The Best Songs of 2008
Portishead – Machine Gun Fleet Foxes – Mykonos Department of Eagles – No One Does It Like You Cut Copy – Hearts on Fire TV on the Radio – Golden Age The Dodos – Fools Deerhunter – Nothing Ever...
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TV on the Radio – Dear Science Portishead – Third Why? – Alopecia Hot Chip – Made in the Dark Girl Talk – Feed the Animals Deerhunter – Microcastle Spiritualized – Songs in A&E Amadou & Mariam...
View ArticleThe ’00s in Music: Introduction (Origins of Insufferableness)
I can be pretty insufferable with my musical opinions. My inclinations were validated at too early an age, and too frequently. I knew what I liked before I was aware enough to take any outside factors...
View ArticleThe ’00s in Music: 2000
2000 feels like a long time ago, and it was. I was 15, couldn’t drive, no girlfriend, was depressed out of my mind. Bill Clinton was president, which is somehow bizarre to think about. And it’s been...
View ArticleThe Best Albums of 2009
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion It’s always boring to go with the consensus choice, but what can I do? It’s probably one of the top three of the decade. I was not an AC convert prior to...
View ArticleThe Best Songs of 2009
Animal Collective – What Would I Want? Sky Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks Animal Collective – My Girls (one Avey song, one Panda song, from separate releases — I’m pretending this doesn’t break my one song...
View ArticleThe ’00s in Music: 2001
Well, this is my first post of 2010, which means I am continuing to set a terrible example for bloggers everywhere. I have been legitimately busy — I moved to Brooklyn in February and now commute to...
View ArticleThe Best Songs of 2010
Beach House – Zebra - I had a pretty good feeling this was my favorite song of the year when I first heard it back in January. Competition actually turned out to be way more intense than expected —...
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St. Vincent – Surgeon - Easy choice for me this year. Check your pulse after you watch the linked performance. The National – Exile Vilify – Didn’t expect them to be candidates the year after High...
View ArticleDiscovering and Mourning Scott Miller
A warning: this is a long post. Really, really long. Sorry. Scott Miller died on April 15, 2013, at the age of 53. I didn’t know who he was. Following the public announcement of his death, Carl Newman...
View ArticleWhere the Flood Waters Soak Their Belongings, by Scott Miller
Our import LPs got soaked in the flood I thought of how I pictured London when I was ten And then you actually go Occupied people with clear ideas of what in London came from the outside LP’s imported,...
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