Posts Tagged ‘taking back sunday’
The End of an Era? Sort Of.
August 21, 2010 was a turning point for me musically. I woke up slowly and, with no plans until later in the day, decided to try out Ra Ra Riot’s new album The Orchard. A pleasant listen indeed, but by about the 20th minute, I was itching for something different. Something fresh. Something unexpected. So, [...]
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Tags: arcade fire, arvo part, bloc party, cafe tacvba, gareth emery, national, nortec collective, philip glass, ra ra riot, radiohead, rolling stone, steve reich, taking back sunday
Supergroup, attack!
My good friend Cory submitted another great musical question to me the other day. If you could select any musicians- living or dead- to create a rock supergroup, who would you choose? The stipulation is that you only get four musicians: one vocalist, one guitarist, one drummer, and one wildcard. Here are my choices: Vocalist: [...]
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Tags: battles, dave grohl, david byrne, dead weather, discount, foo fighters, freddie mercury, greenhornes, jack white, jack's mannequin, john stanier, keith moon, kevin pritchard, kills, led zeppelin, nels cline, nirvana, probot, queen, queens of the stone age, raconteurs, sting, taking back sunday, tenacious d, them crooked vultures, u2, white stripes, who, wilco
No analysis today; I’m letting the music stand for itself (which, of course, it does). As always, click on any album title to listen on lala. Read part I here and part II here. 10 The National – Boxer (2007) 9 Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your Friends (2002) 8 Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca (2009) [...]
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Tags: brand new, death cab for cutie, dirty projectors, modest mouse, national, postal service, radiohead, saves the day, sufjan stevens, taking back sunday
Welcome back. It’s that time again; time for another list pored over by one of your two founding listmaniacs. We’ve spent so much time reading top album lists over the past decade, we needed to give back. What follows are my thoughts about the greatest albums of 2000-2009. I won’t be doing any decade analysis; [...]
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Tags: beck, belle and sebastian, ben folds, coheed and cambria, coldplay, conor oberst, daft punk, dashboard confessional, decemberists, elliott smith, fall out boy, five iron frenzy, flaming lips, get up kids, girls, hives, jack johnson, jamie lidell, jimmy eat world, johnny cash, kings of convenience, matisyahu, mew, modest mouse, muse, of montreal, ozma, panic! at the disco, passion pit, phantom planet, phoenix, reggie and the full effect, rocket summer, shins, sigur ros, straylight run, sufjan stevens, taking back sunday, tv on the radio, u.s.e., vroom, weezer, white stripes
Notable Omissions: 2009 Edition
Four score and seven years ago, it was 1922. And while the Roaring ’20s were the first great height of leisure time in the US, it was hard to discover music independently without going to ballroom dances every night. Fast forward from the Jazz Age to the Digital Age, and it seems as if everyone [...]
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Tags: 2009, adam lambert, afi, andrew bird, antony and the johnsons, arctic monkeys, beck, beirut, bob dylan, conor oberst, dan deacon, danger mouse, dark was the night, darkness, dead weather, decemberists, discovery, fever ray, flaming lips, grizzly bear, islands, jay-z, julian casablancas, julian plenti, justin hawkins, kid cudi, kings of convenience, kris allen, lady sovereign, lily allen, lonely island, mars volta, metric, mew, mika, modest mouse, monsters of folk, muse, pains of being pure at heart, patrick wolf, pete yorn, pictureplane, pink, relient k, riceboy sleeps, rivers cuomo, say anything, scarlett johansson, silversun pickups, sparklehorse, st. vincent, sufjan stevens, sunset rubdown, switchfoot, taking back sunday, tegan and sara, them crooked vultures, velvet underground, very best, wilco, xx, yeah yeah yeahs
