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1. Matt and Kim: Grand
Matt sings and plays keyboards; Kim plays drums and adds vocals. And in a lot of ways, it really is that simple! But what’s made Matt and Kim one of NYC’s most popular acts is their unr...read more
2. Akron/Family: Set 'em Wild, Set 'em Free
Everybody’s favorite band-with-a-slash-in-its-name follows up Love Is Simple with another spectacularly eclectic offering that flits from screaming brass (somewhere between Balkan marching band and...read more
3. The Apples in Stereo: Travellers in Space and Time
Indefatigable. That’s the word that comes to mind first when thinking about The Apples in Stereo‘s time-tested, perpetually perfect and sunny pop songs. Travellers in Space and Time is ...read more
4. Smith Westerns: s/t
Smith Westerns' electric 2009 debut album for HoZac gets the pick-up treatment from Fat Possum (who did likewise for Wavves, another young lo-fi slacker-pop star-in-waiting), and it deserves your e...read more
5. The Walkmen: Lisbon
They've earned it and it suits them well: the time to do things their way. Lisbon, the Walkmen's sixth studio album (coming a relaxed two years after its predecessor), is richly toned and unhurried...read more
6. Rev. Johnny L. Jones: The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta
This wild set is from the excellent Dust-to-Digital label — and in a just world, we shouldn't have to tell you anything more! Alas... The righteous Reverend Johnny L. Jones, who still hits his Atla...read more
7. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
What can we say? What can anyone say about Kanye West in 2010? For one thing, the dude himself says so freakin' much — about himself! Like, where are we supposed to get a word in edgewise? The trut...read more
8. Ponytail: Do Whatever You Want All the Time
Ponytail's third album is called Do Whatever You Want All the Time, it's out on a label called We Are Free, and frontperson Willy (formerly Molly) Siegel recently gave one of the coolest, most fran...read more
9. Tune-Yards: Whokill
"My country 'tis of thee / Sweet land of liberty" sings Merrill Garbus, a.k.a. Tune-Yards, leaning into the last word to show just how different her idea is than that of our founders. On her second...read more
10. Gang Gang Dance: Eye Contact
To tell the truth, I've never been much of a Gang Gang fan—I've always liked the idea of them, but found the lack of cohesion in their tracks to be a problem, rather than a source of their charm. T...read more
11. Tom Waits: Bad as Me
It's album number 17 for one of postmodern music's elder statesmen, as well as his first set of all-new material in seven years. And yet, as kaleidoscopic as Tom Waits's sound is, Bad as Me seems t...read more
12. Ceremony: Zoo
One word never associated with hardcore punk is “classy,” but you could definitely apply that adjective to Ceremony’s new record, Zoo. Although all of the signifiers of post-hardcore are there fo...read more
13. Xiu Xiu: Always
There is no such thing as a casual Xiu Xiu fan -- Jamie Stewart's music is just too intense for that to be possible, and for proof, the cover of Always is a tattoo of band and album name on some un...read more