Obits- I Blame You
Pains of Being Pure At Heart- S/T
Big Business- Mind The Drfit
Girls- Album
Pissed Jeans- King of Jeans
Kurt Vile- Childish Prodigy
Spits- Schools Out
Camera Obscura- My Maudlin Career
Strange Boys- Strange Boys & Girls Club
Nirvana- Bleach Reissue(Duh)

1. Modest Mouse- No One…yada yada
2. Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavillion
3. Wilco- (The Album)
4. Nirvana- Bleach Re-release. Yee-haw!
5. Fleet Foxes- Mykonos (Not technically an album or 2009, but w/e)
6. Kid Cudi- Man on the Moon
7. Whole What Bread- Hearts of Hoodlums
8. Flight of the Conchords- I Told You I Was Freaky
9. The Jesus Lizard re-releases
10. Built to Spill- There is no Enemy

In alphabetical order:

Brian Harnetty & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – “Silent City” (Atavistic)
Kurt Vile – “Childish Prodigy” (Matador)
Mocky – “Saskamodie” (Crammed Discs)
Pissed Jeans – “King of Jeans” (Sub Pop)
Shadow Ring, The – “Life Review: 1993-2003” (KYE)
Sun Araw – “Heavy Deeds” (Not Not Fun)
Talibam! – “Boogie in the Breeze Blocks” (ESP-Disk)
Various Artists – “Resonant Hole: Vol. One” (Rampart/Mountaain)
Zu – “Carboniferous” (Ipecac)

In alphabetical order:

Already balding at 19
Animal Collective- MMP
Antlers- Hospice
Akron/Family- Set ’Em Wild, Set ’Em Free
Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 7
District 9
Sub Pop Singles Club 3.0
Sunset Rubdown- Dragonslayer
Why?- Eskimo Snow
XX- XX

Books by Thich Nhat Hahn
Obits-I Blame You
No Age-discography
Books by His Holiness the Dali Lama
All the 2009 Jesu releases
Beatles remastered
Burn Collector 14
Strike Anywhere-Iron Front
Dharma Punx and Against the Stream —Noah Levine

Pissed Jeans – King of Jeans
Black Lips – 200 Million Thousand
Dinosaur Jr – Farms
Wavves – Wavvves
lovvers – OCD GO GO GO GIRLS
Nirvana – Bleach (reissue)
The Vaselines – Enter the Vaselines (reissue)
HEALTH – Get Color
Jay Reatard – Watch Me Fall
Smith Westerns – Smith Westerns

Numbers 1 and 2 by a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge margin… The Beatles remastered box sets. Mono wins out for headphone play, but Stereo is awesome too.

And then in reverse alphabetical order…
Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs
Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – S/T
Iron & Wine – Around The Well
The Dodos – Time To Die
The Decemberists – The Hazards Of Love
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career

And because all things rock have to go up to 11…
Seeing the Flaming Lips at the Pitchfork Festival!

The biggest heartbreak of 2009 was not getting to see Iron & Wine when they came to Canada.

Wilco – Wilco the Album
Sonic Youth – The Eternal
No Age – Losing Feeling
Mark Sultan – Hold On (Thanks Sam)
Pissed Jeans – King of Jeans
Antlers – Hospice
The Dodos – Time to Die
Modest Mouse – No One’s and on and on
The Dead Weather – Horehound
Beatles – Reissues

Daniel Striped Tiger Certain Stuff
Double Dagger More
Bob Mould Life And Times
Future Of The Left Travels With Myself And Another
Vivian Girls Everything Goes Wrong
Cold Cave Lost Art
The Shitty Limits Beware The Limits
Regina Spektor Far
Psyched to Die Year One
Patton Oswald My Weakness Is Strong

The Cribs – Ignore The Ignorants
Idlewild – Post Electric Blues
Carbon/Silicon – The Carbon Bubble
Morrissey – Swords
Lou Barlow – Goodnight Unknown
Mew – No More Stories…
Various – Dark Was The Night
Dinosaur jr – Farm
Dead Weather – Horehound
Port O’Brien – Threadbare

Built to Spill – Perfect From Now On
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
Built to Spill – Keep it Like a Secret
Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary
Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer
Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Matt Sweeney – Superwolf
The Velvet Underground & Nico [yeah, I’ve been living in a cave]
Elliott Smith – New Moon
Iron & Wine – Around the Well

New York Dolls Too Much Too Soon
Afghan Whigs 1965
Jonathan Fire*Eater-Wolf Songs For Lambs
The Stooges- Fun House
The Wipers- Over the Edge
Neo Boys- Crumbling Myths
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds- The Boatman’s Call
The Unknowns- Dream Sequence
Slow- Against the Glass
The Bangsters- The Scarlet Plague

Submitted faithfully 1 December ’09
Earl Von Monroe

Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion
Atlas Sound, Logos
Bat For Lashes, Two Suns
Cymbals Eat Guitars, And The Hazy Sea
Dan Deacon, Bromst
Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca
Mick Flannery, White Lies
John Frusciante, The Empyrean
Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest
Speech Debelle, Speech Therapy

