Line Out | Seattle Music & the City at Night Blog | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper

Lists 10 Jazz Albums for Jazz Ignoramuses

Posted by Dave Segal on Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:03 AM

Blogger Sean J. O’Connell (who used to freelance for me when I was music editor at OC Weekly) has compiled a useful primer for jazz neophytes to get a quick grounding in the genre. O’Connell is a jazz keyboardist himself and a learned scholar of the music, too.

While it’s impossible to do jazz thorough justice in a mere 10 titles, O’Connell adequately introduces noobs to some crucial, not always obvious, works. Of course, everyone will point out glaring omissions, but the piece offers provocative stimuli for rigorous debate. (No Alice Coltrane, Don Cherry, or Mahavishnu Orchestra?!?! Blah blah blah yadda yadda etc.)

Mr. O'Connell's 10 steps to jazz literacy are: Sarah Vaughan’s Live at Mr. Kelly’s, Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers’ Free for All, Ray Bryant’s Alone With the Blues, Ambrose Akinmusire’s When the Heart Emerges Glistening, Jaco Pastorius’ Jaco Pastorius, Duke Ellington/Charles Mingus/Max Roach's Money Jungle, Miles Davis’ A Tribute to Jack Johnson, Thelonious Monk/John Coltrane’s Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane, Wes Montgomery w/ Wynton Kelly Trio’s Smokin' at the Half Note, Dizzy Gillespie’s At Newport.

Read the whole thing at LA Weekly’s blog.

Link | Comments (0)

FacebookShare

Lists / Media Paste Magazine's Top-20 Music Writer Musicians List

Posted by Dave Segal on Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:23 PM

Paste has posted a list of what it perceives to be 20 of the most important music writers who are also musicians. The Stranger’s Brian Cook (Russian Circles) and ex-Stranger writer Zac Pennington (Parenthetical Girls) made the list, but, sadly, Trent Moorman (every hiphop group in Seattle) and Larry Mizell Jr. (Don’t Talk to the Cops!) did not. But the latter two are in good company, as David Toop (Ocean of Sound author and excellent experimental composer) didn’t merit inclusion, either.

Peruse the whole list here.

Link | Comments (3)

FacebookShare

Lists Questlove on Why Prince Is Hiphop

Posted by Dave Segal on Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 4:09 PM

In the new issue of Wax Poetics (#50, all redesigned and stuff), the Roots’ drummer Questlove has 33 reasons why Prince should be considered a hiphop artist. Not all of his arguments are convincing, but they’re never dull, and you have to admire Questo’s obsessive Prince Rogers Nelson scholarship/knowledge. Here's a passage about Prince's sole credentials:

Unusual footwear is the most definitive rebel statement one can make in hip-hop. Some take the strings out, some rock mismatched, and with a better budget, some can rock just about anything. But it takes a true man to rock heels with confidence. Hip-hop can posture all it wants, but to get yo chick stolen from a dude looking like him is a hurt piece.

Read the whole thing here (WaxPo almost never makes its content available online, so enjoy it while it lasts.)

Link | Comments (0)

FacebookShare

Lists / Shit Talk / History Bah Humbucker: The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time*

Posted by Dave Segal on Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:45 AM

*As not recognized by Rolling Stone.

This is somewhat old news, but I just recently came across the Dec. 8, 2011 Rolling Stone in The Stranger’s editorial bathroom (the place where mainstream publications go to die inglorious deaths). This issue contains a list of what that venerable magazine thinks are the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. As a repository for conventional wisdom, the list is archetypal Jann Wennerite orthodoxy.

The top 10 might as well be carved into Mount Rushmore, so sure are the mag’s contributors to the list—dozens of guitarists, band managers, and RS writers, most of whom are older than you—that this is THEE TRUTH, a truth set in (Rolling) stone since, oh, 1979. Those 10? Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Jeff Beck, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Eddie Van Halen, Duane Allman, Pete Townshend. Yes, yes, these guys all rule in some way, but this litany is about as surprising as finding out a strident homophobe is a closet case. Next thing Rolling Stone is going to tell us (again) is that Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the greatest album of all time. Roll over, Ben Fong-Torres, and tell Greil Marcus the news.

