Quick Before It Melts — A few weeks back, I was all hyped up to see Rae Spoon play a great small space in downtown St. Catharines called 73 St. Paul, designed to be a creative and cultural hub for the city.  Alas, though the show went on as planned, an ill-timed cold got... more info

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — It's amazing how much busier I am during the holidays than I am during the regular part of the year. Here's a quick list of what's to come.Here are The 11 Most Anticipated Albums of 2009 (Jan-Mar):1. Spoon - Transference (Jan. 19)2. Vampire Weeken... more info

Musicaddictz - Addicted To Music — 100 Best Albums of The Decade01. Kid A - Radiohead02. Is This It - The Strokes03. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco04. The Blueprint - Jay-Z05. Elephant - White Stripes06. Funeral - Arcade Fire07. The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem08. Modern Times - Bob Dyl... more info

All About Jazz — This seems to be the week for unexpected videos to materialize. In the piece highlighted in the previous exhibit, Jack Berry joined me in lamenting that we could find no evidence of Vince Guaraldi on film or tape. Jazz writer Ken Dryden came to the r... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Salon reviews two novels, Joshua Ferris's The Unnamed and Jonathan Dee's The Privileges. "The Privileges" is shrewdly realistic, even a bit gossipy; "The Unnamed" is the artier of the two novels, unfolding in a hushed, shadowed dimension located some... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Spoon sent out a little tweet linking to a discussion between the band and the man responsible for mastering upcoming LP Transference, Howie Weinberg. The band chat about a few different things, ranging from Howie's involvement with Public Enemy to ... more info

Panormx — A lot of remixes lately in the inbox... I picked out the best ones.KITCH 'N SYNC PRESENT - DODYZ - THERES SNOW DAY LIKE A SNOW DAY - DECEMBER MIXTracklist:1) Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas2) Jack Beats - U.F.O3) Florence & The Machine - Drum... more info

My Old Kentucky — Via Audio caused a nice little stir when they released their debut album, Say Something, a couple years ago. They had indie heavyweights like Spoon's Jim Eno and DCFC's Chris Walla in there corner. Eno producing both the debut and this new release ... more info

411 Mania — The White Stripes, Drive-By Truckers, Bob Dylan, OutKast, Animal Collective and others score best reviews of the decade... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Brian Wilson’s “Smile,” the long-delayed Beach Boys project that he resuscitated and finished in 2004, has come in atop Metacritic.com’s list of the best-reviewed albums of the decade, while Austin, Texas, indie-rock group S... more info