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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Selling my Vinyl Collection?

I am thinking about selling my vinyl collection.  I would like to sell it all together.  Feel free to comment or email if you would like to make an offer.  Here is the full catalog

http://musicsnobsanonymous.blogspot.com/2010/06/my-vinyl-collection-june-2010-update.html

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

New Get Up Kids album announced - These Are Rules


 Head over to stereogum.com's Progress Report for a full report on the new Get Up Kids album, due early 2011, which reportedly will be "bizarre and unlike anything [they have] ever done before."

The write-up also does a good job of explaining TGUK's odd position of having been at the forefront of a genre that in later years has taken some HORRIBLE turns.

The Get Up Kids - Regent's Court [mp3]

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

New Decemberists Song! Down by the Water


                       

Friday, October 22, 2010

4 New Grand Archives Songs!!! For FREE!!!

Head on over to grandarchives.com to download 4 new demos from their upcoming LP, Villains.

Or, click below to listen:

Grand Archives - Hey Hey Heart Attack [mp3]

Grand Archives - Villains [mp3]

Grand Archives - West of Worry [mp3]

Grand Archives - Are We Coming to Get You? [mp3]

Longtime blog readers will recall that Grand Archives' debut LP was one of my favorite albums of 2008.  It had so many great tracks and promised BIG things for the band.  Unfortunately, their 2009 followup, Keep in Mind Frankenstein was not one of my favorites.  Quite disappointing, to be honest.  These 4 new demos, however, are VERY promising!  Wow.  What a return to form!  These make so very excited for their next full length. 

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Rate You Music, anyone?

Anyone out there on Rate Your Music?  It is a great site where you can build your catalog, rating albums and writing reviews.  For this blog's archive, check out our profile.

See you there!

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Best Albums of 2010, January - September (Part 3 of 4)

Here are my favorite albums for the first 9 months of 2010.  
Rather than monthly editions, I am doing a quarterly update

LPs
  1. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More 
  2. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
  3. Dr. Dog - Shame, Shame
  4. Josh Ritter - So Runs the World Away
  5. The National - High Violet
  6. Damien Jurado - Saint Bartlett 
  7. Minus the Bear - Omni
  8. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms  
  9. Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
  10. Rocky Votolato - True Devotion
  11. J. Tillman - Singing Ax 
  12. Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises
  13. RA Scion - Victor Shade
  14. Vampire Weekend - Contra
  15. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Let it Sway
  16. Jonsi - Go 
  17. Ratatat - LP4
  18. The Weakerthans - Live at Burton Cummings Theatre
  19. Hoquiam (Damien Jurado) - Hoquiam 
  20. The Morning Benders - Big Echo
  21. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
  22. Beach House - Teen Dream 
  23. Matt Pond PA - The Dark Leaves
  24. Drew Danburry - Goodnight Dannii
  25. Spoon - Transference
  26. Drew Danburry - Goodnight Gary
  27. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
  28. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
  29. Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard  
  30. Daniel Johnston - Beam me Up
  31. Galactic - Ya-Ka-May
  32. Ben Folds and Nick Hornby - Lonely Avenue
  33. Jimmy Eat World - Invented
  34. Rogue Wave - Permalight

EPs
  1. Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People
  2. Shark Speed - Education
  3. Japandroids - Art Czars, Younger Us and Heavenward Grand Prix 7" singles
  4. Cold War Kids - Behave Yourself
  5. The Get Up Kids - Simple Science
  6. Bright Eyes & Neva Dinova - One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels (Reissue with new tracks)
  7. Sun Kil Moon - I'll Be There
  8. Junip - The Rope and Summit