REVENGE OF THE WRITERS: Best & Worst of 2010 (Pt.2)
Dec 22, 2010
In which the folks who work in the trenches get in the last word. Hey, nothing's stopping you from doing your own list!
BY THE BLURT CRÜE
We continue with our Writers' lists for 2010. Go here for Part 1.
BILL HOLMES
FAIRPORT, NEW YORK
Cultural Pharmacist at Dr. Bristol's Prescription
http://drbristol.wordpress.com/
Top 10 New Releases
Len Price 3 - Pictures (Wicked Cool)
Christine Ohlman and Rebel Montez - The Deep End (Horizon)
The Jim Jones Revue - Burning Your House Down (Pias)
The 88 - The 88 (88 Records)
The Grip Weeds - Strange Change Machine (Rainbow Quartz)
The Mother Truckers - Van Tour (World Records)
The Sights - Most of What Follows Is True (Alive)
Edward O'Connell - Our Little Secret (Oaf Ramp)
The Greenhornes - Four Stars (Warner Brothers)
Farrah - Farrah (LoJinx)
Top 10 Singles
Ce Lo Green - "Fuck You"
(rest of list conceded defeat)
Twitter?
No - H8 Abrv8ng
Facebook?
No - prefer real walls and real friends
Most Annoying Trend/Whatever
Being a celebretard. Or keeping them famous. Probably both.
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MARY LEARY
SAN DIEGO, CA
www.sdentertainer.com/author/mleary/
Top 10 New Releases
Terry Adams Rock ‘n' Roll Quartet - Crazy 8's (Clang!)
Robert Wyatt - For the Ghosts Within (Domino)
Lake Street Dive - Lake Street Dive (Signature Sounds)
White Noise Sound - White Noise Sound (Alive Records)
Jaill - That's How We Burn (SubPop)
Kelley Stoltz - To Dreamers (Sub Pop)
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast (Kanine Records)
Dead Confederate - Sugar - (Old Flame)
Unnatural Helpers - Cracked Love and Other Drugs (Hardly Art)
Ty Segall - Help (Goner Records)
Music DVD
Howard Armstrong - Louie Bluie (The Criterion Collection)
Ghost Blues: The Story of Rory Gallagher + The Beat Club Sessions (Eagle Rock)
Free - Free Forever - (Eagle Rock)
Various Artists - EarGoggles (Bull Terrior Productions)
Black Sabbath - Classic Albums: Paranoid (Eagle Rock Entertainment)
Top 5 Concerts
Thee Oh Sees with So Cow and Bare Wires (Bar Pink Elephant, San Diego CA 3-12-10)
Gary Wilson (Bar Pink Elephant, San Diego CA 5-30-2010)
Lyle Lovett and His Large Band (Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay, San Diego CA 7-25-2010)
Marcelo Radulovich (Tin Can Ale House, San Diego CA 6-30-10)
Golden Triangle (Bar Pink Elephant, San Diego CA 7-11-10)
Top 10 Singles/Tracks
(New):
Jaill - "On the Beat"
Jaill - "Thank Us Later"
White Noise Sound - "Sunset"
Dead Confederate - "In the Dark"
Unnatural Helpers - "Sunshine/Pretty Girls"
Dead Confederate - "Run from the Gun"
Lake Street Dive - "Neighbor Song"
Coco Rosie - "Lemonade"
TV Buddhas - "Defies Definition"
Avi Buffalo - "Truth Sets In"
Avi Buffalo - "Jessica"
(Reissue/archival):
Rory Gallagher - "In This Town"
Rory Gallagher - "Hands Up"
Nitin Sawhney (on Gilles Peterson: Worldwide - A Celebration of His Syndicated Radio Show) - "Tides"
Jose James (on Gilles Peterson: Worldwide - A Celebration of His Syndicated Radio Show) - "Dreamer"
Little Dragon (on Gilles Peterson: Worldwide - A Celebration of His Syndicated Radio Show) - "Twice"
Best Music Website
Crawdaddy! (then Blurt, then my blog at San Diego Entertainer)
Best Record Label:
Get Hip
Coolest Trend/Whatever
(1) Lots of red-hot, creative "garage rock." (2) More people finally waking up to the idea that environmental issues are real, and of critical importance.