Going to Missoula for a friends wedding
Olde Tyme strongman vs. gay lumberjack bachelor party
Live Gogol Bordello
Seeing Gene Ween at a small club playing solo
Frank Black playing at Triple Rock Social Club
Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Fest
Tom Waits live album
December and still above freezing
Steve Earle at Big Top
Beer

1. /Filmcast
2. I Love Movies
3. Risk!
4. Totally Rad Show
5. Diggnation
6. Vendr.tv
7. Co-op
8. The Tobolowsky Files
9. Scene Unseen
10. Brass Chat

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1. Subpop (kiss ass)
2. Wilco (The Album) Album Cover
3. Vinyl
4. mp3 coupons with your vinyl
5. Neil Young Archives
6. Grand Archives/Vetiver/Iron & Wine (still kissing ass)
7. The Avett Brothers live show
8. Wilco Loves You Baby
9. Fleet Foxes on SNL
10. Music is cool!

With all due respect to Animal Collective:

1. Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors
2. Dark Was the Night by Various Artists
3. It’s Frightening by White Rabbits
4. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix
5. I and Love and You by The Avett Brothers
6. Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
7. Welcome Joy by The Cave Singers
8. Reservoir by Fanfarlo
9. Ciao My Shining Star by Various Artists
10. Hungry Bird by Clem Snide

1. Soulsavers – Broken
2. Matthew Ryan – Dear Lover
3. My Jerusalem – Without Feathers
4. Vetiver – Tight Knit
5. Breeders – Fate to Fatal
6. Ed Harcourt – Russian Roulette
7. Tara Bush – Pilfershire Lane
8. Various – Summer’s Kiss: A Tribute to the Afghan Whigs
9. The Duckworth Lewis Method – S/T
10. Voivod – Infini

Still some good stuff to come out before year end though (waiting for the Jeffrey Lee Pierce tribute to pop through the mailbox/under the garage door as I type this), so subject to whatever

1) Pissed Jeans: King of Jeans
2) Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport
3) Converge: Axe to Fall
4) Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca
5) The xx: xx
6) Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
7) Portal: Swarth
8) A Sunny Day in Glasgow: Ashes Grammar
9) Japandroids: Post-Nothing
10) Liturgy: Renihilation

1.: kurt vile – childish prodigy
2.: strange boys – and girls club
3.: nodzzz – nodzzz
4.: duchess & the duke – sunset/sunrise
5.: yo la tengo – popular songs
6.: animal collective – merriweather post pavilion
7.: dirty projects – bitte ocra
8.: helado negro – awe owe
9.: grizzly bear – veckatimest
10.: justin townes earle – midnight at the movies

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10. pitchforkmedia. I’m not afraid to say it.
9. being a dallas cowboys fan. it always gives my heart and nervous system a great workout.
8. Kanye’s blog for always leaving me entertained.
7. The latest season of Dexter. It’s INTENSE.
6. vinyl reissues all across the board from different labels. No more ebay prices! woo-hoo!
5. Getting a part time job teaching kids after school. Finally…a job!
4. Discovering the Denton,TX scene with bands like fergus and geronimo, teenage cool kids, wax museums, fungi girls, etc.
3. Grizzly Bear/beach house’s ACL after show at emos.
2. Going back to college to make something of myself. hopefully.
1. Cursive making the trek to the border region of south texas. This was a big deal for a region that doesn’t see too many top rank indie bands, so thanks for not ignoring us. It meant a lot.

1. orange
2. yellow
3. burnt umber
4. black (of course it has to be here)
5. green
6. sea foam
7. violet
8. red
9. teal
10. royal blue

Terminal Lovers – as eyes burn clean
Pterodactyl – worldwild
Thee Oh Sees – help
the Octopus – the mercy of bullets 7"
Quest For Fire ep
Wizzard Sleeve – make the world go away
Blitzen Trapper – war is placebo 7"
That Fucking Tank – tanknology
No Age – losing feeling
Brutal Truth – evolution through revolution

1. Anything by Iron & Wine.
2. The fact that I learned that Iron & Wine is not, in fact a musical Viking ensemble (the group name threw me…brought visions of shoulder-tossed-dog-destined bones, double-bitted axes, and general Pictishness), but one guy and a sometimes-sister family by the name of Beam.
3. Newton the Border Collie herding my niece into a corner and sitting on her feet.
4. Sweet, delicious summer golf.
5. As #4 above, regarding tennis.
6. My rediscovery of A Night at The Opera.
7. My Wife.
8. Digging a massive (OK, 12′×4′) kidney-shaped flowerbed in my backyard. As a joke, my wife (see #7 above) planted it with nothing but asparagus. My pee smelled funny all summer.
9. Civilization IV.
10. The continued existence of “Inexpensive Banjo” on my X-mas list. One day, I will have a banjo, and it will be a good day.

