R.I.P.

MARK LINKUS -SPARKLEHORSE
VIC CHESNUT
MALCOLM MACLAREN

the best new releases up to March 2010- Οι καλύτερες κυκλοφορίες μέχρι τον Μάρτιο 2010

Badly Drawn Boy - Is There Nothing We Can Do? (The Fattest Man In Britain OST)
Vampire Weekend - Contra
Midlake - The Courage Of Others
Lightspeed Champion - Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You!
Delphic - Acolyte
Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back
Eels - End Times
Tindersticks - Falling Down A Mountain
Yeasayer - Odd Blood
Beach House - Teen Dream
White Rabbits - It's Frightening
The Soft Pack - The Soft Pack
Hot Chip - One Life Stand
Massive Attack - Heligoland
Field Music - Field Music (Measure)
Ali Farka toure And Toumani Diabate - Ali & Toumani
The Courteeners - Falcon
Marina & The Diamonds - The Family Jewels
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
Babybird - Ex-Maniac
Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave
Kathryn Williams - The Quickning
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Liars - Sisterworld
Tunng - And Then We Saw Land
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
Broken Bells - Broken Bells
Fionn Regan - The Shadow Of An Empire
New Young Pony Club - The Optimist
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
Goldfrapp - Head First
Joe Bonamassa - Black Rock
Amy MacDonald - A Curious Thing
Jimi Hendrix - Valleys Of Neptune
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat The Devil's Tattoo
Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
Drive-By Truckers - The Big To Do
Turin Brakes - Outbursts
Tom McRae - Alphabet Of Hurricanes
The White Stripes - Under Great White Northern Lights

Sancho 003 in Cyprus

Hello my dear friends
It is with great pleasure that I invite you to a very special Louvana event that is taking place this Friday 12th of February at Tritos of the Pantheon Cultural
Centre. Featured act of the evening will be Sancho 003 from Greece who are going to present music from their recently released album 'We buy gold'.
Sancho 003 is an electroacoustic duo that consists of Fotis Siotas (violin, viola) and Kostas Pantelis (guitars). Their music can be called experimental
since they work a lot with live loops and improvisation and creating new sounds on the spot. Other people have called their shows 'a journey'. I guess
you have to come down and see for yourselves. Also special guests for the evening will be two brand new Cypriot groups: I Nea Tampoutsia, who play
traditional music consisting of ouds and percussion and Roland Barthes, an experimental project of Panayiotis Mina and Andreas Trachonitis.
Don’t miss it!!

midway to autumns by Demetris Soteriou

Το midway to autumns είναι η πρώτη επίσημη και ολοκληρωμένη δισκογραφική δουλειά του τραγουδοποιού. Τα τραγούδια φτιαχτήκαν στο μικρό στούντιο του Δημήτρη Σωτηρίου, στο σπίτι του στην Λευκωσία. Με ειλικρινά και ευαισθησία παρουσιάζει σεμνά τα τραγούδια του. Τα ακουστικά όργανα είναι το κύριο όχημα και με αυτά καταφέρνει να δημιουργήσει την ατμόσφαιρα που σου ανακοινώνει ο τίτλος. Το γλυκό, πικρό αλλά ταυτόχρονα και ρομαντικό συναίσθημα, είναι πρωταγωνιστικό. Τραγούδια που θα έβαζαν και στην επόμενη δισκογραφική τους δουλειά η Fleet foxes και ο Bon Iver.