Most Annoying Trend/Whatever
)1)"Dream Pop" - although there's hope the trend is fading. (2) Women who sound like little girls; anyone who ends sentences with that whiny, question-mark lilt. (3) Bashing President Obama without seeing or understanding a byzantine jungle of problems, created by at least several previous terms of political decisions, with which he's confronted - and without getting it that change... takes... time...
Most Fucked Up
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
Best New Artists
Lake Street Dive, Heavy Hawaii, White Noise Sound
Worst New Artist
(not completely new, but still just awful in relation to the buzz he's generated): The Love Language
Best New Artist with Worst Name
Male Bonding
Desert Island Bliss: Artist You'd Like to be Stuck on an Island With
Danny Kirwan and the entire Future Games/Bare Trees posse, The Beatles, John Cage, The Ramones, Anita O'Day, The Hot Club of Cowtown, and/or The Skatalites
Desert Island Dick: Artist You'd Most Like NOT to be Stuck on an Island With
Brian Setzer and... I dunno - tend to delete annoying people from memory banks
On Facebook and/or Twitter?
FB - finally broke down, was reconnected with a slew of friends from b.i.t.d; Twitter - no, that's one social network too many, and it's boring.
Favorite story or review you wrote for BLURT
Rory Gallagher
http://blurt-online.com/news/view/4472/
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TIM HINELY
PORTLAND, OR
Top 10 New Releases
The Radio Dept- Clinging to a Scheme (Labrador)
Magic Kids- Memphis (True Panther Sounds)
Justin Townes Earle- Harlem River Blues (Bloodshot)
The Fresh and Onlys- Play It Strange (In the Red)
Beach House- Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
Wavves- King of the Beach (Fat Possum)
Best Coast- Crazy For You (Mexican Summer)
Surf City- Kudos (Fire)
Phil Wilson- God Bless Jim Kennedy (Slumberland)
Titus Andronicus- The Monitor (xl)
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DAVE STEINFELD
NEW YORK, NY
Trashcan Sinatras -- In the Music (LoFive Records
Teenage Fanclub -- Shadows (Merge Records)
Mary Gauthier -- The Foundling (Razor & Tie)
The Postelles -- self-titled (Capitol)
Freedy Johnston -- Rain on the City (Bar None)
Norah Jones -- ...featuring Norah Jones (Blue Note)
Apples in Stereo -- Travellers in Space and Time (Yep Roc)
Seth Glier -- The Trouble With People (MPress Records)
Joan Armatrading -- This Charming Life (429 Records)
Edward Rogers -- Sparkle Lane (Zip)
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DOMINIC UMILE
BROOKLYN, NY
http://dominicumile.wordpress.com
twitter.com/dominicumile
Top 10 New Releases
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (4AD)
Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise (Rough Trade)
Darkstar - North (Hyperdub)
Beach House - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
The National - High Violet (4AD)
Teebs - Ardour (Brainfeeder)
Four Tet - There Is Love In You (Domino)
The Walkmen - Lisbon (Fat Possum)
Scuba - Triangulation (Hotflush)
School of Seven Bells - Disconnect From Desire (Ghostly/Vagrant)
Top Archival/Reissues
Various - Next Stop...Soweto: Township Sounds From The Golden Age Of Mbaqanga (Strut)
Various - Lagos Disco Inferno (Academy Records)
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower (CTI)
Top Singles/Tracks/EPs
Four Tet - Sing (Domino)
Pariah - Safehouses (R&S)
Darkstar - Gold (Hyperdub)
Sepalcure - Love Pressure (Hotflush)
Memoryhouse - The Years (Arcade Sound Ltd.)
Most Fucked Up Thing That Happened
I think my ballot for Blurt's 2009 list is no longer online.