10: Feb.-Groundhogs Day, Murder City Devils Reissues
9: July-Tiny Vipers, Zak Sally, Pitchfork Festival
8: June-Free Sampler, Loser Scholarship
7: Oct.-Halloween, CMJ
6: Sep.-Reissues
5: Aug.-Facebook, Pissed Jeans, Blitzen Trapper
4: March-Obits(Fuck yeah), SXSW
3: Nov.-Nirvana
2: May-Record Store Day, Vaselines
1: April-RSD, Singles

Those are THE top ten A Form of Paying Attention columns. January was too short and December is too new to be a classic just yet.

1. Neukoelln
2. Kreuzberg
3. Mitte
4. Friedrichshain
5. Charlottenburg
6. Prenzlauerberg
7. Tiergarten
8. Schoeneberg
9. Treptow
10. Being allowed to legally live in Berlin, the love of my life, for 2 more years.

1.) AC- Merriweather Post Pavillion
2.) Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
3.) Girls – Album
4.) Grizzly Bear – Veckitemist
5.) The Antlers – Hospice
6.) YACHT – See Mysterys See Lights
7.) Passion Pit – Manners
8.) Dan Deacon – Bromst
9.) Ghost Face Killah – Emerald City
10.) Washed Out – Life Of Leisure

Random order:

• Seeing FOTC perform 4 times.
• DM Stith’s album.
• Finally seeing Sufjan Stevens live.
• Starting a vinyl collection.
• GB’s Veckatimest (saw them a bunch live, too).
• A Hawk and a Hacksaw!
• Front row for Dark Was the Night at Radio City.
• Winning tickets for Bjork and Dirty Projectors.
• Department of Eagles at Bowery.
• Bon Iver/Volcano Choir

Japandroids – Post Nothing
Dan Deacon – Bromst
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
Wilco – Wilco (the album)
Decemberists – Hazards of Love
The Thermals – Now We Can See
The Dead Weather – Horehound
Elizabeth & The Catapult – Taller Children

10. Seinfeld reunites on Curb Your Enthusiasm
9. Twilight teaches all men that they must either be a bloodsucker or a wolf to have any chance with a lady
8. People hate Kanye (again)
7. America is glued to the television watching an experimental UFO balloon with possible child inside floating in the sky
6. 80% of downloads for the T-Pain iPhone app happen between 11pm and 4am when most people are drunk
5. www.Awkwardfamilyphotos.com
4. iPhone sales peak with the news that picture messaging is available for a phone that can do everything except the simple task of messaging a picture
3. Your parents are now on Facebook
2. I don’t get Twitter
1. Obama calls Kanye a Jackass

1. My wife and I working on our marriage
2. My therapist – she rocks
3. My new job
4. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
5. Japandroids – Post Nothing
6. Girls – Album
7. Man on Wire – checked DVD out from library
8. Get Busy Committee – Uzi Does It
9. Handsome Furs – Face Control
10.The XX – XX

In no particular order:

Animal Collective – Merrieweather Post Pavillion
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
Various- Dark Was the Night
James Poyser – Love & War
Hope Sandoval – Through the Devil Softly
The Rest – Everyone All At Once
Doves – Kingdom of Rust
Fever Ray – s/t
Quantic – Tradition in Transition
A Sunny Day in Glasgow – Ashes Grammar

01 Pearl Jam – Backspacer
02 Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
03 The Dead Weather – Horehound
04 Brendan Benson – My Old, Familiar Friend
05 Monsters of Folk – Monsters of Folk
06 Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
07 Matt & Kim – Grand
08 Passion Pit – Manners
09 Hockey – Mind Chaos
10 Chin Chin – The Flashing, the Fancing

1 Monsters of Folk – Monsters of Folk
2 Built to Spill – There is no Enemy
3 Jason Lytle – Yours Truly, The Commuter
4 Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band – Outer South
5 The Rural Alberta Advantage – Hometowns
6 Wilco – The Album
7 Surfer Blood – Astrocoast
8 M. Ward – Hold Time
9 Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
10 Langhorne Slim – Be Set Free

1. The Antlers “Hospice”
2. Playing with cats while interviewing Owen from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.
3. Making a fish tank out of a gumball machine.
4. Micro-piglets
5. Seeing Grizzly Bear’s ethereal performance at a small, local theater.
6. An abundance of cat memes on the interwebs.
7. Learning how to make the perfect piece of chicken.
8. Kevin the bird from UP
9. Making a marzipan penguin cake for my BF’s birthday.
10. Frightened Rabbit “The Midnight Organ Fight”

1. Best orgy ever (lasted 12+ hours)
2. New baby!
3. Obama
4. Hanging out with Jack White
5. Long showers
6. Lost my virginity
7. Moving to Hawaii
8. Found myself
9. Dropped the old ball n chain
10. Green card from dady

Passion Pit-Manners
Lady Gaga- The Fame Monster
Camera Obscura ‘My Maudlin Career’
Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
A/C Merriweather Post pavillion
Yeah, Yeah , YEah’s- It’s Blitz
Grizzly Bear – Veckitemist
Rihanna- Rated R
The Antlers – Hospice
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca

Obits – “I Blame You”
No Age – “Losing Feeling”
Pissed Jeans – “King of Jeans”
Chuck Ragan – “Gold Country”
Cymbals Eat Guitars – “And the Hazy Sea”
Mariachi El Bronx – self titled
Fake Probelms – “It’s Great to be Alive”
Frank Turner – “Poetry of the Deed”
Health – “Get Color”
Kudrow – “Lando” 7’’

1. Dirty Projectors on Jimmy Fallon
2. Fleet Foxes on SNL
3. The Pixies on Jimmy Fallon
4. The Flaming Lips on Stephen Colbert
5. St. Vincent on David Letterman
6. Phoenix on SNL
7. Vampire Weekend on Jimmy Fallon
8. Grizzly Bear on Jimmy Fallon
9. Animal Collective on David Letterman
10. Wilco w/ Feist on David Letterman

THANKY YOU JIMMY FALLON SHOW FOR SHOWING GREAT BANDS FOR ONCE!!

