1. Morning Benders “Promises”
2. Wavves “Post Acid”
3. Of Montreal “Coquet Coquette”
4. Cloud Nothings “Hey Cool Kids”
5. Surfer Blood “Floating Vibes”
6. Vampire Weekend “Giving Up the Gun”
7. Miniature Tigers “Bullfighter Jacket”
8. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin “Let It Sway”
9. Arcade Fire “The Suburbs”
10. Ra Ra Riot “Boy”
Joe Paolucci
Top 3 Albums
The National High Violet- Another grower from the National. I think I’ll be listening to this one for a long time. It’s hard to beat Matt Berninger lyrically.
Beach Fossils Beach Fossils- This album may not be perfect. Many songs sound similar, but Beach fossils HAVE a distinctive sound. They stand out in this modern surf genre. Every time they release something, it’s better than the last thing they released. They are strong lyrically-emotional and yet numb. The guitars rhythmically work together so well, and I just feel they are all around tight as a band. I understand that Dustin Payseur fronted a lot of the work, but I’m just glad they all work together.
Beach House Teen Dream- Just a great album. Either you like it or you don’t.
Top 3 Songs
Toro Y Moi- “Talamak”Chaz Bundick has a great voice and an amazing talent for producing. I don’t know if half the time I’m listening to pure moods, late 80s/ early 90s hip-hop, or some kind of unreleased Steely Dan/ Fleetwood Mac, but I like it… It’s so smooth.
Beach Fossils- “Youth”- An infectious riff leads us into one of my favorite lines “ It’s not so worth getting all bent out of shape about,” which defines the song title for me.
Gold Panda –“You” If you can make a song using just the word “you”… that’s pretty cool.
Top 3 Shows
Pavement –Twice in a five day stint, and I still wish I went more.
Yo La Tengo – I remember raking my dead grandfather’s leaves and listening to “Prisoners of Love”. I can’t believe it took me this long to get up here and see them.
Beach Fossils – One of my favorite modern Brooklyn bands. They can’t seem to quite pull off what they do on their recordings, but the energy they display on stage suffices.
Andres Sanchez
Top 3 Albums:
Here We Go Magic – Pigeons
– This album pulls together some of my favorite sounds in music, fuzzy guitars, subtle keys, and groovy bass lines. It’s a delicately-crafted work of art that channels everything in your emotional spectrum.
Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
– I wish I could quantify this, but I can’t. I love this album and anything I say will more than likely fail to do it justice.
Les Savy Fav – Root For Ruin
– This album quenched my thirst for rock and roll this year. Yeah, there were plenty of other rocking records out there, but this one took the cake and ate it in front of me. To this day, I still fantasize about breaking shit with Tim Harrington.
Top 3 Songs:
Thee Oh Sees – “I Was Denied”
The Babies – “Meet Me In The City”
Beach Fossils – “Vacation”
Top 3 Shows:
Woods – some guy named Ben’s House @ SXSW in Austin, Texas March 18th(?)
Here We Go Magic @ Schubas in Chicago, Illinois July 17th
Pavement @ Stubb’s in Austin, Texas September 28th
Top 3 Music Videos:
El Guincho – “Bombay”
Here We Go Magic – “Casual”
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – “Let It Sway”
Aitor Zabalegui
Though it was released overseas in 2009, Sigh No More didn’t make its way into US records shops until February of this year. Because of which I, and many other critics, have decided to consider it a 2010 release. Some critics have taken to labeling Sigh No More the year’s best debut, but that’s actually a disservice to what is far and away the year’s best album period. There is nary a flaw throughout the entire runtime of Sigh No More.
2. The National – High Violet
From the distorted opening notes of “Terrible Love,” until the very last note of “Vanderlyle Crybaby Geek,” The National take listeners on sonic adventure that often juxtaposes beautiful imagery with absolute melancholy. High Violet is the type of album that offers almost instant gratification, but still continues to grow on you with each subsequent spin. Littered with some of this year’s best songs like “Lemonworld” and “Bloodbuzz Ohio,” High Violet also houses songs gems like “Anyone’s Ghost” and “Sorrow.” This is modern rock at its finest: poetic, edgy and most importantly meaningful.