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JASON FERGUSON
Janelle Monae - The Archandroid
Best Coast - Crazy for You
Earl Greyhound - Suspicious Package
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
The Sword - Warp Riders
Shooter Jennings & Hierophant - Black Ribbons
Serena-Maneesh - S-M 2: Abyss In B Minor
Chemical Brothers - Further
Viernes - Sinister Devices
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ZACH BLOOM
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Top 10 New Releases
Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 1/Body Talk Pt. 2/Body Talk Pt. 3 (Cherry
Tree/Interscope)
Beach House - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
Vampire Weekend - Contra (XL)
The Walkmen - Lisbon (Fat Possum)
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (Motown/Universal)
Wild Nothing - Gemini (Indie Europe/Zoom)
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Def Jam)
Sleigh Bells - Treats (Mom & Pop)
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (Drag City)
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening (DFA/Virgin)
Top 5 Concerts
Guided By Voices, Warfield
Teenage Fanclub, Great American Music Hall
Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500, Fillmore
Birds & Batteries, Bottom Of The Hill
Hot Chip, Fox Theater
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STEVE PICK
ST. LOUIS, MO
Top 10 Albums
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jig (Rounder)
Elvis Costello - National Ransom (Hear Music)
Crowded House - Intriguer (Fantasy)
Patty Griffin - Downtown Church (Credential)
Jamey Johnson - The Guitar Song (Mercury Nashville)
Tom Jones - Praise & Blame (Lost Highway)
John Legend and the Roots - Wake Up! (Columbia)
Raul Malo - Sinners & Saints (Fantasy)
Janelle Monae - The Archandroid (Bad Boy)
Robert Plant - Band of Joy (Rounder)
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JEDD FERRIS
ASHEVILLE, NC
ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT - ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES
Top 10 New Releases
Justin Townes Earle -
Harlem River Blues (Bloodshot Records)
Dr. Dog - Shame, Shame (Anti)
Anders Osborne - American Patchwork (Alligator Records)
Chatham County Line - Wildwood (Yep Roc)
The Black Keys - Brothers (Nonesuch)
Cadillac Sky - Letters in the Deep (Dualtone)
Joe Pug - Messenger (Lightning Rod)
Drive-By Truckers - The Big To-Do (ATO)
Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More (Glass Note)
Trampled by Turtles - Palomino (Banjado Records)
Top 5 Concerts
Dave Rawlings Machine (Jefferson Theater - Charlottesville, Virginia - June 9)
Phish (Merriweather Post Pavilion - Columbia, Maryland - June 27)
The Low Anthem (FloydFest - Floyd, Virginia - July 24)
Appalachian Voices w/Jim James, Ben Sollee, and Daniel Martin Moore (Jefferson Theater - Charlottesville, Virginia - July 27)
Avett Brothers (Charlottesville Pavilion - Charlottesville, Virginia - October 17)
Best New Artist
James Justin Burke
2011 Releases Looking Forward To
Drive-By Truckers - Go Go Boots
North Mississippi Allstars - Keys to the Kingdom
The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh
Favorite Story for BLURT
Joe Pug Interview
http://blurt-online.com/features/view/569/
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JOHN B. MOORE
PHILADELPHIA, PA
jbmoore00@hotmail.com (http://blurt-online.com/blogs/author/64)
Top 10 New Releases
The Riot Before (Paper + Plastick)
Bad Religion - The Dissent of Man (Epitaph)
The Posies - Blood/Candy (Ryko)
Jesse Malin - Love it to Life (SideOneDummy)
Off With Their Heads - In Desolation (Epitaph)
The Successful Failures - Three Nights (FDR)
Moneybrother - Real Control (Bladen County)
Ike Reilly - Hard Luck Stories (Rock Ridge)
Flogging Molly - Live at the Greek Theatre (SideOneDummy)
David Ford -Let the Hard Times Roll (Original Signal)
Most Annoying Trend/Whatever
Music publicists/record labels sending downloads instead of actual CDs.
Best New Artist
Moneybrother
Worst New Artist
Ke$ha
Best New Artist With Worst Name
Moneybrother
Clear Channel Presents: Corporate Asshole of the Year
Don Blankenship, Massey Energy (a good ol' fashioned coal mine baron)
Best Moustache
Franz Nicolay
Desert Island Bliss: Artist You'd Like to be Stuck on an Island With
Willie Nelson
Desert Island Dick: Artist You'd Most Like NOT to be Stuck on an Island With
Kid Rock
On Facebook and/or Twitter?
Yes. Takes the pressure off of actually having to call someone and have a real conversation.