1 jay reatard – watch me fall
2 black flag – everything went to black (unreleased recording 78 – 81 vinyl) NO ROLLINS!
3 sonic you live at massey hall in toronto in august
4 fleet foxes also live at massey hall, also in toronto
5 Tiny Vipers – Life on Earth
6 Pissed Jeans!
7 fucked up – crooked head 7"
8 SXSW (showcase)
9 swine flu
10 the twitter

Bill Callahan Sometimes I wish we were an eagle
dark was the night
great lake swimmers lost channels
sunset rubdown dragonslayer
Raekwon OB4CL2
volcano choir unmap
grizzly bear veckatimest
the clientele bonfires on the Heath
wildbirds & peacedrums the snake
hezekiah jones bread of teeth ep

1. Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport
2. Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
3. Atlas Sound: Logos
4. Handsome Furs: Face Control
5. Mos Def: The Ecstatic
6. 5: Five Years of Hyperdub
7. Japandroids: Post-Nothing
8. Sonic Youth: The Eternal
9. Moderat: Moderat
10. The xx: xx

Veckatimest – Grizzly Bear
In the Fleshed – RTB2
Hombre Lobo – eels
Farm – Dinosaur Jr.
When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold – Atmosphere
The Roaring Twenties – Daniel Folmer
The High End Of Low – Marilyn Manson
People Songs – Power Animal
HouseBoat – SleepWhale
Crocodile – New Science Projects

In no particular order:
1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
2. Passion Pit – Manners
3. Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
4. Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer
5. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
6. Great Lake Swimmers – Lost Channels
7. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
8. Noah and the Whale – First Days of Spring
9. Metric – Fantasies
10.Jonsi & Alex – Riceboy Sleeps
How the heck do you choose a winner? Sooo many excellent lists! P.S. I think Merriweather was definitely the TOP ALBUM OF 2009.

Dear John – Loney Dear
Veckatimest – Grizzly Bear
MPP – Animal Collective
Unmap – Volcano Choir
On a Carousel of Sound, We Go Round – The Snake The Cross The Crown
Time to Die – The Dodos
The Orchard – Fire on Fire
Suckers – Suckers
Blood Bank – Bon Iver
I and Love and You – The Avett Bros

theres still a lot i would have liked to add like obits and fruit bats but i just havent picked them up yet.

Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
Lightning Dust – Infinite Light
Metric – Fantasies
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
Joel Plaskett – Three
Cave Singers – Welcome Joy
Pink Mountaintops – Outside Love
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Slow Club – Yeah So

and Iron & Wine – Around the Well as an added bonus because I’m not really counting it as a new release but it is still amazing

That was hard.

1. Ugly Sweaters
2. The 22,225th generation garage revival…22,226th… 22,227th…
3. My Bloody Valentine Fandom
4. Hippie Shit
5. White Kids Getting into Rap
6. Crystals & Orbs see #4
7. Becoming a fan of 70’s Italian Disco
8. Washed Out Tones
9. Pretending not to be what you hate
10. Playing on the floor of a venue instead of the stage.

Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
Atlas Sound – Logos
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears – Tell ’Em What Your Name Is!
Black Lips – 200 Million Thousand
DOOM – Born Like This
Oh No – Ethiopium
A Place To Bury Strangers – Exploding Head
Rain Machine – Rain Machine
The Thermals – Now We Can See
White Denim – Fits

The Whitest Boy Alive- 1517
Phoenix- Lasso
No Age- Losing Feeling
Animal Collective- Bluish
Blitzen Trapper- Booksmart Baby (RSD09 7" B-side)
Dinosaur Jr.- Friends
Neon Indian- Terminally Chill
Grizzly Bear- Cheerleader
Kings of Convenience- Me In You
Strange Boys- All Kings Are The Same

Bon Iver – Blood Bank
Washed Out – High Times
Japandroids – Post-Nothing
Fever Ray – Fever Ray
Phosphorescent – To Willie
St. Vincent – Actor
Iron & Wine – Around The Well
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
Deerhunter – Rainwater Cassette Exchange
Dark Was the Night – Various Artists

baroness – blue record
animal collective – merriweather post pavilion?
cheer-accident – fear draws misfortune
coalesce – ox/oxep
doomriders – darkness come alive
jeremy enigk – ok bear
keelhaul – triumphant return to obscurity
ladyfinger (ne) – dusk
pissed jeans – king of jeans
them crooked vultures – s/t

In no particularrrrr order…
+The Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning
+The Cave Singers – Welcome Joy
+Soulsavers – Broken
+The Veils – Sun Gangs
+Foreign Born – Person to Person
+Fruit Bats – Ruminant Band
+Band of Skulls – Baby Darling Doll Face Honey
+The Lonely Forest – We Sing the Body Electric
+J.Tillman – Year in the Kingdom
+Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
-Honorable mentions to Mt St Helens Vietnam Band & Dan Auerbach, and the Jeffrey Lee Pierce tribute which I, like Foz, am currently awaiting.

