I’m going to start tallying up the amount of times I’ve planned on writing something specific and wound up doing otherwise. Or the amount of times I’ve planned on going to the gym and wound up going out… to, let’s say… a concert. I had a couple of different Artist Spotlights lined up for today, [...]

Posted by Cheryse in Artist Spotlight, Live 4 Comments »

The very first time I heard of Local Natives was back in March of last year. Their name had popped up on a ton of blogs covering must-see artists of SXSW. The digital-press stretched from Daytrotter to Nylon, then onward and upward to numerous radio stations in the UK. Seriously. I was so sure they [...]

Posted by Cheryse in Artist Spotlight, Video 4 Comments »

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I told myself I wasn’t going to do a decades album list. I mean how can you really rank all your favorite albums over a period of ten years that isn’t even completed yet? Over the last couple of months though, I found myself slowly beginning to compile a list of [...]

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Today is Earth Day and in honor of nature and the environment and taking pollution down to zero, here’s a mix of some of my favorite eco-friendly songs. Do your part in saving the world the today by planting a tree or converting your car to run on vegetable oil.  Remember, THE POWER IS [...]

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Photo Illustration by Nick Duncan. Click for hi-res version.
2008 is taking it’s final bow and a what a year it has been. While ‘07 was dominated by a slew of  indie rock heavy hitters releasing awesome albums (Spoon, Of Montreal, Arcade Fire, Wilco,  Radiohead) this is a year where new talent seems to be garnering the [...]

Posted by Taylor in Album Review, Lists 26 Comments »

Here is the much-anticipated conclusion to my favorite songs of the year list (if you haven’t already take a look at the first 25 and read the foreword/ground rules).  These are my favorite 25 songs of the year. As before, there’s a link by each song choice where you can download/hear the song or you can get [...]

Posted by Taylor in Lists, Track Review 28 Comments »

The holiday season is upon us, which for any self-respecting music writer means making end-of-the-year lists.  I, like many a blogger, live for this kind of year-end reflection, so this will be the first of many lists.  Here before you are the absolute 25 best music videos of the year 2008.   All the videos [...]

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Today’s mix is comprised entirely of covers of songs that were released in 2008, because we here at musicforants.com are big fans of covers and we like getting stuff fast.  What’s more instantly gratifying then hearing an artist cover a song that was released just a couple months before (except maybe a Weird Al parody of [...]

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