Stereogum — Earlier this week we took a magnifying glass to Pitchfork's Top 100 Songs Of 2009. Most of those songs appeared on albums, which leads us to the site's Top 50 Albums Of 2009. For starters, metal creeps in via Baroness and Sunn O))), but not Mastod... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Real Estate - Beach Comber (MP3) Real Estate @ Brooklyn Bowl (more by Oren Loloi) Real Estate (whose Martin Courtney answered our holiday questionnaire) are set to tour with Woods this March. The launching pad for that jaunt happens... more info

Music for Robots — Real Estate - Beach Comber. I'll be honest - I wanted to post a different track. Real Estate's song "Snow Days" has burrowed itself in my brain, and I've been listening to it a few times a day, marveling at how it's like a little ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD: Real Estate - Beach Comber (MP3) Real Estate @ Market Hotel (more by Leia Jospe) So we asked a load of NYC-area bands to tell us how their 2009 went, via a handy questionnaire... New Jersey's... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — The year is winding down as December begins to fade away along with the rest of 2009. I am going to use a lot of my free time during winter break to catch up on albums and figure out what my best of albums of 2009 are! I’ve been digging my teeth in... more info

Rawkblog — Jams: Pants Yell!’s excellent Received Pronunciation; Miranda Lambert’s Revolution; Darlings’ Yeah I Know, Real Estate’s self-titled debut and The Clientele’s Bonfires on the Heath. Film & TV: Deeper Into Movies with Fantastic Mr. Fox, Up i... more info

Pitchfork - TV — Smith Westerns, Real Estate, and Delorean star in this overview of the recent P4k-curated event courtesy of . more info

Chorus.fm — I've had quite an obsession this past year with discovering early post-hardcore bands. I'm not speaking of the obvious influences of Jawbox, Sunny Day Real Estate and Jawbreaker - ones I am already familiar with - no, I'm speaking more along the line... more info

Stereogum — Real Estate bassist Alex Bleeker and his Freaks (including Real Estaters Matt Mondanile and Martin Courtney) just released their hazy Crazy Horse-flavored self-titled debut on Underwater Peoples. In this week's Drop we we talk with Bleeker about l... more info

Rawkblog — As a lifelong Southern Californian, it’s hard not to link songs about surf with the Pacific coast — but Real Estate’s “Beachcomber” shies away from the sun for a jangly trip to the Jersey shore (though not, for better or worse, Jersey Shore... more info