I’m so near the halfway point in my documentation of every album I buy this year. Appropriate time as any to rechristen this project the “Year in Albums”, since I’m finding a hard time limiting myself to download purchases. I’m still buying CDs, can you believe?
Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea Somewhere along the [...]
July 26, 2008
Categories: JG's Year in Albums, Jerry Grit's Canon, album reviews . Tags: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, At Mount Zoomer, Fleet Foxes, Lookout Mountain Lookout Sea, Sarabeth Tucek, Sea Lion, Silver Jews, The Dodos, The Ruby Suns, Underground, Visiter, Wolf Parade . Author: jerrygrit . Comments: 2 Comments
Friday Night—Part of the “Don’t Look Back” thing, which I don’t know anything other than someone in Old Britain somehow convinces creepy old dudes to play their best or seminal (ie, not their best) album in its entirety live. One watches with grotesque curiosity at degenerating bodies flubbing their own lyrics. It was a pleasant [...]
July 22, 2008
Categories: concert reviews, good ideas turning out not-so . Tags: !!!, Animal Collective, Apples In Stereo, Atlas Sound, Boban I Marko Markovic Orkestar, Bon Iver, Boris, Caribou, Cut Copy, Dancing Mud People, Dinosaur Jr, Dizzee Rascal, Don't Look Back, Elf Power, Fleet Foxes, Fuck Buttons, Icy Demons, Jarvis Cocker, Jay Reatard, King Khan and His Shrines, M. Ward, Mission of Burma, No Age, Pitchfork Music Festival, Public Enemy, Sebadoh, Spiritualized, Spoon, The Dirty Projectors, The Dodos, The Hold Steady, The Ruby Suns, Times New Viking, Titus Andronicus, Vampire Weekend . Author: jerrygrit . Comments: 8 Comments
