Monday, December 14, 2009

AOTY

Will:
1. The Ballet - Bear Life
2. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
3. St. Vincent - Actor
4. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
5. tUnE-yArDs - BiRd-BrAiNs
6. Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
7. Sholi - Sholi
8. WHY? - Eskimo Snow
9. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
10. Micachu - Jewellery
11. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
12. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
13. The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away
14. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
15. Dan Deacon - Bromst
16. The Twilight Sad - Forget the Night Ahead
17. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
18. Röyksopp - Junior
19. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
20. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers

Best shows:
Dirty Projectors @ Bonnaroo
St. Vincent @ Bonnaroo
Juana Molina @ Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA
Yo La Tengo @ Wilbur Theatre, Boston, MA
Dan Deacon @ Middle East Downstairs, Cambridge, MA
Final Fantasy @ Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago, IL
David Byrne @ Bonnaroo


Andrew:
Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange
Röyksopp - Junior
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
St. Vincent - Actor
Atlas Sound - Logos
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Micachu - Jewellery
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

Concerts:
Deerhunter @ Turner Hall Ballroom, Milwaukee, WI
Cut Copy @ House of Blues, Boston, MA
School of Seven Bells @ Bottom Lounge, Chicago, IL
Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL
Final Fantasy @ Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago, IL
Micachu @ Schuba's, Chicago, IL
Beirut @ Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago IL
Sugar & Gold @ Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti @ T.T. the Bear's, Cambridge, MA

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Married to a C-Watch

Upcoming shows:
go home!

Today's playlist:
St. Vincent - The Strangers
Cocteau Twins - Sugar Hiccup
The Ballet - Rough Trade
tUnE-yArDs - Little Tiger
The Magnetic Fields - The Village in the Morning
Dirty Projectors - Thirsty and Miserable
The Kills - Black Balloon
The Good, the Bad & the Queen (or, apparently, "the unnamed alternative rock band fronted by Damon Albarn") - History Song
The Magic Numbers - Forever Lost
Deerhunter - Dot Gain
These New Puritans - Elvis
The Presets - Yippiyo-ay
Late of the Pier - Focker
Cut Copy - So Haunted
Animal Collective - I Think I Can
Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running
Sufjan Stevens - Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!
Metric - Grow Up and Blow Away
Neon Indian - Ephemeral Artery
Psapp - Dad's Breakdown
Panda Bear - Comfy in Nautica
Pencilgrass - Girl on Curb
Sugar & Gold - Sex in the City

More fun with hair:


KBAI GUYZ C U IN DA SPWING.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Married to a Shrimp / Intern / Westboro Baptist Church member

Upcoming shows:
Spoon, Phoenix, & Passion Pit @ Orpheum, Friday, December 4th
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists @ Middle East Downstairs, Saturday, December 5th

Today's playlist:
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain
Fuck Buttons - Space Mountain
Pretty & Nice - Nuts & Bolts
Akron/Family - Ed is a Portal
Infected Mushroom - Heavyweight
Pendulum - Prelude
Pendulum - Slam
The Presets - This Boy's in Love
At the Drive-In - Metronome Arthritis
The Darkness - Friday Night
Mew - Am I Wry? No
Yo La Tengo - If It's True
Nobukazu Takemura - Wandering
Nine Inch Nails - The Warning (Stefan Goodchild Remix)
Big J & the Unkempt Hair - Natebro Goes to Tokyo
tUnE-yArDs - Jumping Jack
David Axelrod - Holy Thursday
Radiohead - House of Cards
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Home
Best Coast - When I'm With You
Coconut Records - West Coast
Donovan - Mellow Yellow
M. Ward - Never Had Nobody Like You
Blood, Sweat & Tears - You've Made Me So Very Happy