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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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Thursday, December 15, 2005
Jenny Tatone's Year In Review
Neumu Senior Editor Jenny Tatone writes: There were no major breakthroughs in 2005. The hype machine of 2001 was out of commission. The critics' decade-old wet dream for the next Nirvana remained an unrealized fantasy. The recording industry saw a significant decline in CD sales as more and more music fans added an "i" to their life. Crappy commercial crap continued to find fans in adolescent ignorance. But, as CD sales suggest, not as many. Indie rock found itself increasingly cool on TV and the underground searched for a new hero. Again. MTV made some hits. But more out of "regular" people from "Laguna Beach: The Real OC" than actual musicians. Hip-Hop got less gangsta with artists like Kanye West and Common. But bling prevailed. And 50 Cent stayed alive. Eminem became old (and rich) enough to retire and drop a best-of called Curtain Call: The Hits. Indie mainstay and lyrical genius John Darnielle (AKA The Mountain Goats) released a phenomenally touching album, The Sunset Tree, and poignantly reminded us of the horrors of child abuse. Madonna — sporting feathered bangs and disco moves — gave gay men more reason to dance and reclaimed a lost decade. Again. The Hold Steady finally got long-deserved props with Separation Sunday, a rowdy, rollicking bar-blues album delivered with the spitting intensity of somebody telling you how it really is. The Rolling Stones toured the U.S. and ticket prices at New York's Madison Square Garden surpassed a grand. Thirty-six years ago they played for free at Altamont. With the exception of a new album from '60s folk artist Vashti Bunyan (her first in more than 20 years), the neo-folk movement teetered out. Punky dance beats, old and new (Franz Ferdinand, Gang of Four), continued a hot and sexy dominance. Montreal cooled down with a sub-par album from Broken Social Scene but made a nice offering with Wolf Parade and their jolting Isaac Brock-produced debut Apologies to the Queen Mary, which, like it or not, sounds like Modest Mouse. Neutral Milk Hotel mastermind (and occasional madman) Jeff Mangum disclosed to the world that he is, in fact, still alive by making a pair of surprise appearances, one with Olivia Tremor Control in August and another with Elf Power in November. Legendary guitarist Link Wray, who gave hundreds of punks and metal heads the power chord, died at 76. Antony of Antony and the Johnsons amazed and confused fans with his beautiful and androgynous songbird songs. Fiona Apple became less mad at the world during her brief departure from it and then released a new not-so-angsty album called Extraordinary. Brother-and-sister duo the Fiery Furnaces got weirder by incorporating their grandmother's warbly tales and aged singing into their mournful and perplexing album Rehearsing My Choir. Sleater-Kinney professed undying Led Zeppelin love, taking a left-hand turn into screeching, heavy-as-hell territory with The Woods. Female hip-hop artist M.I.A. showed that model looks coupled with a semi-dangerous third-world background is quite the turn-on. Louis Armstrong shed some tears from heaven alongside thousands of other New Orleans jazz musicians after Hurricane Katrina swept the legendary Big Easy out of existence and into the history books. And President Bush didn't know about any of it.
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