1. The Radio Dept. | Heaven’s On Fire
2. LCD Soundsystem | I Can Change
3. La Roux | Armour Love
4. Janelle Monáe | Cold War
5. Arcade Fire | We Used To Wait Continue Reading

If you don’t care for my top 10 album selections, maybe you’ll prefer my choices for top 10 tracks.  Or maybe you’d rather suck it. Continue Reading

Although five entire months will have to pass before 2010 comes to a close, it is never too early to start compiling lists!  Accordingly, here are the my top 10 albums of 2010, thus far. Continue Reading

Selected as the opening track of LCD’s new album, This Is Happening, and also featured here as the first-at-bat, the unusually elementary intro might have listeners scratching their heads….or asses….or both, if you’re coordinated.  Admittedly, I’m about instant gratification, so a waiting period in excess of three minutes is an eternity.  Usually if a song fails to fully engage me after a minute, two at most, it is banished to the back of the iPod.  I’m not sure what that space looks like, but I’m sure it’s next to Will Smith’s “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It,” which somehow tiptoes onto iPods worldwide.  (Oh, Big Willie Style, you were a gift from BMG and back in high school it certainly was, “Just The Two Of Us”) Continue Reading

MAY 2010

1. LCD Soundsystem | Dance Yrself Clean
2. Japandroids | Darkness On The Edge Of Gastown
3. Crystal Castles | Baptism
4. Sleigh Bells | Kids
5. The Black Keys | Howlin’ For You Continue Reading

The title is a bit unfair considering Mr. Murphy rants as much about drunk boys as much as the lush-like ladies, but the rowdy chorus keeps bringing us back to the female contingent.  As easy as it is to swept up in the driving bass line, the listener (and his sense of humor) will be rewarded for listening to the lyrics.  The following are my choices for quotable quotes.  Feel free to listen to all of the song’s lyrics and match them to your favorite memories from four (or more) years of college. Continue Reading

APRIL 2010

1. Sleigh Bells | Crown On The Ground
2. The Black Keys | Sinister Kid
3. LCD Soundsystem | Drunk Girls
4. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists | The Mighty Sparrow
5. Drive-By Truckers | Birthday Boy Continue Reading