Lights out.

It was a good year but the lighthouse has run its course, it seems, so the light's finally burnt out. Thanks to all the assholes who steal music and justify it like we do on here, thanks to all the elitists who judged our tastes incessantly, thanks to the losers that posted comments and reminded us how bromo we are.

Super Mash Bros - All About The Scrillions

so i went from being a covers whore to a mashup whore

megapost to follow, enjoy this in the meantime

The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America

Rock and roll still exists. I have proof.

The Graduate - Only Every Time

holy shit we updated

this is really good indie-poppish punk

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World OST

we are sex bob-omb 1 2 3 4

aka we are beck writing half of this album

Adebisi Shank

Adebisi Shank pretty much mix math rock with fap rock (i.e. hair metal of the 80s.) so think like van halen mixed with maps and atlases and a touch of masturbatory plays.

have the first album
stream the second

Spokes - People Like People Like You

i feel like i use the word chill to describe too much of the music i post on here, but it doesn't make it any less true

provoke dem thoughts

Star Slinger - Volume 1

Self-proclaimed instrumental hip-hop artist, uses lots of samples and beats to make a great electrofuzzy sound

free dl from his site

Gameface - Every Last Time

pop-punk with a singer who's right out of hipster hee-haw

get it cause his crooning vocals and heartfelt emotion are very country but he writes about relationships under thin guises of different draperies like a boy and his guitar or two pirates yup yup joke

Place for Adam to Link the New Big Boi Cause I Can't Get a Link:

The Decemberists - Picaresque

of and referring to rogues and their swashbuckling adventures

Jesu - Conqueror

Justin Broadrick is a man who makes good music. You should listen to this album because he made it, therefore it is good.

not Godflesh

DJ n-wee (Jay-Z vs. Pavement) - The Slack Album

if you're looking at this blog then you likely enjoy jay and pavement so have some jayvement. might make a megapost of all the good mashup albums i know of soon so be on watch if you're interested

what more can i singe

Infant Sorrow - Get Him to the Greek

the soundtrack is better and more consistently funny than the movie, i'll say that much

fucking dcma complaints and their bullshit, buy link

Japandroids - Younger Us

sweet jamz

Outkast - Aquemini

When you get new music you like, you listen to it a lot because it is pleasing to you in some way (I know, profound). Because Illmatic is what got me into hip hop, no other hip hop album has been able to bring me the sustained satisfaction that Illmatic has. Then I discovered Aquemini. It's not Illmatic but it's damn close.

Big boi and 3000

Third Eye Blind- Third Eye Blind

And I remember when we used to spend the whole goddamn day in bed



Loooosing aaaaa whole yeeeeear

Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

a fantastic, emotional, chilled to ice alt rock release by a band i should have really gotten into years ago but never listened to my friends telling me to

i still hate ben gibbard though

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

Good ol' punk rock at its finest

r

The Flashbulb - Arboreal

Benn Jordan's sound has certainly evolved since Soundtrack to a Vacant Life. Though I'm hesitant to call Arboreal his magnum opus for the sole reason that I only own the two aforementioned albums, it's not a huge stretch of the imagination. Jordan combines pensive/ambient electronics with rugged and intricate beats to form a real work of art here. The instrumentation is less varied than on Soundtrack and I particularly missed the folky acoustics of tracks like "Steel for Pappa," but what Jordan loses from Soundtrack in transition to Arboreal he regains twofold through the sheer power and subtlety of his soundscapes. For sure one of the best yet of 2010.

link to the album here CLICK ME

Steve Reich- Different Trains

Steve Reich>everyone

Seriously get this and be elite.

letlive. - Fake History

letlive. is a frankenstein's monster of glassjaw and coheed and shouting. 2010's definitive post hardcore release so far.

feel free to argue this

Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations

Death/doom band that did one too many hits, found some stoner influences and wrote the best DM keyboard parts this side of Nocturnus.

Dig the art and the tunes.

Witches Tits.

Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains - Love Songs for the Apocalypse

so you know how against me is the go-to thing people think of when folk-punk is mentioned? yeah this should be it.

note i found this rec on 'effort is hard,' which is now linked up in the seahorse party. you should check it out. the lighthouse grows

Madvillain- Madvillainy

Creativity, it's a known fact that grass increases creativity from eight, to eleven times. In fact, everyone finds that they're more creative stoned, than straight. So remember!
M-A-R-I-J-U... A-J-U-A-N-A
Mari-...juana, Marijuana

The Illest Villains

Cassino - Sounds of Salvation

Step 1: Get
Step 2: Love
Step 3: Hug your mother and thank her for everything she's done

we watch the world leave it doesn't look back

aloha - Home Acres

really fun experimental indie pop. featuring the drummer dood from passion pit

happy happy joy joy

Converge- Jane Doe

Yesterday I was listening to this album in my car when I ran over a building. It crumbled in my wrath.