2011 Release You Are Most Looking Forward To
un (again, dreadful band name)
Favorite story or review you wrote for BLURT
Interview with James Williamson from The Stooges
http://blurt-online.com/features/view/598/
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STEVE KLINGE
WILMINGTON, DE
Top 10 New Releases
Sam Amidon-I See A Sign (Bedroom Community)
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan-Hawk (Vanguard)
Jonsi-Go (XL)
LCD Soundsystem-This Is Happening (DFA)
Aaron Neville-I Know I've Been Changed (EMI Gospel / Tell It Records)
Robyn-Body Talk (Konichiwa)
The Roots-How I Got Over (Def Jam)
Sleigh Bells-Treats (N.E.E.T.)
Titus Andronicus-The Monitor (XL)
Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate-Ali & Toumani (Nonesuch)
Top 10 Singles / Tracks
Antony, "Pressing On"
Arcade Fire, "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)"
Cee-Lo Green, "Fuck You"
The Corin Tucker Band, "Doubt"
Free Energy, "Bang Pop"
Grinderman, "Worm Tamer"
The National, "Bloodbuzz Ohio"
Joanna Newsom, "Good Intentions Paving Company"
The Radio Dept., "Heaven's On Fire"
Standard Fare, "Philadelphia"
Top 10 Archival/Reissues
All the Fela albums (Knitting Factory)
Dolly Mixture-Everything and More (Dolly Mixture)
Various-- How Sweet It Was: The Sights and Sounds of Gospel's Golden Age (Shanachie)
Chin Chin-Sound of the Westway (Slumberland)
Bruce Springsteen-The Promise (Columbia)
Orange Juice-Coals To Newcastle (Domino)
The Rolling Stones-Exile On Main St. (Universal Republic)
Coolest whatever
The Roots playing night after night on Jimmy Fallon
Best New Artist
Sleigh Bells
Best Moustache
Nick Cave
Favorite Story For BLURT
Sam Phillips interview
http://blurt-online.com/features/view/577/
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MICHAEL TOLAND
AUSTIN, TX
Top 10 New Releases
The Brought Low - 3rd Record (Small Stone)
The Clientele - Minotaur (Merge)
Alejandro Escovedo - Street Songs of Love (Fantasy)
Hoodoo Gurus - Purity of Essence (Hoodoo Gurus)
Bettye LaVette - Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook (Anti-)
Leatherbag - Hey Day (self-released)
Janelle Monae - The Arch Android (Wondaland/Bad Boy)
Jason Moran & the Bandwagon - Ten (Blue Note)
Stan Ridgway - Neon Mirage (A440)
Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3 - Northern Aggression (Yep Roc)
Top 10 Archival/Reissues
Carnival Season - Misguided Promise: Carnival Season Complete (1984-89) (Arena Rock)
Chad's Tree - Crossing Off the Miles (Memorandum)
The Church - Of Skins & Heart, The Blurred Crusade, Séance, Heyday, Deep In the Shallows: The Classic Singles Collection (Second Motion)
The Dream Syndicate - Medicine Show (Water)
Finger - Still in Boxes 1990-1994 (Second Motion)
The Green Pajamas - The Complete Book of Hours (Green Monkey)
Tommy Keene - Tommy Keene You Hear Me: A Retrospective 1983-2009 (Second Motion)
The Plimsouls - Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal: October 31, 1981 Whisky a Go Go (Alive)
Iggy Pop & James Williamson - Kill City (Bomp)
The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street (Virgin)
Music DVDs
Opeth - In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall (Roadrunner)
Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize (K Scope)
Music Books
Steve Almond - Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life (Random House)
Daniel Lanois - Soul Mining: A Musical Life (Faber & Faber)
Keith Richards - Life (Little, Brown)
Top 5 Concerts
Alejandro Escovedo/True Believers/Michael Monroe Band/Chuck Prophet & the Mission Express/Lenny Kaye/Ivan Julian/Grady/Triple Cobra/Carrie Rodriguez (Continental Club, Austin, TX, 3-21-10)
The Jim Jones Revue (Mess With Texas Festival, Austin, TX 3-19-10)
North Vs. South Festival (Pedaljets, Doctors' Mob, Grand Champeen, Right or Happy, Leatherbag, Grant Hart, et al) (Hole in the Wall, Austin, TX 8-12-14-10)
John Legend & the Roots )Austin City Limits taping, Austin, TX 8-24-10)
Weird Al Yankovic (Fun Fun Fun Fest, Austin, TX 11-6-10)
Film
Alice in Wonderland
Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines & Mystery of Raymond Scott
Inception
Iron Man 2
Who is Harry Nilsson and Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him?