1) Jan. 28 — The Guggenheim Grotto @ The Living Room (NYC)
2) Mar. 1 — The Low Anthem, Lisa Hannigan @ Mod Club (Toronto)
3) Mar. 13 — Hooded Fang, Sprengjuhollin, Black Hat Brigade @ NXNE (Toronto)
4) Apr. 15 — The Low Anthem, Ray Lamontagne @ Massey Hall (Toronto)
5) July 9 — Lisa Hannigan @ Roisin Dubh (Galway, Ireland)
6) Aug 4 — Fleet Foxes @ Massey Hall
7) Sep 16 — The Swell Season @ The Dakota Tavern (Toronto)
8) Sep 30 — The Avett Brothers @ The Horseshoe Tavern (Toronto)
9) Oct 16 — The Sure Things, Will Curie & the Country French, Dan Mangan @ The Rivoli (Toronto)
10) Oct 30 — Fran Healy & Andy Dunlop @ The Mod Club (Toronto)

Hello Grangerlang!

Hey Foz! :D It’s good to see you! I miss you @ OW!

Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
Peter Bjorn & John – Living Thing
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Moby – Wait for Me
Basement Jaxx – Scars
Miike Snow – Miike Snow
Florence + the Machine – Lungs
Noah and the Whale – The First Days of Spring
The xx – xx

- Third Man Records (Jack White’s Blue Series is great!)
- Jagjaguwar
- You’ve Changed Records (Attack in Black/Baby Eagle split is a ‘must hear’)
- Blue Fog Recordings (Rick White goodness)
- Arts & Crafts
- Secretly Canadian
- New Scotland Records (Joel Plaskett run 7" series)
- Sappy Records (no releases this year but put on a GREAT festival in August)
- Matador
- Sub Pop (loved the singles club!)

Here they are, in reverse order…

10.) #1
9.) #2
8.) #3
7.) #4
6.) #5
5.) #6
4.) #7
3.) #8
2.) #9

And the number one # of 2009 is…3.14159265358979323846…!!!

“Hey, why isn’t number ten the number one number of 2009,” you say?

Why? Because who needs numbers when you’ve got pi?

1: The Jesus Lizard-Casbah-San Diego
2:-TJL-Neumo’s-Seattle
3:-TJL-Henry Fonda Theater-Los Angeles
4:-TJL-Fillmore-San Fransisco
5:-TJL-Crystal Ballroom-Portland
6:-TJL-Capitol Hill Block Party-Seattle
7:-Red Fang-Berbati’s-Portland
8:-Girls-Doug Fir-Portland
9:-Pierced Arrows-Berbati’s-Portland
10:-Shellac-Berbati’s-Portland

01// JAN 31 – Broken Social Scene w/ Lymbyc Systym @ Bass Concert Hall (Austin, TX)
02// FEB 19 – Lykke Li @ Antone’s Nightclub (Austin, TX)
03// MAR 18 – An Horse @ Maggie Mae’s (Austin, TX)
04// MAR 20 – Shearwater @ Hilton Garden Inn (Austin, TX)
05// MAR 30 – Chris Cornell @ Stubb’s BBQ (Austin, TX)
06// JUN 12 – Yanni @ Frank Erwin Center (Austin, TX) [Don’t make fun of me, I took my mother]
07// JUL 23 – Jenny Lewis w/ Kaki King @ The Parish Room (Austin, TX)
08// JUL 27 – Iron & Wine w/ Glen Hansard @ The Paramount Theatre (Austin, TX)
09// SEP 24 – Frightened Rabbit @ The Mohawk (Austin, TX)
10// OCT 03 – Grizzly Bear w/ Beach House @ Emo’s (Austin, TX)
11// OCT 04 – Bon Iver w/ Megafun @ The Paramount Theatre (Austin, TX)
12// OCT 29 – Gossip @ Emo’s (Austin, TX)

I’m going to continue with this theme..

1. The Jesus Lizard – Commodore Ballroom, BC
2. The Melvins 25th Anniversary Show – Webster Hall, NYC
3. Witch – The Starlite Room, Edmonton, AB
4. Soulsavers w/ Mark Lanegan – Bumbershoot, Seattle
5. Modest Mouse – Bumbershoot, Seattle
6. Eagles of Death Metal – Ed’s, Edmonton, AB
7. Iron & Wine – Folk Fest, Edmonton, AB
8. Frank Black – the Starlite Room, Edmonton AB
9. Neil Young – Rexall Place, Edmonton AB
10. Dinosaur Jr – The Starlite Room, Edmonton AB

It’s been an awesome year for shows indeed!

