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 [...]

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 [...]

The new Billboard album charts are out today and I find the sales numbers for MGMT’s new album, Congratulations, interesting enough to pass along: 66,000 copies sold in the first week which is good enough to debut at the #2 spot (behind Justin Bieber at #1.) The Billboard story also mentioned that MGMT’s first album, [...]

I’m looking over some of the upcoming album releases scheduled to be released through May and I decided I’d like to share those that I’m interested in buying (in hopes that you may be interested as well, eh?) Click on the album name to pre-order it on Amazon. These are new albums by bands who [...]

In my last post (which was a full week ago because I’m very lazy lately) I wrote about MGMT’s new album (Congratulations) being available to stream on NPR. In this post I’m sharing with you the news that MGMT has a rather insane video for the song “Flash Delirium” available to be viewed on WhoIsMGMT.com [...]

MGMT have made their second album, Congratulations, available to stream on NPR: Click Here to listen. As you will be able to read when you click through to NPR, MGMT says that this album will have no singles and they won’t promote any particular song to radio stations. Instead they want radio stations and other [...]

Some of the bands listed here released their debut album in 2009 so it’s no surprise that I’ve only recently “discovered” their music. On the other hand, some of them have been around for good long while and I’ve only recently gave them a good listen. What’s the point of this list? The idea is [...]

Many people associate the adjective “psychedelic” only with a certain style of music from the 1960s. While I happen to love that certain style of music, I think it’s a mistake to have such a narrow definition. To me psychedelic music is any music that “trips me out.” Usually that means the music has unusual [...]

Last.FM is one of my favorite websites. It tracks the listening habits of millions of music obsessed people all over the world (you can have your listening habits tracked by becoming a member – it’s free.) They’ve just put out their list of the 10 best albums of 2008 which is based on which albums [...]