3. The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang
With American Slang, The Gaslight Anthem manage to embrace all of their influences, most notably Bruce Springsteen, while simultaneously honing their own sound. There is a sense of immediacy to their music that demands your attention. Once you give yourself over to American Slang, you are rewarded by a wave of nostalgia. This is a band acutely aware of their own mortality and the current state of music, both of which they treat with disdain.
Best Songs of 2010
1. Power – Kanye West
2. Cosmic Love – Florence + The Machine
3. A Girl, A Boy, and a Graveyard – Jeremy Messersmith
4. Radioactive – Kings of Leon
5. Young Blood – The Naked and Famous
Best Music Videos
1. Madder Red – Yeasayer
2. Cooler Than Me – Mike Posner
3. Tighten Up – The Black Keys
Special Recognition to Kanye West’s film Runaway
Nathan Collins
Top 3 albums of the year:
1) Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma – equal parts electronic, jazz and hip hop, this album reveals new beauty with each listen. Put it on shuffle to discover and entirely different album.
2) Jonsi – Go – One of those times when a lead singer creates a truly original side project. A great pop record.
3) Anais Mitchell – Hadestown – This folk opera features everyone from Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) to Ani DiFranco. Sweeping epic storytelling mixed with some downright amazing folk music.
Jill Ettinger
Top 3 Albums of the Year
1. joanna newsom have one on me
joanna newsom is evolving. fast. put her under a microscope and i bet scientists would discover some new genes or super DNA or something never before seen. the 3 cd set, have one on me, is better song after better song of some of the best music ever made. note to new parents: yes it’s a really good idea to move to the woods, let your children wander in the forest by themselves on 3-day vision quests and teach them to play harp.
2. warpaint the fool
the debut from LA’s warpaint sounds almost as if someone discovered an underground city of super music geniuses living under hollywood’s walk of stars. warpaint sounds like cat power and bat for lashes had lou reed’s love children who they only let listen to radiohead and pj harvey records while spinning around and around like barefoot sufis on a bed of rose petals. the fool is absolutely addictive and prescient.
3. four tet there is love in you
four tet tapped into something bold with there is love in you. if “angel echoes” doesn’t gut you every time you listen to it, please see a doctor. the album progresses like a dream that twinkles and sparkles. if these songs were animals, they would all be unicorns. but not the cartoony fantasy unicorns; the real ones.
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Top 3 Songs of the Year
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infinite arms-band of horses
sleepless in silverlake-les savy fav
pray for rain-massive attack
Top 3 Shows of the Year
Faith No More Palladium Theater, LA
Fat Freddy’s Drop Music Box, LA
Amon Tobin Echoplex, LA
Top 3 Music Videos of the Year
Heathen Child-Grinderman
Enter the Ninja-Die Antwoord
Red Lights-Holy Fuck
Albums
Krista De La Rosa
Albums of the year:
01) Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
I firmly believe that I will never love a person as much as I love Halycon Digest. I firmly believe that I will never fall this hard for an album so quickly as I have with Halcyon Digest. I listened to this album the second it was released and I never stopped listening to it since. Bradford Cox is a man I will always deeply admire more than many, many other musicians. This album is just one of those that will make you say, “Jesus Christ, this is fucking beautiful.” Every single song brings chills down my spine. Every riff of the guitar, every key and button pushed, every word spoken; this is what a perfect album sounds like. There is no such thing as disappointment when it comes to an album like this. No such thing.
02) Coma Cinema – Stoned Alone
Mat Cothran of Coma Cinema will go down in history as the greatest songwriter of our generation. Stoned Alone is an album that I have laughed to, cried to, slept to, walked around campus to, and lived to. There is plenty of music in this world for us to listen to. I’d choose Coma Cinema over any and every band I have ever discovered. Why? Because Coma Cinema is more than music. The lyrics are more than words. Something beyond magic is produced by this amazing, genuine human being. He doesn’t create music for money or for publicity, but for himself. Stoned Alone will make you feel something music has never made you feel. That, I promise you.
