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Happy New Year from Daydream Station

Jan 082011

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So it, uh, took us a few minutes there to sleep off our hangovers, emotional and physical but we’re back on the horse for another year of blogging. I hope everyone rang 2010 out in style (and to good music). Before we commence 2011-in-blogging, there are a few items of business to conclude: First off, congratulations [Read Full Post...]

December Delirium: Sweet Sixteen

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Dec 222010

Okay, here’s how it works: We each prepped a list of the 32 best songs of the year, and seeded them into a December Delirium Tournament Bracket We wrote a short descriptor of each track (we are limiting ourselves to 140 characters, in honor of the Tweet’s natural brevity) and will attach a copy of each [Read Full Post...]

December Delirium: Round of 64, Electronica Bracket, Pt. 1

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Dec 162010

December Delirium: Round of 64, Electronica Bracket, Pt. 1

Amanda and I have each prepped our lists of the 32 best songs of the year, as defined by our impeccable tastes. Instead of blathering on and on and forcing you to come back each day to see the subsequent portions of the list, we are taking the best annual contest currently in existence (NCAA [Read Full Post...]

First Take: Arcade Fire Presents The Suburbs

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Jul 242010

First Take: Arcade Fire Presents The Suburbs

The Arcade Fire‘s new album, The Suburbs, has officially hit the internet (and a high-quality leak, too). I got my hands on it yesterday, meaning I’ve only listened to it five or fifteen times so far. Let’s cover a few basic questions. Is it what I expected? No, I had forgotten what to expect with [Read Full Post...]

Aaron’s Best of the Decade: #10-6

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Jul 122010

Stay tuned – the countdown is about to heat up! Amanda and I will follow this update with a standalone post for each remaining track, five through one, every two days from here on out. #10 The Shins – New Slang Album: Oh, Inverted World Year: 2001 “New Slang” is a song so simple, so [Read Full Post...]

Amanda’s Best of the Decade #15-11

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Jul 052010

#15 Vincent O’Brien – M. Ward Album: The Transfiguration of Vincent Year: 2003 As one of many jobs, I used to work for a distributor of wholesale alternative magazines and calendars during my late teens. I spent many a summer-home-from-college day entertaining idle crushes on the receiving guys at PCC Natural Foods (some of them [Read Full Post...]

Aaron’s Best of the Decade: #35-31

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Jun 072010

#35 The Arcade Fire – Intervention Album: Neon Bible Year: 2007 The Arcade Fire set the bar extremely high after debut full-length Funeral. When follow-up Neon Bible emerged, I was intrigued by opener “Black Mirror,” pleased by “Keep The Car Running”, and accepted a quiet moment on the title track. When track four rolled around, [Read Full Post...]

New Music Monday

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May 312010

This post pre-written and scheduled last Thursday, due to my disappearance to Sasquatch Music Festival! So if any huge, awesome, mind-wrecking jams came out over the weekend, you can just wait until at least Tuesday to hear about them. Yeah, I mean, it’s not too bad. I mean, it should be okay. I’m not too [Read Full Post...]

It’s the Month of May in The Suburbs

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May 262010

The rumored new Arcade Fire 7″ single mysteriously popped up on some record store shelves this very morning, and of course quickly found its way to the information superhighway (I’m bringing that term back, by the way). Credit to Seattle’s own 107.7 The End for breaking the mp3s for all of us to salivate over. [Read Full Post...]

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