Posts Tagged ‘white stripes’
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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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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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
ck’s top ten albums of 2007
I had a lot of fun with my 2007 list. At the time, I was truly convinced that there was an obvious #1 album, with several pretenders to the throne that were each slightly flawed in some way. This is one of those lists that would be very different today – you’ll see how that […]
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Tags: 2007, animal collective, arcade fire, lindsey pool, modest mouse, of montreal, rocket summer, shins, spoon, white stripes, yeasayer