I have to admit up front that I stole this idea from a couple of other blogs. There are very few original ideas out there, and I don’t have any of them. I just thought this might be an interesting metric to gauge interest in the bands we yak about.
February’s Most Downloaded MP3s:
1)The Temper Trap [...]

Editor’s Note: Here at BIYL we like to wing things. There’s no master plan for our end of year lists, and frankly I don’t even know if I’ll be able to make one. But I imagine we’ll each be tackling the year separately (and possibly in one collective discussion, we’ll see how things go). Mark [...]

Well, we’re 3 months in to our Best of 2009 Reader’s Poll, and I think it’s pretty obvious who you folks think had the record of the year: The xx. Phoenix was very close, but still a few votes shy of the London trio’s top spot. I was originally going to close the voting on [...]

The Reader’s Poll results haven’t changed too much for the past few weeks, but I realized I hadn’t given any statistics on the write-in poll. As 14% of the total votes have been for write-in answers, I thought I might be giving some folks the shaft by not calculating the results. Unquestionably, the funnest part [...]

The XX – XX
16%
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
15%
Miike Snow – Miike Snow
7%
Florence & The Machine – Lungs
6%
Metric – Fantasies
5%
Phoenix – Girlfriend

The XX – XX
16%
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
15%
Miike Snow – Miike Snow
7%
Florence & The Machine – Lungs
6%
Metric – Fantasies
6%
The XX – Crystalized (Rory Phillips)

The XX – XX
15%
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
14%
Florence & The Machine – Lungs
6%
Miike Snow – Miike Snow
6%
Metric – Fantasies vs La Roux – La Roux
5%
Metric – Gold Guns And Girls