“Gimme something to look forward to,” Britt Daniel sang on Spoon’s 2002 album, Kill The Moonlight. And with every new year, there’s a great list of upcoming releases by musicians to impatiently look forward to with every blog post on “Band A” or “Band B.R[...]
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January 4th, 2010 - 1:07 am § in True/Slant
Something To Look Forward To: 2010 Music Releases
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December 27th, 2009 - 11:04 pm § in True/Slant
The Best Overlooked Albums Of The Aughts
The new year is almost here, and with it comes a maelstrom of “End of the Year Lists.” Here on Ex-Spectator, I’ll be rolling out a few “End of the Year”/”End of the Decade” lists. Today’s list: The Best Overlooked Albums of the Aughts. A while back I started an ongoing feature called[...]
Tags: (k)no(w)here, +/-, A Name Writ in Water, A Story In White, Aereogramme, albums, Alias, All These Long Drives, All Together, Antelope, Apollo Sunshine, Aqueduct, art-punk, Beauty Pill, bedroom pop, Belly, best of, best overlooked albums of the aughts, best overlooked albums of the decade, Black Eyes, blogs, blues, bubblegum pop, By The Throat, Cave In, Cell-Scape, Central Hug, Central Hug/Friendarmy/Fractaldunes, Chad VanGaalen, chamber-pop, Chino Moreno, country, D.C., dance punk, Danger Mouse, Danger Mouse & Jemini, Dartz! This Is My Ship, David Terry, Deftones, doo-wop, Double Dagger, dubstep, Duplomacy, Ear Pwr, Emblems, emo, Emperor X, Eyedea & Abilities, Fire Theft, folk, Food For Animals, Forest Fire, Friend Army/Fractal Dunes (And The Dreams That Resulted), funk, Ghetto Pop Life, Gomez, Gowns, Guns Babes Lemonade, Hardcore punk, Hella, hip-hop, HLLLYH, Hope of the States, Hrishhikesh Hirway, I Sold Gold, In Our Gun, indie folk, indie pop, indie rock, Interventions & Lullabies, Ire Works, Is This It, It Takes A Nation Of Millions, jam, jazz, Jemini, Karate, Let's Build A Fire, lo-fi, London Zoo, Low Level Owl Vol. 1, Low Level Owl Vol. 2, Lucero, Lungfish, Mapmaker, Maritime, Mark Kozelek, Mary Timony, matt pond PA, Melt-Banana, meme, metal, metalcore, Milosh, Mineral, minimalism, Movie Monster, Muscles, music, Night On Fire, noise rock, noise-punk, Oh No! Oh My!, Parts & Labor, Pattern Is Movement, Perfect Pitch Black, Personal Journals, Pinback, Pitchfork, Pitchfork effect, Plus/Minus, pop, pop-rock, post-disco, post-hardcore, post-punk, prog, Public Enemy, Putting The Days To Bed, Q And Not U, Ragged Rubble, rap, RCA, Red State, Reflector, Resurgam, Rhymesayers, Rob Crow, Sage Francis, slam poetry, slowcore, Soft Airplane, Sound Team, Southern rock, Sun Kil Moon, Sunny Day Real Estate, Super Animal Brothers III, Survival, Team Sleep, That Much Further West, The Appleseed Cast, the aughts, The Bug, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Dismemberment Plan, The Fire Theft, The Format, The Long Winters, The Lost Riots, The Mae Shi, The One AM Radio, The PoPo, The Rapture, The Strokes, The Unsustainable Lifestyle, Tiny Cities, twee, Unbeast the Leash, Unsolved, UUVVWWZ, VHS or Beta, Videohippos, Volcano I'm Still Excited!!, We The Vehicles, Wilderness, Zach Hill No Comments
December 31st, 2008 - 4:05 pm § in Perfect Lines
9 Things To Look Forward To in 2009
2008 is almost gone as the New Year will arrive in a matter of hours (or it may have already arrived depending on when you read this). So, in anticipation for the number of times I’ll forget to put “2009″ on whatever documents need a proper year, here’s a little listing of 9 [...]
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December 30th, 2008 - 7:26 pm § in Perfect Lines
They Said It…
Roundup of various end of the year music lists...[...]
Tags: About.com, Alexandra Cahill, Allmusic.com, Alopecia, Amazon.com, Amy Lindsey, Ann Powers, April, Associated Press, Baltimore City Paper, Belly, best albums lists, best albums of 2008, Billboard, Blender, Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Chris Barton, Chris DeLine, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cokemachineglow, Cortney Harding, Culture Bully, Dear Science, Drowned In Sound, Edna Gundersen, emo, Entertainment Weekly, Eric Mahollitz, Erik Thompson, Escapers Two, Fact Magazine, Food For Animals, Friendly Fires, Greg Kot, Heather Phares, HLLLYH, I Guess I'm Floating, I Rock Cleveland, Ice Cream Spiritual, James Christopher Monger, Jessica Letkemann, Joan Anderman, John Bush, Jon Pareles, Jonathan Cohen, Josh Keller, Justin Harris, Katie Hasty, Kelly Hilst, KEXP, Kyle Johnson, L.A. Times, Largehearted Boy, Limewire Music Blog, Margaret Wappler, Matt Collar, Melissa Trejo, Michael D. Ayers, Mojo, Morgan Chosnyk, Morgan Kluck, MTV, music, Music Blogs and Sites, Nate Chinen, Neon Neon, New Haven Register, New York Observer, New York Times, NME, NPR Listeners Poll, NPR Second Stage, Parts & Labor, Paste, pictures for sad children, Pitchfork, Ponytail, Q Magazine, Receivers, Robert Thompson, Rolling Stone, Sarah Rodman, Spin, Stainless Style, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Stereogum (Gummy Awards), Sun Kil Moon, Susan Visakowitz, The AV Club, The Dodos, The Mae Shi, TIME, Tiny Mix Tapes, Troy Carpenter, TV On The Radio, Uncut, USA TODAY, Visiter, webcomic, Why?, WOXY 3 Comments
December 12th, 2008 - 2:10 am § in Perfect Lines
Top o' 2008
A countdown of the best albums of 2008, in all their colors.[...]
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July 11th, 2008 - 4:48 am § in Perfect Lines
Free the Musics
In honor of free slurpee day, I’ve decided to do a (rather brief) post on free music. Since Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want, online release of In Rainbows last October, the idea of artists offering their albums for free has been at the forefront of almost any article relating to popularly [...]
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July 10th, 2008 - 3:42 am § in Perfect Lines
Bastards of Pop
By now most music-loving folk are aware of the pay-what-you-want, online release of Girl Talk’s latest album, Feed The Animals. But this isn’t about that… well, it’s almost not about that. As any other savy internet users are concerned, a trio of folks hailing from the greate[...]
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