Hi! My name is Desirée and I’m new here at BIYL. It may take a post or two for me to get into my groove, but I’m excited to be able to share with you some of the awesome music that crosses my path each and every day.
I grew up in various cities just outside [...]

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

A random smattering of new videos. At least they’re new to me. Perhaps they’re new to you, too. And that’s sort of the point.

This album is a never-ending supply of fantastic singles.

Martina doing her best Lori Petty. This is the title track off album #2.

Regina Spektor is quite possibly the most adorable girl on [...]