The Friday Five: December 30, 2011
On the sixth day of every week, Michael Parr shuffles through his library to bring you five random tracks.
Mark’s Best of 2011
2011 was truly a blessed year for music. Many of my favorite groups released new records and, as always thanks to NME, I found some fab new ones to geek out over. Without further adieu, here are my Top Ten…
Pete’s Top Albums of 2011
2011 was another year of musical discovery for me. Clocking in highest on the discovery meter were San Francisco’s Girls; but right up there with Girls were two bands that can’t technically qualify for my best of 2011 album list:…
The Friday Five: December 23, 2011
On the sixth day of every week, Michael Parr shuffles through his library to bring you five random tracks.
I Support The War on Drugs
Man, I can get behind The War on Drugs. Their latest, Slave Ambient, is fantastic – one of those albums that instantly draws you in. It’s a rock & roll framework, but the album title doesn’t lie – there’s an…
It’s So Hard To Just Walk Away
For the past several weeks, I have tried to get myself to the point where I could tell all of you that the new album by Coldplay, Mylo Xyloto, is a must for your Christmas stocking this year. Sadly, I have…
The Friday Five: December 16, 2011
On the sixth day of every week, Michael Parr shuffles through his library to bring you five random tracks.
Impossible But…
Before it had even arrived in the mail my mind was made up. There was no way in hell that the new Subways album, Money and Celebrity, was going to be as good as their last one. All or Nothing…
The Friday Five: December 9, 2011
Friday Five : ‘frī-(,)dā,-dē ‘fīv : On the sixth day of every week, I hit the shuffle button on my iTunes, then share the first five tracks and thought for each track. Sometimes there is a playlist involved, occasionally we’ll…
He Stands The Test of Time…Like Beatles and Stones
(Beady Eye, Live in the Main Room, First Avenue, 5 December 2011) Liam Gallagher is doing just fine without Oasis. Well, actually, he took most of Oasis with him and formed a new band called Beady Eye so he’s not…
