2000s

Best Albums of the 2000s

by Greg W. Locke March 10, 2011

What an amazing decade for albums! Maybe our favorite decade since the 1970s, even! So many classic bands working at the top of their gang. More than anything else, this was the decade of indie labels and indie bands. As the record industry crumbled the indie labels thrived. Artist of the decade? Tough one. Radiohead, [...]

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Music :: 2009

by Greg W. Locke December 10, 2009

1. The Flaming Lips’ Embryonic – Remember back in 2007-08 when all the bloggers and their lovers started using the expression “art damaged” in every conversation? I ignored all that mess. And then I heard Embryonic and decided that, if “art damaged” is to become the 300th rock sub-genre of the naughts, then at least [...]

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Music :: 2008

by Greg W. Locke September 10, 2009

1. Stephen Malkmus – Real Emotional Trash 2. Lee Miles – Heathen Blux 3. Deerhunter – Microcastle 4. Paul Westerberg – 49:00 5. She & Him – Volume One 6. Portishead – Third 7. Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain 8. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Lie Down 9. My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges 10. Q-Tip [...]

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Music :: 2007

by Greg W. Locke August 10, 2009

1. Thunderhawk – Gravity Wins! 2. Ryan Adams – Easy Tiger 3. The New Porno – Challengers 4. Radiohead – In Rainbows 5. Magnolia Electric Co – Nashville Moon 6. Phosphorescent – Pride 7. Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam 8. LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver 9. Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 10. [...]

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Music :: 2006

by Greg W. Locke July 10, 2009

1. Joanna Newsom – Ys 2. Hold Steady – Boys + Girls 3. Camera Obscura – Let’s Get Out 4. Todd Snider – Devil You Know 5. Grizzly Bear – Yellow House 6. Bruce Springsteen – Seeger Session 7. Built to Spill – You In Reverse 8. Belle & Sebastian – Life Pursuit 9. Jenny [...]

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Music :: 2005

by Greg W. Locke June 10, 2009

1. Ryan Adams – Cold Roses 2. Spoon – Gimme Fiction 3. Stephen Malkmus – Face Truth 4. The National – Alligator 5. Bright Eyes’ – I’m Wide Awake … 6. Silver Jews – Tanglewood 7. Ryan Adams – Jacksonville 8. Clem Snide – End of Love 9. Thunderhawk – IV 10. Sufjan Stevens – [...]

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Music :: 2004

by Greg W. Locke May 10, 2009

1. Elliott Smith – From a Basement On the Hill 2. Wilco – A Ghost is Born 3. Buck 65 – This Right Here 4. Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse 5. Arcade Fire – Funeral 6. Madvillain – Madvillainy 7. Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans 8. Drive-By Truckers – Dirty South 9. A.C. Newman – [...]

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Music :: 2003

by Greg W. Locke April 10, 2009

1. The Wrens – The Meadowlands 2. Paul Westerberg – Come Feel Me 3. Evan Dando – Baby I’m Bored 4. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Master … 5. Yeah Yeah Yeah – Fever to Tell 6. Stephen Malkmus – Pig Lib 7. Microphones – Mount Eerie 8. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief 9. Buck [...]

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Music :: 2002

by Greg W. Locke March 10, 2009

1. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 2. Rilo Kiley – Execution… 3. Bright Eyes – Lifted 4. Spoon – Kill the Moonlight 5. Sigur Ros – ( ) 6. Snowglobe – Our Land Brains 7. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi… 8. Grandpaboy – Mono 9. The Decemberists – Castaways 10. Interpol – Turn on… 11. [...]

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Music :: 2001

by Greg W. Locke February 10, 2009

1. The Microphones – The Glow, Pt. 2 2. Stephen Malkmus – S/T 3. Silver Jews – Bright Flight 4. Ryan Adams – Gold 5. White Stripes – White Blood Cells 6. Radiohead – Amnesiac 7. Marmoset – Record in Red 8. Buck65 – Man Overboard 9. Ben Folds – Rockin’ the Suburbs 10. Clem [...]

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