Monthly Archives: December 2008 »
The Best Albums of 2008
by Mike Mineo Albums #01 to #10 Albums #11 to #20 Albums #21 to #30 Albums #31 to #40 Albums #41 to #
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Best Albums of 2008: #10 to #01
by Mike Mineo ———————————————————————————————– 10. Dr. Dog – Fate For their fifth album, Fate, Dr. Dog intentionally granted high expectations months before the release. Calling it the album that “they were destined to make”,
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Best Albums of 2008: #20 to #11
by Mike Mineo ———————————————————————————————– 20. Ra Ra Riot – The Rhumb Line Losing a member of a band to death can be devastating. No matter how many arguments and fistfights were initiated in the
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Best Albums of 2008: #30 to #21
by Mike Mineo ———————————————————————————————– 30. Air France – No Way Down EP This feature may be called the “Top 50 Albums of 2008”, but the title alone does not give me enough justice to
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Best Albums of 2008: #40 to #31
by Mike Mineo ———————————————————————————————– 40. Kristoffer Ragnstam – Wrong Side of the Room We all knew that it was only a matter of time before a Swedish pop artist made this list, and I
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Best Albums of 2008: #50 to #41
by Mike Mineo ———————————————————————————————– 50. Hot Chip – Made in the Dark Before they earned a Grammy nod or topped the UK singles charts, Hot Chip had a considerable amount of doubt surrounding them.
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4 Bonjour’s Parties’ Pigments Drift Down to the Brook
One of the many aspects of music that I have always found fulfilling relates to how influences have no cultural boundaries. While traditional music that holds some merit toward a country’s cultural values and
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MP3 files are now working When monumental success is accomplished through means of distinctive locality, I imagine that the sense of pride for a group is indescribable. You grow up with a certain group
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J. Tillman Sings the Vacilando Territory Blues
Though there are still a few underexposed albums from 2008 that I will feature in the coming weeks, it is most certainly not too early to move on to 2009. We have only slightly
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Discovering a Long Forgotten Friend in Dreamend
For a music lover, the perks of running a record label are plentiful. Discovering new artists, making a variety of connections in the industry, and – most rewardingly – the feeling of breaking out
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A Great Forecast for Future Clouds and Radar
As I indicated less than two weeks when featuring Benji Hughes’ excellent A Love Extreme, releasing a double-disc album as a debut can be a risky venture for numerous reasons. Inaccessibility is the primary
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A Visit to The Western States Motel
Ever since the emergence of California-based surf-rock instrumentalists like The Surfaris and Dick Dale & the Del-tones in the early ‘60s, it has become an overused practice to describe pop music originating from California
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Obscure Sound: Best of November 2008
As I currently sit on this return bus to DC within a horde of traffic, I cannot help but turn my focus toward the end of the year. This Thanksgiving weekend proved to be
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