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Follow us on Twitter @TimesMusic As we tick from the Noughties into the Teenies, the critics are scribbling away in dusty rooms inside dark buildings to list the best new artists to listen to in 2010.

Michael Marotta writes about music, lifestyle and pop culture for the Boston Herald.

Boiling down a decade's worth of music into a list of the 10 finest albums was, to say the least, a challenge.

We made it! After this brutal year of war and economic near-collapse, survival is an accomplishment.

Compiling this year's top 10 albums list was especially difficult. Unlike other years, there weren't enough albums that were sure shots.

From French pop-rockers Phoenix to Jay-Z's new style of hip-hop, here are the nine best albums of 2009.

Those geezers who think new music is terrible don't listen to new music. To those who say rock 'n' roll peaked in 1967, I say it plateaued.

It only took a year and a half for Passion Pit to become the band that no iTunes addict could live without.

Keeping up with the growing trend of energetic electronic indie music, Passion Pit gives fans something to dance and to sing along to with Manners .

Grizzly Bear Veckatimist Grizzly Bear is an enigmatic group. They are quiet and reserved in public.

Last night's BOSTON MUSIC AWARDS was a stripped-down affair at the LIBERTY HOTEL -- yes, the joint formerly known as the Charles Street Jail.

MTVU's Woodie Awards were part self-aggrandizing corporate product exhibition and part sincere sance of like-minded musicians and independent culture.

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.

Do you enjoy classic artists like Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead? How about some of the hip modern electronic rock groups like Passion Pit and MGMT - do you like them? If you answered yes to both, BoomBox is a group you should check out.

Mary Anne Hobbs, the 'Queen of Dubstep,' rarely looks backward.. Details: Mary Anne Hobbs performs Friday, November 20, at The Green Elephant.

PERFORMERS PASSION PIT AND CLIPSE FEATURING CAM'RON AND RICK ROSS, AND DIPLO OF MAJOR LAZER JOIN WOODIES LINEUP KUPS of the University of Puget Sound Captures the "Radio Woodie" 2009 "mtvU Woodie Awards" Premiere on MTV, MTV2, mtvU, and Palladia on Friday, December 4 at 10pm ET/PT New York, NY - " November 16, 2009 - " mtvU, MTV's 24-hour college ...

Open Mic Night. Many people gathered to watch the various performers do their best to impress on Tuesday .

One of the primary concerns of any municipal council is the safety of the people they serve.

A Sacramento teenager spends a week in the fields. Plug'd In Fine finned friends Tim Horner presents "Salmon at the Heart of Nature." See All Green Guide LOCAL STORIES Feature Story Are you tired of your stupid, good for nothing brain? The emergent science of neurogenesis has produced a vibrant industry - in Sacramento and beyond - that claims it ...

Posted By: Justin Richards The performance by Lichens, one of the artists playing before Pit er Pat on Friday night, altogether rejected my expectations for a Market Hotel show.