Tk’s Top 10 Albums of 2010

23Dec10

2010 in music was marked by a few things: *It was the year that Americans finally learned how to party like the rest of the world. That’s right… trance/dance beats and riffs have taken over pop music charts and every self-respecting party animal and nightlife layperson is better off because of it. Hell, even Enrique [...]

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Tags: amelie, arcade fire, auto-tune, caribou, enrique iglesias, gold panda, jack rose, javiera mena, joanna newsom, local natives, pitbull, steve reich, sufjan stevens, t-pain, tallest man on earth, these new puritans, vampire weekend, wildbirds & peacedrums, yann tiersen

ck’s top ten albums of 2010

22Dec10

Another year, another top 10 list. The biggest change in the way I experienced music since 2009 is the death of lala.com. Fortunately, I was still able to find places online to listen to most albums that I was curious about. The public library has also become my friend. Unfortunately, that means I won’t have [...]

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Tags: 2010, b.o.b, band of horses, big boi, bob dylan, broken social scene, cee-lo, elliott smith, hayley williams, hot chip, janelle monae, john cage, kanye west, lala, local natives, outkast, paramore, rivers cuomo, sufjan stevens, talking heads, tallest man on earth, u.s.e., vampire weekend, weezer

2010 in music: CK’s Second Quarterly Report

01Jul10

Here we go again! It’s now officially halfway through the year 2010. TK is busy hiking the Pacific Coast Trail, so I’m holding down CKTK duties while he’s gone. During the first half of this year, we officially launched our Facebook and Twitter accounts. Check those out for more frequent updates. Also, I just launched [...]

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Tags: 2010, acorn, against me!, alkaline trio, andrew wk, angels and airwaves, animal collective, annuals, antony and the johnsons, arcade fire, archie bronson outfit, balmorhea, band of horses, big boi, black keys, blaqk audio, blink 182, blitzen trapper, bloc party, broken bells, broken social scene, caribou, carolina chocolate drops, ceo, childish gambino, christina aguilera, coheed and cambria, coldplay, crystal castles, cut copy, daft punk, david byrne, dinosaur feathers, dominique young unique, dr. dog, drake, drums, dum dum girls, eclipse, fatboy slim, fleet foxes, flying lotus, foals, free energy, freelance whales, girl talk, growing, gym class heroes, hercules & love affair, here we go magic, hives, hot chip, how to destroy angels, I can make a mess like nobody's business, interpol, jack johnson, jack's mannequin, jaguar love, janelle monae, jimmy eat world, jj, joanna newsom, jonsi, katy perry, kele, kid cudi, knife, laura veirs, local natives, los campesinos!, m.i.a, mark ronson, mgmt, michael jackson, morning benders, motion city soundtrack, national, neon trees, new pornographers, of montreal, owen pallet, panda bear, panic! at the disco, pantha du prince, pendulum, peter gabriel, plants and animals, punch brothers, ra ra riot, radiohead, rocket summer, roots, saves the day, she & him, shins, shout out louds, sleigh bells, spoon, stan ipcus, strokes, tallest man on earth, travie mccoy, vampire weekend, vedera, we have band, white stripes, wolf parade, yeasayer, young veins, zola jesus

CK’s Sasquatch! Festival recap: Saturday

03Jun10

Hello all, TK and I spent this past weekend at the gorgeous Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA, taking in the Sasquatch! Music Festival. Over the next few days, we’ll be dissecting the festival in all its grandeur right here at CKTK. We also tweeted hard, so look back at our Twitter feed for those to-the-minute [...]

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Tags: broken social scene, death cab for cutie, edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros, fool's gold, foreign born, middle east, minus the bear, mumford and sons, my morning jacket, national, patrick watson, u.s.e., vampire weekend

ck’s song of today (II)

11May10

In a year bereft of great rock albums thus far, “Blue Blood Blues” by The Dead Weather gives me some hope. Yes, I love indie-rock albums. I love massive collectives and I love neo-Afro/indie pop… but there’s nothing like a pure, guitar-based rock record. There has been a number of great records released in 2010, [...]

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Tags: broken social scene, dead weather, jack white, kills, vampire weekend

2010 in music: TK’s quarterly report

02Apr10

As the resident realist (ooh, band name) I will state rather matter-of-factly that the new decade in music is off to a thoroughly mediocre start. CK disagrees and you can read about it here. Need evidence? Well, for starters, Samantha Fox has yet to release an album. If you’ve been following this blog, you already [...]

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Tags: archie bronson outfit, besnard lakes, broken bells, carolina chocolate drops, charles darwin, charlotte gainsburg, cocoa puffs, crime in stereo, dr. dog, eluvium, erland and the carnival, field music, frightened rabbit, jack rose, jaga jazzist, jj, joanna newsom, jonsi, liars, local natives, midlake, pantha du prince, polar bear, richard skelton, richmond fontaine, samantha fox, she & him, shearwater, spoon, the knife, these new puritans, vampire weekend, vedera, xiu xiu, yeasayer

2010 in music: CK’s quarterly report

31Mar10

Here it is, folks: My report on the first quarter of 2010. It’s been a solid year so far. This list is presented with minimal commentary; just know that you’ll see many of these records in my “Best of 2010″ post nine months from now. But you don’t have to take my word for it… [...]

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Tags: 2010, 3oh!3, afi, alkaline trio, american idol, andrew wk, angels and airwaves, animal collective, annuals, arcade fire, archie bronson outfit, balmorhea, band of horses, blaqk audio, blink 182, broken bells, broken social scene, childish gambino, coheed and cambria, coldplay, daft punk, david byrne, fatboy slim, final fantasy, fleet foxes, free energy, freelance whales, gym class heroes, hot chip, hot hot heat, interpol, jack's mannequin, jimmy eat world, jj, joanna newsom, jonsi, ke$ha, knife, laura veirs, local natives, los campesinos!, mgmt, michael jackson, national, of montreal, owen pallet, panda bear, panic! at the disco, pantha du prince, peter gabriel, radiohead, reading rainbow, rocket summer, saves the day, she & him, shins, shout out louds, sigur ros, spoon, strokes, vampire weekend, vedera, white stripes, yeasayer

ck’s top 100 albums of the decade: #50-11

25Jan10

Hey hey, here we go. I hope you spent the entire weekend evaluating the picks from the previous post. This has been quite the metaphorical trip down memory lane for me; I was 14 when the naughties began, and I’m 24 on the way out. Most of my music-listening life happened in the last ten [...]

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Tags: 2000s, afi, alkaline trio, animal collective, annuals, antlers, arcade fire, brave saint saturn, death cab for cutie, decemberists, format, fun, girl talk, gnarls barkley, hives, joy electric, juliana theory, killers, knife, lindsey pool, m83, mars volta, muse, panda bear, shout out louds, spoon, strokes, sufjan stevens, taking back sunday, u.s.e., vampire weekend, white stripes, yeasayer

ck’s top ten albums of 2008

07Dec09

Thanks for following the curves of our counting-down compendium. We are zeroing in on our top ten albums of 2009, as well as some pretty sizable lists about the best records of the decade. Stay tuned; CKTK will be taking care of you through the new year. We have two more rerun lists for you [...]

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Tags: 2000s, 2008, annuals, beck, coldplay, conor oberst, girl talk, jamie lidell, m83, panic! at the disco, sigur ros, vampire weekend