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CK’s top ten albums of 2013
You’ve heard from Tk, now it’s time for my top ten albums of 2013. Over the past few years, our tastes have diverged in a yellow wood, and that has made all the difference. This year, our lists share a stunning zero albums – and not on purpose! I suppose you’ll have to head to Spotify […]
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Tags: 2013, daft punk, earth wind and fire, erykah badu, ezra koenig, fall out boy, five iron frenzy, grouplove, janelle monae, kraftwerk, matt berninger, miguel, national, patrick stump, pitbull, prince, robin thicke, sigur ros, sleigh bells, tegan and sara, typhoon, vampire weekend
2013 in music can be noted for being a year of transitions. Growing less relevant was indie-folk in the vein of Mumford & Sons to make way for a batch of mature, old-fashioned folk artists, such as Laura Marling, Martin Simpson, and Josephine Foster. Meanwhile, four-to-the-floor electronic music has yielded to EDM that borrows from […]
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Tags: arcade fire, autre ne veut, avicii, brian eno, daft punk, forest swords, guy clark, haim, james blake, johnny cash, josephine foster, kanye west, laura marling, martin simpson, monoswezi, mumford & sons, nils frahm, robert pattinson, short, sweaty, tegan & sara, vampire weekend
Tk’s Top 10 Albums of 2010
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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