So this is a wee bit late -- sorry, I've been battling a cold since New Year's Day, bah -- but hopefully still relevant: three "discs" worth of 2008 quality music. This is meant to be a companion list to the Top 10 Top 40 songs piece I penned, a way for people to perhaps discover some new bands and/or revisit overlooked releases from the past year. I'll have .zip files of each compilation up tomorrow, but these will only be up until Friday, so be sure to snag them while you can. Without further
In this week's Homespun, Christian Schaeffer reviews the Upright Animals' Carnivore City. He had this to say:For its latest EP, the Upright Animals decamped to Blackbird Studio in
Nashville, where the disc was recorded and mixed by Vance Powell (who
has worked with the Raconteurs, among others). The professional studio
space and the band's own deft production has yielded a clean, compact
EP that finds the quintet comfortably working within the realm of
modern rock while occasionally tinkering wi
Vintage Vinyl just released its list of best-selling LPs and CDs of 2008. (Physical product? Remember that?) Interesting to see how many local releases -- and how much hip-hop/R&B/rap -- is on the CD list, while how much old (and new) indie rock is on the LP list. Looks like you kids are downloading albums by the new rock bands for free, eh? Top 50 Best-Selling CDs1. Story Of The Year Black Swan
2. Lil Wayne Tha Carter III
3. Ludo You're Awful I Love You
4. Youn
This week, I drove past three prospective bars, and all were far too nice for the likes of me. I was forced to play GPS Bar Roulette, in which I pick the closest bar listed on my
TomTom and go with it. Tom delivered me to Cotter's Sports Lounge.I spend a lot of Monday nights in bars, and never have I found one that felt so much like a weekend: decent-sized crowd, pool games in progress and a blissfully overzealous
bartender.
Ah yes, I hear that Brendan Benson -- the Raconteurs member who has quite a fantastic string of power-pop/'70s rock-leaning solo releases under his name, including this year's My Old Familiar Friend -- will be at Blueberry Hill's Duck Room on Friday, November 13. The show goes on sale this Friday; ticket prices TBA.