Top 10 new music obsessions of 2009:

Elvis Perkins in Dearland, self-titled
Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest
Cave Singers, Welcome Joy
Telekinesis, self-titled
Modest Mouse, No One’s First…
Wooden Birds, Magnolia
Volcano Choir, Unmap
Dan Deacon, Bromst
No Age, Losing Feeling
Brakes, Touchdown

SEE
-Sufjan Stevens – The BQE (Film)
-Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks (Music Video)
HEAR
-The Decemberists – The Queens Rebuke (Feat. Shara Worden)
-Bat for Lashes – Daniel
SMELL
-Black Cherry Smoking Tobacco
-Cinnabons in the foodcourt at the mall
TASTE
-Grapefruit
-Woodchuck Cider
FEEL
-A flannel robe from Lands End
-A shark’s skin

Get it started right
Love
Thaw released
Overcoming the smell of fireworks
Open windows
Backpacks and pencils
Crunchy sounds under each footfall
Go as a Hipster!
With friday off, too
Let’s wrap this up

-ORDER SAM S.
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10. The March Hare – Mister Nimbus
9. Maylene and the Sons of Disaster – III
8. Brand New – Daisy
7. Standard Recording Company (Various Artists) – A Very Standard Christmas, Vol. 2
6. Okkervil River – The Stand Ins
5. Bomb The Music Industry! – Scrambles
4. Flight of the Conchords – I Told You I Was Freaky
3. The Decemberists – The Hazards Of Love
2. mewithoutYou – It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All A Dream! It’s Alright
1. Showbread – The Fear Of God

1.in the flowers
2.also frightened
3.summertime clothes
4.daily routing
5.bluish
6.guys eyes
7.taste
8.lion in a coma
9.no more ruinnin
10.brother sport

i kinda liked my girls tho.

Have to admit, I’m kind of surprised not to have seen any of these listed yet…

1. “Halloween, Pt. 2 (Theme from Trident Xtra Care)”
2. “Honey For The Tea”
3. “Monitor Mix Theme Song”
4. “Thinking ’Bout Honey”
5. “Transparent Bear”
6. “Milking A Bee”
7. “Honey On Honey”
8. “No More Honey”
9. “Space: Time: Honey”
10. “I Still Got A Lot To Smile About” (Steaming Wolf Penis cover)

1: Waitrose
2: Tesco
3: Sainsbury
4: Lidl
5: Aldi
6: Netto
7: Asda
8: Morrisons
9: Iceland
10: Heron

sorry!

1. Carl Sagan – Glorious Dawn video, mp3, 7 inch
2. The Dalai Lama in Washington, D.C.
3. Propagandhi – Supporting Caste
4. The Pogues at The Tabernacle – Atlanta, GA
5. 2/5 of The Alice Cooper Band on stage together – Durham, NC
6. Carl Jung’s “Red Book”
7.The Pixie’s Minotaur box set (though I’ll never be able to afford it!)
8.The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century – Part 1
9. Darwinius masillae
10. Staying gainfully employed

10. Iron and Wine – Around the Well
9. MewithoutYou – It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All A Dream! It’s Alright
8. No Age – Losing Feeling
7 Handsome Furs – Face Control
6. The Dead Weather – Horehound
5. Them Crooked Vultures – Self Titled Album
4. Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
3. The Vaselines – Enter The Vaselines
2. Nirvana – Live at Reading
1. Sonic Youth – The Eternal

10. Iron and Wine – Around the Well
9. MewithoutYou – It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All A Dream! It’s Alright
8. No Age – Losing Feeling
7 Handsome Furs – Face Control
6. The Dead Weather – Horehound
5. Them Crooked Vultures
4. Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
3. The Vaselines – Enter The Vaselines
2. Nirvana – Live At Reading
1. Sonic Youth – The Eternal

1. Hull City AFC surviving in the English Premier League for another season
2. Graduating from university…finally
3. Bruce Springsteen live in Scotland!
4. The Wrestler
5. Slow Club live and their awesome debut album (sign them to Sub Pop!)
6. The 20 minute version of Down by the River that could have gone on for ever and ever and would still have never got boring
7. Lovely trips to London and Edinburgh
8. More beer
9. Christmas (probably)
10. The Beatles re-issues

1. Held my breath for 45 seconds in the shower.
2. My goldfish, Maximus Subpop Starslayer, died. R.I.P. Buddy.
3. Mixed flour with sugar, then seperated.
4. Mastered the “F” chord on my black acoustic guitar a.k.a. Darth Awesome.
5. Dinosaur Jr. is not extinct
6. Wrote my novel “So you’re an Astronaut”.
7. Made a baby
8. Sold a baby
9. Ate the whole thing
10. Nirvana Live.

Dirty Projectors- Bitte Orca
Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavilion
Freakin’ Deacon.
Radiohead Wins. Always.
Robin Pecknold= Almighty God of Incredible Sound.
Grizzly Bear reigns Supreme.
John Mayer Twitters profound insights.
Introduction to Bon Iver.
Beach House.
Music Industry Still Alive and Well.

