Ron Hart Poop 2013
Jamie Hosley Poop 2013
I skipped 2012 for no good reason but I’m back for 2013. Moving to an all subscription based music collection has resulted in a ton of music to listen to, probably too much in actuality but here we go with a list of those albums that I listened to most repeatedly over the last year. I’m going to keep my descriptions short because really music is a personal thing and one’s liking or disliking of something is based on their experience, and really is there anything more disappointing than to recommend something to someone saying how listening to it was…
John Lefsky Poop 2013
Like almost every other year there is so much good music I don’t have the time, or cash, to get it all. Most of my old favorites didn’t let me down. Most of the new favorites sound like old favorites. How many are going to break barriers and change music? I’m guessing none. I’m just glad that I still like it loud. My biggest musical disappointment was the closing of my favorite music venue, Maxwell’s. 95% of the time I became a fan of the opening act. They knew how to put a bill together. Luckily I was able to…
Dan Wilmer Poop 2013
“I hate music. What is it worth?Can’t bring anyone back to this earth.But fill in the space between all the notes,And I’ve got nothing else so I guess here we go.” – “Me and You and Jackie Mittoo,” Superchunk This list goes to eleven: Buy New or Used via Amazon Jason Isbell – Southeastern. Just a perfect alt country album. Buy New or Used via Amazon Kurt Vile – Wakin’ on a Pretty Daze. Love him and he’s just getting better and better. Buy New or Used via Amazon Steve Earle – The Low Highway. One of his very best….
Irv Rosen Poop 2013
What I listened to in 2013 So little music, so much time. Listening less. And less. As part of my slide to senility, not much new seems to speak to me at all. So this list is mostly new efforts by older artists. I guess this is the way it is meant to be. Why is it that invariably (or almost so), the current releases of “legacy” artists while good, rarely seem to approach the quality (or my perception of the quality) of their older works? Is it perception or is it real? Buy New or Used via Amazon Richard…
Mike Miller Poop 2013
POOP ’13 (the kaopectate version) Buy New or Used via Amazon Howe Gelb – The Coincidentalist Buy New or Used via Amazon Iron & Wine – Ghost on Ghost and… just about anything else Howe Gelb put out, most of The Sadies latest, The Tindersticks, the killer title track on Kurt Vile’s release, some Alice Russell, unearthed gems from the nether world … Sanford Clark, Lee Hazlewood Industries, etc. “Saunders Ferry Lane” by Sammi Smith, “Potters Field” by Alice Swoboda & “Black Night” by Cheryl Thompson … As always, I thank the powers that be that i live in an…
Just how ubiquitous was “Get Lucky”? This supercut gives you a clue…
John Stewart Poop 2013
To be quite (honest) with you I am really losing it as far what is current. Maybe I just don’t give a crap anymore. It’s not that I don’t hate new music. I mean if I hear something I really like? I will stand up and take notice of it. I have been accused of many things such as being a rockist. But then again would a rockist name an album and single of the year by a French Technopop duo named Daft Punk? Really loved that album and the single “Get Lucky” was amazing. But I think the term…
Noel Gallagher commentary track on Oasis videos is best analysis of nonsensical music videos ever!
Quite “sweary”. NSFW unless you work at a video production company. In which case it is mandatory viewing.
