Dec
18
2011
Best Music Videos of 2011
Thirty of my favorites from this year, unranked, in alphabetical order.
Jul
17
2011
Sunday Night Videos 7/17/11
Jan
9
2011
Honorable Mention Albums of 2010
Tomorrow I begin my listings of the top albums of 2010, but before I do, here are twenty great albums, listed alphabetically, that just barely missed the cut.
Big K.R.I.T. – K.R.I.T. Wuz Here Mixtape
Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
Jan
6
2011
Top 200 Tracks of 2010 – 50-21
50. LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself Clean
48. Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait
43. Josh Ritter – Folk Bloodbath
42. Diamond Rings – Show Me Your Stuff
Jan
5
2011
Top 200 Tracks of 2010 – 100-51
Oct
5
2010
Currently Digging: Superchunk – Majesty Shredding
The now-elder-statesmen of the Chapel Hill music scene (and the currently immensely popular indie rock machine), Superchunk have been off the radar for a while now. Majesty Shredding is the group’s ninth album and their first in nine years. While the band didn’t break up, they certainly have been busy with other projects (namely the cash cow Merge Records, which was founded by a portion of the group). But while the terms previously used to describe the band’s sound -“indie,” “emo,” “power pop”- have changed since their 90’s heyday, they certainly haven’t.
And so we could surmise that time apart is, indeed, healthy – Majesty Shredding is one of the sharpest-sounding and hook-laden CDs of this year, and probably the strongest of Superchunk’s career. It’s more energetic than anything most of Merge’s current roster could muster up, and it shows a mature, seminal 90’s band injecting a little perspective into today’s musical state. The sound, for the most part, hasn’t changed, so how do they make it sound so fresh? The answer is the same as it was then – no one does it like Superchunk.
Superchunk – Digging For Something
Oct
4
2010
Five MP3s You Must Grab 10/4/10
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