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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Jim Connelly's
Favorite Recordings Of 2006
Monday, January 15, 2007
Jesse Steichen's Favorite Recordings Of 2006
Friday, January 12, 2007
Bill Bentley's Favorite Recordings Of 2006
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Tom Ridge's Favorite Recordings Of 2006
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Lee Templeton's Favorite Recordings Of 2006
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Anthony Carew's 13 Fave Albums Of 2006
Monday, March 27, 2006
SXSW 2006: Finding Some Hope In Austin
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Letter From New Orleans
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Jennifer Przybylski's Fave Albums of 2005
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Music For Dwindling Days: Max Schaefer's Fave Recordings Of 2005
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Sean Fennessey's 'Best-Of' 2005
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Lori Miller Barrett's Fave Albums Of 2005
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Lee Templeton's Favorite Recordings of 2005
Thursday, January 5, 2006
Michael Lach - Old Soul Songs For A New World Order
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Found In Translation — Emme Stone's Year In Music 2005
Tuesday, January 3, 2006
Dave Allen's 'Best-Of' 2005
Monday, January 2, 2006
Steve Gozdecki's Favorite Albums Of 2005
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Johnny Walker Black's Top 10 Of 2005
Monday, December 19, 2005
Neal Block's Favorite Recordings Of 2005
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Jenny Tatone's Year In Review
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Dave Renard's Fave Recordings Of 2005
Monday, December 12, 2005
Jennifer Kelly's Fave Recordings Of 2005
Thursday, December 8, 2005
Tom Ridge's Favorite Recordings Of 2005
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Ben Gook's Beloved Albums Of 2005
Monday, December 5, 2005
Anthony Carew's Fave Albums Of 2005
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Prince, Spoon And The Magic Of The Dead Stop
Monday, September 12, 2005
The Truth About America
Monday, September 5, 2005
Tryin' To Wash Us Away
Monday, August 1, 2005
A Psyche-Folk Heat Wave In Western Massachusetts
Monday, July 18, 2005
Soggy But Happy At Glastonbury 2005
Monday, April 4, 2005
The SXSW Experience, Part 3: All Together Now
Friday, April 1, 2005
The SXSW Experience, Part 2: Dr. Dog's Happy Chords
Thursday, March 31, 2005
The SXSW Experience, Part 1: Waiting, Waiting And More Waiting
Friday, March 25, 2005
Final Day At SXSW's Charnel House
Monday, March 21, 2005
Day Three At SXSW
Saturday, March 19, 2005
Day Two In SXSW's Hall Of Mirrors
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Report #1: SXSW 2005 And Its Hall Of Mirrors
Monday, February 14, 2005
Matt Landry's Fave Recordings Of 2004
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
David Howie's 'Moments' From The Year 2004
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Lori Miller Barrett's Fave Recordings Of 2004
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Noah Bonaparte's Fave Recordings Of 2004
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Kevin John's Fave Albums Of 2004
Friday, January 14, 2005
Music For Those Nights: Max Schaefer's Fave Recordings Of 2004
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Dave Renard's Fave Recordings Of 2004
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Neal Block's Top Ten Of 2004
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Jenny Tatone's Fave Albums Of 2004
Monday, January 10, 2005
Wayne Robins' Top Ten Of 2004
Friday, January 7, 2005
Brian Orloff's Fave Albums Of 2004
Thursday, January 6, 2005
Johnny Walker (Black)'s Top 10 Of 2004
Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Jennifer Przybylski's Fave Albums (And Book) Of 2004
Tuesday, January 4, 2005
Mark Mordue's Fave Albums Of 2004
Monday, January 3, 2005
Lee Templeton's Fave Recordings Of 2004
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Thursday, Dec. 19, 2002
Neal Block's Favorite Recordings Of 2002
Neumu's Michael Goldberg writes: For the next few weeks we will be featuring a "best albums of 2002" list each weekday (with the exception of Christmas and New Year's) in the "Daily Report" area of Neumu. We'll be running lists until we run out of them. Today we offer up Neumu contributing editor Neal Block's fave recordings of 2002.
1. The Mountain Goats, All Hail West Texas (Emperor Jones): A continuation of John Darnielle's ongoing, bafflingly knowing dissection of human emotions. There's a humbling omniscience to his lyrics, tempered with real warmth — songs like "Riches and Wonders" and "Source Decay" are so full of life that listening to them is like stepping into your own imagined biography.
2. Spoon, Kill the Moonlight (Merge): For me, this was the most surprising and ass-kicking album of the year. Surprising because even though everyone knows Spoon's releases get better and better every time, who could expect something like this — an album that manages to be spare and bursting-at-the-seams simultaneously. Ass-kicking because Britt Daniel proves you don't have to have big (or any) guitars to make really balls-out rock.
3. Guided by Voices, Universal Truths and Cycles (Matador): Speaking of balls-out rock, Bob Pollard's balls have never been more out in his life. In a rousing, carousing collage of old and new GBV styles, Pollard shows that all those high-kicks and all that beer only make his songs better.
4) The Notwist, Neon Golden (Virgin): Dropping the jazziness of their previous album, Shrink, for carefully integrated electronics, the German band creates a campfire of an album: it crackles, warms, and hypnotizes.
5. Okkervil River , Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See (Jagjaguwar): Texas by way of New Hampshire melancholia — lush, literate, and devastating.
6. Bright Eyes, Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (Saddle Creek): Desperation, loneliness and agony never sounded so lovingly performed. A mature expansion and extrapolation of themes fundamental to Conor Oberst's oeuvre, Lifted... rocks and swoons, waltzes and floats, and confirms the young songwriter's effortless skill in making tragic, hopeful music.
7. Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch): Not the greatest album ever made, but certainly the greatest album Wilco's ever made.
8. The Mountain Goats, Tallahassee (4AD): John Darnielle's '02 output is worthy of a double mention. He goes hi-fi for this concept album, in which he moves his famed "alpha couple" into their own house in Florida. Darnielle's songs, which are so often about traveling, face the challenge in this album of confronting stifling, violent stagnation.
9. Doug Martsch, Now You Know (Warner Bros.): One of this era's great guitar heroes takes a break from his full-time gig to record an album of Southern bedroom blues, and retains the warmth and mysterious melodicism of Built to Spill's best work. Glowing, calming, and impressive.
10. Sleater-Kinney, One Beat (Kill Rock Stars): Carrie, Corin and Janet refine and refine, making this batch of songs their leanest and most vicious yet. The addition of subtle horns and keyboards keeps things fresh and mobile.
11. Interpol, Turn on the Bright Lights (Matador): Matador made two good decisions this year: re-signing Guided by Voices, and releasing this album of excellent, lonely, loud, danceable, catchy, direct, confrontational rock songs.
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