December 2009
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Pixies (41)
Liars (28)
Nathan Gunn; Marin Alsop: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (25)
Broadcast (23)
Bibio (21)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Sufjan Stevens (58)
Spiritualized (39)
New London Children’s Choir (35)
Micachu (26)
The Antlers (18)
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The Buzzwords of 2009 - NYTimes.com →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Liars (40)
Beach House (22)
Clint Mansell (12)
Raekwon (10)
Portishead (9)
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The Guardian's Books to Namedrop 2009
In the tradition of last year, I’ve worked out the most mentioned books in the Guardian’s two articles about 2009 (one by celebrities and the other by a staff writer).
In some sort of order, they are:
Colm Toibin Brooklyn
Selina Hastings The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
Mary-Kay Wilmers The Eitingons
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall
Sarah Waters The Little Stranger
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Portishead - Chase the Tear on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Yeasayer “Ambling Alp” on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
BBC News - A spiral light display in the sky... →
When I grasped that some of the most complex, almost otherworldly fiction of the...
– Cormac McCarthy’s Typewriter Sells for $254,500 : The New Yorker
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →
Beach House (59)
The Radio Dept. (39)
Grizzly Bear (27)
M. Ward (14)
The National (13)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29) →
J Dilla (30)
Cat Power (29)
Broken Social Scene (28)
The Radio Dept. (24)
Queens of the Stone Age (16)
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