The overall thrust of this top 100 is conservative, with blues and blues-based rock guitarists from the US and UK dominating things. (Tangential thought: Was Ted Nugent excluded because of his ultra-right-wing political views? I’m thinking yes.) Of course, most of these musicians are indisputably crucial, but the panel’s experts totally short-change prog, jazz, and fusion’s six-string stars. I appreciate appearances by Frank Zappa (#22), Robert Fripp (#62), and John McLaughlin (#68), but there are a plethora of guitarists in those realms who also deserve recognition.

While about 67 percent of the musicians included in this survey surely are important and worthy, some crucial innovators and distinctive masters were left out. Some of the omissions are downright shocking. Of course, all such lists are subjective, but an established musical source such as RS carries a lot of weight, flaws and all. I would like to take this opportunity to counter its received opinions with an alternate viewpoint.

In response to Rolling Stone’s canonization exercise, my sonic soul mate Explorateur and I brainstormed our own top 100 (and then some). The boldfaced names are those who we think really got shafted. Surely we forgot some key players, and surely you’ll tell us about your picks in comments, but this is our attempt to present a list that can stand headstock to headstock with ol’ Rolling Stone’s. (Note: The order’s kind of random after #30.] Deep breath…

01 Kevin Shields [My Bloody Valentine]
02 Sonny Sharrock
03 Helios Creed [Chrome]
04 Dennis Coffey
05 Pete Cosey [Miles Davis, Cadet Records session player]
06 Manuel Göttsching [Ash Ra Tempel]
07 Michael Rother [Neu!, Harmonia]
08 Phil Manzanera [Roxy Music, 801]
09 Jimmy Nolen [James Brown]
10 Andy Gill [Gang of Four]
11 Michael Karoli [Can]
12 Larry Coryell
13 Sigi Schwab [Et Cetera]
14 Terje Rypdal
15 Sir Richard Bishop [Sun City Girls, Rangda]
16 Phil Upchurch [Cadet Records session player]
17 Yamamoto Seiichi [Boredoms]
18 Campbell 2000 [aka Ryan Shinn, Hovercraft]
19 Brad Laner [Medicine]
20 Curt Kirkwood [Meat Puppets]

Pete Cosey with Miles Davis

Link | Comments (22)

FacebookShare

Lists / Love Sid Still Loves Nancy

Posted by Kelly O on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:54 PM

Jezebel unearths a love note?

What Makes Nancy So Great By Sidney
1 Beautiful
2 Sexy
3 Beautiful figure
4 Great sense of humour
5 Makes extremely interesting conversation
6 Witty
7 Has beautiful eyes
8 Has fab taste in clothes
9 Has the most beautiful wet pussy in the world
10 Even has sexy feet
11 Is extremely smart
12 A great Hustler

I'll personally never stop loving their fucked up love story. Never...

Link | Comments (6)

FacebookShare

Lists / History I Consider It a Concrete Sign of Progress...

Posted by David Schmader on Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:41 AM

...that this year's Pazz & Jop Music Poll is dominated by women—and WITHOUT anyone getting all "it's the year of the woman!" about it.

#1 Album: tUnE-yArDs, w h o k i l l
#2 Album: PJ Harvey, Let England Shake

#1 Single: Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"
#2 Single: Beyonce, "Countdown
#3 Single: Nicki Minaj, "Super Bass"

(Bonus: #4 Album is Wild Flag, #6 album is Adele's 21.)

Congratulations, humanity! (Especially all who voted for w h o k i l l—for that record to top this poll gives me faith in the future.)

Link | Comments (0)

FacebookShare

Lists / Zzzzzzzzzzzzz Read It and Sleep: Segal's Pazzzzz & Jop Ballot

Posted by Dave Segal on Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:40 AM

The results of Pazz & Jop, the Village Voice’s annual music critics poll, hit the WWW this morning, and .007 percent of the world’s abuzz over the outcome. Josh Bis broke the news earlier, and in this space I’d like to elaborate just a tiny bit about my ballot. 2011 was the year I contributed a minuscule speck of gray matter to the music-journo hive mind with my inclusion of Shabazz Palaces’ Black Up, which placed #10 in the album poll. I am a shameless sellout. But I don’t feel bad about it, because Black Up is a once-in-a-lifetime explosion of hiphop genius that deserves every iota of hype it’s garnering.

