Top 20 Albums of 2010

Author: Matt Moeller

27 Dec

#	Artist	Album	Label
1.	Beach House	Teen Dream	Sub Pop	\|Listen\|Buy\|
2.	Manic Steet Preachers	Postcards From A Younger Man	Columbia	\|Listen\|Buy\|
3.	Band Of Horses	Infinite Arms	Fat Possum	\|Listen\|Buy\|
4.	National	High Violet	4AD	\|Listen\|Buy\|
5.	Jenny & Johnny	I’m Having Fun Now	Warner Bros.	\|Listen\|Buy\|
6.	Laura Veirs	July Flame	Raven Marching Band	\|Listen\|Buy\|
7.	New Pornographers	Together	Matador	\|Listen\|Buy\|
8.	Frightened Rabbit	Winter Of Mixed Drinks	Fat Cat	\|Listen\|Buy\|
9.	Broken Social Scene	Forgiveness Rock Record	Arts & Craft	\|Listen\|Buy\|
10.	Best Coast	Crazy For You	Mexican Summer	\|Listen\|Buy\|
11.	Vampire Weekend	Contra	XL	\|Listen\|Buy\|
12.	Arcade Fire	The Suburbs	Merge	\|Listen\|Buy\|
13.	Twin Shadow	Forget	Terrible	\|Listen\|Buy\|
14.	Black Keys	Brothers	Nonesuch	\|Listen\|Buy\|
15.	Les Savy Fav	Root For Ruin	Frenchkiss	\|Listen\|Buy\|
16.	Yeasayer	Odd Blood	Secretly Canadian	\|Listen\|Buy\|
17.	Dum Dum Girls	I Will Be	Sub Pop	\|Listen\|Buy\|
18.	Broken Bells	Broken Bells	Columbia	\|Listen\|Buy\|
19.	Four Tet	There Is Love In You	Domino	\|Listen\|Buy\|
20.	Stars	The Five Ghosts	Vagrant	\|Listen\|Buy\|

Honorable Mention:

Sun Kil Moon – Admiral Fell Promises – Caldo Verde

Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo – Sub Pop

Posies – Blood/Candy – Rykodisc

Pernice Brothers – Goodbye, Killer – Ashmont

Nada Surf – If I Had A Hi-Fi – Mardev

Marnie Stern – Marnie Stern – Kill Rock Stars

Sarah Harmer – Oh Little Fire – Zoe

Bettie Serveert – Pharmacy Of Love – Second Motions

Freedy Johnston – Rain On The City – S/R

Teenage Fanclub – Shadows – Merge

Matt Pond PA – The Dark Leaves – Megaforce

Neil Young – Le Noise – Reprise

Local Natives – Gorilla Manor – Frenchkiss

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Playlist: Best Songs of 2010 – Honorable Mention

Author: Matt Moeller

27 Dec

Below is a playlist featuring the best tracks off of my Best Albums of 2010 Honorable Mention list. If you do not see the embedded playlist below please follow this link.

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2010 First Quarter Round Up and Playlist

Author: Matt Moeller

11 Apr

Since I haven't had much time as of late to post content to this site, I thought I would do my best to give my readers a report on the last three months of music. The releases listed below are not listed in any certain order.

NOTABLE RELEASES
Artists:	Album:	Release Date:	Label:	Links:
Beach House	Teen Dream	1/26/2010	Sub Pop	>Listen or Buy
Freedy Johnston	Rain on the City	01/12/10	Bar/None	>Listen or Buy
Vampire Weekend	Contra	01/12/10	XL	>Listen or Buy
Yeasayer	Odd Blood	02/09/10	Secretly Canadian	>Listen or Buy
Broken Bells	S/T	03/09/10	Sony	>Listen or Buy
Bettie Serveert	Pharmacy of Love	03/23/10	Second Motion	>Listen or Buy
Charlotte Gainsbourg	IRM	01/26/10	Elektra/Asylum	>Listen or Buy
Juliana Hatfield	Peace and Love	02/16/10	Ye Old Records	>Listen or Buy
Joanna Newsom	Have One On Me	02/23/10	Drag City	>Listen or Buy
jj	jj no. 3	03/08/10	Secrectly Canadian	>Listen or Buy
Spoon	Transference	01/19/10	Merge	>Listen or Buy
These New Puritans	Hidden	03/02/10	Domino	>Listen or Buy
Shout Out Louds	Work	02/23/10	Merge	>Listen or Buy
She & Him	Volume Two	03/23/10	Merge	>Listen or Buy
Gorillaz	Plastic Beach	03/09/10	EMI	>Listen or Buy
Retribution Gospel Choir	2	1/26/2010	Sub Pop	>Listen or Buy
Four Tet	There Is Love In You	1/26/2010	Domino	>Listen or Buy
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists	The Brutalist Bricks	3/9/2010	Matador	>Listen or Buy
Liars	Sisterworld	3/9/2010	Mute	>Listen or Buy
Los Campesinos!	Romance Is Boring	1/26/2010	Arts & Crafts	>Listen or Buy
Magnetic Fields	Realism	1/26/2010	Nonesuch	>Listen or Buy
Laura Veirs	July Flame	1/12/2010	Raven Marching Band	>Listen or Buy

REST IN PEACE
Vic Chesnutt	Box Tops & Big Star founding member, and solo artist
Alex Chilton	Solo artist
Mark Linkous	Sparklehorse leader

Below is a playlist featuring some of the best tracks off the albums listed above. If you do not see the embedded playlist below please follow this link.

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