Here’s a few things that happened in the past two weeks that you may have missed…
First…Holiday Shores were on Daytrotter!! And BOY did they sound great! Check out my cameo on tambourine!
Speaking of Holiday Shores…They played a few dates with friends, Surfer Blood. Here is some cool poster art. And now a few more dates have been announced (with Surfer Blood and Turbo Fruits!!!):
02/16 - Orlando, FL @ Backbooth
02/17 - DeLand, FL @ DaVinci
02/18 - Tallahassee, FL @ Engine Room
02/19 - Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Shores
02/20 - Nashville, TN @ The End
02/22 - Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor
02/23 - Morgantown, WV @ 123 Pleasant St.
02/24 - Washington, DC @ DC9
As always, more news coming soon and don’t forget to pick up the CD from our store or the LP from their store!
Well, it’s the end of a decade and we’re wrapping up 2009 with a Top 10s post…just like everyone else…We rounded up the TSR staff and polled them for their Top 10s. See them (copied and pasted from a long e-mail thread) below:
Carrie Sloan:
Dirty Projectors- Bitte Orca
Animal Collective- MPP
Fever Ray- Fever Ray
Camera Obscura- My Maudlin Career
Tim Hecker- An Imaginary Country
Why?- Eskimo Snow
Ducktails- Landscapes
A Sunny Day in Glasglow- Ashes Grammar
Holiday Shores- Columbus’d… you know
Robert A.A> Lowe- Fazo IV: La Kvalito de Spequloj
Ben Tousley:
1 Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
2 DM Stith – Heavy Ghost
3 The Clientele – Bonfires on the Heath
4 Cass McCombs – Catacombs
5 Real Estate – Real Estate / Reality EP
6 Odawas - The Blue Depths
7 Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion / Fall Be Kind EP
8 Broadcast – Broadcast & the Focus Group
9 Papercuts – You Can Have What You Want
10 Holiday Shores – Columbus’d the Whim
Dan Goshorn:
top ten music kicks of the decade
10. Guns n Roses November Rains
9. Dinosaur Jrs
8. Public Enemy Vans
7. Pharrell Dunks
6. Jay-Z’s Supra Muska Skytop from the “Umbrella” video
5. Aaron Lacrate Vans
4. Osiris Beat-Its
3. Coachella Vandals
2. Kanye West Louis Vuitton Dons
1. ?uestlove x Nike 1 World Air Force 1 Gold Toe
Brian Kerr:
top eleven albums
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Holiday Shores - Columbus’d The Whim
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Dead Man’s Bones - S/T
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Candy Claws - In The Dream Of The Sea Life
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
Real Estate - S/T
Cass McCombs - Catacombs
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
Zach Pollakoff:
Top 10 Favorite Release of 2009
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Holiday Shores - Columbus’d The Whim
Real Estate - S/T
Girls - Album
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy
That Ghost - Get It And Get Out EP
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
tUnE-yArDs - BiRd BrAiNs
Best Coast - Make You Mine 7”
Top 10 Favorite Songs from Releases that aren’t in My Top 10 Favorite Releases of 2009
Atlas Sound - ‘Walkabout (Feat. Noah Lennox)’
Grizzly Bear - ‘Two Weeks’
Animal Collective - ‘What Would I Want? Sky?’
Avi Buffalo - ‘What’s It In For?’
Rainbow Bridge - ‘Big Wave Rider’
Washed Out - ‘Feel It Around’
Glass Ghost - ‘Like a Diamond’
Fergus & Geronimo - ‘Blind Muslim Girl’
Jay-Z - ‘Empire State of Mind (Feat. Alicia Keyes)’
Candy Claws - ‘Catamaran’