My next flirtation with being in lockstep with my colleagues occurs at #74, with Demdike Stare’s Tryptych, an epic, hauntological electronic masterpiece making a surprisingly high appearance. I am a shameless sellout. It was also fulfilling to see such near-misses from my list as Danny Brown’s XXX (#28), Oneohtrix Point Never’s Replica (#35), Clams Casino’s Instrumental Mixtape (#61), and Peaking Lights’ 936 (#106) come in at fairly lofty positions.

Surprisingly low on the scale were such worthies as Ty Segall (#100), Thee Oh Sees (#103), the Field (#111), Rustie (#113), Battles (#122), and the Dirtbombs (#170). (If you’re into schadenfreude, the Head and the Heart’s self-titled album limped in at #172. Even my beloved weirdos Psychic Paramount (#132) and Andy Stott (#157) ranked higher. Booya! If you’re into WTFs?, Sun Araw’s monumental Ancient Romans checked in at #276. Outrageous!)

As for the “Singles” chart, my top one was #68, Burial’s “Street Halo.” I am a shameless sellout. Other than that, though, my top songs of 2011 didn’t share much overlap with other music scribes’. Shabazz’s “Swerve” only reached #226, and shit gets really long-tail-y with this chart, as any song qualifies as a single in VV’s game. Most of my babies tied for last with one vote each at #604. Boo hoo.

Scanning the top 20 albums, I see a handful that I wouldn’t kick out of bed (the Roots, EMA, Kurt Vile, PJ Harvey, St. Vincent, Shabazz, of course), but most of the entries leave me apathetic. However, looking at the P&J top 20 singles, I feel as estranged from the mindset of my peers as I’ve ever felt. (Are we even the same species?) Still, ultimately, I am a shameless sellout. (Please read my motherfuckin' ballot, kthxbye.)

Link | Comments (3)

FacebookShare

Lists / Zzzzzzzzzzzzz tUnE-yArDs: Critic's Queen of 2k11

Posted by Josh Bis on Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:47 AM

Josh Bis
tUnE-yArDs

Bon Iver may have won over the Pitchfork hivemind, but Merrill Garbus's tUnE-yArDs was just crowned queen of the Village Voice's massive annual Pazz & Jop survey. Garnering 1645 points from 135 votes from the 700 music types who turned in their homework on time, w h o k i l l topped the albums chart a few points and 165 points ahead of PJ Harvey's Let England Shake. Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch the Throme, Wild Flag's self titled debut, and Tom Waits's Bad as Me rounded out the top five (of 1734 individual records receiving at least one mention).

Meanwhile, Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" came out on top of the singles ballot, just ahead of Beyoncé's "Countdown", Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass", M83's "Midnight City", Jay-Z & Kanye West's "Niggas in Paris", and six hundred other songs from 2011. Dig into all the results (all of that data is available, just begging for all sorts of deeply geeky statistical interpretations), peek into individual critical affections (including the mystery reveal of the other half of Dave Segal's ballot and my own curious definitions of what counts as a single), and deep thoughts about what it all means at Pazz & Jop.

update: so much data wrangling at needlebase.

Link | Comments (5)

FacebookShare

Life / Lists / Teh Internets "Most Played" Lists

Posted by Anna Minard on Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:47 PM

The Awl has collected from "43 music writers, editors, critics and assorted Awl music lovers... the most played songs in their digital-music libraries, as counted on iTunes or Spotify accounts." For example:

Amanda Dobbins, New York Magazine
“Rolling in the Deep” by Adele, 1748 plays

Caryn Ganz, Spin
"’Till the World Ends" by Britney Spears, 58 plays

Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker
“Katy On A Mission” by Katy B/“Tangerine” by Led Zeppelin, play count n/a

That "n/a" is a cop out, SFJ! And sorry to hear about your breakup, Amanda (there can be no other reason to listen to a single Adele song 1,748 times, right?).

I wish I had one to share, but I don't have my home computer here to check. I only remember one time years ago, when a coworker borrowed my computer and discovered while browsing my iTunes that Kelis's "Milkshake" was my most played song. I didn't even know the thing was keeping track. Dang you, technology!

Link | Comments (3)

FacebookShare

Lists / Love 12 Local Bands I'm Excited for in 2012: Boom City

Posted by Megan Seling on Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:40 AM

reverbnation.com

Over the next 12 days, I'm going to highlight 12 local bands I like a whole lot and I hope will have a great 2012. In no particular order, really. And just because. Here's #1!

