Mark Rosen Poop ’10

 Buy New or Used via amazon 1 – THE BLUE SHADOWS – On the Floor Of Heaven Unreleased in the US until this year, this 17 year old record out of Canada (sweetened with a bonus disc of extras) is a real alt-country classic. Great melodies falling somewhere between the Beatles and the Burritos, ringing early R.E.M. guitar tones, Phil and Don-like harmonies, thoughtful arrangements. How the hell did this fly under the radar? This clicks on every level. Thanks, Irv.  Buy New or Used via amazon 2 – ROBERT PLANT – Band Of Joy Plant has invented his own…


Peter Aaron Poop ’10

 Buy New or Used via amazon Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky (Young God) Back after 13 years, and still on their own plane entirely. Epic, beautiful, and, yes, LOUD. Like earlier editions via Gira’s later Angels of Light. Sorry, kids: older = wiser.  Buy New or Used via amazon Various Artists – Brazilian Fuzz Guitar Bananas (Tropicalia in Furs) Most insane psych comp in recent memory, easy. Scare singles ca. late ’60s/early ’70s deal an extra-warped Dada mind-blow by being in a foreign (acid-dipped) tongue. Crazy!   Oxford American Various Artists –…


Ken Beck Poop ’10

 Buy New or Used via amazon 1. JUNIP – Fields [Mute] Jose Gonzales reforms his old band of Swedes who have a thing for 70s keys and synths that John Paul Jones must have leant them.  Buy New or Used via amazon 2. THE BESNARD LAKES – The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night [Jagjaguwar] Blissed-out, droney heaven that Kevin Shields would thoroughly approve. The album Low should have made right after “The Great Destroyer”.  Buy New or Used via amazon 3. BOB DYLAN – The Witmark Demos [Columbia] Spare, nuts & bolts versions of songs we all know, but…


John DeLaire Poop ’10

I don’t think I’ll make it this year. I think I’ve heard only one new thing Brian Wilson does Gershwin and Mom said if you don’t have anything nice to say. Oh wait a minute Crowded House “The Intriguer” sounds to me more of a group effort that a Finn project,very polished, melodic with nothing to hang their heads about. There’s lack of pretense and application of proficient chops I found musically satisfying for pop music which is a feeling I didn’t find much for what was presented to me in 2010. I find returning to works like Buster Williams…


Rich Allen Poop ’10

Favorite Things ~ 2010 ALBUMS  Buy New or Used via amazon Daniel Bjarnason ~ Processions (Bedroom Community) 2010’s list begins with a one-two punch from the Bedroom Community label: two albums released on the same January day. As the director of the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Bjarnason had won numerous national awards for his insightful arrangements, but had only produced one original song, the stunning “All Sounds to Silence Come”. Processions presents his genius to the rest of the world. His wild atonal leaps and forays into dissonance are balanced here by passages of intense sweetness and flickering light. The…



Irv Rosen Poop ’10

What I Listened to in 2010 Greetings from my new home in Florida. I must admit that I did not listen to much music this year – first I was preoccupied with selling my house and then by the actual move. In fact, my sound system has not been hooked up since probably August or September. It is still not hooked up – but will be this week. So, I really have no idea what I should have been listening to this past year. To make matters worse, I usually segregate potential POOP list albums during the year, but they…


Tony Lopez Poop ’10

 Buy New or Used via amazon 1. THE ABOVE – The Above  Buy New or Used via amazon 2. THE SADIES – Darker Circles  Buy New or Used via amazon 3. NICK CURREN & THE LOWLIFES – Reform School Girl  Buy New or Used via amazon 4. STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3 – Northern Aggression  Buy New or Used via amazon 5. LEN PRICE 3 – Pictures  Buy New or Used via amazon 6. THE SIGHTS – Most Of What Follows Is True  Buy New or Used via amazon 7. THE BLACK ANGELS – Phosphene Dream  Buy New or…


Live review – Ari Up Punky Reggae Birthday Party Benefit Memorial at Brooklyn Music Hall – Jan 16 2011

Contributing PoOPster Jim Finnigan writes: Jan 17 2011 – Brooklyn – What a great time was had by all at the Ari Up Punky Reggae Birthday Party Benefit Memorial at Brooklyn Music Hall last nite! Big Up! Right from the start I could tell it was going to be good. The DJ was playing classic On-U (Breaking Down the Pressure, Autobiography of the Dread Operator, Can’t Take Su Su Pon Dread) and other reggae (Baby I Love You So,



Patrick Kennedy Poop ’10

2010: a year in media by Patrick Kennedy TOP MUSIC  Buy New or Used via amazon (1) LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening  Buy New or Used via amazon (2) Sleigh Bells, Treats  Download Free at Illegal Art (3) Girl Talk, All Day  Buy New or Used via amazon (4) Delorean, Subizia  Buy New or Used via amazon (5) Superchunk, Majesty Shredding  Buy New or Used via amazon (6) Tame Impala, Innerspeaker  Buy New or Used via amazon (7) Robyn, Body Talk  Buy New or Used via amazon (8) Big Boi, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty  Buy…


