Best of 2013

UK music weekly NME has just published its end-of-year issue, with their Top 50 LPs and Tracks of 2013. As for the albums list, we’ll let you read on to find out what their #1 pick is, but it might just be the one NME called “absolutely and unarguably the most incredible album of career” and “the greatest record of the last dec…

Online UK music mag The Quietus started five years ago and quickly became (I think) one of the best sources for music writing on the web, giving a home to many former NME, Select and Q writers who are still seeking new music but are not so interested in the flavor of the month…

White Lung at Fun Fun Fun Fest 2013 (more by Tim Griffin) It’s year-end list season and though all

Vampire Weekend @ Roseland in April (more by Robert Altman) The Monday after Thanksgiving Weekend is looking to be Official Year-End List Day, as we’ve already got SPIN, and Paste, (plus ones from UK mags  Q and Mojo) and now here’s the one from elder rock statesman Rolling Stone, who have Vampire Weekend‘s Modern Vampires of the City in the top spot, with Kanye West‘s Yeezus at #2…

Decibel Magazine is back with its annual top 40 albums of the year list. Two of the top three (including the #1 spot) are reunion albums from death metal veterans, though many younger bands place highly as well…

Phosphorescent at Rough Trade NYC (more by Amanda Hatfield) We just got Q, Mojo and SPIN, and now we get another year-end music list for 2013 from

It’s the first work week of December and the year-end music lists for 2013 keep piling in. We just saw album lists from Q and Mojo, and now we get a list from a US publication, S…

Arctic Monkeys @ ACL 2013 (more by Tim Griffin) Kind of like MOJO‘s laddish slightly younger brother who went to college during ’90s Britpop, UK monthly Q Magazine has time for new music but still pays attention to older artists as well…

Bill Calahan‘s album Dream River has topped MOJO magazine’s Best Albums of 2013 list which is in the new year-end issue. Seems about right for a magazine that had both Paul McCartney on the cover of one issue this year and The Beatles on another (also the Stones, Dylan, Pink Floyd, Johnny Marr)…

TV Ghost @ Cake Shop in May (more by Chris La Putt) TV Ghost morphed from discordant post-punk noise to something much more textured on their new album Disconnect (stream it via Spotify)…