03) Magic Man – Real Life Color
Magic Man is composed of two magical men, Sam Lee and Alex Caplow. I cannot remember for the life of me how I discovered this magical duo, but the second I downloaded Real Life Color off their bandcamp, my life was changed. I do not want to describe their sound by comparing them to other artists. Magic Man is nothing but real, passionate magic. I just want to repeat the words “magic, magic, magic” over and over again until you get a better idea of just how MAGICAL their music is. I tend to listen to Real Life Color while driving. I always seem to be driving, so I am a religious listener of this album. It stirs up my imagination beyond belief. Whether it be the synth pop vibes or their delicate voices, Magic Man is definitely a duo that I’d consider the highlight of my 2010 music discovering year.
TOP 3 SONGS OF THE YEAR:
01) Twin Sister – Meet the Frownies
02) Foxes in Fiction – Lately (Memoryhouse cover)
03) Star Slinger – Word
TOP 3 SHOWS OF THE YEAR:
01) I’m going to include all the artists and showcases I saw during SXSW 2010 as my #1 because they were some of the most amazing, memorable performances bundled together.
02) The Tallest Man on Earth / S. Carey
03) Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
TOP 3 MUSIC VIDEOS OF THE YEAR:
01) Coma Cinema – Blissed *Created by Tyler T Williams
02) Memoryhouse – Herloim *Created by Jamie Harley
03) Two Bicycles – How Real *Created by Tonje Thilesen
The Spinto Band
Here are our favorite things of the YEAR…Sorry it’s a bit fractured.
ALBUMS
ROAR – I Can’t Handle Change EP
Miniature Tigers – Fortress
Pigeon John- Dragon Slayer
Generationals – Trust EP
Magic Kids – Memphis
Austin Leonard Jones – Superstitions
Half-handed Cloud – As Stowaways in Cabinets of Surf, We Live-out in Our Members a Kind of Rebirth
NON ALBUMS
Black Swan
The Beast Pageant
Toy Story 3
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Hausu (Criterion Collection Release)
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (33 1/3 Series) – Christopher R. Weingarten
Wilson – Daniel Clowes
BEST THING THAT HAPPENED TO US THIS YEAR
Paul Sprangers (Free Energy)
TOP STUFF ( in random order)
crocodiles
someone still loves you boris yeltsin – let it sway
titus andronicus – the monitor
mates of state – covers album
kanye
robyn
bear in heaven
big boi
midlake
surfer blood
best thing was eastbound and down season 2
Phil Dickey (Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin)
Here are my top 10 songs.
1. “Be Professional” by the ACB’s
2. “Boy Like Me” by the ACB’s
3. “Final Exam” by New Monsters Collective
4. “Live Here” by The Lonely Forest
5. “Dirty Thing” by Telekinesis
6. “Young Hearts” by Free Energy
7. “Hahahaohhoho” by Yellow Ostrich
8. “Best Supporting Actress” by One For The Team
9. “Babies” by Via Audio
10. “Hang with Me” by Robyn
The best thing that happened to me this year was getting married.
Aaron Pfenning (Chairlift, Rewards)
Top 10 songs of 2010.
1. Stars – Warpaint
2. Good Day Today – David Lynch
3. Round and Round – Ariel Pink
4. Only The Young – Brandon Flowers
5. Rules – We Are Scientists
6. Congratulations – MGMT
7. Dance Yrself Clean – LCD Soundsystem
8. O.N.E. – Yeasayer
9. Empire Ants – Gorillaz
10. Dark Night of The Soul – Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse
Best thing of 2010: Getting number ONE and TWO top scores on Gilligan’s Island pinball with Keith Murray at The Commodore.
Justin Kennedy (Army Navy)
I have been in the studio most of the year and I really try not to listen to much new music while writing and recording. But these songs were some of the best that seeped in!
