by Andrew Hibbard on December 15, 2008
A whole 17 days before the year ends, we did it. We summarized the best our favorite music of 2008 on our humble blog, and its name was Justin Vernon. The Jagjaguwar re-release of Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago, our favorite album of the year, made it into six of our nine lists, all [...]
by Baishi Wu on December 7, 2008
Feist “I Feel it All”
Pitchfork Media has recently posted their Top 40 Music Videos of 2008. Scott Plagenhoef and Mark Richardson explain how the music video has evolved alongside the internet:
The web was also there to capture musical moments that stoked the computer age equivalent of water cooler conversation (Jay-Z’s skewering of Oasis’ “Wonderwall” at [...]
by Nate Freeman on December 5, 2008
10. Girl Talk. “Play Your Part (Part 1).” Any track off Feed the Animals—the unquestionable album of the summer—could have made this list. Dr. Gillis gets by with a little help from his friends Lil’ Wayne and Sinead O’Connor, a combination that makes for one of the best Girl Talk moments since Biggie rapped about [...]
by Andrew Hibbard on November 24, 2008
Sasha Frere-Jones’ profile of Flying Lotus (Steven Ellison) from this week’s New Yorker talks about the artist’s remix of Radiohead’s “Reckoner”:
This doesn’t remake “Reckoner” so much as let it float, like a liquid suspended in another, heavier liquid. There is an elegant sense of proportion in this remix. As radical as the change of mood is, and [...]
