Sabato 1 Gen 2011, 1:10
Best live show of 2010: tie between Thee Oh Sees at The Bug Jar in Rochester, NY (so sweaty), and William Basinski at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY (so gorgeous).
Best band I discovered in 2010: Zelienople, hands down.
Best albums not from 2010 that I discovered/came around to in 2010:
DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
Loscil - Submers
Sam Amidon - All Is Well - the sound of working long hours in a cagey stock room, avoiding mice and moving boxes of cereal.
burger/ink - Las Vegas - the sound of sitting on my bed drinking hot chocolate and watching the huge Rochester snowflakes fly around.
Zelienople - His/Hers
Gastr del Sol - Upgrade & Afterlife
Lambchop - OH (Ohio)
The For Carnation - The For Carnation - the sound of me trying to keep myself awake late at night while I sat watch over a small wooden cabin full of pre-adolescents
The Gray Field Recordings - Hypnagogia - the sound of evenings walking around the woods by myself when I didn't have to look after said pre-adolescents
Actress - Hazyville
Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes
Alan Licht - Plays Well
Best musical moment of 2010: Playing my first show at a crowded basement show in upstate New York, getting to yell in front of a crowd, and getting the whole crowd to sing "bright little balls flying all around, people covered with welts as they lay on the ground, and while it all was happening I stayed on my bed, I sat and watched it all" along with me while I yelled in front of them.
Top 50 artists as of January 1st, 2011:
1 The Microphones 1,410
2 Animal Collective 1,354
3 Radiohead 1,322
4 Thanksgiving 1,264
5 Neil Young 1,098
6 Mount Eerie 961
7 Do Make Say Think 812
8 Boards of Canada 795
9 Elliott Smith 775
10 The Books 718
11 Tom Waits 673
12 The Beatles 670
13 Built to Spill 668
14 Cat Stevens 640
15 Sun Kil Moon 596
16 Why? 565
17 Joanna Newsom 539
18 of Montreal 523
19 The Fun Years 513
20 Aphex Twin 498
21 Songs: Ohia 485
22 Caribou 466
23 The American Analog Set 452
24 Pavement 449
25 Talk Talk 446
26 Adrian Orange & Her Band 420
27 The Velvet Underground 417
28 Mississippi John Hurt 415
29 Polmo Polpo 410
30 Brian Eno 409
31 Guided by Voices 406
32 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 399
33 Modest Mouse 392
34 Miles Davis 383
34 José González 383
36 Red House Painters 379
37 The Tallest Man on Earth 378
38 Grateful Dead 374
39 Björk 372
40 Grizzly Bear 365
41 The Olivia Tremor Control 363
42 Silver Jews 362
43 Jeremy Enigk 361
44 Sunny Day Real Estate 358
45 Zelienople 348
46 Leonard Cohen 347
47 Tortoise 345
48 Nick Drake 343
49 Broken Social Scene 334
50 Frank Zappa 333
Top 50 artists of 2010:
1 Zelienople 339
2 Sun Kil Moon 317
3 Mount Kimbie 275
4 Thanksgiving 224
5 Thee Oh Sees 197
6 Cap'n Jazz 176
7 Red House Painters 162
8 Fugazi 161
9 The Appleseed Cast 153
10 The Dismemberment Plan 149
11 Heather Woods Broderick 145
12 John Fahey 143
13 Grouper 141
14 Paul Cary 132
15 Sam Amidon 124
16 The Horrors 120
17 16 Horsepower 117
18 Mount Eerie 116
19 Marc Ribot 114
20 TwinSisterMoon 113
21 Juana Molina 111
21 The Fun Years 111
23 Shotgun & Jaybird 108
24 Konntinent 107
25 Gillian Welch 102
26 Lambchop 98
26 Deerhunter 98
28 Swell Maps 97
29 Kurt Vile 95
30 Ween 92
31 Tim Hardin 91
32 Neil Young 89
33 Owls 88
34 Songs: Ohia 87
35 Ass 84
35 Jefre Cantu-Ledesma 84
37 Burial 81
37 James Blake 81
39 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 76
39 Goldmund 76
39 Frederick Squire 76
42 Brand New 74
43 Loscil 73
44 The Americas 72
45 Smog 70
45 Minamo 70
47 Erik Satie 69
47 Mark McGuire 69
49 Kaki King 67
49 Johnny Flynn 67