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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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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Tom Ridge's Favorite Recordings Of 2006
Neumu's Michael Goldberg writes: In case you're wondering why things
slowed down to a crawl at Neumu last year, the answer, in a word (and in a web
site), is MOG (www.mog.com).
I've been spending most of my time working on MOG, the awesome music-focused
social
networking site,
and Neumu has suffered (and if you haven't been there yet, check out my MOG:
www.mog.com/Michael_Goldberg).
Still, with 2006 over, I asked Neumu contributors to share some of the albums
that rocked their world. Today, Neumu's Tom Ridge
provides us with his faves of last year.
1. Keiji Haino and Tatsuya Yoshida, New Rap (Tzadik): Scorched-earth
noise-rock. Brutal and uncompromising and not the easiest of listens, but
it's well worth putting the time in to hear what happens when you demolish
the structure and start afresh with new building blocks.
2. Vetiver, To Find Me Gone (Fat Cat): Andy Cabic's second album is a lovely
slice of updated folk-rock/singer-songwriter material. Its winning warmth
and yearning charm keep it safely out of the lifestyle accessory graveyard
while retaining a disarming accessibility.
3. Pere Ubu, Why I Hate Women (Glitterhouse): The return of David Thomas' Pere Ubu as a rock 'n' roll band. The entrance to the Avant Garage swings
open once again.
4. Boris, Pink (Southern Lord): Originally released in Japan back in 2004,
but with such an awesome display of raw Metal power combined with Ambient
abstraction it'd be a shame not to include its U.S. release on Southern Lord
in this year's list.
5. Carla Bozulich, Evangelista (Constellation): Jaw-dropping intensity and
high-tension vocal performances merge into an extended howl of dark, fraught
expression. Stunning.
6. Harlassen, A Way Now (Sustain-Release): Another of UK musician Richard
Skelton's exquisitely rendered limited editions — powerful, elemental
acoustic drone music.
7. Akron/Family, Meek Warrior (Young God): A quick-fire successor to last
year's debut and their split release with Michael Gira. Playfully eclectic
and displaying a more muscular spiritual side.
8. Jackie-O Motherfucker, America Mystica (Very Friendly): A fascinating
sprawl of diffuse, abstract Americana over four epic tracks.
9. Axolotl, Way Blank (Psych-O-Path): Karl Bauer's compelling slab of
monolithic textural white noise, which achieves an near-psychedelic sense of
displacement — one of several releases this year from this prolific San
Francisco-based musician.
10. Steffen Basho-Junghans, Late Summer Morning (Strange Attractors Audio
House): Shimmering acoustic ragas and epic meanderings from this German
explorer of Takoma-school guitar playing.
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