With 2010 set to wrap up and the holidays upon us, you probably want to know my favorite albums so you can give them out for gifts, right? Of course you do, which is why these are my 10 picks from this year with a few honorable mentions.
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs: A look at suburban life or a call to arms for the middle class. This album lived up to all the waiting we endured.
Band of Horses – Infinite Arms: Three is a charm for Benjamin Bridwell. The surprising hit ‘Laredo’ was the cusp of what this album
Archive for Retail Music
Record Store Day, April 17, 2010
For the third year in a row, Record Store Day, will be celebrated this coming weekend. Wait! You’re going to ask: what is a record store? This is the part where I die a little on the inside. With the world shoulder deep in the digital age, some see it archaic to have to leave their home, get in a car, drive, park, enter a store and begin looking through racks for an album they need to own. Who wants to do that? ME! That’s who.
Record Store Day is the celebration of neurotic folks, like myself, that still believe
Record Store Day is the celebration of neurotic folks, like myself, that still believe
YourMusic.com
To be honest, it seems like purchasing CDs, real, tangible CDs, is a dying trend. People like iTunes (well, I don't). They're satisfied with hearing a song once or twice on Youtube, and not actually getting the hard copies of the music they like.
"Hey, wait! Weren't you the one who wrote an article on Grooveshark, an online tool for listening to music, just a couple weeks ago?"
Guilty as charged. I often hesitate to buy CDs, especially when I'm just exploring new artists, because I don't know if I'll ever want to listen to the music again after
"Hey, wait! Weren't you the one who wrote an article on Grooveshark, an online tool for listening to music, just a couple weeks ago?"
Guilty as charged. I often hesitate to buy CDs, especially when I'm just exploring new artists, because I don't know if I'll ever want to listen to the music again after
Boxes and Boxes
There comes a point in the career of most musicians where someone will compile an unbelievable amount of stuff in a box and market it to the salivating masses for some outrageous price. And we, like idiots, will go and drop the money for material that has never been commercially available before, so we can show it off to other people.
This past week Columbia Records released a massive Miles Davis retrospective box set. It includes all 52 of the albums he recorded for Columbia on 70 CDs, the CDs are even designed to look like miniature vinyls, along with a
This past week Columbia Records released a massive Miles Davis retrospective box set. It includes all 52 of the albums he recorded for Columbia on 70 CDs, the CDs are even designed to look like miniature vinyls, along with a
DVD Review: Kings of Leon, Live at the O2, London, England
“Why not London?” asked Caleb Followill to the sold out crowd during the June 30th show this past summer, and why not London? Considering England embraced these bearded Southern gents when their first album came out this is a thank you to the people that propelled them into the status they are in now. Nothing says thanks like filming a live DVD in front one of the biggest crowds they ever played, if you don’t count the Glastonbury Festival from the previous summer.
I saw the boys back in 2007 at the Orpheum in Boston, and not much has changed since
I saw the boys back in 2007 at the Orpheum in Boston, and not much has changed since
