Added on January 24, 2014
Lucy
AK/DK , best of 2013 , Crayola Lectern , Gramme , Harleighblu , Lucy Cage , Prefab Sprout , Tirzah & Micachu
I seem to have been tongue-tied for the last half of last year; I couldn’t find the words. So I’ve only just got round to writing about these beauties from 2013, some of the fifty or so tracks I’d collected and had intended to prune into a Best Of… I’m not going to write about […]
Added on January 9, 2014
Wallace Wylie
Arcade Fire , Austra , best of 2013 , Beyonce , Daft Punk , David Bowie , Disclosure , Footwork , haim , Jaco Pastorius , james blake , Janelle Monae , John Grant , Jon Hopkins , Julia Holter , Justin Timberlake , Kanye West , King Krule , Laurel Halo , M.I.A. , Miley Cyrus , Mount Kimbie , Simon Reynolds , The Dukes Of Stratosphear , The Weeknd , Thundercat , Vampire Weekend , Wallace Wylie
The worst thing about end of year polls is that they all come out in early December, which is hilarious because that means nobody got to talk about one of the best albums of the year. The Beyoncé album, called Beyoncé, was released with no fanfare, no reviews, and no warning. It then became one […]
Added on January 3, 2014
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2013 , best of 2013 , Brigette Adair Herron , Carmen Juarez , Chastity Belt , David Bowie , Erika Meyer , Everett True , haim , Hot Fruit , Iceage , Katy Perry , Lana Del Ray , Louis Pattison , Margaret Thatcher , Mof Gimmers , Most Read , My Bloody Valentine , Nirvana , Robin Thicke , Savages , Scott Creney , Stephanie Phillips , Wallace Wylie , Weezer
Time for one final list from 2013 (barring any straggling best-of lists), the all-important most read articles of the year. 1. Secret Memo Regarding Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ Reissue Leaked People not only like to read the same story over and over again, they demand it. Our job is to retell the story, to reinforce the […]
Added on December 31, 2013
Mike Turner
2013 , best of 2013 , Cowtown , Galaxie 500 , Hookworms , Mike Turner , Traams , younger lovers
2013 is finally over and I hope I never have to look back on it past this point. I can say now this has been the most dreadful of all my years knocking me down constantly as I come to terms with a divorce and try to pull myself back up and hope for motivation […]
Added on December 24, 2013
Erika Elizabeth
best of 2013 , Bunny's A Swine , Cold Beat , Erika Elizabeth , Ethical Debating Society , Good Throb , Household , joanna gruesome , Kicking Giant , La Luz , Ruby Pins , Skinny Girl Diet , The Courtneys , Woolen Men , Zebra Hunt
I’m really glad that I took my goddamn time putting together this list, because the mad dash to the finish line that has so many music journalism/criticism outlets cranking out their year-end roundups earlier & earlier in a vain attempt to one-up their peers would more than likely leave this one in the dust.
Added on December 23, 2013
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best of 2013 , Bottomless Pit , Conan Neutron , Federation X , Future Of The Left , Marnie Stern , Nonagon , Obits , Queens Of The Stone Age , Roomrunner , SEMINARS , The Night Marchers , The Rutabega , The Thermals , Thoughts Detecting Machines
It’s just damn good rock’n’roll. Is that the kind of thing you are into? Well, are you?
Added on December 23, 2013
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Benin City , best of 2013 , BODYWORK , Cloud , Council Tax Band , CRAWANDER , Dissolved , Good Throb , Jack Hayter , Laurence Made Me Cry , Lee Adcock , Mark Wynn , Mirror Parties , Odonis Odonis , Tingle In The Netherlands , Tunabunny , Young Hunting
Ohhh, Charlotte. How I adore thee. I hear this and I want to be up on deck with you, scouring the seven seas with your bad pirate self.
Added on December 22, 2013
Scott Creney
Arthur Russell , best of 2013 , Blanche Blanche Blanche , Body/Head , Coco Rosie , Colin Stetson , Deerhunter , Dirty Beaches , Dot Wiggin Band , Filthy Huns , haim , Happy Jawbone Family Band , Holograms , Hookworms , John Grant , Kanye West , karen green , King Krule , Laurel Halo , Lorde , M.I.A. , my dick , Pere Ubu , Rachel Kushner , Run the Jewels , Savages , Sky Ferreira , steve gunn , The Knife , The New Sound Of Numbers , Ty Segall , Willis Earl Beal
Man, what a crazy goddamned year. Not the music, the music was great.
Added on August 6, 2013
Everett True
best of 2013 , Eleanor Friedberger , Everett True , Hookworms , Jenny Hval , R.E.M. , Scarce , Song of the day , The Gruffalo's Child , The Rutabega
Choruses as big as Liverpool.