Friday, December 26, 2008
Dust Bin Late Breaking Regrets
Posted by Eric Grandy on Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 7:33 PM
Just back from a few festive days in the dial-up internet backwaters of Oregon, with some new regrets to add to the already considerable piles:
1. If you read the print edition of my column, you no doubt were surprised to see Girl Talk's 2008 album referred to as Girl Talk—in fact, the album is Feed the Animals. We regret the error.
2. In that same column, I parenthetically questioned if the Dead Science counted as local anymore, as I at the time seemed to recall something about them moving to Berlin for a while, but maybe that was only Implied Violence proper and not the Dead Science? We regret the error (?).
3. There was something else I regretted in this issue which I can't quite recall right now...I know it wasn't do to with talking shit about Ghostland Observatory—I mean every bilious word of that, especially, "The sooner this band are shuffled off into the dollar bin of history, the better."
4. Maybe it was not listing Lee Ciszek's (sp?) name along with Same Sex Dictator's band name for their entry in this year's list of regrets? .No, that doesn't seem like the sort of thing I'd really regret. Les Savy Fav was misspelled in this issue? I don't think that was me... Ah well, it'll come to me.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz More Lists! More Lists!
Posted by Jeff Kirby on Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:59 AM
Like Eric and Dave, I too enjoy compiling end of the year lists, but I don't really bother with individual songs and I have a hard time only choosing ten albums. So here are my 20 favorite records of 2008:
01 Mount Eerie — Lost Wisdom
02 Saviours — Into Abaddon
03 Fleet Foxes — Fleet Foxes / Sun Giant
04 Triclops! — Out of Africa
05 Helms Alee — Night Terror
06 Torche — Meanderthal
07 The Mars Volta — The Bedlam in Goliath
08 Trap Them — Seizures in Barren Praise
09 Akimbo — Jersey Shores
10 She and Him — Volume One
11 Dungen — 4
12 These Arms Are Snakes — Tail Swallower and Dove
13 Of Montreal — Skeletal Lamping
14 Why? — Alopecia
15 Young Widows — Old Wounds
16 31 Knots — Worried Well
17 Dianogah — Qhnnnl
18 Earthless — Live at Roadburn
19 Lil Wayne — Tha Carter III
20 Portishead — Third
One regret of 2008: I met poster artist/bassist of Dianogah Jay Ryan at Flatstock this year and he gave me a copy of the band's new record under the pretense that I was going to write about it, which I never did, even though I enjoyed it thoroughly. So I'm sorry Jay, the record is great. Top twenty great.
What I'm looking forward to most in 2009: Phoenix, Daughters, Battles, Kings of Convenience, and M. Ward. I already snatched a copy of the new Andrew Bird that's coming out in January and it's everything I could have hoped for. 2009 is off to a good start and it hasn't even begun.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz Segal's Top Albums & Songs of 2008 (For Now, At Least)
Posted by Dave Segal on Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:22 AM
(SPOILER ALERT!) Here’s my ballot for the Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop poll.
ALBUMS
01 Boredoms- Super Roots 9 (Thrill Jockey)
02 The Present- World I See (LOAF)
03 The Mole- As High As The Sky (Wagon Repair)
04 Bird Show- Untitled (Kranky)
05 Valet- Naked Acid (Kranky)
06 Tobacco- Fucked Up Friends (anticon.)
07 Brightblack Morning Light- Motion To Rejoin (Matador)
08 Benga- Diary Of An Afro Warrior (Tempa)
09 NOMO- Ghost Rock (Ubiquity)
10 Bruno Pronsato- Why Can't We Be Like Us (Hello?Repeat)
SINGLES (i.e., songs)
01 Juana Molina- Un Día (Domino)
02 The Mole- Knock Twice (Wagon Repair)
03 Rod Modell- Temple (Plop)
04 Skeletons- Money (Tomlab)
05 Gang Gang Dance- Inners Pace (The Social Registry)
06 Dominique Leone- The Return (Strømland)
07 Matmos- Supreme Balloon (Matador)
08 Earth- Omens And Portents 1: The Driver (Southern Lord)
09 The Cool Kids- What Up Man (Chocolate Industries)
10 Grails- Reincarnation Blues (Temporary Residence)
I showed you mine; now show me yours.
Below are a couple of tracks from the above lists that brightened/heightened my 2008.
Tobacco’s “Berries That Burn”
Grails’ “Reincarnation Blues” (live at the Knitting Factory)
Tonight Tonight in Music: Tech Itch
Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 9:00 AM
Tech Itch - "Pressure Drop"
Tech Itch, KJ Sawka, Nitsuj, Kid Hops, Rob Noble vs. Dowlz, Dirty vs. Lukki, Sonic MC
(Ground Zero) Seattle's drum 'n' bass community receives a smashing Xmas present a day late with this killer lineup. L.A.-based London vet Tech Itch delivers seven shades of darkness with his foreboding, walloping, and rhythmically complex productions. His recent stabs at dubstep that I've heard are chilling and hard as fuck. Gird your loins and other delicate bits. Of course you already know about KJ Sawka, the city's drumming freak of nature, who replicates what high technology does, in real time, without the need for a power strip. DAVE SEGAL
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