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Top 10 of 2008: By the Numbers

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 [...]

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Top 40 Music Videos of 2008

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 [...]

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Top 10 Tracks of 2008 (Part 4)

by Baishi Wu on December 2, 2008

For more of the Top 10 Tracks of 2008 series, click here.
10. Noah & the Whale. “5 Years Time.” I worry that this song, with it’s pleasant whistling and tinkling message of love, will get people to buy more Saturn’s. That would be awful.
9. Sigur Ros. “Gobbledigook.” Departing from their previous soft, instrumental work, Sigur [...]

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Top 10 Tracks of 2008 (Part 3)

by Andrew Hibbard on November 30, 2008

Yoni Wolf of WHY? Courtesy hiphopcore.net       

While I regret not listening to Silver Jews’ Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, Department of Eagle’s In Ear Park, Air France’s No Way Down EP, Portishead’s Third, Neil Halstead’s Oh! Mighty Engine, No Age’s Nouns, Atlas Sound’s Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel, Dosh’s Wolves [...]

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