
The season’s first list! It includes:
10 Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
9 Jay Z – The Blueprint 3
8 K’Naan – Troubadour
7 Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
6 Girls – Album
5 The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You
4 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
3 Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
1 Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
View the full rundown here.
NPR is streaming Neko Case’s set from 2009′s Newport Folk Fest.
MP3: Neko Case – Live On The Interface

Their Top 10 is as follows:
10 Bakesale – Sebadoh
9 Either/Or – Elliott Smith
8 Surfer Rosa – Pixies
7 If You’re Feeling Sinister – Belle & Sebastian
6 Slanted & Enchanted – Pavement
5 Imperial F.F.R.R. – Unrest
4 Exile In Guyville – Liz Phair
3 Spiderland – Slint
2 In The Aeroplane Over The Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel
1 Bee Thousand – Guided By Voices
View the full rundown here.
MP3: Elliott Smith – Single File

The Top 5 is as follows:
1. U2 – Boy
2. Miles Davis – Birth Of The Cool
3. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
4. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
5. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
View the full list here.
Yahoo thinks that Joy Division’s ‘Transmission’ is an intense song.
MP3: Joy Division – Transmission
The full ’08 chart can be viewed below.
1. iTunes
2. Wal-Mart
3. Best Buy
4. Amazon
5. Target
Thanks for the tip, Prefix!
MP3: Rilo Kiley – The Moneymaker
Quite literally. Mega-site Amazon.com just unveiled their first indie dedicated mini-site entitled ‘Go Indie’.
Highlighted this week – CocoRosie, Ryan Adams, Ben Lee, Stephen Malkmus and Mates Of State amongst others.
Nearly all featured releases are under ten bucks. The mini-site’s tagline: “Tired of being the last to find out about the latest trends in music? Fed up with the same old pop pap? There’s only one thing to do. Go Indie. Not sure how? No worries!”
Oh, that darn pop pap.
To learn more about Go Indie, check out the page here.
MP3: CocoRosie – South 2nd
Quite literally. Mega-site Amazon.com just unveiled their first indie dedicated mini-site entitled ‘Go Indie’.
Highlighted this week – CocoRosie, Ryan Adams, Ben Lee, Stephen Malkmus and Mates Of State amongst others.
Nearly all featured releases are under ten bucks. The mini-site’s tagline: “Tired of being the last to find out about the latest trends in music? Fed up with the same old pop pap? There’s only one thing to do. Go Indie. Not sure how? No worries!”
Oh, that darn pop pap.
To learn more about Go Indie, check out the page here.
MP3: CocoRosie – South 2nd
Quite literally. Mega-site Amazon.com just unveiled their first indie dedicated mini-site entitled ‘Go Indie’.
Highlighted this week – CocoRosie, Ryan Adams, Ben Lee, Stephen Malkmus and Mates Of State amongst others.
Nearly all featured releases are under ten bucks. The mini-site’s tagline: “Tired of being the last to find out about the latest trends in music? Fed up with the same old pop pap? There’s only one thing to do. Go Indie. Not sure how? No worries!”
Oh, that darn pop pap.
To learn more about Go Indie, check out the page here.
MP3: CocoRosie – South 2nd