(... man, I really didn't see very many movies this year... at least Black Swan, True Grit and Tron Legacy await....)
Best Record Label
Merge
Coolest Trend/Whatever
More "heritage" artists, particularly those from the 80s, making records as good or nearly as good as their classics, proving they're more than nostalgia acts. Examples: Hoodoo Gurus, Stan Ridgway, the Choir, New Model Army, Jason & the Scorchers, Steve Wynn (admittedly he's been pretty consistent about this over the years), even Hawkwind.
Most Annoying Trend/Whatever
Mash-ups
Most Fucked Up
Mark Linkous' suicide
Best New Artist(s)
The Devils Blood
The DomNicks
Debbie Duveen & the Millbanks
The Gilded Palace of Sin
The Mighty Grasshoppers
The Mynabirds
North Atlantic Oscillation
Worst New Artist
I didn't listen to anybody I thought sucked long enough to know who the crappy new artists were this year.
Best New Artist With Worst Name
The Mighty Grasshoppers
Sex Object Of the Year
Laura Burhenn of the Mynabirds
Clear Channel Presents: Corporate Asshole of the Year
I didn't pay enough attention to the business side of music this year. Can I just say Irving Azoff on general principle?
Desert Island Bliss: Artist You'd Like to be Stuck on an Island With
Esperanza Spalding
Desert Island Dick: Artist You'd Most Like NOT to be Stuck on an Island With
Kanye West
On Facebook and/or Twitter?
FB originally to keep up with friends who's recently been laid off - now it's a tool to get the word out about pieces I have online. Twitter is mainly a day job thing.
2011 Release You Are Most Looking Forward To
The new Feelies record
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JONAH FLICKER
BROOKLYN, NY
Band of Horses - Infinite Arms (Columbia)
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (Merge)
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (4AD)
Beach House - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
Das Racist - Sit Down Man/Shut Up Dude (Mad Decent/Greedhead/Mishka)
The Drums - The Drums (Island/Moshi Moshi)
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast (Kanine)
The War on Drugs - Future Weather EP (Secretly Canadian)
LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening (Virgin/Parlophone/DFA)
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella)
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LOGAN K. YOUNG,
WASHINGTON, DC
Top 10 New Releases
Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me (Drag City)
Robyn - Body Talk (Interscope)
Toro Y Moi - Causers of This (Carpark)
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky (Young God)
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor (XL)
LA Vampires & Zola Jesus - LA Vampires Meet Zola Jesus EP (Not Not Fun)
Yellow Swans - Going Places (Type)
The National - High Violet (4AD)
Liz Phair - Funstyle (self-released)
Twig Harper & Daniel Higgs - Clairaudience Fellowship (Thrill Jockey)
Top 10 Singles/Tracks
Big Freedia, "Azz Everywhere"
Coma Cinema, "Flower Pills"
Growing, "Mind Eraser"
Baby Dee, "Unheard of Hope"
Frank Black, "When I Go Down on You"
The Delta Mirror, "He Was Worse than the Needle He Gave You"
Xiu Xiu, "Dear God, I Hate Myself"
Salem, "King Night"
Aziz Ansari, "Kanye West vs. Darwish"
Pajamaband, "Fuck You Until You Die"
Top 10 Archival/Reissues
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music (RCA)
Morrissey - Bona Drag (EMI)
Les Rallizes Dénudés - Heavier Than a Death in the Family (Phoenix)
Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin - Serge Gainsbourg et Jane Birkin (Light in the Attic)
Prurient - The History of Aids (Hospital Productions)
David Bowie - Station to Station (EMI)
Chris & Cosey - Heartbeat (Conspiracy International)
Hototogisu - Floating Japanese Oof! Gardens of the 21st Century (Important)
U.S. Senator Robert Byrd - Mountain Fiddler (Country)
