Music Events: Athens Popfest (particularly Fat Planet @ Little Kings, Roky Erickson, and all of Saturday night) Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour The Music Tapes Caroling Tour Arcade Fire/Superchunk NC for Obama Rallies The Magnetic Fields/Portastatic @ Meymandi Auditorium Non-Merge Music Albums: Nana Grizol – Love It Love It Times New Viking – Rip It [...]
Tag : 2008 Top 10s
2008 Year End Lists – Merge Staff: Wilson Fuller, Digital Assets Manager
December 15, 2008 – 2:47 pm
2008 Year End Lists – Merge Staff: Jack Ball, Production Manager
December 15, 2008 – 12:30 pm
1. My sons first birthday on 9.6.08 – even though tropical storm Hannah came in that day, we still had a great time. Two words – Cake Monster! 2. Superchunk live at the Cat’s Cradle – August 29 3. NY Red Bulls in MLS final game vs. Columbus Crew – Even though they lost 3-1, [...]
2008 Year End Lists: Julia Rydholm of The Essex Green & The Ladybug Transistor
December 12, 2008 – 3:08 pm
Favorite Things of 2008. As always, this list goes to 11. Lil Wayne’s Blog (espn.com) Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill (LP) Vetiver Thing of the Past (LP) Sarah Haskins’ Target Women (especially: yogurt and botox episodes) Crystal Stilts “The City In the Sea” (song from album Alight of Night) sorryimissedyourparty.com Horsefingers 3″ [...]
2008 Year End Lists: Britt Daniel of Spoon
December 12, 2008 – 1:52 pm
Crooked Fingers “Forfeit / Fortune” The Heavenly States “Delayer” Jay Reatard “Matador Singles ’08″ Carbon/Silicon “The Last Post” Wolf Parade “At Mount Zoomer” Deerhunter “Microcastle” Q Tip “The Rennaisance” Coin Under Tongue “Coin Under Tongue” Earles & Jensen “Just Farr a Laugh, Vol. 1 and 2: The Greatest Prank Phone Call Ever! ” The Walkmen [...]
2008 Year End Lists: Volcano Suns
December 11, 2008 – 4:10 pm
Book of the Year: “The Gingerbread Boy” by Paul Galdone…a precocious gingerbread boy escapes a fox and various other antagonists in this powerful tale that mirrors not only the realites of living in a gingerbread universe, but life itself… Album of the Year: “Masters of Realty” by Mussels in Butter… Film of the Year: “No [...]
2008 Year End Lists: Wye Oak
December 11, 2008 – 1:36 pm
2008: Things that made our year awesome. In no particular order: Obama (!!!) Merge Records. Erykah Badu- New Amerykah Pt. 1: 4th World War My new Reverend guitar. Shearwater- Rook Arbouretum/Pontiak- Kale The (mufuckin’) Dark Knight Lambchop- (OH) Ohio July 4th Friendstival (a party and festival featuring some of our favorite bands and closest friends. [...]
2008 Year End Lists: Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura
December 10, 2008 – 3:34 pm
1. My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges (highlight track – Sec Walkin) 2. Panai – A piece of blue (highlight track – Sea Return ) 3.Kings of Leon – Only by the Light (hightlight track – Revelry) 4.Glasvegas – Glasvegas (highlight track – It’s my own cheating heart that makes me cry) 6.Fleet Foxes – [...]
2008 Year End Lists: Caribou
December 10, 2008 – 11:47 am
here goes: 1. Theo Parrish – Goin’ Downstairs / Love Triumphant 12″s (Sound Signature) 2. Koushik – Out My Window (Stones Throw) 3. Fuck Buttons – Street Horrsing (ATP) 4. The Thai Orchestra – S/T (Mississippi Records) 5. Born Ruffians – Red, Yellow and Blue (Warp) 6. Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid – NYC (Domino) [...]
2008 Year End Lists: Shout Out Louds
December 9, 2008 – 5:00 pm
Shout Out Louds Music, Events, Etc 2008 Sea And Cake, music Brasil, tour Vampire Weekend, music Shout Out Louds at Dingwalls, show Håkan Hellström, music Raymond Biesinger, illustrator Bon Iver, music Food from and in Italy. food Wilco, guitar solos Airbus 380, airplane Angel, film Fleet Foxes, music Merry Christmas! //SOL Visit Shout Out Louds [...]
2008 Year End Lists: M. Ward
December 8, 2008 – 6:42 pm
My favorite new songs of 2008 by artists that i hadn’t heard before 2008: Becky Stark – “Ocean and Ground” Fleet Foxes – “White Winter Hymnal” T-Pain – “I Can’t Believe It”
- Arcade Fire join Foo Fighters as Mick Jagger’s band for Saturday Night Live season finale
- M. Ward visits WNYC and The Late Show with David Letterman
- Merge partners with the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC
- New Superchunk 7-inch “This Summer” b/w “Cruel Summer” in June
- The Magnetic Fields premiere video for “Quick!”
- Redd Kross sign to Merge!
- Crooked Fingers releases acoustic version of Breaks in the Armor
- Hospitality visits NPR’s “Tiny Desk”
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