Boom City
If you aren’t opposed to the term “Supergroup,” it would totally apply to newish Seattle band Boom City. There’s Eric Howk of the Lashes, Cristina Bautista of Visqueen and Paxil Rose (and her own impressive solo project), Burke Thomas of Vendetta Red, Pris, and Megasapien, and Nils Larson of the Greatest Hits. Put them together and BOOM! You’ve got Boom City, who play pounding and gleeful power pop laden with keyboards, harmonies, and a little attitude. Are you the type of person you likes it when other people describe things as “It’s like _________ on steroids”? Okay, then it’s like the Ramones on steroids. With guitar solos. And more than three chords. That comparison actually doesn’t work. One should never say “It’s like _________ on steroids.” Anyway! They're great! And their debut EP, a sampling taken from their upcoming full-length (which they plan to release this year), was recoded by Eric Corson and John Roderick and mixed by John Goodmanson. Look at all the names that were dropped in this paragraph! Good names, too. Boom City is destined to be great. Fuck it, they already are great. In 2011, it became apparent that Seattle’s music community has folk, alt-country, hiphop, heavy rock, metal, and hardcore covered, but good ol’ pop has taken a bit of a hit (RIP Visqueen). Well Boom City are bringing it back. And thank god for that.

You can download their EP for FREE right here.

Link | Comments (0)

FacebookShare

Lists / Zzzzzzzzzzzzz My Favorite Music of 2003

Posted by Kathy Fennessy on Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:25 AM

In the Red

Instead of a conventional list, i.e. one representing the year that has just come to a conclusion, here's a blast from the past—or at least a tiny explosion. In checking my email archives, it's the oldest one I could find. A hard drive crash destroyed all prior data, though there are a few older lists floating around on paper and in archived form (I was a member of the independent music mailing list, Chugchanga, for a decade and many of us would submit top 20s each year). At the time, I was writing about music for the All Music Guide, Amazon, and Tablet.

Top 20:
1. The Dirtbombs - Dangerous Magical Noise (In The Red)
2. The White Stripes - Elephant (V2)
3. Holly Golightly - Truly She Is No Other (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
4. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)
5. Benjamin Biolay - Negatif (Virgin France)
6. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Pig Lib (Matador)
7. Broadcast - Ha Ha Sound (Warp)
8. Quasi - Hot Shit (Touch & Go)
9. Various Artists - City of God [original soundtrack] (Milan)
10. The Clientele - The Violet Hour (Merge)

Conclusion: my taste hasn't changed much over the years. More below.

Link | Comments (0)

FacebookShare

Hey You Fucking Kids! / Lists Another Year End List: My Top 5 Metal Albums Of 2011

Posted by Kevin Diers on Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 10:41 AM

Fuckin’ a. Year-end lists are always difficult to make, and if they’re not, you just haven’t been listening. While wading through a desk full of killer albums, there are certainly the ones that stand out amongst others and are worth mentioning: Exhumed’s long awaited return, All Guts No Glory, Seattle blackened death metallers Book of Black Earth’s tribute to Swedish punk The Cold Testament, Disma’s skull-pounding debut full length Towards the Megalith, to name a few, but like all streamlined year-end lists, there’s really only room for five.

Now if I were to truly go by amount of listens alone, my top album of 2011 would have to be a record that didn’t even come out this year, but was reissued by Earache. Woods 4: The Green Album by Northern Ontario doom/post black metal quartet Woods of Ypres easily topped my most played list. I have to take a break from this one, though, as it’s difficult for me to hear the lyrics, “Life is just pain and piss/It’s nothing that I will miss,” being sung in the deep Peter Steele-esque baritone voice of Andrew Gold, considering the 31-year-old vocalist was tragically killed in a car accident just one week ago.

But I digress. Now going by the somewhat draconian year-end list rules set in stone by music journalists worldwide, I must push forward and choose wisely. Here goes:

Number 5: Benighted, "Asylum Cave"

5.) Benighted: Asylum Cave: From the abrupt yet familiar “What’s Up Doc” of Bugs Bunny that starts off this record to the lightning-fast blast beats of Kevin Foley and heinously unsettling pig squeal vocals of Julien Truchan, this French five-piece surely live up to the name of the genre they so proudly rep: brutal death metal. While at times it approaches death core territory, their chugga chug breakdowns are tasteful and never cringe worthy, unlike the Impending Dooms and Job for a Cowboys of today.

