TAG: 2005
Cool Hunting 2005 Holiday Gift Guide
"We've got a few great exclusives. We've searched for the new and noteworthy. Added a few classics."
The Top 40 Bands in America Today - 2005 Edition
"I emailed over 40 "music/MP3 bloggers" (since we are our own genre now) and asked them to send me a list, ranked 1-10, of the 10 best American bands that they've seen or heard in the last year."
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10 Worthwhile Albums You Might Have Missed This Year
Pitchforkmedia.com: "a few albums we've all really enjoyed this year, but which-- whether a result of a technicality, bad timing, or just bad luck-- have managed to elude our Best New Music section."
This year's finalists are a mix of newcomers, new discoveries and veterans that have learned some new tricks.
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2005 Editors’ Awards for Online Excellence
The Morning News: "These are the sites we enjoyed the most in the past year, sites that impressed us with their stories, or how quickly they became indispensable in our daily surfing."
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Electronic, kind of in a Postal Service'y/Notwist sort of way.
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Don't like it as much as Sea Change. "Girl" is amazing. It very much seems like Beck trying to be Beck . . . if you know what I mean.
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Acoustic folk with a hint of rock.
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Black Mountain: Black Mountain
Good old-fashioned rock music. Album's a good length. I'm especially fond of track four, "No Satisfaction."
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Andrew Bird: Mysterious Production of Eggs
A truly complete album, it's great to listen to from start to finish. Switches genres smoothly. A mix between David Byrne and . . . (Sufjan? Vanderslice? Anyone?)
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Retro-rock that kind of sounds like all the rest.
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More electronic than I expected
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David Galbraith offers up 16 things he thinks will happen this year
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