TOP OF 2009

Enjoy...and support your local indie record store by buying some of these amazing albums!

Top 20 albums of 2009
Devin Townsend Project- Addicted! - http://www.myspace.com/devintownsenddtb
Prodigy - Invaders Must Die - http://www.myspace.com/theprodigy
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day - http://www.myspace.com/katatonia
The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life And Death - http://www.myspace.com/thedearhunter
Metric - Fantasies - http://www.myspace.com/metric
Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion - http://www.myspace.com/dredg
Faunts - Feel. Love. Thinking. Of. - http://www.myspace.com/faunts
Muse - The Resistance - http://www.myspace.com/muse
Brendan Benson - My Old, Familiar Friend - http://www.myspace.com/brendanbenson
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue - http://www.myspace.com/aliceinchains
VNV Nation - Of Faith Power And Glory - http://www.myspace.com/vnvnation
Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs - http://www.myspace.com/ghostbrigade
Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions - http://www.myspace.com/biffyclyro
My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire - http://www.myspace.com/officialmydyingbride
Doves - Kingdom Of Rust - http://www.myspace.com/dovesmyspace
Mastodon - Crack The Skye - http://www.myspace.com/mastodon
Volbeat - Guitar Gangsters and Cadlliac Blood - http://www.myspace.com/volbeat
Fever Ray - Fever Ray - http://www.myspace.com/feverray
DM Stith - Heavy Ghost - http://www.myspace.com/dmstith
Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect - http://www.myspace.com/betweentheburiedandme

Top 5 songs of 2009
Prodigy "Omen"
Dredg "Ireland"
Metric "Help I'm Alive"
Volbeat "Hallelujah Goat"
Devin Townsend Project "Hyperdrive!"

Top 15 concerts of 2009
Faith No More @ Download, UK
Nine Inch Nails @ Terminal 5, NYC
Paul McCartney @ Citi Field, NYC
Metallica @ MSG, NYC
Prodigy @ Download UK
Hall & Oates @ Irving Plaza, NYC
King's X @ Terminal 5, NYC
Frank Turner @ DC's, Hoboken
VNV Nation @ Nokia Theater, NYC
Dredg @ Highline Ballroom, NYC
Septic Flesh @ Scion Rock Fest, Atlanta
Skeletonwitch @ Full Metal Texas, Austin
Johann Johannsson @ Le Poison Rouge, NYC
Night Ranger @ BB Kings, NYC
Krallice @ Scion Rock Fest, Atlanta

Top 5 TV shows
Modern Family
The League
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Chuck
How I Met Your Mother

Best of the rest (albums that is)...
A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Air - Love 2
Amorphis - Sky Forger
Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders
Astra - The Weirding
Baroness - Blue Album
Behemoth - Evangelion
Beirut - March of The Zapotec and Realpeople Holland
Bob Mould - Life And Times
The Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx
Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
Chimaira - The Infection
Clutch - Strange Cousins From The West
Constants - The Foundation, the Machine, the Ascension
Decemberists - The Hazard Of Love
Devin Townsend Project - Ki
Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Lining
Ensiferum - From Afar
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
If These Trees Could Talk - Above The Earth, Below The Sun
Insomnium - Across The Dark
Irepress - Sol Eye Sea I
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Iwrestledabearonce - It's All Happening
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage
Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life
Lamb Of God - Wrath
Maria Taylor - Lady Luck
Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster - III
Mew - No More Stories...
Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Morrissey - Years Of Refusal
Naam - Naam
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Part Chimp - Thriller
Patton Oswalt - My Weakness Is Strong
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Pelican - Ephemeral
Placebo - Battle For The Sun
Poison The Well - The Tropic Rot
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Redemption - Snowfall On Judgment Day
Rodrigo Y Gabriela - 11:11
Russian Circles - Geneva
Satyricon - Age Of Nero
Scale The Summit - Carving Desert Canyons
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Skeletonwitch - Breathing The Fire
Soulsavers - Broken
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Swallow The Sun - New Moon
Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
The Gathering - The West Pole
The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come
Therapy? - Crooked Timber
Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade
Zao - Awake?
Zero 7 - Yeah Ghost

New. Music. Tuesday. 10/13

Another Tuesday and some more great records to add to my year-end list.

BARONESS - Blue Record




FLAMING LIPS - Embyronic


HALL & OATES-Do What You Want, Be What You Are (4 CD)


KANSAS - There's No Place Like Home


LEAVES' EYES - Njord


SKELETONWITCH - Breathing The Fire


NICK SWARDSON - Seriously, Who Farted?

New. Music. Tuesday. 10/6.