Top 10 songs of 2010
1. Cee Lo Green “Fuck You
2. Arcade Fire “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)”
3. Avi Buffalo “Whats in it for”
4. The Good Natured “Your Body is a Machine”
5. Teenage Fanclub “Baby Lee”
6. Kanye West “Monster”
7. Broken Bells “The High Road
8. Band of Horses “Laredo”
9. Spoon “Got Nuffin”
10. Best Coast “Boyfriend”
Todd Goldstein (ARMS)
1. joanna newsom – have one on me
2. james blake – klavierwerke EP
3. vampire weekend – contra
4. baths – cerulean
5. walkmen – lisbon
6. caribou – swim
7. tame impala – innerspeaker
8. oneohtrix point never – returnal
9. jonsi – go
10. pantha du prince – black noise
best thing that happened to me this year: recording the new ARMS album with my amazing new(-ish) band.
Hollerado
Hollerado’s Top ten of 2010
1- Free Energy – stuck on nothing
2 – Titus andronicus – the monitor
3 – Molly rankin – she ep
4 – let’s wrestle – in the court of the wrestling let’s
5 – fang island – fang island
6 – Neil young – le noise
7 – atom division – red smith 7inch
8 – besnard lakes – are the roaring night
9 – strange boys – be brave
10 – Jamie gilmartin – and there was nothing on the radio
Note. We didn’t include arcade fire’s the suburbs because it is so obviously the best record if the year and it should be implicit that it is on everyones list.
Cale Parks (BRAHMS, Aloha)
Alicia Keys – Unthinkable (song)
James Blake – CMYK (ep)
The Radio Dept. – Clinging To a Scheme (lp)
Lindstrøm & Christabelle – Real Life Is No Cool (lp)
Fantastic Mr. Fox – The Eveyln (ep)
Joy Orbison – The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow (song)
Vondelpark – Hippodrome (song)
Steve Moore – Primitive Neural Pathways (lp)
Matthew Dear – Black City (lp)
Dam-Funk – Do U Feel The Same Way I Do (song)
I found a secret spot in Central Park this fall. Many of my favorite moments of 2010 were spent here.
Jennifer O’Connor
Top 10 of 2010
Perfume Genius – Learning
Sharon Van Etten – epic
Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Fridays
Amy Bezunartea – Restaurants & Bars
Lower Dens – Twin Hand Movement
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
Seeing Tom Petty live finally
Belle and Sebastian “I Want the World To Stop”
The best thing I did this year was put out Amy Bezunartea’s debut record Restaurants & Bars on Kiam.
Jordan Hudkins (The Demon Beat)
Top Ten Songs of 2010 (New/Recently (Re)Discovered):
1. Yo La Tengo – “Sugarcube”
2. Weezer – “Getting Up & Leaving”
3. 1910 Fruitgum Co. – “Indian Giver”
4. Cold Cave – “Life Magazine”
5. Hammer No More The Fingers – “It’s About Caring”
6. The Black Keys – “Everlasting Light”
7. Spirit Night – “Don’t Miss Me”
8. Real Estate – That whole record is pretty gnarly
9. Small Black – “Despicable Dogs (Washed Out Remix)
10. Electric Six – “Escape From Ohio”
Best thing that happened in 2010: Relentless touring!
Tucker Riggleman (The Demon Beat)
Top Ten Albums of 2010:
1. Beach House – “Teen Dream”
2. The Black Keys – “Brothers”
3. Spirit Night – “What We Will Be”
4. Woodworkings – “We Sit On Floors, We Stand On Chairs”
5. Girls – “Broken Dreams Club” EP
6. Dandelion Snow – “The Grand Scheme Of Things”
7. Pat Pat – “Wizard of This”
8. Lucero – “1372 Overton Park”
9. J Marinelli – “Pre-emptive Skankery Sessions”
10. Sufjan Stevens – “The Age of Adz”
Best thing that happened in 2010: Playing SXSW along with some of our very favorite bands/friends
Jason Nesmith (Casper and the Cookies)
Under the category of General Listening, this was the year of Sex Clark Five and Lee Dorsey. Those two artists demanded my attention. As for 2010 releases, here are my faves.
