Posts Tagged ‘tv on the radio’
TV on the Radio @ 9:30
On Monday night, TV on the Radio exorcised any demons lingering after February’s uncharacteristic misstep on Saturday Night Live with a triumphant sold out show at the 9:30 Club. They opened the cage on the postmodern menagerie of sounds harnessed in the masterful Dear Science while keeping the layered electronic howl respectfully danceable.
Rolling Stone reaches new lows with ‘Top 50 Albums’
With the new year comes not-so-new traditions: purging your closet of heinous holiday sweaters, resolving to dissolve your waistline and, if you’re Rolling Stone , looking to Top 40 lists and tired-and-true troubadours to compile your list of the 50 “Best” Albums of the Year.
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Whoring for Rise: My Top 10 List for 2008
Brent Burton observed earlier in the week that critics seldom mourn the absence of metal from mainstream top 10 lists. I’d go a step further and say that the only bands that don’t get shafted are the ones that don’t need reviewing–bands like GnR and Metallica, for whom critics dutifully went out of their way to praise even though neither band’s album was as good as the releases below (IMHO). With four exceptions–TV on the Radio, Be Your Own Pet, Thrice, and Longwave–my list is all about the heavy-ass gut-thumpers (many of them from my home state of Florida).
[Ed. note: Rise Records distributed three of my choices, and Vagrant distributed two--I can assure BPB readers that I was in no way compensated for my shameless whoring.]
Music 2008: Melody Records Sells a Boatload of Madonna
Below: this year’s top-sellers at Melody Records. Glad to see Gnarls on there; chagrined to see Coldplay; not surprised to see either; curious whether any other stores were able to move the Hancock album like this.
- Madonna, Hard Candy
- Coldplay, Viva la Vida
- Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Part One
- Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
- Portishead, Third
- Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Hudson
- Amy Winehouse, Back to Black
- R.E.M., Accelerate
- Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
- Gnarls Barkley, The Odd Couple
- Sigur Ros, Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust
- The Raconteurs, Consolers of the Lonely
- TV on the Radio: Dear Science
- Herbie Hancock, River: The Joni Letters
- Duffy, Rockferry
