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Times Online picks the decade's 'best world music albums'

Tinariwen @ Le Poisson Rouge (more by Tim Griffin) Tinariwen are touring North America in the first quarter of 2010. Tickets recently went on sale for 2 NYC shows…

Q Magazine's Top Albums of 2009

The December issue of Q Magazine is an ‘Artists Of The Century’ special edition, covering all of the acts that the fine staff of the good ship Q feel are the most important of the century so far…

Gorilla Vs Bear's favorite 'songs of the decade'

He actually published this list in August, but in case you missed it…

Screaming Females list favorite albums of 2009

Screaming Females @ The Yard – 8/29/09 (more by Sarahana) Screaming Females just played a show with the So So Glos on Wednesday night at The Bell House…

Decibel's Top 40 Metal Albums of 2009

Baroness @ Bowery Ballroom – 11/20/2009 (more by Tim Griffin) BBG will publish his own list of the best metal albums of 2009, but in the meantime here’s what Decibel Magazine had to say:

Amazon says Neko Case put out the best album in 2009

Best of 2009: Top 10 Amazon Picks1) Neko Case 2) Yeah Yeah Yeahs 3) Phoenix 4) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart 5) The Avett Brothers 6) Girls 7) Animal Collective 8) K’Naan 9) Jay-Z 10) Camera ObscuraTwo of Amazon’s Top 10 bands are playing shows in NYC tonight (11/6): Girls and Yeah Yeah Yeahs…

Pitchfork announces the top 20 albums of the decade

Daft Punk‘s first album had helped refresh house music in the mid 1990s; the second went further, rewriting electronic pop’s pleasure principles to such a degree that when it came out a lot of people thought Discovery must be a put-on…

How many of the top 20 albums of the 2000s were made by Animal Collective and Radiohead?

The backstory has been repeated so often with such insistence that three years later it’s become a mythic tall tale: Guy breaks up band in North Carolina, decamps to the wilds of Wisconsin, makes a record originally intended to be heard by almost nobody…
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