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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Jim Connelly's
Favorite Recordings Of 2006
Monday, January 15, 2007
Jesse Steichen's Favorite Recordings Of 2006
Friday, January 12, 2007
Bill Bentley's Favorite Recordings Of 2006
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Tom Ridge's Favorite Recordings Of 2006
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Lee Templeton's Favorite Recordings Of 2006
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Anthony Carew's 13 Fave Albums Of 2006
Monday, March 27, 2006
SXSW 2006: Finding Some Hope In Austin
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Letter From New Orleans
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Jennifer Przybylski's Fave Albums of 2005
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Music For Dwindling Days: Max Schaefer's Fave Recordings Of 2005
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Sean Fennessey's 'Best-Of' 2005
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Lori Miller Barrett's Fave Albums Of 2005
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Lee Templeton's Favorite Recordings of 2005
Thursday, January 5, 2006
Michael Lach - Old Soul Songs For A New World Order
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Found In Translation — Emme Stone's Year In Music 2005
Tuesday, January 3, 2006
Dave Allen's 'Best-Of' 2005
Monday, January 2, 2006
Steve Gozdecki's Favorite Albums Of 2005
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Johnny Walker Black's Top 10 Of 2005
Monday, December 19, 2005
Neal Block's Favorite Recordings Of 2005
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Jenny Tatone's Year In Review
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Dave Renard's Fave Recordings Of 2005
Monday, December 12, 2005
Jennifer Kelly's Fave Recordings Of 2005
Thursday, December 8, 2005
Tom Ridge's Favorite Recordings Of 2005
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Ben Gook's Beloved Albums Of 2005
Monday, December 5, 2005
Anthony Carew's Fave Albums Of 2005
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Prince, Spoon And The Magic Of The Dead Stop
Monday, September 12, 2005
The Truth About America
Monday, September 5, 2005
Tryin' To Wash Us Away
Monday, August 1, 2005
A Psyche-Folk Heat Wave In Western Massachusetts
Monday, July 18, 2005
Soggy But Happy At Glastonbury 2005
Monday, April 4, 2005
The SXSW Experience, Part 3: All Together Now
Friday, April 1, 2005
The SXSW Experience, Part 2: Dr. Dog's Happy Chords
Thursday, March 31, 2005
The SXSW Experience, Part 1: Waiting, Waiting And More Waiting
Friday, March 25, 2005
Final Day At SXSW's Charnel House
Monday, March 21, 2005
Day Three At SXSW
Saturday, March 19, 2005
Day Two In SXSW's Hall Of Mirrors
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Report #1: SXSW 2005 And Its Hall Of Mirrors
Monday, February 14, 2005
Matt Landry's Fave Recordings Of 2004
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
David Howie's 'Moments' From The Year 2004
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Lori Miller Barrett's Fave Recordings Of 2004
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Noah Bonaparte's Fave Recordings Of 2004
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Kevin John's Fave Albums Of 2004
Friday, January 14, 2005
Music For Those Nights: Max Schaefer's Fave Recordings Of 2004
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Dave Renard's Fave Recordings Of 2004
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Neal Block's Top Ten Of 2004
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Jenny Tatone's Fave Albums Of 2004
Monday, January 10, 2005
Wayne Robins' Top Ten Of 2004
Friday, January 7, 2005
Brian Orloff's Fave Albums Of 2004
Thursday, January 6, 2005
Johnny Walker (Black)'s Top 10 Of 2004
Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Jennifer Przybylski's Fave Albums (And Book) Of 2004
Tuesday, January 4, 2005
Mark Mordue's Fave Albums Of 2004
Monday, January 3, 2005
Lee Templeton's Fave Recordings Of 2004
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Monday, December 29, 2003
Tom Breihan's Favorite Recordings Of 2003
Neumu's Michael Goldberg writes: As 2003 draws to a close, we're running those much-anticipated Neumu "best-of" lists. Each year we ask our contributors to consider all that they've listened to during the past year, and to come up with a list of their favorite albums (and, if they are so moved, their fave songs, concerts or whatever). Today we present Neumu Contributing Editor Tom Breihan's fave music of 2003.