Number 4: Vader Welcome To The Morbid Reich

Number 4: Vader "Welcome To The Morbid Reich"

4.) Vader: Welcome to the Morbid Reich: After a few albums that really didn’t stand out much, Polish death metal crew Vader returned in 2011 with a meaty dose of old-school death, filled with memorable thrash-influenced riffs and fist-pounding anthems. Nothing too technical here, just pure, righteous, death metal awesomeness.

Number 3: Wolves In The Throne Room Celestial Lineage

Number 3: Wolves In The Throne Room "Celestial Lineage"

3.) Wolves In The Throne Room: Celestial Lineage: So this is the end of Wolves in the Throne Room's three-part concept album, which began with Two Hunters and continued with Black Cascade?? If so, it's gone out in great fashion, as this record combines all my favorite of their elements—the moody, dark ambience and their melodic-but-fierce brand of Weakling-like black metal, while keeping things precise and tight enough not to bore me. I admit, I have pretty bad musical ADD. The seven minute-long opus “Subterranean Initiation” is quite possibly my favorite single song of the year.

This story has been updated since its original publication.

Continue for the top two picks...

Link | Comments (5)

FacebookShare

Lists / Song / Mix Here Are the Songs You Listened to 100+ Times in 2011

Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:12 PM

Earlier this week I asked you which songs you listened to over 100 times in 2011. Then smart lady Julia suggested via Twitter that I make a Spotify playlist of all the songs. Good idea, Julia! So here it is, friends, a playlist comprised of the songs you and your Line Out-reading peers listened to over and over and over again in the year 2011. It's over two hours long and, for those of you who listed more than a song or two, I just added the first couple of suggestions, so please don't feel bad if all of your favorites didn't make it.

Listen to it here!

Also, while Spotify has a lot of music, I couldn't find some of the tunes so here are links to them via bandcamp and YouTube and such, should you want to supplement the playlist:

"Somebody I Used to Know," by Gotye
"No Hands" by Wakka Flocka Flame
"You Let Me Down" by Joel Plaskett
"Ungirthed" by Purity Ring
"Our Last Shot" by Groenland
"Breath Clad in Happiness" by Envy
"Huzzah!" and "The Last Huzzah!" by Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire
"Numbnuts" by Nacho Picasso

Link | Comments (6)

FacebookShare

Lists / 206 Impose Magazine Taps Two Seattle Labels in Its Best Of 2011 Rundown

Posted by Dave Segal on Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 1:13 PM

Two Seattle labels—Hardly Art at #14 and Debacle at #20—made online zine Impose’s best of 2011 list. Both are well deserving of the honor, but the inclusion of Debacle is especially heartening. Run by Megabats member Sam Melancon, the imprint issued a lot of impressive experimental electronic and drone-based music this year. Crystal Hell Pool, Sorry, Brain Fruit, Karnak Temples, Daniel Bachman, and Melancon’s own Megabats all delivered important works in beautifully designed CDs.

Check out the list here.

(It’s too bad Impose transposed Crystal Hell Pool’s album title with the artist name, though.)

Link | Comments (2)

FacebookShare

Lists / Radio KEXP DJs' Top-10 Albums Lists

Posted by Dave Segal on Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:25 PM

Because you’ve not yet had your fill of year-end lists this month, we present to you the top-10 albums lists of Seattle radio station KEXP’s programmers. If there’s one conclusion we can arrive at from this, it’s that KEXP's on-air talent (nine of 'em) loves Shabazz Palaces’ Black Up. (By the way, this is the only album that my top 10 has in common with KEXP’s DJs.) Black Up—along with James Blake’s self-titled full-length—are the great uniters among the station’s jocks. Peruse the lists here.

Link | Comments (2)

FacebookShare

Lists / Zzzzzzzzzzzzz Pazz & Jop Ballot Regret #1: Leaving off Oneohtrix Point Never's "Explain"

Posted by Dave Segal on Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:34 PM

To follow up on this post on my Pazz & Jop ballot from yesterday… I didn’t really listen closely to Oneohtrix Point Never’s latest album, Replica, until after I’d finalized my ballot, so my fave cut from it, “Explain,” failed to make my top-10 tracks list. A tragic turn of events, for sure. But I’m going to partially compensate for that gross mishap by posting about “Explain” here.

