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 [...]

Bloggers these days end up receiving more remixes than original music. I’m pretty sure other bloggers can attest to to this fact, but just in case they’re feeling extra private about it I’ll ask that you take my word for it. Out of say 100 emails I receive a day, I’d say at least 50 [...]

All the news last night & this morning seems to revolve around The Grammys – not that it’s surprising, of course. But it had slipped my mind it was even on. I’m more of an Oscars/Golden Globes man myself, despite my obvious obsession with music.

I’m not one to piss and moan about award ceremonies too [...]

Well, we seem to have made it to 2010. Amazing! Now if only we can make it past 2012…
I thought I might put together a little collection of songs that reflect the feelings a new year often brings up. Excitement, anticipation, sadness, regret, confusion. Songs that just…feel right. Not sure if there’s any rhyme or [...]

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