Monthly Archives: December 2009 »
Best Albums of 2009: #10 to #01
The top ten albums of 2009 are unveiled, capping off the end to a great year in music
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Best Albums of 2009: #20 to #11
The top ten will be unveiled tomorrow, but these albums are just as worthwhile
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Best Albums of 2009: #30 to #21
Part three of five finds an even mixture of debuts and veteran releases that made a mark in
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Best Albums of 2009: #40 to #31
Part two of our five-day feature broadens the coverage of this year's finest albums
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Best Albums of 2009: #50 to #41
And so it begins. The top albums of 2009 are hand-picked and collected for your listening pleasure. Part one of a five-day feature
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The Dragon Turtle Almanac
As Brian Lightbody and Tom Asselin could tell you, the differences between rural and urban America are plentiful. Lightbody lives in media-centric Brooklyn and works as a creative director, while Asselin resides in northeastern
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Big Spider’s Back
Repetition and pretentiousness are sometimes aligned in music, especially when something not even worth hearing once is repeated continuously. Listeners do not want artists forcing anything on them, especially when it is a frustratingly
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Beach House – Teen Dream (2010)
Merely a few months after I started this site, I deemed an album by Beach House to be “the most atmospherically beautiful debut of the year.” Although slightly rough around the edges, their debut
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Dumas Traces Success
Canada holds notability for its bilingualism and multiculturalism in addition to their thriving music scene, which itself certainly benefits from this rich diversity. Malajube, Karkwa, and Les Cowboys Fringants are a few the best
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Obscure Sound: Best of November 2009
Music and tums are true post-Thanksgiving delights. As the latter appeases our stomachs after binges of food and drink, music soothes us with its accessibility and lack of commercialism. TV and radio become tiresome
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