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Tuesday.1.January.2008
Well, here it is: a brand new year. Some
of My Minions have thoughtfully summed up the
year 2007 for you, for your reading pleasure.
Best Of Lists: Brett
Spaceman lists 5 Disappointments: a cautionary tale of having high expectations.
Best Of Lists: Indoor
Miner lists albums, re-issues, singles, and gigs.
Best Of Lists: Inspector
Jason recites the names of 10 records that he liked in 2007.
Best Of Lists: PostLibyan
discusses the music of year in chronological terms.
Best Of Lists: Tracers
lists albums both past and present, and live events.
Sunday.30.December.2007
Album: You,
You're a History In Rust by Do Make Say Think
Album: Darren
Hayman & the Secondary Modern by
Darren Hayman & the Secondary Modern
Album: These
Places Are Now Ruins by Last Days
Year End Lists: What is that strange feeling
in the air? Aside from rain here in Atlanta
(something
that never happens anymore), you are sensing the hushed
expectation
of thousands of indie rockers who await the annual "End of the
Year" lists.
My Minions have been typing away furiously getting these ready
for
you. Point your browser back here on the 1st to see what they have to
say
about 2007. Sunday.2.December.2007
Album: Hermeneutics by
Antennas to Heaven
Album: Greed,
Lust, and Cloning by Don Bodin
Album: Spill
Your Heart by The Dark Beaks
Album: Trading
Twilight for Daylight by Great Northern
Album: The
Ghost You Left Behind by Hearts of Black Science
Album: They'll Come, They Come by
Immanu El
Album: From
Above by Lunar Dunes
Album: Luck
& Accident by Kim Novak
Album: Night
of the Furies
by
The Rosebuds
Sunday.4.November.2007
Album: Butterfly
Radio by Avenpitch
Concert: FILM
SCHOOL w/ Eulogies and
Parade on Fri.19.Oct.07
Concert:
SERJ TANKIAN w/ Tom Morello on
Sat.20.Oct.07
Concert: ROBBERS
ON HIGH STREET w/ Great Northern and Today the Moon, Tomorrow
the Sun on
Fri.27.Oct.07
Concert: SAY
HI w/ The Velvet Teen and The A-Sides
on Sat.28.Nov.07
Sunday.21.October.2007
Album: Dream
On by Celestial
Album: Transparent
Things by Fujiya + Miyagi
Album: Get
the Guests by The High Strung
Album: Tanks
and Recognizer by Lights Out Asia
Album: Everything
You Should Know by Silence Is Sexy
Monday.15.October.2007
Addition: Some
photos of the Marc Bolan Tribute gig have been added to that review.
Sunday.7.October.2007
Album: Velocity by
Damage
Album: Dividing
Opinons by Giardini di Miro
Album: Marble! by
Marble!
Album: Silhouettes by
My Orchard
Album: Let's Dance To Our Own Beats by
The Soft Eyes
EP: Beat
the Devil by Beat the Devil
Concert: Marc
Bolan: A Celebration on Sat.15.Sep.07
Concert:
MACHINE HEAD w/ Arch Enemy, Sanctity,
and Throwdown on
Tue.18.Sep.07
DVD: Hated,
featuring G.G. Allin
Saturday.30.September.2007
Festival: Other Sound Day 1 featuring: Envie,
Mary O. Harrison, Pistolero, Moresight
Festival: Other
Sound Day 2 featuring: Fernandina, Citified, The Yum Yum Tree, The Press,
Lay
Down Mains, All Night Drug Prowling Wolves
Festival: Other Sound
Day 3 featuring: No Disassemble, Silent Kids, Novelift, Jupiter Watts,
The Orphins,
One Hand Loves the Other, Club Awesome, Luigi
Festival: Other
Sound Day 4 featuring: Chickens and Pigs, Batata Doce, Tenth to the Moon,
Untied States
Sunday.16.September.2007
Album: Spiderman
of the Rings by
Dan Deacon
Album: Airplanes by
Dead Guitars
Album: We
Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank by Modest Mouse
EP: Whatever
It's Going To Be by I Concur
EP: What's
Not To Love? by The Nightingales
EP: Quicksand
Memory by Ulrich Schnauss
Compilation: All
of Yesterday Tomorrow by AMP
Concert: THE
CINEMATICS w/ Carina Round and Tentonic on Sat.1.Sep.07
Concert: AU
REVOIR SIMONE w/ Oh No! Oh My! and Numbers on Mon.3.Sep.07
Monday.27.August.2007
12" EP: Gravity
Has Expired by Ova Looven
Album: This
World Is On Fire by Elevado
Album: Copia by
Eluvium
Album: One
Hand Loves The Other by One Hand Loves The Other
Concert: BISHOP
ALLEN w/ +/-, Say Hi To Your Mom, and Parade on Sat.24.Mar.07
Concert:
JOHN DOE w/ Dead Rock West and A.M. on
Sun.5.Aug.07
Sunday.19.August.2007
Review/Interview Hybrid: Painted
Sky by Yellow6
You may have noticed that this posting is a repeat. It is not, I assure you.