1. Aquaserge- Ce Tres Cher Serge, Special Origins
2. Kevin Dunn- No Great Lost (reissue)
3. LCD Soundsystem- This Is Happening
4. Poison Control Center- Sad Sour Future
5. Colleen & Paul
6. Field Music- Measure
7. The Apples In Stereo- Travellers in Space & Time
8. Mike Watt- Hyphenated-Man
9. Venice Is Sinking- Sand & Lines
10. Tela Menos- Patagonian Rats
also good:
Teenage Fanclub- Shadows
Stereolab- Not Music
of Montreal- False Priest
The Method Actors- This is Still It
Would have made the list, but it’s from 2009:
Claire & the Reasons- Arrow (from 2009, but FTW!)
Caribou- Swim
The best thing that happened to me all year:
I started working out! Not like six-pack-abs workin’ out, but general-well-being workin’ out. It changed my outlook on life. I’ve started staning differently. I’ve still got a little belly, and that’s probably not going to change. But I feel so much better.
Runner-up: I got to see Paul Collins (of the Nerves and the Beat) and Van Dyke Parks live, two of the best shows I’ve ever witnessed.
Jim Hix (Casper and the Cookies)
2010 saw the release of a lot of music, both mainstream and indie, that I was super-duper excited about.
When it comes to 2010 mainstream hip hop, 2010 had some really great and memorable stuff. The year began with the awesome (was it the third?) return of Jay Z: Blueprint Vol 3. Then all year we were treated to the emergence to the national stage of Nicki Minaj, hip hop’s lady gaga (that’s a good thing). And finally, we close the year off with my favorite major label record of the year, Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Like Smucker’s Jelly, even the ridiculous name (let’s not even mention the cover!) couldn’t hold that record back! In my favorite track of the year, Monster, you get Jay Z, Kanye, AND Nicki Minaj, all in the same three minutes and all spitting some of their best rhymes ever!
2010 was also the year that my favorite indie band, Poison Control Center, released their epic double record, Sad Sour Future. I’m not sure what the title of the record speaks to, but the songs it contains are instant classics in the PCC cannon for all fans. (if you’re not a fan yet it’s probably because you just haven’t heard them yet. Check them out, they’re SOOO GOOD!) Like I said, it’s double record yet it somehow manages to retain attention and listen-ability all the way through.
One of my other favorite bands, Indiana’s Jookabox, followed up their brilliant release, 2008’s Ropechain with 2010’s Deadzone Boys. (I just checked on Wikipedia and it says that Deadzone Boys came out in 09 but I didn’t get it until 2010 so that’s when I’m counting it!) It’s hard to describe jookabox by comparing them to other bands cause no one else really sounds like them. Trust me, they’re really good so you should get those two records!!
I have some friends in Toronto, Colleen and Paul, and they recorded a record this year under the name “Colleen and Paul” and this record is AMAZING! It’ relies mostly on acoustic guitar and vocal harmonies in the tradition of Simon and Garfunkel, and man, are the songs good! I just checked and the record is available on itunes for less than 8 bucks and it’s self titled and everyone should run to their computers and buy it cause they’ve never heard it and they don’t know that they have little holes in their hearts where these tunes are gonna fit so nicely.
