Lykke Li and Bon Iver - Dance Dance Dance

Top Ten albums of 2008

better late than never...


10. Hello Blue Roses - The Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed to Capture Your Beauty







9. Plants & Animals - Parc Avenue

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8. TV on the Radio - Dear Science

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7. Man Man - Rabbits Habbits







6. Women - s/t

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5. Langhorne Slim - s/t







4. Xiu Xiu - Women As Lovers

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03. Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago







2. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer







1. Chad Vangaalen - Soft Airplane







Honorable Mentions...










Disclaimer : I put Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson on last years list, before I knew it would have an official release date in 08'

Funny Born Ruffians Video

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Handsome Furs (Live on CBC Radio 3)

Thy Will Be Done

TV on The Radio

Golden Age

Final Fantasy



Seth Avett (Avett Brothers)

Mary ( Langhorne Slim cover)

Ben Folds (feat. Regina Spektor)

You Don't Know Me

Here is what Regina had to say about Ben Folds, her upcoming TV appearence, and her NEW record...

"i recorded on Ben Folds' song "You don't know me". I knew of him, but I met him for the first time in the studio. He was immediately cool. Funny, nice, and also good. That's important if you are to sing with someone. You want them to be like that. His new record just came out and we are going to do the song together on Conan O'Brien, (who rules!... in a non- evil- power- hungry way), and i'm very excited. I may even get to be on TV standing and not sitting, for the first time ever... though i may get spooked last minute and beg Ben to let me sit behind the piano and hide as usual... Ah... i just made myself nervous and it's not till Oct. 2nd... yes... the feeling of utter fear and panic, so familiar and yet new and terrifying in its own special way every time...

So... a lot more things happened... a record has been started, and not finished yet... a rainy and incredibly happy show was played in Brooklyn, with Dan, Eleanor and Surai on strings, and special guests Only Son and Reggie Watts helpin' me out in the big big swimming pool (thank you everyone who sported the wet puppy look, stood in the rain and hung out! special thank you to Brumstix, i will have to write back to you dear peeps at some later point, when i can do it justice, but let me say it is such a thoughtful and touching and beautiful gift you made!!! i love that book...)Outlands festival was amazing, and i got to hear Tom Petty live for the first time ever... He and the heartbreakers were incredible...I will try to write more some other time... thank you for reading this long thing, if you were able to.... and i wish you all a wonderful, happy and healthy time out there... in the big big world..." from Regina's MySpace blog post

Tomorrow Night!!!

Snakes Got A Blog Presents...



Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers(BEAT THE DEVIL)
Marcellus Hall (WHITE HASSLE , RAILROAD JERK)
Thomas Francis Takes His Chances
Curious Buddies

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Snakes Got A Blog presents...

Shilpa Ray (BEAT THE DEVIL)
Marcellus Hall (WHITE HASSLE)
Thomas Francis Takes His Chances
Curious Buddies

Nick Thorburns "Reefer" preps debut album

Reefer is Nick Thorburn and Daddy Kev (TRUE). They met through their friend Giovanni Marks in front of the Celebrity Center in Los Feliz, LA (J/K). 'The Life Narcotic' is their mini-album with six sun-dripped songs and three hilarious interludes (TRUE). Recording for the project began on the Maui coastline in Turtle Town (TRUE) in March 2007 and was concluded a month later in downtown Los Angeles (ALSO TRUE).

Alpha Pup Records is now looking at a release date of October 14 for the "The Life Narcotic" the debut "mini-album" from Reefer, the Nick Thorburn and Daddy Kev collaborative project. Features remixes by Dntel and Flying Lotus. Epic artwork by Kozyndan too. Here is the first track that was featured today on Pitchfork...

Mp3 : Taken down by bands request...

Plus don't forget to check out Nick Thorburn's other venture, where he joins Jim Guthrie in their side project called Human Highway. Here is the title track off of their debut "Moody Motorcycle"...

Mp3 : Moody Motorcycle

and did I hear something about Th' Corn Gangg making an album?...

Railcars - Cities vs. Submarines

This Record is the product of Aria C Jalali, a Los Angeles native, Recording and Preforming as Railcars in the San Fransisco Bay Area is On the verge of an anticipated 5 song e.p. entitled Cities vs. Submarines. The e.p. will be released on Gold Robot Records Sept. 08, and the sound is "a ten minute journey into Aria Jalali's most vivid, reoccurring dreams. Railcars is an attempt to bring the images that have haunted Aria's mind to life using drum boxes, synths, and noise pedals with sentiments recreated in lyrical form."

Cities Vs. Submarines was recorded in Jamie Stewart's kitchen (pictured below). Sounding similar to Xiu Xiu, Handsome Furs and a meandering into Frog Eyes, the record is impressive enough to catch the ears of Dan Boeckner (Handsome Furs, Wolf Parade), who asked Railcars to join them on a stretch of their tour back in April 08. Jalali's vocals are soft and erratic and beautiful testing the occurring thought that good indie music can exist with elctro-sound.

Here is a catchy synthesizer driven ditty, Track {3} off the e.p. Cities vs. Submarines - Concrete Buildings

Pre-order the 7" e.p. on color vinyl on Gold Robot Records. Its limited to 500 copies so hurry up!!

More songs available on MySpace