A Sunny Day In Glasgow – Ashes Grammar
Handsome Furs – Face Control
Desire – II
Sore Eros – Second Chants
Thunderheist – Thunderheist
jj – No2
Foreign Born – Person to Person
Here We Go Magic – Here We Go Magic
PICTUREPLANE – Dark Rift
Jeremy Jay – Slow Dance

antlers – hospice
why? – eskimo snow
handsome furs – face control
mount eerie – winds poem
califone – texas rose, the thaw and the beast
megafaun – gather, form and fly
drummer – feel good together
suckers – suckers ep
current 93 – aleph at hullicinitory mountain
wooden wand – hard knowx

1. Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
2. Sonic Youth – The Eternal
3. Foreign Born – Person to Person
4. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
5. White Denim – Fits
6. The Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
7. Fool’s Gold – Fool’s Gold
8. Girls – Album
9. Cass McCombs – Catacombs
10. Bob Dylan – Christmas In The Heart

1. Tiny Vipers – Life On Earth (and Live in Denver)
2. Fruit Bats – Ruminant Band
3. Vetiver – Tight Knit
4. Neil Young – Live at Massey Hall
5. Phosphorescent – Songs for Willie
6. The Fluid – LIVE in Denver, CO
7. Iron and Wine – Aroung the Well
8. Skygreen Leopards – Gorgeous Johnny
9. Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
10. Dutchess and the Duke – Sunrise/Sunset (and LIVE in Denver!

1. The Sound – Jeopardy (Reissue)
2. Pissed Jeans – King of jeans
3. Death – …for the whole world to see
4. Neu! – 75 (Reissue)
5. One last wish – 1986
6. Obits – I blame you
7. Bob Dylan – Highway 61 revisited (Reissue)
8. The Estranged – Static thoughts (Reissue)
9. 13th floor elevators – …psychedelic sounds (Reissue)
10. Phoenix – Wolfgang amadeus …

In reverse order of course:
10)A Squirrel
9) A Well Brewed Cup of Coffee
8) A Dragonfly
7) A Tyrannosaurus Rex
6) A Rich Yet Benevolent Dictator/Philosopher King
5) A Well Written And Illustrated Batman Comic
4) A Cloud
3) A Dolphin
2) An Albatross
1) Softly Falling Snow

February: Vetiver-Tight Knit
March: Obits-I Blame You
April: Record Store Day
May: Alissa Gallivan returned
June: Subpop Cybersex sampler
July: Tuesday Sales Program
August : Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer
September: Mudhoney Re-releases
October: No Age – Losing Feeling
November: Mudhoney’s Thanksgiving picture

• Sonic Youth – The Eternal
• Why? – Eskimo Snow
• Built to Spill – There is No Enemy
• The Flaming Lips – Embyonic
• The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love
• Tortoise – Beacons of Ancestorship
• Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
• Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
• Wilco – Wilco (the Album)
• Girls – Album

1. – Clouds are amazing and scary.
2. – Friendships are hard – especially when your friend is in a band.
3. - I discovered Woody Guthrie!
4. – Two of my friends got married; they were my age. I may be getting old.
5. – I’m dating a girl who I haven’t kissed; It’s been 6 months and guess what – It’s amazing!
6. – It’s dark outside after work during daylight-savings time. The government takes away my sunlight. The should call it daylight-wasting time!
7. – MUSIC WON’T CHANGE ANYTHING! – sorry I had to put that in all caps, but it’s true.
8. – I will never be perfect and I will never succeed as much as I’d like to.
9. – I bought a Fleet Foxes album – wow.
10. – Time has a way of seeming like it will never run out, even while it is.

10: Pissed Jeans-2nd best live show out there(The Jesus Lizard is #1, sorry)
9: Big Chief-Fuck you hipsters, they rocked in the ’90’s and they still rock now
8: Les Thugs
7: Tad-Seriously, is there an early Sub Pop photo that can top Tad with the chainsaw?
6: Dwarves-Speaking of great live shows…
5: The Shins
4: Sunny Day Real Estate
3: Vaselines
2: Nirvana- Those early shows were cool, but the only thing worthwhile by these guys had a Sub Pop label on it(that is not pandering, it is true)
1: Mudhoney- Anyone at SP20 knows I’m right

1. David Bazan – Curse Your Branches
2. The Paper Chase – Someday This Could All Be Yours
3. Built To Spill @ The Casbah, San Diego (8/24/09)
4. The Decemberists – The Rake’s Song
5. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
6. Major Lazer – Guns Don’t Kill People Lazers Do
7. Low @ Sacred Heart, Duluth MN
8. Mason Jennings – Blood of Man
9. Baroness – Blue Record
10. Most Def – The Ecstatic

In no particular order:
“Party in the USA” MIley Cyrus
“Fireflies” Owl City
“Good Girl Go Bad” Cobra Starship
“Boom Boom Pow” Black Eyed Peas
“Don’t Trust Me” 3OH3
“Right Round” Flo Rida
“Pokerface” Lady Gaga
“Sex on Fire” Kings of Leon
“Gives You Hell” All American Rejects
“The Climb” Miley Cyrus