John Lefsky Poop ’10

I felt like I was playing musical dodge ball this year; every time I moved there was some great music to be heard. Maybe it was my purchase of this electronic device this past year that enables me to reach out and touch the world in a sonic way and not have to wash my hands afterward. I never had trouble finding good, new music, though. One thing I noticed was how much of my favorite music, this year, rocked. Fat riffs, shiny hooks, sing-a-long lyrics, 50’s throwbacks, power pop punches…and some of the usual sad bastard stuff and discordant…


Sign of the digital times: Sony shutting plant that used to make 18M CDs a month

Sony this week said it was shuttering one of its largest CD manufacturing plants – citing the impact of digital downloads and other economic issues. The plant, which is in Pitman, NJ and has been in operation for some 50 years, first producing vinyl records, will close on March 31 and about 300 people will lose their jobs.  The 500,000-square-foot warehouse began producing vinyl LPs in 1960 and moved to CD manufacturing in 1988. At its capacity, the plant was making 18 million CDs per month, according to its website. Sony shutting plant that used to make 18M CDs a month (Info…


Paul Cangelosi Poop ’10

 Buy New or Used via amazon The Len Price 3 – Pictures (Wicked Cool Record) This disc has some seriously great energy and harmonies. Any early Who fans will definitely enjoy this disc.  Buy New or Used via amazon Hoodoo Gurus – Purity of Essence (Hoodoo Gurus Records) The award for greatest comeback release goes hands down to the Gurus. This is their best disc in 25 years. There are plenty of amazing hooks to go around.  Download mp3 from amazon Nightmares for a Week – Don’t Die (Academy Fight Song) This is the first full-length release from our local…


Mike Jurkovic Poop ’10

poop 10 . . .wire 29 . . .so little to get excited about in this banana republic awash in oil, cancer, campaign money, boehner’s tears, and palin’s illiterate army of Tucson terrorists. . . Maura Kennedy’s darkly ebullient ‘Parade of Echoes’, the Trapps ‘Cheap Seats’ and rediscovering Dexter Gordon’s 60’s Blue Note Sessions Box. . . . the rustic sensuality of Eliza Blue. The ‘Exile’ remaster was a scream ‘n a hoot until Glenn Beck marched on Washington. Providing a needed smile on a tired progressive’s face, The Sails,’ ‘A Headful of Stars’ proves that head Sail Michael Gagliano…


Mike Miller Poop ’10

  Buy New or Used via amazon 1. KORT – Invariable Heartache   Buy New or Used via amazon 2. Tommy Guerrero – Lifeboats & Follies   Buy New or Used via amazon 3. The Sadies – Darker Circles   Buy New or Used via amazon 4. Leatitia Sadier – The Trip   Buy New or Used via amazon 5. Bambi Molesters – As The Dark Wave Swells   Buy New or Used via amazon 6. Bei Bei & Shawn Lee – Into The Wind   Buy New or Used via amazon 7. Funki Porcini – On   Buy New or Used via amazon 8. Lee Perry &…


Shock! Major record label does the right thing! (.. or does it?)

From the press release: The American people, through the nation’s library, will receive a post-holiday gift of vintage sound recordings from one of the world’s largest recording companies. The Library of Congress and the Universal Music Group (UMG) announced today the donation of more than 200,000 historic master recordings—many long out-of-print or never released—to the Library’s Recorded Sound Section, which has more than 3 million sound recordings in its collections.    Universal Music Group Donates Recordings to Library – The Library Today Library of Congress. Note, though, that Universal retains the commercial rights and the copyright.  So it seems as though…


Matt Nerney Poop ’10

I realized this year that I just don’t like “new” music anymore. I still like the same old stuff I always liked, and anything that sounds like the same old stuff I always liked. I have become an old curmudgeon. Just go through the old lists. You’ll see what I mean. About half way through the year, I got tired of trying to find new stuff that sounds like the old stuff. As a result, my music obsession morphed from old school reggae to Zappa and the Grateful Dead. Go figure. I am pleased to report that my son Declan’s…


Matt Nerney Poop 2010

I realized this year that I just don’t like “new” music anymore. I still like the same old stuff I always liked, and anything that sounds like the same old stuff I always liked. I have become an old curmudgeon. Just go through the old lists. You’ll see what I mean. About half way through the year, I got tired of trying to find new stuff that sounds like the old stuff. As a result, my music obsession morphed from old school reggae to Zappa and the Grateful Dead. Go figure. I am pleased to report that my son Declan’s…


Jamie Hosley Poop 2010

Well 2010 is done, another year gone by, no pet monkey attacks occurred this year so that was a positive note overall. I started out with a list of 20 that I narrowed down to a core set of 10 albums that I came back to repeatedly throughout the year. Now on to the PoOP. Albums of 2010  Buy New or Used via Amazon 1. High Violet: The National Hands down my favorite album of the year, listened to over and over again, in the car, on the iPod, around the house, could not get enough of these tracks. This…