Μίμης Κωνσταντίνου

The Best Albums of 2009 according to Astra Club

1. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
2. Muse – The Resistance
3. Bob Dylan – Together Through Life
4. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. Judy Dyble-Talking With Strangers
6. The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love
7. Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
8. Joe Henry -Blood From Stars
9. Astra -The Weirding
10. Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
11. U2 – No Line On The Horizon
12. Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
13. Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
14. Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter
15. Monsters Of Folk – Monsters Of Folk
16. Broken Records- Until The Earth Begins To Part
17. Toni Childs- Keep The Faith
18. Florence And The Machine – Lungs
19. Neil Young- Fork In The Road
20. The Felice Brothers -Yonder Is The Clock
21. Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers
22. Regina Spektor -Far
23. Devendra Banhart – What Will We Be
24. Empire F The Sun – Walking On A Dream
25. Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
26. Joe Bonamassa-The ballad of John Henry
27. The Dead Weather – Horehound
28. Bruce Springsteen – Working On A Dream
29. Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
30. Mariachi El Bronx – Mariachi El Bronx
31. The Low Anthem – Oh My Gad, Charlie Darwin
32. Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band – Outer South
33. Madness – The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
34. Jarvis Cocker – Further Complication
35. PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By
36. White Lies – To Lose My Life
37. Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
38. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
39. Placebo – Battle For The Sun
40. Antony And The Johnsons – The Crying Light
41. Iggy Pop – Preliminaries
42. Richmond Fontaine – We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River
43. Editors - In This Light And On This Evening
44. Crippled Black Phoenix- The Ressurectionists & Night Raider/200 tons of bad luck
45. Sophia -There Are No Goodbyes
46. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
47. Lisa Hannigan- Sea Sew
48. Tori Amos- Abnormally Attracted To Sin
49. Elvis Perkins In Dearland - Elvis Perkins In Dearland
50. Lhasa - Lhasa (CD)

Lhasa de Sela R.I.P.

Λίστες των περιοδικών για τα καλύτερα του 2009 (The Best of 2009 according to various magazines)

Έχουμε τις λίστες των περιοδικών με τα καλύτερα του 2009. Τα σχόλια δικά σας:

Uncut – Best Albums Of 2009
1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years
3. The Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
4. Bob Dylan – Together Through Life
5. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
6. The XX – The XX
7. Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
8. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
10. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
11. Bill Callaham – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
12. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
13. White Denim – Fits
14. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
15. Bassekou Kouyate And Ngoni Ba – I Speak Fula
16. Florance And The Machine – Lungs
17. Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
18. Graham Coxon – The Spinning Top
19. Sonic Youth – The Eternal
20. The Horrors – Primary Colours

Mojo best alums of 2009
1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
3. Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter
4. The Horrors – Primary Colours
5. Tinariwen – Imidiwan: Companions
6. Bob Dylan – Together Through Life
7. Florence And The Machine – Lungs
8. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
9. Madness – The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
11. The Cribs – Ignore The Ignorant
12. The Low Anthem – Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
13. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
14. Mayer Hawthorne – A Strange Arrangement
15. Kasabian – The West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum
16. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
17. The Phantom Band – Checkmate Savage
18. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
19. Sunn O)) – Monoliths & Dimentions
20. Manic Street Preachers – Journol For Plague Lovers

NME Best Albums Of 2009
1. The Horrors - Primary Colours
2. The XX - The XX
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
4. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
5. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
6. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
7. The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love
8. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
9. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
10. Jamie T - Kings & Queens
11. Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
12. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
13. La Roux - La Roux
14. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
15. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
16. Girls - Album
17. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
18. Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another
19. The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms
20. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

Rolling Stone 2009 Critics
1 . U2 - No Line On The Horizon
2 . Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream
3 . Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
4 . Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
5 . Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
6 . Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
7 . Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
8 . The-Dream - Love Vs Money
9 . The XX - The XX
10 . Sonic Youth - The Eternal
11 . Pearl Jam - Backspacer
12 . Mastodon - Crack The Skye
13 . Drake - So Far Gone Mixtape
14 . Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
15 . Girls - Album
16 . Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
17 . Mos Def - The Ecstatic
18 . Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
19 . Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
20 . Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
21 . Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
22 . Franz Ferdinand - Tonight - Franz Ferdinand
23 . Levon Helm - Electric Dirt
24 . Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk
25 . Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. Ii


Record Collector

New Albums Of The Year

• Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
• Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
• Marianne Faithfull – Easy Come, Easy Go, Songs For Music Lovers
• The Fireman – Electric Arguments
• The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
• Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter
• Ian Hunter – Man Overboard
• Let’s Wrestle – In The Court Of The Wrestling Let’s
• Os Mutantes – Haih…Or Amortecedor
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!

