Last night Arcade Fire won the Grammy for best album of the year. This post isn’t so much about their win but the reaction to it by mainstream America. First off I should say I am personally I am not a huge fan of Arcade Fire (you can see my personal top 10 albums of [...]

Take a look back: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, & 1990s. Now it’s time to finish this up: The top ten pop/rock albums of the 2000s according to the users of RateYourMusic.com: #01 – Radiohead – Kid A (#1213 on Amazon’s Bestselling List) #02 – Arcade Fire – Funeral (#575) #03 – Godspeed You! Black Emperor – [...]

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 [...]

Arcade Fire’s third album, The Suburbs, has debuted at #1 in both the US and UK. I think this means that “indie rock” is now officially mainstream, or something like that. I’m actually not much of a fan of Arcade Fire. I find their approach to be a bit over-dramatic. They remind me of my [...]

Instead of looking back at 2009 on New Years Eve, I’m going to look forward to 2010. These are the album releases (whether the release date is set in stone or only rumored) that I’m looking forward to. Radiohead No album name or release date as of yet but it does seem likely that a [...]

A little late, am I? Fuck off, I’ve been busy. Naturally, I do not claim to be the be-all end-all of 2007 music. There’s a myriad of supposedly music I entirely missed, among them albums by The National, Spoon, John Vanderslice, PJ Harvey, The Super Furry Animals, and Times New Viking. “Favorite Albums of…” sounds [...]