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Friday | CamdenCrazies.com

Top 25 Albums of the 2000s

I was going to do a year-end list for 2009 music releases, but whether because I'm getting old or because it was just that kind of year, there weren't any albums that I really liked.

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Related Topix: Wilco, Pop/Rock, The Decemberists, Sports, Baltimore Orioles, Major League Baseball

Sun Dec 27, 2009

MassLive.com

Top 10 albums of the Decade

U2 and Bruce Springsteen continue to create vital music, and both released some of the decade's greatest albums.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, U2, Best of 2007, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan

Wed Dec 23, 2009

Statesman Journal

The Decade: Indie acts take control of the mic

Small, non-mainstream acts and record labels have sought exposure for their music since the birth of rock `n' roll, pop and soul, but this decade saw indie artists finding powerful new vehicles to reach an audience that was growing more receptive.

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Related Topix: Death Cab for Cutie, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Comedy, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Garden State, Hot Chicks, Natalie Portman

Wed Dec 16, 2009

MTV News

The Best Albums Of 2009, In Bigger Than The Sound

Well, we made it. 2009 is practically in the books, and now it's time to look back on the rather, uh, zany year that was.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Thu Dec 10, 2009

Reverb

A.M. Music News: Editors Coming to The Showbox, Fleet Foxes/Modest Mouse Get Rolling Stone Nod

Editors open their US tour at The Showbox at the Market on Feb. 5, supporting their new record, In This Light And On This Evening , out Jan.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Mon Dec 07, 2009

Willamette Week

Mimicking Birds Get a Date for Glacial Pace Debut

Mimicking Birds, one of two Portland-based bands on Isaac Brock's Glacial Pace imprint, has finally landed a release date for its self-titled debut disc.

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Related Topix: 9, Pop/Rock, Music, Entertainment

Thu Dec 03, 2009

Northern Star

A countdown of the decade's best music

Last updated on 12/02/2009 at 10:58 p.m. This past decade has provided us with some amazing music, as well as some that frankly should not even be classified as music.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Postal Service, Indie, A Perfect Circle

Tue Dec 01, 2009

Nuvo.net

Soundcheck: Dec. 2-8

Mashups The Hood Internet Blu, 240 S. Meridian St., www.bluindy.com 9 p.m., $5 advance or before 11 p.m., 21+ Chicago mash-up DJs The Hood Internet told Paste earlier this year that they're "conceptually" doing the "same thing" as Girl Talk, combining a cappella hip-hop vocals with instrumentals largely taken from the rock world.

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Related Topix: Chicago, IL, Black Entertainment, Kanye West, Hip-Hop, Pit, Jason Webley, Alternative, Music, Entertainment

Fri Nov 27, 2009

Area93.com

Missed The Boat - Modest Mouse

Issaquah, WA, indie rock trio Modest Mouse was formed in 1993 by vocalist/guitarist Isaac Brock, bassist Eric Judy, and drummer Jeremiah Green.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Issaquah, WA

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

Video directed by Heath Ledger goes online

Heath Ledger made the three-and-a-half minute film for London-born rap act No Fixed Abode, his close childhood friend Photo: GETTY The Australian actor, who died in January 2008 following an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, directed the video Cause An Effect shortly before starring in The Dark Knight.

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Related Topix: Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Brokeback Mountain, The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger, Australia, World News, Pop/Rock

Thu Oct 22, 2009

Fresno Bee

Hip concerts touring into Fresno this November

Uber-catchy indie rock band Vampire Weekend is due in Visalia on Nov. 9, the latest concert coup for promoter Aaron Gomes.

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Related Topix: Fresno, CA, Fresno Metro, Visalia, CA, Visalia Metro, Billy Corgan, Opinion

Tue Oct 20, 2009

The Oregonian

Johnny Marr. The Cribs. Jackpot. Free show.

While there's a decent good chance Johnny Marr will be doing some writing in the future with Isaac Brock and the rest of Modest Mouse , Marr's days on the road with the band might be done.

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Related Topix: Punk, The Cribs, Pop/Rock, Downtown (Portland, OR), The Smiths, Portland, OR, Music, Entertainment

411mania.com

The 411 Music Top Five 10.20.09: Top 5 Favorite Songs From 2003

The 411 Music Top Five 10.20.09: Top 5 Favorite Songs From 2003 Posted by Ben Czajkowski on 10.20.2009 2003 was a good year for music, and this week, the 411Music Critics talk about their top five favorite tracks from that year.

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Related Topix: Muse, Pop/Rock, Metal, Metallica, Britney Spears, Outkast, Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Music, Entertainment

Sun Oct 18, 2009

Fresno Bee

Fay Wrays are ready to party

Uber-catchy indie rock band Vampire Weekend is due in Visalia on Nov. 9, the latest concert coup for promoter Aaron Gomes.

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Related Topix: Visalia, CA, Billy Corgan, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Fresno, CA, Fresno Metro

Fri Oct 16, 2009

Boise Weekly

Perseverance Pays Off

There is a certain amount of dissonance in this DK's Donut shop, listening to Bill Vaun talk about pop music as Modest Mouse's weird, lovely, 2004 crossover album Good News For People Who Love Bad News plays in the background.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Boise, ID

Wed Oct 14, 2009

Volante

CD Review: Modest Mouse's new album a revival of past success

Two years after their last studio album "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank," indie band Modest Mouse returns with their newest EP "No One's First and You're Next," and it doesn't disappoint.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Sun Oct 11, 2009

AdLand the commercial archive

Modest Mouse - The Whale Song -

The indie rock band Modest Mouse is getting the royal treatment from Bent Image Lab's new director/partner Nando Costa.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Sat Oct 10, 2009

BeatCrave

Watch Modest Mousea s Music Video: Whale Song

Modest Mouse first showed us that they had visual creativity through their video for " Float On ." It was one of the true indie videos that MTV2 had on rotation for a while, and it was also the song that garnered them mainstream success.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Thu Oct 08, 2009

New York Magazine

Modest Mouse Video Creepier Than a Letterman-Polanksi Brunch Date

Brock and his pearly whites. For a track that kinda sounds like a practice-space jam session caught on tape , "The Whale Song" sure has an amazingly lavish video: As if a cow's head rapidly rotting down to a skull that then explodes wasn't enough, we see Isaac Brock hurtling through empty space, his bowels unraveling from his gut and splattering on ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Entertainment

Stereogum

New Modest Mouse Video - "Whale Song"

When we were deep in No One's First And You're Next mode, I called "Whale Song" the most interesting material from the collection.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

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