I have to say, a lot of what I listened to this year was new music coming from the little legendary town I call home, Athens, GA! There’s a new three-piece called The Hums. I can find no web presence for this band and I don’t know if the record is released yet, I think my girl friend bought it at one of their shows, but man, its a great record that sounds kind of like the violent femmes playing white stripes songs, but not really. The album is called Lemonland and you can hear it current;y at the vision video store that I work at. I’ll keep you posted as I find out more. The other record I wanna plug cause if you don’t live here you’ve probably never heard of them but this record is my top record of the year, and it’s by a band called Quiet Hooves. The record is called, Saddle Up and I couldn’t find a place on the web where you could buy it but I know they had a cd release party this year so that’s released enough for me. Go one over to their myspace and check them out. (Start with the album tracks! That’s the stuff you wanna hear!) The songs sound like, I don’t know, really good well thought out baroque pop recorded on a cassette four-track. There’s whimsy and mystery and quiet moments of beauty. I can’t say enough good stuff about this album. Keep your eyes peeled and if you run across it, snag it up!!!
Alright that’s it for me. 2011 is gonna see some exciting new stuff for all the bands I play in. The Goons is going to release its first record so keep and eye out for that!! Marshmallow Coast is going to release “Seniors and Juniors Strike Back” which is a complete re-recording of Andy’s first album he released ten years ago! Casper and the Cookies have just started work on our next record and the demos are sounding awesome so look for a release from us sometime next year! Plenty of touring and promoting next year so if I’m in your town, come see me!!!
Owen Evans – ROAR!
Totally! What music fan doesn’t like to make lists? I’m really glad you included songs too. Smart!
1. Magic Kids – Memphis
2. Carol Cleveland Sings – The Cashmere Cassette
3. MGMT – Congratulations
4. Department of Eagles – Archive 2003-2006
5. Candy Claws – Hidden Lands
6. Miniature Tigers – Fortress
7. Avi Buffalo – S/T
8. Sparklehorse – Dark Night of the Soul
9. Half-handed Cloud – As Stowaways in Cabinets of Surf, We Live-out in Our Members a Kind of Rebirth
10. Mini Mansions – S/T
The best thing that happened to me this year was getting to go on tour with one of my favorite people/musicians and meeting the most amazing girl all in the span of two months.
Leslie Sisson
Leslie Sisson – Matt Pond PA, The Wooden Birds
Try this on for size…
2010’s Top Albums That Killed Me:
1. The Radio Dept – Clinging to a Scheme
2. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
3. Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
4. The Crackling – Keep Full Ambitious
5. JUNIP – Fields
6. Beach House – Teen Dream
7. Sharon Van Etten – Epic
8. Best Coast – Crazy For You
9. Land of Talk – Cloak and Cipher
10. The Clientele – Minotaur
Aside Honorable Mention:
Matt Pond PA – The Dark Leaves
It’s too good to categorize. Ok, I know I’m in the band, but I’m not on this record so it’s fair to be my fave, even after hearing it repeatedly for a year. Matt is a truly talented songwriter and I’m honored to share the stage with him in not one, but two beloved bands.
This Year’s Top Happening:
My highlight moment was getting called up to sing with Broken Social Scene by the lovely Lisa Lobsinger on Central Park Summer Stage. That came close to dueting with Dan Mangan on the road and spending my year touring in The Wooden Birds and Matt Pond PA. 2010 was a good one.
Here’s My Top 7 in no order:
1) The Biters- “Hang Around”
2) The So So Glos- “Fred Astaire”
3) The Ex-Humans- “Primitive”
4) The Booze- “Hate City Nights”
5) The Radio Exiles- “Secret Station”
6) The Danvilles- “I Tell You”
7) Cee-Lo Greene-“Fuck You” obviously. That song is incredible.
I’d say that being able to play a show with the Biters was probably my highlight, band wise. That, or any house party show we did at Purchase College. Then again, we haven’t played New Years yet at 58 Gallery, so it might still be too early to tell.
This year pretty much sucked on my end! Anything relating to the band was the best, save for a few more tattoos.
1. Social Distortion “Machine Gun Blues”
After 30 years they’ve still got it.
2.Tokyo Police Club “Favorite Food”
“Champ” is probably the album that was the soundtrack to my summer.
3.The Gaslight Anthem “Boxer”
Sure they sound like Bruce Springsteen, but I like Bruce.
