Selling some rare and/or out-of-print stuff on eBay! When spare time and I reacquaint ourselves, hopefully in the next forty-eight hours, I'll add more - like the Conor Oberst/Bill Hoover split, some more Bright Eyes and pre-Bright Eyes, Mountain Goats and probably some records I've completely forgotten about. Oh, and five billion Saddle Creek ( Read more... )

favorite albums of 2004
01 yann tiersen & shannon wright - s/t (ici d'ailleurs)
02 destroyer - your blues (merge)
03 now it's overhead - fall back open (saddle creek)
04 minus story - the captain is dead, let the drum corpse dance (jagjaguwar)
05 shearwater - winged life (misra)
06 ted leo/pharmacists - shake the sheets (lookout!)
07 brian wilson - ( Read more... )

If you only ever download one song I link, please, please let it be this.

spinART Records will celebrate the stateside release of Augie March's second album, Strange Bird, on September 14th. "Song in the Key of Chance" happens to be track six, and is about as representative of their sound as is possible for a single song, which is to say not ( Read more... )

Music released this year was consistently good without being great, but a few albums did knock me on my ass:

1. the Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
   
2. Stars - Heart
   
3. the Tokey Tones - Caterpillar & Butterfly
   
4. Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
   
5. Rachel's - Systems/Layers
   
6. Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
   
7. Nina Nastasia - Run to Ruin
   
8. the Lucksmiths - Naturaliste
   
9. Head of ( Read more... )

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