Eleven days ago I posted a review that consisted of two Minions discussing
this release by Yellow6. On Thursday of this past week, Yellow6, Mr. Jon Attwood,
wrote back with a reply to the points the Minions raised in their review.
With his permission, I have integrated his responses into the review. This
might allow you greater insight into the mind of a musician. Or maybe you just
want to see if he can be as snarky as Brett Spaceman and PostLibyan. Either
way, I think it makes for interesting reading. Enjoy.
Saturday.11.August.2007
Festival: Corndogorama
2007 Day 1 featuring: 63 Crayons, Parade, Rev Rebel, The Bon
Vivants,
The
Green Hit, Canada, "Mystery Band", Bad Magic Number, Magnapop, Luigi,
and
Ancient
Chinese Secret
Festival: Corndogorama
2007 Day 2 featuring: Mouser, Club Awesome, Slushco, The Orphins,
Elevado,
Midwives, Judi Chicago, Spy For Hire, The Winter Sounds, Continue and
Save,
The Preakness, Untied States, and Moresight
Festival: Corndogorama
2007 Day 3 featuring: Dang Dang Dang, Chickens and Pigs, Seraphix,
Moorish
Idols, Tenth to the Moon, Dig Your Hole, Slackey Family Circus, The
Sudden
Rays, Jupiter Watts, and The Forever War
Wednesday.8.August.2007
Album: Launch
and Landing by The Lost Patrol
Album: Painted
Sky by Yellow6
EP: Answer Me by
Parade
Friday.13.July.2007
Album: Exit
Decades by Cut City
Album: Micalavera by
Damiak
Album: Humansize by
Echo Is Your Love
Album: Before
We Could Sing by Ether Aura
Album: Afraid
To Dance by
Port-Royal
Sunday.10.June.2007
Album: Far
From Refuge by God is An Astronaut
Album: Jatun by
Jatun
Album: The
Jupiter Watts by
The Jupiter Watts
Concert: TWO SHEDS RECORDS TENTH ANNIVERSARY SHOW
featuring The Jupiter Watts,
The Silent Kids, Blake Rainey and His Demons,
and An Epic At Best on Sat.10.Feb.07
Tuesday.8.May.2007
Album: Carp by
Carp
Album: <.> by
Showstar
Album: Deranged
Minds Unite by
The Search
Album: No
Mans Land by SubtractiveLAD
Concert: BIRD
w/ Rescue Mission and Tiger! Tiger! on Fri.23.Mar.07
Concert: THEE
CRUCIALS
w/ Bang! Bang! and Attractive Eighties Women on Fri.6.Apr.07
Downloadable Album: Early
Transmissions of... by Time. Space. Repeat.
