Booker T Potato Hole Released April 21st on ANTI- Records Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Hammond B-3 mastermind, Booker T. Jones, returned this year with his first album in twenty years. The man whose career took off as a teenager after writing “Green Onions”, released Potato Hole, featuring Southern Rock band, the …
Tag Archive: Best of 2009
Nov
16
2009
Listing the Best Albums of 2009 by Artist from A to Z: Bon Iver
Bon Iver Blood Bank EP Released January 20th on Jagjaguwar Records I can’t press Justin Vernon and Bon Iver enough. They’re one of my favorite musical discoveries over the past couple years, and they’re simply brilliant on record, and even better live. While most of the songs on their debut, For Emma, Forever Ago, …
Nov
16
2009
Listing the Best Albums of 2009 by Artist from A to Z: Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan Together Through Life Released April 28th on Columbia Records A man who needs no introduction, Dylan has released his thirty-third studio album, which debuted at #1 both in the United States and the United Kingdom. It’s Dylan’s first number one album in Britain since 1970′s New Morning. Many of the songs on the …
Nov
15
2009
Listing the Best Albums of the Year by Artist from A to Z: BLK JKS
BLK JKS After Robots Released September 8th on Secretly Canadian Philadelphia DJ/producer and former boyfriend of M.I.A., Diplo, is often credited for having discovered the African band BLK JKS (pronounced Black Jacks) and dubbing them “the African TV on the Radio.” Although they’ve been together for nearly a decade, they’re still a fairly young band, …
Nov
12
2009
Listing the Best Albums of 2009 by Artist from A to Z: Blitzen Trapper
Blitzen Trapper Black River Killer EP Released August 24th on Sub Pop Records Portland, Oregon experimental, indie-folk sextet, Blitzen Trapper, broke through back in 2007, with their third independently-released album, Wild Mountain Nation. They would go onto bigger things by signing to the Sub Pop label and with the release of their follow-up album, Furr. Wild Mountain …
Nov
11
2009
Listing the Best Albums of 2009 by Artist from A to Z: Black Moth Super Rainbow
Black Moth Super Rainbow Eating Us Released May 26th on Graveface Records “I’ve always felt like these ideas shouldn’t outstay their welcome. Three or four records is enough, because I get really bored, and I like to keep these bands and ideas as pure as I can, in their places in time, until it seems …
Nov
11
2009
Listing the Best Albums of 2009 by Artist from A to Z: Black Lips
Black Lips 200 Million Thousand Released February 24th on Vice Records Atlanta’s Black Lips formed in 2000, after longtime friends Cole Alexander, Jared Swilley and Ben Eberbaugh left their previous bands (The Renegades, The Reruns). But just days before their tour was slated to begin in December of 2002, Eberbaugh was struck and killed by …
Nov
11
2009
Listing the Best Albums of 2009 by Artist from A to Z: Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is! Released March 17th on Lost Highway Records I often think of Austin, Texas as ”the Vegas for Music Lovers” because it really kind of is. The official nickname of the city is “the Live Music Capital of the World” and that would be because …
Nov
03
2009
Listing the Best Albums of 2009 by Artist from A to Z: Ben Harper and Relentless7
Ben Harper and Relentless7 White Lies for Dark Times Released May 5th on Virgin Records The Many Sounds and Styles of Ben Harper From picking up the slide guitar in his grandparents’ music shop as a teen, to his collaboration with the Blind Boys of Alabama, it appears that Ben Harper has been everywhere and in …
Nov
03
2009
Listing the Best Albums of 2009 from A to Z: Bell X1
Bell X1 Blue Lights on the Runway Released February 20th (UK) and March 3 (US) “One of Ireland’s greatest bands” – Paste Magazine The roots of Irish indie-rock band Bell X1, can be traced back to the early nineties with the popular Irish band Juniper. Most of the members of Bell X1 got their …