Bubb Rubb and Lil Sis

Band To Watch In 2009 part II

01-Charlie Darwin.mp3

Band To Watch In 2009

Violens - Violent Sensation Descends.mp3

Animal Collective-Merriweather Post Pavilion

This is Animal Collective's 8th album and with each one the hype builds.
I don't think they have ever lived up to the hype, but I do think that this is their best effort. Many websites and blogs have already proclaimed this the album of the year and we are only in January. The mighty Pitchfork gave this album an 9.3! It may be tough to live up too such acclaim but they are getting there.

Josey

This my new dog and my favorite purchase of 2008.

Stats

Breed: Labrador
Gender: Female
Color: Black
Age: 3 years
Height: Above my owners knees but below his junk
Weight: 74 lbs
Favs: Fetching my glow in the dark ball in the backyard, Fetching the tennis ball at the dog park with the ChuckIt, pretty much anything involving fetch... other favs include getting treats, pets, and rubbed on my belly and behind my ears.

Sole Collector "The 100 Greatest Kicks"

1. Nike Air Jordan XI
2. Nike Air Force 1
3. Converse All Star
4. Nike Air Jordan III
5. Nike Dunk
6. Nike Air Foamposite One
7. Nike Air Max 95
8. Nike Air Jordan IV
9. Adidas Superstar
10. Puma Clyde

Other Notables:

13. Vans Slip-On
16. Nike Air Jordan V
18. Nike Air Max I
21. Vans Era
29. Reebok Omni Pump Lite
34. Nike Air Max 90
37. Nike Air Max 97
39. Vans Old School
68. Nike Air Force 180
72. Nike Air Huarache
78. Vans Sk8-HI
79. Vans Half Cab
80. Etnies Sal 23
83. ES Koston I

Rodriguez

There was a mini-genre of singer/songwriters in the late '60s and early '70s that has never gotten a name. They were folky but not exactly folk-rock and certainly not laid-back; sometimes pissed off but not full of rage; alienated but not incoherent; psychedelic-tinged but not that weird; not averse to using orchestration in some cases but not that elaborately produced. And they sold very few records, eluding to a large degree even rediscovery by collectors. Jeff Monn, Paul Martin, John Braheny, and Billy Joe Becoat were some of them, and Sixto Rodriguez was another on his 1970 LP, Cold Fact. Imagine an above-average Dylanesque street busker managing to record an album with fairly full and imaginative arrangements, and you're somewhat close to the atmosphere. Rodriguez projected the image of the aloof, alienated folk-rock songwriter, his songs jammed with gentle, stream-of-consciousness, indirect putdowns of straight society and its tensions. Likewise, he had his problems with romance, simultaneously putting down (again gently) women for their hang-ups and intimating that he could get along without them anyway ("I wonder how many times you had sex, and I wonder do you know who'll be next" he chides in the lilting "I Wonder"). At the same time, the songs were catchy and concise, with dabs of inventive backup: a dancing string section here, odd electronic yelps there, tinkling steel drums elsewhere. It's an album whose lyrics are evocative yet hard to get a handle on even after repeated listenings, with song titles like "Hate Street Dialogue," "Inner City Blues" (not the Marvin Gaye tune), and "Crucify Your Mind" representative of his eccentric, slightly troubled mindset. As it goes with folk-rock-psych singer/songwriters possessing captivating non sequitur turns of the phrase, he's just behind Arthur Lee and Skip Spence, but still worth your consideration.