Some great releases today...support your local record store by clicking THINK INDIE

AIR - Love 2


ARCH ENEMY - Root Of All Evil

LOU BARLOW - Goodnight Unknown

BLESSTHEFALL - Witness

BUILT TO SPILL - There Is No Enemy

DJ SPOOKY - Secret Song

EVERCLEAR - In A Different Light

FALL OF TROY - In The Unlikely Event

LITA FORD - Wicked Wonderland

GOGOL BORDELLO - Live From Axis Mundi


HORSE THE BAND - Desperate Living
Shapeshift


IMMORTAL - All Shall Fall

MISSION OF BURMA - Sound The Speed The Light

MORPHINE - At Your Service

MOUNTAIN GOATS - Life Of The World To Come

PARADISE LOST - Faith Divides Us Death Unites


SPARKLEHORSE/FENNESZ - In The Fishtank 15

STEEL PANTHER - Feel The Steel


WIDESPREAD PANIC - Montreal 1997

ZERO 7 - Yeah Ghost

Battle. For. Milkquarious.

If I could have any marketing job in the world, it would be for the California Milk Board since they put together amazing campaigns like the BATTLE FOR MILKQUARIOUS.

They also have done these ads over the past year...makes you want a tall cold glass of milk, doesn't it?

Song That Should Have Been. China Drum. Can't Stop These Things

Back in 1996, a punk band from England called CHINA DRUM released a should-have-been-a-bigger-hit with their single "Can't Stop These Things" from the album, Goosefair

As it goes with most 90s bands of this ilk, they broke up in 2000...but still gave us one of the best "pop-punk" songs of that decade.

NEW. MUSIC. TUESDAY. 9/22.

Another day of too many new releases as fall officially begins. Here's my narrowed down list for you all...

ALBERTA CROSS - Broken Side Of Time (Rock)

BASEMENT JAXX - Scars (Electronic)

BLACK TAPE FOR A BLUE GIRL - 10 Neurotics (Goth)

BRAND NEW - Daisy (Rock)

NICK CAVE/WARREN ELLIS - White Lunar (Soundtrack)

CHILDREN OF BODOM - Skeletons In The Closet (Metal covers)

DEADMAU5 - For A Lack Of A Better Name (Electronic)

DESPISED ICON - Day Of Mourning (Metal)

EVILE - Infected Nations (Metal)

INSOMNIUM - Across The Dark (Metal)

MAE - (M)orning (Rock)

MONTY ARE I - Break Through The Silence (Rock)

MUM - Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know (Weird)

PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART - Higher Than The Stars EP (Alternative)

PEARL JAM - Backspacers (Rock - only at Target)

SONATA ARCTICA - Days Of Grays (Metal)

KITTEN. MITTENS.

What? You've never watched IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA? Well, tonight is your chance as the new season is starting on FX at 10pm. It's the best thing to come out of Philly...well, ever.

NEW. MUSIC. TUESDAY. 9/15

I have to echo my friend Scott Perry's of NEW MUSIC TIPSHEET sentiments about today's release date. There is no need for 400 new releases on a single Tuesday. All of these are competing with each other, which means that most people will buy 1 or 2, then steal the rest. Wake up record labels, spread out the love and drive people into stores all year round!

Well, here are the best of those 400 for you to pick up (no video links this week, just Mypsace)


THE 69 EYES - Back In Blood

ANVIL - This Is Thirteen

BLACK DAHLIA MURDER - Deflorate

CHTHONIC - Mirror Of Retribution

CROSSBREED - Ke101

DYING FETUS - Descend Into Depravity

EVERY TIME I DIE - New Junk Aesthetic

FOXY SHAZAM - Wannabe Angel (single)

ACE FREHLEY - Anomaly

IT DIES TODAY - Lividity

KITTIE - In The Black

LIVING COLOUR - Chair In The Doorway

MANIC STREET PREACHERS - Journal For Plague Lovers

MEGADETH - Endgame

MINISTRY - Last Dubber

MONEEN - World I Want To Leave Behind

MUSE - Resistance

OXBOW - F*ckfest

PORCUPINE TREE -Incident

PROTEST THE HERO - Gallop Meets The Earth: Live

SHADOWS FALL - Retribution

SHUDDER TO THINK - Live From Home

SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO - Temporary Pleasure

SKINLAB - Scars Between Us

STARS OF TRACK AND FIELD - A Time For Lions

DAVID SYLVIAN - Manafon

THRICE - Beggars

A. Broad. Way. Documentary.

The brainchild of my friend Rob, A BROAD WAY, is a unique look at NYC: One Hour. One Street. 258 Directors. The collaborative documentary put a filmmaker on every block of Broadway from it's Northern tip at 220th Street to Battery Park and documented all 12.4 miles of Manhattan for one hour -- the exact same hour. Check more info and buy it HERE

New. Music. Tuesday.

Lots of good ones today, then some new band called "The Beatles" are reissuing all their albums on th 9th along with some video game that is barely being advertised. And also some rapper named after a NYC subway line has an album coming out on Friday.

3 INCHES OF BLOOD - Here Waits Thy Doom


THE BEATLES - Remasters


ENSIFERUM - From Afar


HEALTH - Get Color


JAY-Z - Blueprint 3


SONDRE LERCHE - Heartbeat Radio


PHISH - Joy


POLVO - In Prism


RODRIGO Y GABRIELA - 11:11


SAOSIN - In Search Of Solid Ground


SLIPKNOT - Slipknot: 10th Anniversary (CD/DVD)


FRANK TURNER - Poetry Of The Deed