The last track on Replica (a strong album all the way through, by the way), “Explain” is like a prolonged, rapturous sigh of relief after a long, arduous journey. It strikes me as what would’ve transpired if My Bloody Valentine, still wondering what the hell to do after releasing the paradigm-shifting Loveless in November 1991, had collaborated with Seefeel, MBV’s closest competitors for the shoegaze throne, in 1993, when Seefeel dropped their aqua-solar-dub debut EP, More Like Space. The word "heavenly" gets tossed around too casually by music reviewers (I may have done it cavalierly myself in my younger, less disciplined days), but in this case it's totally justified. "Explain" proffers a gilded, lavender-scented ladder to a much lovelier, loftier realm

Link | Comments (1)

FacebookShare

Lists / Zzzzzzzzzzzzz Half of Segal's 2011 Pazz & Jop Ballot

Posted by Dave Segal on Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 2:48 PM

The Village Voice’s annual Pazz & Jop poll of the nation’s music critics is a big deal… to the 1,500 or so music critics who participate. This yearly stock-taking of the critical hive mind typically reminds us of the conservatism and herd mentality of the country’s opinion-havers on the music beat. There are a handful of writers whose lists deviate from the predictable norm, and you can determine who they are by a gauging system of selection similarity that accompanies the results (some guy with too much time on his hands tallies these stats; may Allah deluge him with blessings). The last few years, I’ve ranked near the bottom of P&J's critical pool for sharing affinities with other voters’ selections. And this is why I can’t have nice things.

Anyway, Pazz & Jop ballots have been sent and the results will be published Jan. 18, 2012 at villagevoice.com. However, in this dead zone between Christmas and New Year’s, there’s hardly fuck-all happening in the music world and the ravenous blog monster must be fed. So I’m going to give y’all a sneak peek of my top 10 albums and top 10 songs—but just half of my picks. Which half? Not telling. :p

Feel free to post your favorite albums and tracks of 2011 in comments. You have hardly fuck-all to do till Saturday, right?

½ of Dave Segal’s top 2011 albums list for Pazz & Jop

Demdike Stare- Triptych (Modern Love)
Andy Stott- Passed Me By/We Stay Together (Modern Love)
High Wolf- Atlas Nation (Holy Mountain)
Cut Hands- Afro Noise Vol. 1 (Very Friendly/Susan Lawly)
Planetary Assault Systems- The Messenger (Ostgut Ton)

½ of Dave Segal’s top 2011 tracks list for Pazz & Jop

Tobias- "Observing The Hypocrites" (Ostgut Ton)
CHLLNGR- "Ask For" (Green Owl)
Danny Brown- "Adderall Admiral" (Fool’s Gold)
Seefeel- "Sway" (Warp)
Woods- "Out Of The Eye" (Woodsist)

Link | Comments (3)

FacebookShare

Lists / Zzzzzzzzzzzzz What I Didn't Get for Christmas

Posted by Kathy Fennessy on Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:24 AM

Mute

Actually, I didn't get any music for Christmas, other than the Ty Segall singles collection I picked up a few days ago, but here are 10 titles—plus one extra—I would have liked to receive...and I do have a birthday coming up in nine months (New Year's Day presents are also welcome). That said, I'm not complaining about the gifts I did receive. My friends and relatives know me well, so there was chocolate, champagne, bath products, and other life-sustaining substances.

In alphabetical order:

1. Can - Tago Mago: 40th Anniversary (Mute)

Link | Comments (0)

FacebookShare

Lists / Zzzzzzzzzzzzz Pitchfork's Top 100 Tracks of 2011, Geographically Graphed

Posted by Dave Segal on Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:04 PM

Flavorwire has an interesting chart on the geographical stats of the artists who placed tracks in Pitchfork's list of top 100 of 2011. Seattle came in a 4-way tie for 8th place (along with Philadelphia, Providence, and Eau Claire, Wisconsin). Yay? New York City, London, and LA came in at 1-2-3. zzzZZZzz. The most shocking thing here? Chicago and Detroit each only had one artist represented.

View the chart here.