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According to our favorite local music know-it-all:
Headlining: Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Raconteurs, Wilco, Kanye.
Others: Gnarls, Black Keys, Broken Social Scene, G. Love/Special Sauce, Blues Traveler, Mates of State, Bloc Party, Cat Power, Stephen Malkmus, Girl Talk, Kid Sister, Office, Cool Kids, Battles, Go! Team, Jamie Lidell, Grizzly Bear.
As of right now, […]

Man, Stereogum sure does hate the way Rolling Stone does things. I guess you can’t blame them. Is Rolling Stone to Stereogum as Pitchfork is to RTP?
Either way, I digress. Check out this piece where Billy Corgan dares to question Radiohead’s musical integrity. He questions Amy Winehouse in the same breath, which I could have […]

And I think it should be Vince Gill:

Seriously, though, Kanye West might be the perfect embodiment of everything that is wrong with the world today. His display during last night’s Grammys made me fucking sick. Someone seriously needs to smack those retarded white sunglasses off his big cocky head and convince him that god doesn’t […]

The last person I would expect to fill that blank is Arcade Fire’s Win Butler. Via the Fork, Butler took to his blog recently to voice his choice re: the two lefty front-runners in this year’s poli-race:
I am watching Hillary Clinton in her victory speech in new Hampshire…they just threw a bunch of college kids […]

Via:

After 17 years of professional music-reviewing, Noel Murray is taking the year off from all new music, and instead revisiting his record collection in alphabetical order, to take stock of what he’s amassed, and consider whether he still needs it all.
Interesting idea, and something perhaps worth following, at least until it gets dumb. Not sure […]

I agree with FrazerJames: building my list of top 10 records for 2007 was much harder than I thought it would be. Too often, great records had to be left off my list because they started strong, but finished weakly. While the list struggled at times from six through 10, my top […]

Putting this list together made me want to immediately go back and start listening to each of these albums on repeat again. Each one, especially those near the top, soundtracked a huge portion of my waking hours in 2007, and I never really got sick of them.
With all further ado sprinkled among the list, here […]

Let’s spare everyone the preamble and get right into it shall we? Here are my top ten records of 2007, along with my best guess at my current favorite track on each. Thanks in advance for sincerely caring, or not caring at all but lying to me.

10 - Feist, The Reminder

Favorite Track: “I Feel It […]

More great albums from established artists in my top 10 this year than “new” bands. Guess it means we need better albums from new bands. I’m talking to you The Sun’s Harmful Rays and Bandstraction…
My 10 favorite albums of 2007:
10 Explosions In the Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
09 White Rabbits […]

Vampire Weekend: the preppiest band I’ve ever seen. As fellow RTPers will tell you, this album has been in heavy rotation in a lot of our rock libraries. I like the album, but it’s not my favorite of the year (more on that later this week…) and after seeing them live I’m convinced they’ll make […]