Comments on: best releases (albums, EPs) of 2008 (aka “my favorite releases…”)

By: ipickmynose: an SF-centric indie music blog » free/ super cheap releases from Joe Pug and Fanfarlo

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:01:22 +0000

[...] Pug () whose 2008 release, the Nation of Heat EP, hit me quite hard has released the outtakes from that session as a new EP, In the Meantime and it’s free on his [...]

By: ipickmynose: an SF-centric indie music blog » ipickmynose presents…the rural alberta advantage, okay and half-handed cloud @ bottom of the hill july 9

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:03:10 +0000

[...] been reading this blog, you know my love of Rural Alberta Advantage is nothing new. In fact, they released one of my favorite albums of 2008 and I saw them twice at SxSW, including an incredible, breath-taking show at Central Presbyterian. [...]

By: ipickmynose: an SF-centric indie music blog » sxsw 2009, day 2 (french miami, red verse, two sheds, tallest man on earth, the wrens, avett brothers, passion pit, le switch, j tillman, eli paperboy reed, rural alberta advantage, a classic education,

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:09:32 +0000

[...] this blog you know that I love Hometowns, the Rural Alberta Advantage’s album–it was my third favorite album of 2008 in fact. Given that they haven’t toured the US, I was pretty excited to finally see them. [...]

By: ipickmynose: an SF-centric indie music blog » 10 x 100, desert island discs x songs, ipickmynose’s 1000th post

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:41:49 +0000

[...] Iver For Emma, Forever Ago [2007] It wasn’t all that long ago that I went all gah-gah over this album (again). Gorgeous and heart-wrenching, it’s a perfect [...]

By: ipickmynose: an SF-centric indie music blog » Best of the Bay ‘08 (lists of five)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:56:21 +0000

[...] sure you’re just about tired of my year end lists–don’t worry: this is my second to [...]

By: ipickmynose: an SF-centric indie music blog » song obsession friday! (for the week ending Dec 19)

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:26:43 +0000

[...] track and was hooked immediately. Not employing as much falsetto as most for of the track on the 2008 best album For Emma, Forever Ago, but otherwise pretty similar stylistically. It’s another gorgeous song [...]

By: ipickmynose: an SF-centric indie music blog » song obsession friday! (for the week ending December 12)

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:37:57 +0000

[...] (me): Koernag Namadlanga – Ngiyalila (mp3) (buy) While making my best-of list I should have been listening to those albums and albums that were on the fringe, I would think. [...]

By: Ariana

Ariana — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:03:56 +0000

Oh. Sorry! PS Thank you for ‘The Wrote and the Writ.’

By: kata rokkar

kata rokkar — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:06:42 +0000

yeah i had an arguement about the bon iver album in my head for a few hours and then it digressed into an arguement about sticky notes…

Anyway, I decided to leave it in being that I hadn’t heard about him until this year anyway. It’s the perfect “multiple listen in a row” album.

By: adrian

adrian — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:36:19 +0000

Ariana, I’ve acknowledged the original release date in my footnote about that album.

By: Ariana

Ariana — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:42:39 +0000

Minor Works came out in 2006, at least that’s what my CD says.

By: Hippies Are Dead

Hippies Are Dead — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:15:07 +0000

Wow, we’ll not have one record in common on our lists! Three cheers for SF blog variety!

By: adrian

adrian — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:59:42 +0000

Yeah, I decided to let it qualify (see the note about that). People can always start my list at #3 if they don’t think the first two qualify.

And thanks for the introduction to Joe Pug, Oz.

By: oz

oz — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:12:47 +0000

We debated Bon Iver for our best of ‘08 list since it was reissued this year, but originally released in ‘07.

Good to see the Joe Pug love. Great guy.