The only year-end list that matters is here, and so’s my “long form” playlist (Spotify link) to go along with it. There are a few albums from the original list that are not on Spotify: Rhyton - Pharaonic Crosstalk Rose City Band - Earth Trip Sarah Louise - Earth Bow Alvin Curran - Fiori Chiari, Fiori Oscuri Little Feat - Electrif Lycanthrope Drew Gardner - S/T Enno Velthuys - A Glimpse Of Light Castlemusic - Live At The Music Gallery His Name Is Alive: A Silver Thread (Home Recordings 1979-1990) al riggs - I Got a Big Electric Fan To Keep Me Cool While I Sleep Powers Rolin Duo - Strange Fortune Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen

Every year Aquarium Drunkard’s year-end list is the biggest source of music for me. The list is always a careful mix of heavy hitting indie, obscure textures, and exciting deep cuts and reissues. This year’s list appears to be no exception. As usual, I assembled a “long form” Spotify playlist, containing every track from every album in the list, to go along with the “official” abbreviated playlist: Also, as usual, there’s a small set of albums that aren’t included because they are not available on Spotify: Read more

There doesn’t appear to be a decent scan of the cover of Addison Groove Project’s eponymnous debut album anywhere on the interwebs, so I made one:

I haven’t listened yet but the Kleptones have a new album out: Uptime/Downtime.

Ramona Falls, “I Say Fever”

Awesome:

Andrew pointed out today that I get a large amount of indie rock cred for pushing Fleet Foxes as the best band/album of 2008 way before Pitchfork did the same thing. So how do I redeem these points for cash?

This only solidifies Fleet Foxes as my current favorite band. Hippies were cool, but cocaine destroyed them. -Robert Pecknold, lead singer of Fleet Foxes, to The Stranger.

Carry On Wayward Son Will Ferrell and Dave Grohl

A while back Kerri and I, along with her sister Margaret and Margaret’s seafaring boy friend Dan saw a guy named Willy Porter at the Regattabar in Cambridge. He was very good and one of the tracks (from that night!) that I really liked is the unreleased “Bradley Wilson”: