Rollo & Grady — Animal Collective
Pitchfork – Top 100 Songs of 2009
100 Darkstar – “Aidy’s Girl’s a Computer”
99 Julianna Barwick – “Bode”
98 Future of the Left – “Arming Eritrea”
97 The Smith Westerns – “Be My Girl”
96 Gucci Mane [Feat... more info
Radio Exile — Far too many people compete to be the best house on their block as it pertains to Christmas lights and/or holiday decorations. Due to not owning a house and also renting in NYC, that’s not an option for the Smiths. Still, I can understand the “G... more info
Silent Uproar — Johnny Marr (The Smiths, Modest Mouse) is set to score the film The Big Bang, "a detective thriller starring Antonio Banderas, Delroy Lindo and Sam Elliott." Marr is currently playing guitar for The Cribs. [spinner.com] more info
L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The English singer shows no signs of his difficult year. To go by the lyrics of the dozens of extravagantly unhappy songs he's written since he founded the Smiths a quarter of a century ago, the English singer known simply... more info
Guardian Music — If rock'n'roll is the sound of life beginning afresh, why are we so obsessed with ranking it in end-of-year lists? Philip Larkin has the answerAlong with half the pop-loving population of Britain, I tuned in to listen to Morrissey on Desert Island Di... more info
Guardian Music — The late singer's family is no longer seeking a judicial review of her death, saying they have achieved 'most' of their aimsThe family of Kirsty MacColl has suspended their Justice for Kirsty campaign, which sought a judicial review of the singer's d... more info
Live Daily — The BBC has referred to Morrissey [ tickets ] as "one of the most influential figures in the history of British popâ€--and critic Steven Wells called him "the man who more or less invented indie." However you slice it, the former frontman of â... more info