NO LOVE. NO HOPE.

Teen Daze

Just some sweet beatz and a cool vid

Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu

Psychedelic black metal...more spacey than bleak and done damn well.

The Praying Mantis of the Theater of Latter-day Saints

Steve Reich- Music For 18 Musicians

the most beautiful trance you'll ever be in

womp womp womp

Lantlôs - Lantlôs

Awesome black metal with enough shoegaze influence to keep the whiners happy and enough blastbeats to keep the corpsepainted churchburners icy and bleak.

oh by the way this is a side project from Neige of Alcest and Amesoeurs. Some of you might know who they are.

Cut Copy - In Ghost Colors

You know I love me some 80s sounding synth pop any day, get your freak on

feel the love

True - Still Life

Dudes from Croatia make an awesome death metal record, throw in some crust influence, add a traditional Croatian instrument called a tambura, call it the same thing as an Opeth record. What could go wrong?

A lot I guess but I like this album so fuck you.

Far - At Night We Live

I'm on such a punky punk kick lately. good thing this is more than just that

i'm such a sucker for dissonance, maybe because it's the biggest word in my vocabulary

MF Doom - MM...Food?

Have a listen of this rap n' roll music. I hear it's what the kids like these days.

Your attempts at humor bore me.

Team Ghost - You Never Did Anything Wrong To Me

I'm not good at saying why I like things, only that I like them. And I like this.

BAM

Richard Cheese - I'd Like a Virgin

Dick Cheese, in his own words, takes popular songs and "swankifies" them. This is awesome and hilarious (and after 4 months has not gotten old yet.)

lounge against the machine

Guthrie Govan - Erotic Cakes

Look! it's shred...but good.

blow up your own face

Best Coast

Some more hazy summer rock to add to the collection

something in the way

Janelle Monae- The Archandroid

Ok so um "Tightrope" is the pop song of the year and The Archandroid is the pop album of the year. Like I am having trouble describing how awesome this is. So I'll leave you with this:

Boris - Flood

another day, another Boris album. this one by popular demand.

headphones on, trip set, dronnnnnnnnneout

The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine

Craving some hi-hat pounding, major scale-running, finger-bleeding power chordy poppunk?

i can see forever in my hand

Earthless - Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky

people of earth. let's go to space. the two best goddamn 20+ minute epic space rock songs you'll hear all year followed by a perfect 4 minute rock song. shit like this makes people love music.

jam the fuck out

p.s. just look at this shit:

Sed Non Satiata- Sed Non Satiata

I know what you're thinking: "Gee, 2010's been great for music so far, but where's the awesome skramz?"

WA-BAM

the whole post rock influenced emo thing is best left to the french

Final Fight

Trying to get your mosh on? Throw down bros

under attack

Minus the Bear Megapost

I haven't posted some goodness in a while, so here's my penance. Also, this is a group everyone should know inside and out.

Alt/indie rock era

Bands Like It When You Yell "YAR!" At Them EP (2002)

Highly Refined Pirates (2002), already posted courtesy of dat grape here

They Make Beer Commercials Like This EP (2004)

Menos El Oso (2005)

oh hey sup OMG GENRE-BENDING TIME

Planet Of Ice (2008)

Omni (2010)

Freddie Gibbs

Hey, remember 2Pac? He's back



and the album

Shining - Blackjazz

I'll be damned if this isn't one of the best albums of 2010 and it came out in fucking January.

If the drums alone don't make you shit your pants, maybe the saxophone will...or maybe this picture of the band:


BLACKJAZZ DEATHTRANCE EXIT SUN EXIT SUN
YOU CHEAT ON YOUR OWN LOVER!
YOU FUCK WITH YOUR OWN BROTHER!
YOU FIGHT WITH ONE ANOTHER!
YOUR COLD HEART WILL NOT RECOVER!

freak the fuck out

Phosphorescent- Here's to Taking It Easy

Just like Mom used to make, slow-burnin' indie/country with harmonies out the wazoo. yeah awesome all should get especially men of science

music for men (of science)

Melvins - Stoner Witch

If you don't like this album you're just not cool

sludge pressures your brain into knowledge

Slint- Spiderland

dank nugs, dank music, "post rock" but not really, good for pre-HNNNNNNNNNNG feeling, one of the most critically acclaimed albums ever, fucking

albinobeach - albinobeach

fucking finals hnnnng

nice flowy post-rock for relaxing after the hnnng

Okkervil River- Black Sheep Boy

Concept album inspired by a song by a 60's folk singer that you've never heard of. Listen to it.