Well, what can we say about 2010? It’s hard, you know, what with the mainstream sounding so bright and brash and ground-breaking and all. Whut, no. If all y’all kids were stuck on the knobs of pop radio, I don’t know what to tell you… But there was so much, too much to get caught up and in making this list, I felt like I was excising beloved children to the basement on Christmas Eve. Stay down there, Glasser, Lady Gaga, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.! Daddy will be down with a flashlight soon…
And with that my top 20 tracks of the year:
“I Can Change,” LCD Soundsystem: plaintive, yet sassy with that slippery beat, this track makes you want to shimmy up to a handsome stranger and please, please fall in love.
“Dancing On My Own,” Robyn: Robyn broke out of the gate with this track early in the year and set the bar precipitously high for every other pop star. Nothing has come close to knocking it from its rightful pedestal.
“USA Boys,” HEALTH: simply, a rolling thunderstorm of sex.
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All Tomorrow’s Parties have announced a new 4-night mini-festival that’s going to take place in November in between the two weekend events being curated by Godspeed You! Black Emperor (3rd-5th December) and Belle and Sebastian (Bowlie 2, 10th-12th December). WOT? A FESTIVAL THAT TAKES PLACE DURING THE WEEK?
As a treat, they’ve also put together a special mixtape (details after the jump).
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Topics:
all tomorrows parties,
amos,
autolux,
caribou,
cave,
connan mockasin,
corrupted,
emeralds,
factory floor,
four tet,
hallogallo 2010,
holy fuck,
moon duo,
nachtmystium,
ulrich schnauss,
white hills,
wooden shjips
All dates are as follows:
Sep 14 Guelph ON – Ebar
Sep 15 Ottawa ON – Babylon
Sep 16 Montreal PQ – National
Sep 17 Toronto ON – Phoenix
Sep 18 London ON – Lolafest
Sep 19 Boston MA – Paradise
Sep 22 New York NY – Webster Hall
Sep 23 Washington DC – Black Cat
Sep 24 Cincinnati OH – Midpoint Music Festival
Sep 25 Champaign IL – Pygmalion Music Festival
Sep 26 Chicago IL – Metro
Sep 27 Minneapolis MN – First Avenue
Sep 28 Winnipeg MB – West End Cultural Center
Sep 29 Saskatoon SK – Amigos
Sep 30 Edmonton AB – Starlite
Oct 1 Calgary AB – Republik
Oct 3 Vancouver BC – Vogue
Oct 4 Seattle WA – Showbox
Oct 5 Portland OR – Wonder Ballroom
Oct 6 San Francisco CA – Regency
Oct 7 Los Angeles CA – Dance Right
Oct 8 Los Angeles CA – Music Box
Oct 9 Tempe AZ – The Clubhouse
Oct 11 Salt Lake City UT – Urban Lounge
Oct 12 Boulder CO – Fox Theatre
Oct 14 Austin TX – La Zona Rosa
Oct 15 Baton Rouge LA – Spanish Moon
Oct 16 Tallahassee FL – Engine Room
Oct 17 Tampa FL – Crowbar
Oct 18 Orlando FL – Backbooth
Oct 19 Miami FL – Grand Central
Oct 21 Guanajuanto MX – Mutek/Cervantino Festival
Oct 30 Asheville NC – Moog Festival
Oct 31 Chapel Hill NC – Cat’s Cradle
Watch ‘Sun’ here.
MP3: Caribou – Sun (Short Bloom Mix)
