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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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Joseph P. Larkin's Favorite Recordings Of 2004
Neumu's Michael Goldberg writes: With 2005 nearly upon us, 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 a list of Joseph P. Larkin's fave music of 2004 to play while giving a loved one a sensual backrub.
Joseph Larkin writes: 2004 stabbed a hole in my gut and left me for dead.
Seriously, I have no idea how I've managed to make it through this dreary year
without slashing my wrists. But, hey, at least a handful of great records got
released in this otherwise hellish year — I guess that's something, right?
(Please note: 2004 was an uncharacteristically fruitful 12 months for new music
and I bought nearly 50 enjoyable CDs this year by the likes of Black Ox Orkestar,
Cattle Decapitation, Comets on Fire, The Ex, Mark Lanegan Band, Les Savy Fav,
Mission of Burma and Pig Destroyer, just to name a few. I would've liked to profile
every great album I purchased this year but, alas, I am a busy man — all
that underground child pornography doesn't produce itself, you know — so
this abridged list will have to do. Thank you for indulging me.)
1. The Arcade Fire, Funeral (Merge): C'mon, people, it's really not that great an album.
2. Amen, Death Before Musick (eatURmusic/Columbia): A brilliant
punk-rock protest record made by a failed nü metal band. Go figure.
3. Burning Brides, Leave No Ashes (V2): Bar none, the best rock album released this year.
4. Clutch, Blast Tyrant (DRT Entertainment): Honestly, the music of Clutch is far too dumb to be described as thinking man's metal, but these guys sure know how to jam, my friends, and that's all that really matters in the long run.
5. The Dillinger Escape Plan, Miss Machine (Relapse Records): The most challenging and exciting record of the year, pick a year, any year.
6. Hot Snakes, Audit in Progress (Swami Records): I like this band more than I hate Lars Ulrich, and I hate Lars Ulrich a lot. Hot Snakes earn bonus points for putting on the most intense show I saw this year; I was sweating buckets by the end of the band's set and it wasn't even that hot in the venue.
7. Ted Leo + His Pharmacists, Shake the Sheets (Lookout! Records): I resisted the siren song of Ted Leo for a couple of years but, look, I'm not made out of stone here and this is the record of his that finally won me over. When you see Ted Leo on the street, hug a thug!
8. Pleasure Club, The Fugitive Kind (Brash/Purified Records): Pleasure Club's James Hall has been the country's most criminally overlooked songwriter for about 15 years running; isn't it about time you started giving this very talented man his due? Seriously, this guy should be a huge star by now, bathing in champagne-filled hot tubs with hookers and releasing bloated drug-fueled solo records by the boatload.
9. Secret Chiefs 3, Book of Horizons (Web of Mimicry): This is the shit, plain and simple. Worship at the altar of Trey Spruance.
10. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Of Natural History (Web of Mimicry): A bona fide masterpiece; I have never heard an album that sounds quite like this one does and I probably never will.
11. They Might be Giants, The Spine (Idlewild Recordings): They Might be Giants took a screeching artistic nosedive and turned it around with this release, thus proving once again that they truly are giants.
12. Walking Concert, Run to be Born (Some Records): A pop masterwork made by the brain behind Quicksand (!) and Gorilla Biscuits (!!) that is so perfect and catchy, it almost makes you feel like life is worth living. Please note that I said almost.
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