For some reason I find this kind of crap interesting. It’s curious to see The Beatles & Michael Jackson in there with absolutely terrible crap like Lady Antebellum and Glee Cast. Check it out: 1. Taylor Swift – 4,470,000 albums sold. 2. Eminem – 4,317,000 3. Lady Antebellum – 3,848,000 4. Justin Bieber – 3,728,000 [...]

While CD sales continue to drop every year, vinyl sales are actually climbing (up 14% from 2009.) Here are the top 10 selling vinyl albums in 2010 (with the total sold in parenthesis.) 1. The Beatles: Abbey Road (35,000) 2. Arcade Fire: The Suburbs (18,800) 3. The Black Keys: Brothers (18,400) 4. Vampire Weekend: Contra [...]

My first annual top 10 albums list. I’m planning on this being a Christmas Eve tradition for Music By Day. While this blog has been around since early 2007 I’ve never done the whole “top ten albums” end of the year thing until this year because I find it very hard to rank albums. I [...]

I love reddit. It’s a great place to very quickly find the latest news and coolest links on the internet. There’s usually a lot of interesting intelligent (and/or humorous) discussion taking place in the comments too. There are a number of “subreddits” that focus on specific topics including /r/Music. This year there was a vote [...]

I’m listening to Brian Eno’s latest album (Small Craft on a Milk Sea) for the first time today and I must say it’s really blowing me away. I was expecting the whole thing to be a lot like the first track (the very gentle “Emerald and Lime”) but actually it’s filled with aggressive face melting [...]

These are the albums I’m considering for my year end top ten list: Broken Bells – Broken Bells Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today MGMT – Congratulations LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening Vampire Weekend – Contra Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz Beach House – Teen Dream Yeasayer – Odd Blood Caribou [...]

There’s only a month left in 2010, the first year of the new decade, so soon we’ll be seeing top albums of the year lists popping up. What follows is a list of critically acclaimed albums from this year (skipping those that are clearly not going to be interesting to me.) The idea is to [...]

I’m putting this in the “Album Reviews” category but really, this is more like early impressions type thing than a proper review. I’m only on my second listen. For those with short attention spans who are likely to be put off by my rambling, let me first get to the point: I strongly recommend giving [...]

The 20 piece chamber orchestra group Alarm Will Sound performing “Revolution #9″ by The Beatles as arranged by Matt Marks: It’s really incredible to me that they managed to recreate a recording as insane as “Revolution #9″ (which is mostly tape loops) in a live setting with real instruments and voices. Amazing. I imagine that [...]

Check out this spirited performance by Cee Lo Green (of Gnarls Barkley) of his single “Fuck You” on the British program Later with Jools Holland: This song is off his upcoming solo album Lady Killer (due out on November 9th.)