Reissues Of The Year

• 13th Floor Elevators – Sign Of The 3 Eyed Man
• Hank Ballard & The Midnighters – Nothing But Good: The Federal/King Recordings
• Bauhaus – In The Flat Field, Mask
• Tim Buckley – Live At The Folklore Center, Nyc 1967
• Bert Jansch – La Turnaround, Santa Barbara Honeymoon, A Rare Conundrum
• Kraftwerk – 12345678 The Catalogue
• Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – 1st 5 Albums
• The Nice – 5 Bridges, Elegy, Fillmore East 1969
• Various – Love Train: The Sound Of Philadelphia
• Various – Tighten Up: Volume 2

Spin
1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It's Blitz!
3. Phoenix – Woulfgang Amadeus Phoenix
4. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
5. Girls – Album
6. Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
7. Mos Def – The Ecstatic
8. Florance And The Nachine – Lungs
9. Drake – So Far Gone
10. The Dead Weather – Horehound
11. Miles Benjanib Anthony Robinson – Summer Of Fear
12. Ida Mara – Fortress Round My Heart
13. Jay Retard – Watch Me Fall
14. Amadou & Mariam – Welcome To Mali
15. Niko Case – Middle Cyclone
16. Japandroids – Post-Nothing
17. Mastodon – Crack The Skye
18. Antony And The Johnsons – The Crying Light
19. Lily Allen – It's Not Me It's You
20. Paramore – Brand New Eyes

Humo Albums Of The Year 2009
'XX ' - The XX
Oh My God, Charlie Darwin -The Low Anthem
Bitte Orca - Dirty Projectors
Grace-Wastelands - Peter Doherty
The Hickey Underworld -The Hickey Underworld
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective
It's Blitz! -Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle -Bill Callahan
Christmas In The Heart - Bob Dylan
Keep An Eye On The Sky (An Anthology) - Big Star
Journal For Plague Lovers - Manic Street Preachers
Harry Patch (In Memory Of) -Radiohead
There Is An Ocean That Divides … - Scott Matthew
The Airing Of Grievances - Titus Andronicus
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
Gurrumul - Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
The Crying Light - Antony And The Johnsons
Manafon - David Sylvian
Hold Time - M. Ward
Black Summer's Night – Maxwell

Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2009
1. Gallows – Grey Britain
2. Alice In Chains – Black Gives Way To Blue
3. Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions
4. Mastodon – Crack The Sky
5. Mariachi El Bronx – El Bronx
6. Pearl Jam – Backspacer
7. Converge – Axe To Fall
8. Paramour – Brand New Eyes
9. The Prodigy – Invaders Must Die
10. Rammstein – Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da
11. Brand New – Daisy
12. Enter Shikari – Common Dreads
13. Alexonfire – Old Crows/Young Cardinals
14. The Wildhearts – Chutzpah!
15. Steel Panther – Feel The Steel
16. The Ghost Of A Thousand – New Hopes, New Demonstrations
17. Lamb Of God – Wrath
18. Lethermouth – Xo
19. Placebo – Battle For The Sun
20. Kylesa – Static Tention

Q magazine
1. Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
2. Florence And The Machine – Lungs
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
4. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers
6. Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
7. Muse – The Resistance
8. Lilly Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
9. U2 – No Line On The Horizon
10. Phoenix – Woulgang Amadeus Phoenix
11. Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
12. Jack Penate – Everything Is New
13. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
14. Devendra Banhart – What Will We Be
15. Dizzee Rascal – Tongue ‘N Cheek
16. Empire F The Sun – Walking On A Dream
17. Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
18. Mika – The Boy Who Knew Too Much
19. Monsters Of Folk – Monsters Of Folk
20. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
21. Jamie T – Kings And Queens
22. The Low Anthem – Oh My Gad, Charlie Darwin
23. The Prodigy – Invaders Must Die
24. Mos Def – The Ecstatic
25. Noah And The Whale – The First Days Of Spring
26. Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
27. The Dead Weather – Horehound
28. Bruce Springsteen – Working On A Dream
29. Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
30. La Roux – La Roux
31. Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions
32. Paolo Nutini – Sunny Side Up
33. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
34. White Lies – To Lose My Life
35. Pearl Jam – Backspacer
36. Sonic Youth – The Eternal
37. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
38. Richard Hawley
39. The Horrors – Primary Colours
40. Cheryl Cole – 3 Words
41. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
42. Mariachi El Bronx – Mariachi El Bronx
43. Tinariwen – Imidiwan Companions
44. The View – Which Bitch
45. Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band – Outer South
46. Golden Silvers – True Romance
47. Madness – The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
48. Ian Brown – My Way
49. Bob Dylan – Together Through Life
50. Jarvis Cocker – Further Complication