'Tentacles' (Touch & Go), Crystal Antlers 8. 'All My Friends Are Funeral Singers' (Dead Oceans), Califone 7. 'In Prism' (Merge), Polvo 6. 'Jack Rose And The Black Twig Pickers' (Klang Industries), Self-Titled 5. 'Eating Us' (Memphis Industries), Black Moth Super Rainbow 4. 'Veckatimest' (Warp), Grizzly Bear 3. 'Logos' (Kranky/ 4Ad), Atlas Sound 2. 'Gorgeous Johnny' (Jagjaguwar), Skygreen Leopards 1. 'Merriweather Post Pavilion' (Domino), Animal Collective After writing down the possibilities for this year's 10 best indie albums, I had two dozen to choose from, and then it hit me what a good year 2009 was for independent musicians.
Now that we're a few weeks into 2009, I've had time to reflect on the music of 2008. Here, in my opinion, are the albums that really stood out last year. (For what I think were the worst offerings of 2008, visit the Pulse section at www.wvflipside.com.) "Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel," Atlas Sound
The fates are smiling on Rockin' the Knox, the big outdoor concert on the grounds of Albright-Knox Art Gallery tonight. The move from September to June has brought better weather. And the decision to go for younger, alternative artists has been hailed by everyone who thought this show should be artier and more cutting- edge. Headliner is singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, whose musical reference points run from Shakespeare to Judy Garland to his parents -- singer-songwriters Loudon Wainwright III and the late Kate McGarrigle, subject of his most recent album, "All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu." Co-headliner is The National, a grandly dour rock band whose reputation has been building among critics in recent years. It starts at 5 p.m. with opening acts Martha Wainwright...
The band's name - Everyday Atlas - may sound a little goofy. But actually some thought went into the moniker of the Nashville- based quartet making its Outer Banks debut Saturday, July 21, at Sandbar and Grille in Buxton.
A story in Sunday's Spotlight section erroneously listed the band Yeasayer on the bill for this year's Rockin' the Knox concert, to be held June 18 at Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Performers at the event include Rufus Wainwright, The National, Martha Wainwright, Atlas Sound and several local bands. ***
On Microcastle, the latest effort from Atlanta-based art rockers Deerhunter, the band finally succeeds at what it hinted at achieving on its groundbreaking last album, Cryptograms. That is, Deerhunter, the self-proclaimed ambient punk band, has become a pop band. The band spent much of the startlingly beautiful Cryptograms dabbling in swirling textures and avant-garde noise collages. The album was a surprising success with the indie crowd and was greatly loved by elitist indie media outfit Pitchfork, earning its coveted Best New Music recommendation and landing the song Spring Hall Convert on the sites much-loved Infinite Mixtape. Along with admiration from Pitchfork, the bizarre antics of primary vocalist, bandleader, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Bradford Cox gained the band mu...
Theater: Pretty girls, ugly story A family torn apart by fate and war reach out for reunion and recovery in "A Shayna Maidel" (which translates as "a pretty girl" from Yiddish) at Little Lake Theatre in North Strabane.
..., tipping its cap to the Muscle Shoals sound. But the gritty visions of songwriters Patterson H... Vile and the Violators, Built to Spill with Atlas Sound and The Hold Steady with Titus Andronicus wi...
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