1. Postal Service, Give Up (Sub Pop): The sound of sunlight bending, fog refracting, leaves falling upwards. Give Up is what all emo should be but never is: sharp, woozy, clever, gut-wrenching, hopeful, gorgeous, unafraid to have a fucking beat. This very moment, that little chump from Saves the Day is somewhere scratching his head and trying to figure out Pro-Tools.
2. Grand Buffet, Pittsburgh Hearts (self-released): The sound of Daft Punk partying with Humpty Hump in a 7-Eleven parking lot. They're eating burritos, they blasting Danzig, they're smacking their Game Boys against the side of the van to get rid of that weird little bar on the bottom of the screen. They're shroomed out of their minds. Except, like, Pittsburgh Hearts is better.
3. Jay-Z, The Black Album (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam): Jay-Hova's "goodbye" is a monument to self almost as audacious as the giant statue on the cover of Michael Jackson's HIStory. But the melancholy, disappointment, and paranoia that have always been just around the corner for Jay are finally out in full view. Simultaneously lush and sparse, celebratory and mournful, brash and frustrated, The Black Album is one for the ages. Too bad about those Neptunes tracks.
4. The Rapture, Echoes (Vertigo/DFA): Listening to Echoes is like getting crazy drunk by yourself on the sidewalk at four in the morning in a neighborhood your friends warned you not to go near. The bass booms and the drums rattle gloriously, but Luke Jenner's voice is so knife-edge tense that you just know something bad is coming around that corner.
5. Rancid, Indestructible (Hellcat): Music about heartbreak and poverty is not meant to be this joyous and full of life. After Tim Armstrong's wife left him, he turned to his friends, and the result is an album exploding with camaraderie instead of bitterness, drinking songs instead of crying songs.
6. Spiritualized, Amazing Grace (Spaceman/Sanctuary): Rather than the druggy, blissy haze of his previous work, Jason Pierce gives it to us raw on Amazing Grace. What we get is scorching garage rock, plaintive gospel, and the fragile whisper of a man always on the verge of falling apart. And it's nearly as gorgeous as the druggy, blissy haze.
7. Atmosphere, Seven's Travels (Epitaph): Slug is honest enough to tell us that he's a fuckup, a thirtysomething small businessman with a drinking problem and a fear of commitment. This sort of vulnerability and truthfulness is rare in hip-hop, but it's not the only thing Atmosphere has going for it. Thankfully, Seven's Travels is still great hip-hop, with force and swagger fully intact. Ant's beats are direct and hooky, and Slug's gift for imagery and eye for detail reach a stunning apex in the masterful "Always Coming Back Home to You".
8. Bubba Sparxxx, Deliverance (Beat Club/Interscope): Country and rap have long led utterly separate existences, coming together pretty much only when some asshole would claim to like "all kinds of music except country and rap." So it's ridiculously audacious to combine the two into some sort of totally integrated whole. But Bubba does it on Deliverance, and he does it with bluegrass and Southern bounce, possibly the two most disparate strains of these disparate musics. Timbaland somehow turns his futuristic electrospazz into jug-band funk. Bubba talks about living on a dirt road. It's really fucking strange.
9. Richard X, Richard X Presents His X-Factor (Astralwerks): X-Factor is as cold and hard as a diamond, and it glints like one. Richard X combines early-'80s synthpunk and late-'80s icy R&B, pristine sheen and nasty hooks. The result is a perfect catalyst for dancefloor debauchery, the one exception being the breathtaking Jarvis Cocker collaboration "Into U," which twinkles like falling snow.
10. Fannypack, So Stylistic (Famous Celebrity/Tommy Boy): If you're going to name your band "Fannypack", you're probably going to have to deal with the grim specter of irony. My recommendation: Bury that shit. Replace it with a ridiculous wide-eyed kickass sexy gum-snapping teenage-girl enthusiasm. Bite directly from L'Trimm and JJ Fad, except do it over insanely catchy beats that sound like someone replaced Hurby "Luv Bug" Azor's coke with Pixie Stix. Drop lyrics like "booty up booty down." Flip a Yeah Yeah Yeahs sample that sounds better than anything on that band's album. And maybe drop some of those skits, please? Thanks. That should do it.
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