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December 31, 2021

Music Favorites from 2021

By James

Below is a YouTube playlist of some of my favorite (mostly new) music from 2021. Two albums were re-released for their 10th anniversary this year. I couldn’t always find a video for the new release, but this is pretty close.

Faves from 2021
Rider To The SeaAnna Calvi
Yesterday Will ComeCaleb Landry Jones
Family Swan (Mecca Normal)Califone
VanishingCircuit des Yeux
Le CommencementColin Stetson
Magic Bullets For DraculaFair Mothers
BadibabaGoat Girl
Fire at Static ValleyGodspeed You! Black Emperor
ShineHiss Golden Messenger
Peace SignsIDLES
Hey NowLondon Grammar
Days Like TheseLow
Make Worry For MeMatt Sweeney & Bonnie “Prince” Billy
EnemyMidwife
Don’t You Blanket When That HappensMike Adams At His Honest Weight
The Destruction Of The Kola Superdeep Borehole TowerThe Mountain Goats
In AgainPalberta
A Tip to Trick the TideR. Ring/Quailbones
Follow Me AroundRadiohead
I Hope I Never Fall in LoveThe Reds, Pinks & Purples
Once Upon A FreakRingo Deathstarr
BonesRosali
Lasting FriendSamia
Peace SignsSharon Van Etten
ValentineSnail Mail
Will To PowerSpringtime
Pay Your Way In PainSt. Vincent
ProjectingSteve Burns and the Struggle
The Last ExitStill Corners
Chaise LongueWet Leg
Executionerwych elm

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December 18, 2017

Music Favorites from 2017

By James

Out of order list of some of my favorite music releases this year. Not that you asked.

Marvin Pontiac, The Asylum Tapes

Mount Eerie, A Crow Looked At Me

The National, Sleep Well Beast

The Magnetic Fields, 50 Song Memoir

Game Theory, Supercalifragile

Godspeed You! Black Emporer, Luciferian Towers

Planetarium

St. Vincent, MASSEDUCTION

Father John Misty, Pure Comedy

Robyn Hitchcock, Robyn Hitchcock

Sufjan Stevens, Tonya Harding

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December 6, 2016

Time Signatures

By James

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December 31, 2015

Music Favorites from 2015

By James

Below is my unscientific picks for some of my favorite music releases from 2015 (in alphabetical order).

  • Advance Base Nephew in the Wild, song pick: Christmas in Milwaukee

  • Supermoon Oh Supermoon, Vol. 1, song pick: Sarah

  • Alabama Shakes Sound & Color, song pick: Dunes

  • Moses Sumney Mid-City Island, song pick: Everlasting Sigh

  • Boots Aquaria, song pick: I Run Roulette

  • Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear, song pick: The Ideal Husband

  • Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, song pick: An Illustration Of Loneliness (Sleepless In NY)

  • EL VY Return to the Moon, song pick: I’m The Man To Be

  • The Minus 5 Dungeon Gold’s, song pick: My Generation

  • Pfarmers Gunnera, song pick: The Ol’ River Gang

  • Laurie Anderson Heart of a Dog, song pick: The Release of Love

  • Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell, song pick: Should Have Known Better

  • John Grant Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, song pick: Snug Slacks

  • Daniel Bachman River, song pick: Song For The Setting Sun II

  • The Mountain Goats Beat The Champ, song pick: Southwestern Territory

  • Taylor Batton Taylor Batton, song pick: Until Summer

  • Father John Misty 1989, song pick: Welcome to New York

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December 23, 2015

Don Wenow

By James

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In the Christmas spirit with this old cartoon from 2007.

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December 21, 2013

My Favorite Releases from 2013

By James

10. Simon Joyner – Ghosts

9. Yo La Tengo – Fade

8. Willis Earl Beal – Nobody Knows

7. David Bowie – The Next Day

6. Califone – Stitches

5. Shearwater – Fellow Travelers

4. Bill Callahan – Dream River

3. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away

2. The National – Trouble Will Find Me

1. Low – The Invisible Way

Other of note: Richard Buckner – Surrounded, Kanye West – Yeezus, Phosphorescent – Muchacho, Neko Case – The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight…, The Knife – Shaking the Habitual, Savages – Silence Yourself, Hiss Golden Messenger – Haw, Volcano Choir – Repave, Iron & Wine – Ghost on Ghost, Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light, Retribution Gospel Choir – 3, Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold, Robyn Hitchcock – Love From London, Chelsea Light Moving – Chelsea Light Moving

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December 4, 2013

Why Kristen Schaal should be in all music videos

By James

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August 20, 2013

Raisin Reunion

By James

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May 17, 2013

Homonyms

By James

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Plus a bonus video in case this earwig is not yet stuck in your head.

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January 11, 2013

My Favorite Albums of 2012

By James

I know the second a commit to write a list I immediately want to change it but sometimes you just have to let these things go.

I’ve included a video from one of the songs from each release because… that’s what we do now. A picture of the album cover just isn’t enough, is it?

(Hmmm. Maybe not so coincidentally, I saw all of these artists perform live during 2012.)

10. Willis Earl Beal – Acousmatic Sorcery

9. Damien Jurado – Maraqopa

8. The Mountain Goats – Transcendental Youth

7. David Byrne & St. Vincent – Love This Giant

6. The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know

5. Shearwater – Animal Joy

4. Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls

3. Menomena – Moms

2. Father John Misty – Fear Fun

1. Sharon Van Etten – Tramp

(This last video is somewhat NSFW.)

Max: Oh, yes, I’m a big music lover. Would you believe that I once listened to three weeks of Beethoven? Would you believe it? Three weeks!
Villain: I find that quite hard to believe.
Max: Would you believe (thinks a while) two weeks of Bach?
Villain: I don’t think so.
Max: Would you believe… one hour of Looney Tunes?

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