R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction (Capitol)
Music DVDs
Animal Collective - ODDSAC (Plexifilm)
V/A - We Don't Care About Music Anyway
Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips - 13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests (Plexifilm)
Drive-By Truckers - The Secret to a Happy Ending
Monks - Transatlantic Feedback (Play Louder)
Music Books
John Wiese - Drilling a Hole Through the Sky: 30 Years of The Haters (Helicopter)
Patti Smith - Just Kids (Ecco)
Igloo Tornado - Henry + Glenn = 4-Ever (Cantankerous Titles)
Eric Davidson - We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001 (Backbeat Books)
Kevin Cummins/Jay McInerney/Bernard Sumner - Joy Division (Rizzoli)
Top 5 Concerts
"Hole" (9:30 Club, Washington, DC 6/27/10)
Laundry Room Squelchers (Velvet Lounge, International Noise Conference, Washington DC 4/27/10)
Half Japanese (Ottobar, Baltimore MD 7/23/10)
Burning Star Core (House Show, Arlington VA 9/8/10)
Merzbow & Richard Pinhas (La Maison Française, Sonic Circuits Festival, Washington DC 9-24-10)
Films
Dogtooth
Trash Humpers
Total Badass
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Putty Hill
Best MusicWebsite(s)
Subscription listening (Rhapsody), free listening (YouTube, nope, I still don't care who your Top 3 Last.fm Artists were), illegal listening (Dirpy, R.I.P.), live streaming (WFMU), Sirius XMU's Blog Radio blog (It's A Trap, before they got dropped/I canceled my subscription), reviews (Dusted), shows (Brooklyn Vegan), gossip (The Daily Swarm), altruism (Kickstarter), shits (Drawer B), giggles (Altered Zones), a lotta Tumblrs... and www.blurt-online.com, of course
Best Record Label
From 500-pound ass-raping ape to adorable, limited-run hummingbird: EMI, Polydor, Merge, Drag City, Editions Mego, Ehse, Old English Spelling Bee, The Curatorial Club, Space Idea Tapes, Zap Cassettes
Coolest Trend/Whatever
Brion Gysin's Dreamachine cut-outs from Important Records AND those Ooga Booga mixtapes curated by Calvin Johnson
Most Annoying Trend/Whatever
Still hearing that insipid trance song at University of South Carolina sporting events; OR, resentment that an indie band charted on Billboard
Most Fucked Up
Since death is - typically - pretty fucked, and because they - usually - happen in threes: "Sleazy," Pocahaunted and Mo Tucker's political cred
Best New Artist
Easy: Antoine Dodson
Worst New Artist
Easier: Best Coast
Best New Artist With Worst Name
Easiest: OFF!
Sex Object Of the Year
Sasha Grey in aTelecine > Sasha Grey in Blurt tank top > Sasha Grey on Entourage
Favorite Video Game
Still, to this day, EA's Queen: The eYe
Clear Channel Presents: Corporate Asshole of the Year
The Silver Bullet himself, for making us wait 32 goddamn years for an authorized ringtone/ringbacktone bundle of "Still the Same" and "We've Got Tonight"...or perhaps that Tony Hayward guy
Best Moustache
The pencil one Bieber drew on him/herself after John Waters got her/him to sign a bottle of Proactiv
Desert Island Bliss: Artist You'd Like to be Stuck on an Island With
Female: Glasser (aka Cameron Mesi-Wowww!); Male: Blixa Bargeld; Trans: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Desert Island Dick: Artist You'd Most Like NOT to be Stuck on an Island With
Male: That fey Little Lord Fauntleroy from The Decemberists (aka Colon Gibbard?); Female: Susan Boyle; Trans: Antony
On Facebook and/or Twitter?
Well, my mom's on FB, so @logankyoung it is. (That, and I couldn't give two bits and a shit how fat so-and-so has gotten or how many illegitimate children my middle school lab partner now has.)
2011 Release You Are Most Looking Forward To
Whatever The Plums decide to release this coming fiscal quarter
Favorite story or review you wrote for BLURT
Report: Panda Bear & Deakin Live in MD
http://blurt-online.com/news/view/4167/
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