Favorite Albums 2011

1) Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

2) Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo

3) Girls - Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

4) Waters - Out in the Light

5) Bon Iver - Bon Iver

6) Blitzen Trapper - American Goldwing

7) Davila 666 - Tan Bajo

8) Radiohead - The King of Limbs

9) The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck

10) Mister Heavenly - Out of Love

Favorite Songs

Atlas Sound - "Te Amo"

Fleet Foxes - "Sim Sala Bim"

Kurt Vile - "Baby's Arms"

Mister Heavenly - "Bronx Sniper"

Waters - "O Holy Break of Day"

Foster the People - "Pumped up Kicks"

Davila 666 - "Ese Nena Nunca Regreso"

Tom Waits - "Bad as Me"

Coachella 2009 - Indio, CA (4/18/2009)

We pretty much stuck to our plan when we got to Coachella. We skipped the end of Dr. Dog and Henry Rollins to hang out in the beer tent and listen to Michael Franti & Spearhead. We took care of Record Store Day before got there and didn't look at the Coachella RSD tent.

Joss Stone
Blitzen Trapper

Fleet Foxes
MIA
The Killers
Last.fm, Flickr

Setlist

1. Human
2. Somebody Told Me
3. For Reasons Unknown
4. This Is Your Life
5. Joy Ride
6. Bling (Confession of a King)
7. Shadowplay (Joy Division Cover)
8. Smile Like You Mean It
9. Spaceman
10. A Dustland Fairytale
11. Sam's Town (Abbey Road Version)
12. Read My Mind
13. Mr. Brightside
14. All These Things That I've Done

Encore:

15. Bones
16. Jenny Was a Friend of Mine
17. When You Were Young

-setlist.fm


Tracks 2, 8, 13, 14, 16 from Hot Fuss
Tracks 3, 6, 12, 15, 17 from Sam's Town
Tracks 1, 4, 5, 9, 10 from Day & Age
Tracks 7, 11 from Sawdust

Fleet Foxes - "Mykonos" (Official Video)

Fleet Foxes are moving backwards. Their next single will be the song "Mykonos" off Their Sun Giant EP that was originally released before their self-titled debut. The B-side to the single will be a song from Robin Pecknold's solo moniker White Antelope.

Top 90.3 Albums of 2008

KEXP is counting down their top 90.3 albums of 2008 from 10 AM to 6 PM today. You can listen here or watch the list here.

EDIT: Fleet Foxes took the top spot.

Fleet Foxes on TV

Fleet Foxes performed "English House" on Conan on Tuesday. Fleet Foxes also have the 2nd best song of the year according to Pitchfork.



Here are they are performing "Blue Ridge Mountains" on Letterman in August.

2008's Best Music

Thanksgiving is also the time of the end of the year list. Largehearted Boy has page full of end of the year lists if anyone has the time to scour through them. Stereogum has started the voting on their annual Gummy Awards. My votes for top albums? These shouldn't be a surprise.

1) Blitzen Trapper - Furr (Review)
2) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3) The Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost (Review)