In the same vein as my last post on the most popular ’60s bands/artists on Last.FM this one is on the 10 most listened to bands/artists on Last.FM that have never achieved a lot of mainstream success. There are a lot of ways to define “a lot of mainstream success” so I have to set [...]

From time to time I like to check out the Billboard album charts to see what kind of music people are buying in mass quantities these days. This is one of those times. I’m mostly pretty detached from the “pop” world (most of my favorite new music doesn’t sell huge quantities) so this is my [...]

This Pheonix performance on NPR went up on May 18th, but I just came across it today and I wanted to share it with our readers here. It’s a four song (“Lisztomania,” “Armistice,” “1901,” for their debut album and Air’s “Playground Love” from the Virgin Suicides soundtrack) acoustic set that lasts 12 minutes. The really [...]

Today The Hype Machine revealed the top ten artists & albums of 2009. The artists were ranked by how frequently the music blogs on this list posted their songs and the albums were ranked by compiling 550 blogger top ten lists. It makes me feel quite removed from the “zeitgeist” of new music when I [...]

A top 150 albums of 2009 list has been voted on (and then compiled) at what I believe is the biggest Radiohead fan forum on the internet. As a big Radiohead fan (and a member of that forum, although I didn’t take part in this vote as I’m not much of a regular because the [...]

Continuing on with my RateYourMusic.com theme (I do love that website) I’m going to use their rankings as the basis for this ranking of the top 10 albums of ’09 thus far. I am going to add in some filters to get rid of some of the junk that tends gets in the way on [...]