Interlude

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Woodpecker Wooliams "You Have Long" video

Woodpecker Wooliams is enjoying the Winter more than I am. Here's her amazing cover of a Mary Margaret O'Hara song. OK, th season just got considerably better :-)

Best of Two Thousand and Nine, Part Two / Twenty Ten = "Rejuvenation"?

I have a large-ish pile of CDs/CD-Rs/tapes (acquired in 2009) that I still need to listen to for the first time, so I'd rather do that than post the list I was semi planning. Once I get through the pile, I'll post a little review/recommendation of each, if relevant. Last year just wasn't a year for music for me, here's hoping I'll make up for lost time(s) in 2010.

Best songs of 2009.

I will add that I do agree with Pitchfork about "Feel it All Around" by Washed Out being one of the ten best songs of '09; "Night Court" by Vibes (Vibes' "Psychic" 7" itself is terrific) would be my #1 if I had to make a list (which I almost did.)

I've been considering doing irregular (would you expect anything less from me?) podcasts for, like, five years. 2010? We'll see...

Best of Two Thousand and Nine, Part One

Best album covers of 2009.

In an effort to get back in the game (in this case, rip off pretty much every other music blog), I'm going to do a few minor Best of 2009 entries to end off the year.

I can't offer up a list of Best Albums list (my lacking attention span and fluctuating motivation-for-music largely prevented me from listening to full albums, ahem, let alone full songs, much of the year.)

Anyway, Oh No Ono's "Eggs" and Wilco's "Wilco (the Album)" are two pretty excellent album covers (as always, I've probably forgotten a bunch / there are probably better, longer lists elsewhere.) Obviously haven't had the opportunity to listen to the actual records (I'll presume the former would be more up my boulevard.)

Piledrive the Pope,
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More than just a Swedish super market chain

After a month and a half, laden with non-label-commitments, there are new Gastropodal Follicles to stroke. Quite a bit will be happening at abeardofsnails.com later this (coming) week.

To hold you over, here are a couple of, uh, willy good performances:

Noasis

Busy, busy, and I'll get to all of it (including blog posts on a more regular basis, perhaps) eventually - even at this rate.

But quickly, in honor of the apparent end of Oasis as we know it (their first two albums were pretty nifty, actually), I wanted to share this hilarious tidbit (in the archaic RealAudio format... don't know if any software [not the mostly superb VLC Player, alas] other than RealPlayer can play such files) with you: the amazing Nardwuar (who's from my hometown no less) interviewing non-Oasis Gallagher brother Paul in 1996...

http://nardwuar.com/audio/interviews/real/paul_gallagher.ram

Cool

Same performance, two different angles.