Tom Whalen Poop 2013
Top Ten Buy New or Used via Amazon 1. Burial – Rival Dealer (Hyperdub) Burial made his anti-bullying, transgender-empathetic message clear in his text to the BBC and in this EP’s spoken word coda, but on Rival Dealer the theme of identity flux is also a deep-seeded musical element. “Do you know who I am?” wonders one sample; “You know my fuckin’ style!” taunts another (Raekwon, I believe). We sure thought we knew, but on “Hiders” and “Come Down to Us”, Burial shows us a new side, one so bright and so warm, an unexpected gift. Buy New or Used…
Patrick Kennedy Poop 2013
MUSIC Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City Speedy Ortiz – Major Arcana CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork Phosphorescent – Muchacho HAIM – Days Are Gone Kvelertak – Meir Kanye West – Yeezus Disclosure – Settle Jon Hopkins – Immunity Worth Mentioning: Dawn of Midi – Dysnomia; Blood Orange – Cupid Deluxe; Chance the Rapper – Acid Rap; Deafheaven – Sunbather; Waxahatchee – Cerulean Salt MOVIES The World’s End Her Short Term 12 Spring Breakers The Wolf of Wall Street Gravity 12 Years A Slave Mud Side Effects…
Rich Allen Poop 2013
Favorite Things 2013 Albums Buy New or Used via Amazon Public Service Broadcasting ~ Inform Educate Entertain (Self-Released). Talent and popularity don’t always go hand in hand, but Inform Educate Entertain is the exception: a guilty pleasure packed with hit singles. PSB plundered public archives to find samples, placing all topics on equal ground: television, exploration, fashion, color, war. A combination of dance beats, ambient washes and post-rock flavors, this potpourri of British culture created enough goodwill to stretch around the world. Buy New or Used via Amazon Human Pyramids ~ Planet Shhh! (Oxide Tones). Planet Shhh! sounds like a…
Jeff Schwartz Poop 2013
PoOp 2013 as delivered by Jeff Schwartz from Green Brook…… So the recordings listed below from the year twenty thirteen allowed for much toe tapping, head bobbing, songs sticking in my head and pleasantly holding my mind hostage, music that begged to be sung out loud at the top of my lungs (while alone of course in my car a scary sight for one to visualize be glad none of you had to be subjected to that), and overall what I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this past year….I offer this to you in a most pleasant, to the point, form…
That “Other” list is out
That “Other” list is out.
Explore the history of Pop — and Punk, Jazz, and Folk — with the Music Timeline
The Google Research Blog has a really interesting visualization of changing trends in modern music. It’s based on the albums uploaded by uses into their Google Music accounts. This link is to the description of the data, the methodology and the caveats. You can search by artist or album, or just glide along the timeline to see the changes. And this link is to the actual visualization itself Explore the history of Pop — and Punk, Jazz, and Folk — with the Music Timeline.
Mike Jurkovic Poop 2013
Another year of grasping at straws And this is what I heard Wise Up Ghost Costello w/Roots snarlin’ at the wankers, Karen Grainger Shiver & Sigh Love bitin’ blues from an LA lady Miles, Chick, Holland, Wayne and DeJohnette Bootleg: Europe 69 Jarrett’s Concerts Bregenz Muchen Elton, Bernie ‘n Tbones’ Diving Board Mingus’ Jazz Workshops and Potter’s Sirens Neko’s The Worse Things Get . . . among the best McCartney’s New and perhaps concerts without the other three Speaking of which Live at The BBC and Zimmerman’s ‘other Side American Hustle and Kinky Boots Elvis @ UPAC ‘n Tuscany Blue…
Mark Zip Poop 2013
Albums Buy New or Used via Amazon Disclosure – “Settle” – I was pleasantly surprised that this showed up quite high in a number of other US-based year -end lists. It’s a really good contemporary pop LP, made from a UK perspective. The beats are varied and interesting, house, two-step, garage- funky and, I’m sure, some other micro-genres with names I’m hip enough to know. They also manage to integrate many different guest vocalists remarkably seamlessly. Unlike the Major Lazer record (see below), Disclosure make a real effort to integrate guests into and overall sound and feeling. This one…
Matt Nerney Poop 2013
2013 was a year of big changes for my family and while music still played an important role in my experience, it just didn’t integrate itself as it usually has in the past. Moving to Vermont, finding new jobs, and shaping a new way of life has been a massive shift, an incredible life change that has included more wood-stacking, snow-blowing, and thankfully, more craft beer drinking. The experience has been intensely hectic and harried, but overall, happy. Music seemed almost to be an afterthought. The holidays though, as usual, brought many year-end reflections, and of course, the POOP. Tops…
Paul Cangelosi Poop 2013
(in no particular order) Buy New or Used via Amazon Joan Jett & The Blackhearts: Unvarnished (Blackheart Records) I haven’t followed her career much over the years but I picked this up and was psyched to hear her rocking hard with her classic rock riffs. She’s still got “IT”. Buy New or Used via Amazon Wau Y Los Arrrgh!!!: Todo Roto (Slovenly) This band is about as perfect for my taste in music as you can get. Crazed garage rock with wicked keyboard action. The vocals are as manic as ever. Still can’t understand a single thing he’s…