaise and white bread. Their music, while upbeat, does not inspire one to throw caution to the wind and dance as if one were at an LCD Soundsystem show. And even their live show, while musically competent and interesting, does not bring to the table anything more than what was on their records. In other words, I'd be hard-pressed to imagine the crowd reacting to these guys any differently than they would to any other indie band du jour.
But good god was I wrong. Oh so wrong.
You know that at some shows, you expect a fight to keep your spot up front. If you're at the Commodore and there's a fence, expect a fight. If you see massive jock-types ready to pounce before the bands start, expect a fight. If it's a band that gets airplay on local "rock" radio, expect a fight. But Vampire Weekend? Never did I expect to bust a move and throw down some Ho-fu to beat off drunken dude-bros who looked like they were at a casting for serial date-rapists.
The night started off nice enough, with a newly dual-ified YACHT exercising and singing to canned beats on and off stage. The new girl Jona Bechtolt had in tow had on these constricting high-waist shorts, elf-boots, and Sally Jessy Raphael glasses, looking like she just step out of a fierce hipster modeling photo shoot. Jona, sans nautical sweater, did his usual song and dance, working the crowd with his sheer enthusiasm. Their half-hour set was short and sweet.
Vampire Weekend then took the stage. The first few songs were fine, with the usual amount of swaying and dancing from a rather eclectic looking crowd for a show like this. What I mean is that it's not just the scarf-and-tight-jeans wearing, horizontal-strips-rocking hipster types. It's a lot of people who look a lot different, like a freeze frame at a local Starbucks or something. For the first bit, people were enjoying themselves but respecting each others' spaces too, just like what you'd expect from a night of Pitchfork-approved music at Richards.
But then, as they got into the more up-tempo songs like "A-Punk", a small crowd of what I can only describe as ginormous douchebags pushed their way to the front of the stage. They shoved aside the poor people who were in their path, elbowing, kneeing, and pushing their way up and pinning my friends and I to the front of the stage. They even formed a mini mosh pit, a small circle in which even smaller dicks pushed each other around like they were at a Kid Rock show. They stayed until the band's short set was over, effectively ruining it for my friends and me for the rest of the night. I mean, it's hard to enjoy yourself when you're under constant assault from behind from sweaty, aggressive, ape-like wankers. I only took a fraction of what came at my friends, but even I was pissed as fuck.
Now, these are the same type of assholes you'd find drunk and "rocking out" at, say, an Arctic Monkeys show. No offense to the Arctic Monkeys, but their music tends to bring out that type of "devil-horns" throwing frat boys who like to "party hard" and "mosh" because they're "hardcore." But at a Vampire Weekend show? Really, guys? This ain't Nickelback. This ain't even Les Savy Fav. Why the fuck would you want to do that at VAMPIRE FUCKING WEEKEND? Shouldn't you be at home drinking shitty beer, smoking shitty weed, and playing Madden instead? Fucking fucknuts.
And if things weren't bad enough, my friends reported a bad case of BO on these shitheads. Imaging being constantly bombarded physically, and then be assaulted olfactorally by putrid sweat because some assholes forgot their deodorant. Talk about a double whammy.
Suffice it to say, it was not a night of all thumbs up for me. The band was tight, but the douchebags made full enjoyment difficult. It's like someone took a steaming dump on your plate of food: even if you took away all the feces, someone still shat on your food.
Fuck you douchebags. I hope you all get syphilis from your next drunken rendezvous.
End of rant.
NP: (nothing)
posted by Hanson |
12:30 AM
Thursday, January 31, 2008
2007 in 20 Songs One final touch to end off 2007: my annual year-end mix CD is available here. As usual, it doesn't comprise my 20 favourite songs of the year; it's merely my way of trying to summarize a year in under 80 minutes, trying hard not to pick too many obvious songs while staying true to my tastes and being somewhat representative. For the first time in a long time, I don't have a secret track. Perhaps I'm growing a bit immune to the out-of-left-field covers that I've adored in years past.
Here's the tracklist for those of you interested in finding out what's on it without the 100-meg download:
01 Au Revoir Simone - Night Majestic
02 Voxtrot - Kid Gloves
03 Eisley - Many Funerals
04 Bright Eyes - Four Winds
05 New Buffalo - City And Sea (Lady Nameless)
06 Feist - I Feel It All
07 The National - Mistaken For Strangers
08 Maria Taylor - Clean Getaway
09 Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place
10 Mirah and Spectratone International - Song of Psyche
11 Spoon - The Underdog
12 Rilo Kiley - Silver Lining
13 Immaculate Machine - Dear Confessor
14 Sally Shapiro - He Keeps Me Alive
15 Earlimart - Answers & Questions
16 Laura Veirs - Don't Lose Yourself
17 Elliott Smith - High Times
18 Bella - No One Will Know
19 The Weakerthans - Tournament Of Hearts
20 Stars - Personal
NP: Cat Power - I Feel
posted by Hanson |
11:22 PM
Friday, January 25, 2008
Top 37 of 2007 For the fifth year in a row, I'm plopping down my Top 37 full-lengths of the year on this here blog (excluding live records and re-releases -- sorry the Blow). And for the second year in a row, this list is a month after the fact and unannotated. Ah well. At least I can look back on this in five years and go waaaah?
For those that know me (or have read this blog semi-consistently these last five years), this list isn't surprising: chick and pop-heavy. Yup, that's how I roll. And if you're a two-fer, well, then come on it. On the list, you'll find a lot of popular blogger choices, but of course, you'll find plenty of WTF's sprinkled in there too (hello Eisley!)
So you can stop bugging me, Dan. Here they are. And that Justice record isn't that good!
1. Elliott Smith - New Moon
2. Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War
3. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
4. Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight
5. Eisley - Combinations
6. Radiohead - In Rainbows
7. The National - Boxer
8. M.I.A. - Kala
9. The New Pornographers - Challengers
10. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
11. Feist - The Reminder
12. Patty Griffin - Children Running Through
13. John Vanderslice - Emerald City
14. New Buffalo - Somewhere, Anywhere.
15. Mirah And Spectratone International - Share This Place: Stories and Observations
16. Immaculate Machine - Fables
17. Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers
18. Au Revoir Simone - The Bird Of Music
19. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
20. Basia Bulat - Oh, My Darling
21. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
22. Sally Shapiro - Disco Romance
23. St. Vincent - Marry Me
24. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
25. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
26. Voxtrot - Voxtrot
27. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
28. Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
29. Tegan & Sara - The Con
30. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Living With the Living
31. Maria Taylor - Lynn Teeter Flower
32. Rocky Votolato - The Brag & Cuss
33. Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
34. Earlimart - Mentor Tormentor
35. You Say Party! We Say Die! - Lose All Time
36. Bella - No One Will Know
37. The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
2007 Year End CD coming up real soon...
NP: (nothing)
posted by Hanson |
12:10 AM
Hello Blogosphere Wow. Has it been 7 months already? No use dwelling on the past; lets see how long this grand re-opening lasts, eh?
NP: (nothing)
posted by Hanson |
12:04 AM
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