EP: The
Big Black Cock of Death by Dressed In Wires
Saturday.14.April.2007
At long last, it's here! Read all about the shenanigans
at South by SouthWest 2007:
Day 1 featuring Saturday
Looks Good To Me, Minmae, Rahim, Tammany Hall Machine, Through the Sparks, Al
G., Faceless Werewolves, Oxford Collapse, Kinski
Day 2 featuring
Headlights, Kaki King, The Stars of Track and Field, Chairs of
Perception, Hummersqueal, Trances Arc, The Apostles of Hustle,
The Dears, The Oohlas, The Horrors
Day 3 featuring:
You Am I, Airbourne, The Oohlas, Picastro, Saturday Looks Good
To Me, Mistress Stephanie and Her Melodic Cat, Tijuana Hercules,
The Faint
Day 4 featuring Lee Scratch Perry, My Latest Novel,
Field Music, Tilly and the Wall, The Pipettes, +/-, The High Strung
Sunday.1.April.2007
Album: no.spectre by
Arc Lab
Album: Infinite
Delay by Graboids
Album: Sound
Weave by Theta Naught and Alex Caldiero
Album: Things
Change While Helium Listen to Everyone by Your Ten Mofo
Downloadable Compilation: Intelligent
Toys 3, a various artists compilation from Sutemos.net
EP: Kamehameha by
Ponytail
Patience: "Brendan," I hear you ask, "where
is the review of South By Southwest 2007?" Patience, children. My Minions submitted
over 20 single-spaced pages of commentary, and about 1 GB worth of photos. I
am processing all of this data as rapidly as I can. Check back next week...
Sunday.11.March.2007
Album: Headpixel
Data by The Oslo Deadtrash Project
Album: ...
Until the World Is Beautiful by The Prids
Concert: CASSAVETES
w/ Sleep Therapy and Go Motion on Sat.10.Feb.07
EP: Below
Radar by
Helen Stellar
EP: E.P. by
Pacific UV
EP: The
Romance of Young Tigers by The Romance of Young Tigers
Sunday.17.February.2007
7": The Reputation of Ross Francis b/w Gunpowder,
Treason and Plot by
My Latest Novel
Album: Movements by
Black Tie Dynasty
Album: We
Can Do It by
Confuse the Cat
Album: Raising
Your Voice ... Trying to Stop an Echo by
Hammock
Album: Ben
Chantice by
Monoland
Album: Of
Sinking Ships by
Of Sinking Ships
EP: Clouds by
Slushco
Sunday.4.February.2007
7": Split
7" by Parade
and Aviator
7" EP: II by
Miracles of God
Album: En
Este Momento by Cordero
Album: Your
Children Will Placate You From Premature Graves by The Legendary
Pink Dots
Album: Time
Is On My Side by
Tobias Lilja
Concert: SHELLAC
w/ Uzeda on
Tue.8.Aug.06
Sunday.28.January.2007
7": No Reaction b/w No Reception by
Saturday Looks Good to Me
Album: I
Conquered While Sill in the Egg by Julien Aklei
Album: You
Can Know Danger by At Dusk
Album: Cities by
Cities
Album: Fiendish
Freaky Love by Hot Young Priest
Album: Writer's
Block by Peter, Bjorn and John
Album: Diarrhea by
PPR
Concert: MISSION
OF BURMA w/ Some Soviet Station on Sat.13.Jan.07
Concert: THE
SELMANAIRES w/ The Nein and cassavetes on Sat.13.Jan.07
Remix Collection: Variations by
Cities
Sunday.14.January.2007
7": Ticket
to Immortality by The Dears
Album: Pay
Up Sucker by The Cogburns
Album: In
the Maybe World
by Lisa Germano
Album: To
Where You Are by The High Violets
Album: Wolves by
My Latest Novel
Album: The
Search by The Search
Album: Oceania,
I Will Return by The Year Zero
Best Of Lists: Brett
Spaceman looks forward to 7 albums in 2007.
Compilation: Bloodbathe & Bazaar
of Lush Loose Limbs by The Search
Monday.1.January.2007
Well, it is that time of year at which we music-types reflect
back upon what we heard during the previous year. Here are
the first batch of "Lists". Please note that this year we
have a very special guest writer, Mr Colin Newman (of Wire and Githead) has shared his impressions of 2006 with us.
Best
Of Lists: Colin
Newman gives musical thoughts, MySpace advice, and downloads.
Best Of Lists: Indoor
Miner lists albums, re-issues, singles, one gig and one
DVD.
Best Of Lists: Malimus
recites the names of 20 records that he liked in 2006.
Best Of Lists: PostLibyan
lists albums, EPs, compilations, and shows.
Best Of Lists: Tracers
lists 11 musical pleasures.
Read the updates as they
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Read about our Year 2000 Bests.
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2001.
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2002.
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2003.
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2004.
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2005.
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2006.
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