video: Lilacs & Champagne - Lilacs

Two dudes from Portland's Grails cut and paste dusty records to make a creepy track that scrapes by.

feature: Top Ten From Oh-Eleven

This is my favorite stuff from 2011. There's even an album from 2010 in here, how many year-end lists can say that?! boosh.

This is my lazy Top Ten From Oh-Eleven. I had a top 50 but decided to whittle it down to 10 albums so the numbering/ordering actually meant something and did not make my brain explode, causing spinal fluid to leak out my ears, rendering music listening impossible, ensuring I never write another music critique again.

If you don't have the means to download or purchase this music, I highly recommend quickly signing up for a free Spotify account to stream these records using the provided links (every hyper-linked album also goes to Spotify). I have provided alternate stream links for albums which are not on Spotify. For those of you who are boycotting Spotify for not adequately compensating artists and/or indie-labels: while I tend to agree with this sentiment, I am still using Spotify links here because they are quick, easy, and free for the moment. And for God's sake, do not just plug these artists into Pandora. Or at least do so after listening to the actual albums first--Pandora, unlike, Spotify, actually does compensate artists and labels fairly.