1. Foil Imaging
2. Zubenelgenubi
3. Terre Haute
4. The Kingdom Of Loathing
5. Tracheotomy
6. The Ambient Funk Playwright Society
7. The Dialectic Of Decadence
8. C-23
9. Reparations
10. Breasts & Vanuatu

no age- losing feeling
nirvana- bleach deluxe edition
pissed jeans- king of jeans
pearl jam- backspacer
alice in chains- black fades to blue
nirvana- live at reading
dinosaur jr- farm
melvins- chicken switch
them crooked vultures
horse- desperate living

obits: i blame you
wooden shjips: dos
three mile pilot: planets 7:
pirate radio a.k.a. the boat that rocked
pissed jeans: king of jeans
nirvana: live at reading lp (dec 22- it counts)
the fantastic mr fox
dc snipers: s/t lp
handsome furs: face control
completion of my sub pop singles collection

stellar fucking your!

Strictly Sub Pop
(and written in ascending order)

Music I blew my money on in 2009:

1. Sub Pop 300 (Yes, I actually paid for that)
2. Obits – I Can’t Lose (after a 30 minute wait just to get inside the shop on Record Store Day)
3. Flight of the Conchords – Pencils in the Wind (Record Store Day)
4. Obits – I Blame You
5. Prison – Steven Jesse Bernstein (yeah, real old, I know, but I just picked it up a month ago)
6. Mudhoney – Every Good Boy Deserved Fudge (Reissue)
7. Vaselines – Enter the Vaselines (totally worth it)
8. Nirvana – Bleach Reissue (thank God for that because I beat my first one into a scratchy, bleeding mess)
9. The Singles Club (I think you guys still owe me some records)
10. Sub Pop 200 (oh, ebay…)

[I don’t know if this is too late, but I figured I might as well type it up anyway just in case – and I also needed an excuse to avoid preparing for my finals. Make my failure worth while!!]

Have baby
losing job
told you I was freaky
gyrotonics
Kungfuramone blog—-to help me understand my own situation
learning to sleep-in
Chance to score job in Victoria, BC
Subpop list contest
Pelvic floor injury
Realizing Portland has become worse than a a Gus Van Sant Movie, or realizing that Portland is the urban equivalent of girbaud jeans. The Rose has wilted…Long live the rose.

Jochen Distelmeyer – Heavy
Converge – Axe to Fall
No Age – Losing Feeling 12"
Kreidler – Mosaik 2014
Sonic Youth – The Eternal
Obits – I Blame You
Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
Rise and Fall – Our Circle Is Vicious
Seed of Pain – Blindfolded & Doomed
Pissed Jeans – King of Jeans

1. Always: my daughter
2. Moving in with my girlfriend
3. Making music
4. Great Concerts by Scanners, …Trail Of Dead, Jeans Team, TSOOL, Motorpsycho, Silversun Pickups ….
5. No debts
6. Berlin
7. Holiday in Spain
8. Great records by Alter Me, Scanners, Thrice, Brand New, Lovedrug, Alice In Chains
9. Meeting artists like Geoff Barrow, The Swell Season, Cursive, Future Of The Left and doing interviews
10. Procrastinating on the internet

Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
The Deep Dark Woods – Winter Hours
The Thermals – Now We Can See
Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid
The Wheat Pool – Hauntario
A.C. Newman – Get Guilty
Various – Dark Was the Night
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
The Rural Alberta Advantage – Hometowns
Handsome Furs – Face Control

1. andrew jackson jihad-can’t maintain
2. rx bandits – mandala
3. siversun pickups – swoon
4. happy hollows – spells
5. matt and kim – grand
6. wingnut dishwashers union – burn the earth, leave it behind
7. double dagger – more
8. cat party – s/t
9. crystal antlers – tentacles
10. wavves – wavvves

Ha Ha Tonka (a band no one here has obviously heard of)had one of the best albums of the year. I figured Sub Pop people would have known about them, I guess I was wrong.

Animal Collective – MPP
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
xx – xx
Girls – album
mumford and sons – sigh no more
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca

obits : “i blame you”
harlem : “free drugs;)”
they might be giants : “here comes science”
pelican : “what we all come to need”
crystal antlers : “tentacles”
the paper chase : “Someday This Could All Be Yours”
kylesa : “static tensions”
tv ghosts : “tv ghosts”
reigning sound : “love & curses”
tv buddhas : “the golden period”
love boat : “imaginary beatings of love”
king khan & bbq show : “invisible girl”
action beat : “the noise band from bletchley”

hi! almost forgot it: gave your post a mention here:
http://uzine.posterous.com/best-of-broadcast-2009-12-26-18-20-radio-cent (lost more lists there)
and a wonderful 2010 to ya!
ps: feel free to become a fan via http://www.facebook.com/pages/uzine-blog/216710133861

oh and another sub pop mentin here ;-/ http://uzine.posterous.com/6-free-mp3s-to-get-to-know-vic-chesnutt-belat