Well here are my top ten albums of the year. If you know me at all you will probably find my top five pretty predictable, but I’m fine with that. In retrospect I would say 2009 was a great year for music. Now it’s time to look ahead to 2010 and hope that it’s just as good, maybe even better. View Entries 10 – 1 after the jump… 10. Phoenix &#…read more
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I’m heading to Austin and later San Antonio but before I go here are SDM’s 20-11 albums of the decade entries. I hope everyone has a happy and safe booze filled holiday. Albums after the jump… 20: Band of Horses – Cease to Begin (2007) MP3: Band of Horses – “Is There A Ghost” Cease to Begin – Band of Horse… 19: Wolf Parade &#…read more
Here is an overview of our 80 favorite albums of the aughts. This way you can talk shit about our picks without having to click a bunch of different links. We like to make things super easy for all of you guys because we care. Anyways, I’m glad this is over, and look for our favorite albums of the year soon. View all 80 selections after the jump… 80: Handsome Furs…read more
Here is the second installment of SDM’’s top albums of 2009. Check back tomorrow (hopefully) for the final installment. Again, if you have an opinion, either good or bad, feel free to leave it in the comments section. View the list after the jump… 20. Real Estate – Real Estate MP3: Real Estate – “Beach Comber” Real Estate – Real Estate 19. Andrew Bird – Noble Beast…read more
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. It’s been a long time coming (at least for me) but here is the final installment of SDM’s Top Albums of the Decade. In retrospect (If I can even say that with it still being November and all) this has been a pretty great decade. Here’s hoping the next decade, whatever we are calling it, is just as good…read more
Here are my top 40 albums of 2009 collected into one post rather than spread across three. For what it’s worth I already have a bad case of list regret. In retrospect I would have placed the Real Estate album much higher, possibly top 10 even. I’ve been listening to it a lot lately and it really is gorgeous. Anyways, what’s done is done. …read more
I feel confident that a mind blowing album deserving of a spot on this list isn’t going to be released in the next few weeks (I could be wrong and we will deal with that situation when it occurs). So without further ado here is the first half of our top albums of 2009. We will roll out the next couple of segments throughout the remainder of…read more
The take-the-cake biggest cliché in music journalism is that every year is a great year in music. And, of course, this is true because music is one of our lastingly great contributions as a species. So, just how great is 2010 going to be? Pretty fucking great. After the jump, check out my best/favorite albums…read more
It’s Tuesday and that means another day chalked full of new album releases. Check out what this week holds in store for your listening pleasure after the jump. As always let us know what we’ve forgot. New Releases, MP3’s, Streams and Album Art After the Jump… Annuals | Sweet Sister MP3: Annuals – &#…read more
We are three weeks into the new year and some pretty amazing albums have already been released. This week the new Spoon is an absolute must get, but there are a few others that might surprise a few people. The new Eels album has E taking a look back on broken love, and the result is an absolutely heartbreaking but…read more
The Catalogue