4. The Biters “Hang Around” gotta agree with Dave on this one
5. Arcade Fire “Sprawl II (Mountains beyond mountains)”
6.the Black Keys “Everlasting Light”
I managed to sneak into the end of their set at Central Park, and these guys are as good live as they are on record.
7. Vampire Weekend “Giving up the gun”
8.Girl Talk “Oh no”
Anyone who can make people dance to Black Sabbath is good in my book.
9.Tokyo Police Club “End of a Spark”
10.Cee-Lo Greene “Fuck you”
Best thing that happened to me this year?
I would have to say playing a show at monster island basement in brooklyn, immediately driving to Iowa after our set on a random road trip, driving back to New York after a couple days, and then playing a 101.9 rxp showcase opening for Steel Train at the Bowery Electric. It was a crazy week to say the least.
That or hearing myself on the radio was pretty damn cool.
The holidays are soon approaching and we here at Modern Mystery have just the right thing to get you into the Christmas spirit! Holiday music is one of the best things about the season and we hope you enjoy this little, well, er, big mix. It’s our second Mixmas and we went all out with 38 songs this year. Everyone from Matt Pond PA to Of Montreal, you have to check it out below to believe your little eyes. This is the one gift you can peek at this Christmas!
Dressy Bessy- All the Right Reasons
The Sixth Great Lake- Always After Christmas Boring
Asobi Seksu- Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight)
Belle and Sebastian- O Little Town of Bethlehem
Blitzen Trapper- Christmas is Coming Soon
Bright Eyes- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Casper and the Cookies- Kiss Me Beneath the Christmas Tree
Ladybug Transistor- Christmas Extravangza
My First Keyboard- Christmas is Only Good If You’re a Girl (Boy)
Of Montreal- Christmas Isn’t Safe for Animals
Essex Green- Deck the Halls
Denison Winter- A Christmas Song
Drive-By Truckers-Mrs. Claus’ Kimono
The Features- Christmas Wish Book
Felice Brothers- Murder by Mistletoe
The Music Tapes- Freeing Song for Reigndeer
Frightened Rabbit- It’s Xmas So We’ll Stop
Fun.- Believe in Me
Gentlemen Auction House- Don’t Want Another Christmas Like Last Christmas
Marbles- Gift for You
Fabulous Bird with Bill Doss-It’s Christmas Time Again
Long Winters- Sometimes You Have to Work on Christmas
Low-Just Like Christmas
Matt Pond PA- Holiday Road
My Morning Jacket- Christmas Time is Here
Of Montreal- My Favorite Christmas (In a Hundred Words or Less)
Reigning Sound- If Christmas Can’t Bring You Home
Rilo Kiley- Xmas Cake
Robbers on High Street- Seasons Greetings
Ryan Adams- Hey Parker, It’s Christmas
Summer Hymns- Santa Couldn’t Fit You Under My Tree
Slow Club- Christmas TV
Sufjan Stevens- That Was the Worst Christmas Ever!
The Wedding Present- White Christmas
The Raveonettes- Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
The Wombats- This is Christmas
The Damnwells- Xmas Eve
The Knife- Christmas Reindeer
Pretty Lights (Derek Vincent Smith) has been touring the U.S. and Europe, performing at festivals and sold-out shows and has just announced a 2-night New Year’s run in Chicago at the Congress Theater. Known for his visually gorgeous live shows, Chicago is in position for a special night
Sharing the bill on the 30th is Major Lazer and Michael Menert, and Holy Fuck and Tobacco will be in the lineup on the 31st.
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Premiering his new video for “Future Blind,” which can be found on Spilling Over Every Side, get pumped for the Pretty Lights New Year’s shows.
Check out Pretty Lights web site where he recently surpassed one million album downloads, which he distributes for free. www.prettylightsmusic.com
Note the Time Changes! See you there!
7:30-8pm Marc Pinansky
8:15-8:45 y/y
9pm – 9:45 Robbers on High Street
10:15-10:45 The Twees
11pm – 11:45 Bottle Up and Go
12:00-12:30 Yellow Ostrich
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