MP3: Danava - Where Beauty & Terror Dance#7 - Danava - UnonouKemado Records 2008Joey On Unonou:Solid record is metal goodness, kind of prog, all sorts of amazing. Danava was a shining star this decade, and I am grateful for them. Also maybe the best show I ever saw.
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MP3: All Night Radio - Oh, When#7 - All Night Radio - Spirit Stereo FrequencySub Pop Records 2004Matt On Spirit Stereo Frequency:Coming out of the ashes of Beachwood Sparks, Farmer Dave Scher and Jimi Hey collaborated on what was one of the best psychedelic pop albums in years. Ebbing and flowing every instrument used, as well as the samples, they have created mind-bending subdued music seldom ...
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MP3: Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids#8 - Ghostface Killah - Supreme ClienteleSony 2000Matt On Supreme Clientele:The sophomore slump was thrown off Mount Everest on this one. Tony Starks delievered an epic 21 Burroughsesque view of the world barely two months into the decade, and, almost ten years later, the world is still trying to decipher it.
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MP3: Lightning Bolt - On Fire#8 - Lightning Bolt - Wonderful RainbowLoad Records 2004Joey On Wonderful Rainbow:It's fair to say my life changed entirely once I heard and got into Lightning Bolt. The sounds, the art, everything about them was completely mind melting and inspiring. "Wonderful Rainbow" is the best of the bunch, but they're all winners.
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MP3: All Night Radio - Daylight Till Dawn#9 - All Night Radio - Spirit Stereo FrequencySub Pop Records 2004Joey On Spirit Stereo Frequency:Half of Beachwood Sparks doing the best drugs and hitting a whole other plane. They created and quickly destroyed a universe of endless possibility, one that is unique and special. I bet DMT elves helped shape this one, I swear it.
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MP3: My Morning Jacket - Phone Went West#9 - My Morning Jacket - At DawnDarla Records 2001Matt On At Dawn:One would think that the connector album between The Tennessee Fire and It Still moves would be awkward, but in true My Morning Jacket fashion it's an ethereal twilight trip through an Ozark-like countryside—and the one that put them on the map.
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MP3: The Icarus Line - On the Lash#10 - The Icarus Line - Penance SoiréeV2 Records 2004Matt On Penance Soirée:On Penance Soirée, The Icarus Line, thirty years after the release of Raw Power, picked up where The Stooges left off. Thirteen noisy, brutally loud rock and roll songs, oozing sex and violence in every note. Yet, in our times, an album like this is unfortunately an anomaly instead of t
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MP3: Madvillain - Meat Grinder#10 - Madvillain - MadvillainyStones Throw Records 2004Joey On Madvillainy:Duh.
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MP3: Sleater-Kinney - Entertain#11 - Sleater-Kinney - The WoodsSub Pop Records 2005Joey On Album:This album still rocks harder than anything in the past couple of decades. Sleater-Kinney went out beyond on top, closing the curtain on the best album they ever made and maybe that Sub Pop could ever put out since. "Entertain" is the ultimate fuck off song to the music industry at the time and, wha...
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MP3: The Tough Alliance - Something Special#11 - The Tough Alliance - A New ChanceSincerely Yours 2007Matt On A New Chance:Cementing 21st Century pop music, TTA mixes the gorgeous Islamic prayer songs with pitch-shifted samples over the course of the this record. Combine those elements with their own musical prowess and the knack for a damn fine melody, and you assume that in Göteborg it's alwa..
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MP3: Lightning Bolt - 2 Towers#12 - Lightning Bolt - Wonderful RainbowLoad Records 2004Matt On Wonderful Rainbow:Pummeling and brutal, the second proper Lightning Bolt record finally captured the intensity of their live sets in a take home package, complete with the ever so grand art of Brian Chippendale. However, we are also still waiting for a Barkley's Barnyard Critters hologram to accompany...
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MP3: Sun Kil Moon - Carry Me Ohio#12 - Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts Of The Great HighwayJetset Records 2003 / Caldo Verde Records 2007 (reissue)Joey On Ghosts Of The Great Highway:I had just turned 21 in Portland and went to my job at 6 in the morning. Ezra gave me a copy of this for my birthday and I could only listen to it on a disc man because a few weeks back someone broke into my car and stole my...
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MP3: Marissa Nadler - Mexican Summer#13 - Marissa Nadler - Songs III: Bird on the WaterKemado Records 2007Joey On Songs III: Bird on the Water:I will listen to this album forever. It is truly one of the best things to come from music.
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MP3: Dead Meadow - Everything's Going On#13 - Dead Meadow - Shivering King and OthersMatador Records 2003Matt On Shivering King and Others:Three records in, and Dead Meadow drops a fucking bomb. In addition to superior production when compared to their previous albums, Shivering King takes the sludge, drone and shoegaze up into a shroomed-out bliss.
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MP3: Matt Sweeny & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Blood Embrace#14 - Matt Sweeny & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - SuperwolfDrag City Records 2005Matt On Superwolf:Who knew of the most quiet and tense albums of the decade could be also be one of the most cathartic? Slowing plodding through a midwinter's field, our heros take a jackhammer to the permafrost to hibernate in.
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MP3: Talkdemonic - Dusty Flourescent/Wooden Shelves#14 - Talkdemonic - Beat RomanticArena Rock Recording Company 2006Joey On Beat Romantic:Maybe the best band out of Portland currently. I love Talkdemonic. "Beat Romantic" is so fucking great and enjoyable and the song I posted is my favourite song from it. The part where it is strings and banjo is the most beautiful part of any song ever.
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MP3: Black Mountain - Don't Run Our Hearts Around#15 - Black Mountain - Black MountainJagjaguwar 2005Joey On Black Mountain:This shit is right on. If I had a band it would be this band: stoner metal with drone chick and dude vocals, completely capable of taking it down a notch and then skullfucking you when you become complacent. Don't sleep on that new record too long homies.
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MP3: The Weakerthans - One Great City!#15 - The Weakerthans - Reconstruction SiteEpitaph Records 2003Matt On Reconstruction Site:Personally, I find this record to be criminally underrated in large circles. The Weakerthans finally found their home in slightly slicker production values to finally put the focus on John K. Samson's lyrics and give the music the light it had always deserved.
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MP3: Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet#16 - Andrew W.K. - I Get WetIsland Records 2001Matt On I Get Wet:The party album of the decade. AWK takes the gash slaying so far up the totem pole on his debut that he's in hedonist utopia. A must for everyone; hit play and everyone gets wet the old fashioned way.
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MP3: Joanna Newsom - Inflammatory Writ#16 - Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed MenderDrag City Records 2004Joey On The Milk-Eyed Mender:Great album. I saw her at UConn one time right before Ys came out and it was just her playing those songs. It was nuts. Chris and Maggie were there and I ran into Sean and Ryan from Quiet Life too. It was a romp. The Milk-Eyed Mender is the one for me and I remember...
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