Stereogum — Each year when Pitchfork posts their annual Top 100 Songs Of XXXX you can be sure to find a number of hip-hop and popular radio tracks filtered into the electronic and indie stuff. Makes sense: Those genres and/or sensibilities can result in great... more info

Guardian Music — The leaders of America's underground scene end the year with a dose of panpipes and a nod to the Grateful Dead, writes Kitty EmpireLady Gaga dominated pop's spotlit uplands in 2009. Having released her Fame album in January, she ended the year with e... more info

8/1 — 40 Kiss - Sonic Boom39 Wilco - Wilco38 Rick Ross - Deeper Than Rap37 Gallows - Grey Britain36 Brakesbrakesbrakes - Touchdown35 Miike Snow - Miike Snow34 Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx33 The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You32 U2 - No Line On... more info

Rollo & Grady — 40 Kiss – Sonic Boom 39 Wilco – Wilco (Wilco The Album) 38 Rick Ross – Deeper Than Rap 37 Gallows – Grey Britain 36 Brakesbrakesbrakes – Touchdown 35 Miike Snow – Miike Snow 34 Mariachi El Bronx – Mariachi El Bronx 33 The Avett Brothers... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The French Semester: "What's in the Bag" [mp3] from The Forces Afield EP other French Semester posts at Largehearted Boy Liars: "Scissor" [mp3]* from Sisterworld (out March 9th) other Liars posts at Largehearted ... more info

8/1 — 50 Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose 49 Neko Case - Middle Cyclone 48 Atlas Sound Logos 47 Telepathe - Dance Mother46 Gallows - Grey Britain45 Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter44 Oneida - Rated O43 Franz Ferdinand - T... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — tUnE-YaRdS phone home @ Bowery Ballroom (more) Dirty Projectors aren't the only ones that just played four NYC shows and now have two more coming up in the same town before the end of February. tUnE-YaRdS has added a show... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Ryan Muir As those keeping count already know, Dirty Projectors played four NYC shows in November with Tune-Yards. Two were at Bowery Ballroom. Two were at Music Hall of Williamsburg. The final one featured two very special guests,... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Dirty Projectors' recent show at the Bowery was recorded by the venerable nyctaper. It wasn't just your average DPs gig, however, as both David Byrne (collaborator with the band on this year's Dark Was the Night track "Knotty Pine") and the Roots mad... more info

Stereogum — In "Winter Games," L.A.'s multi-tasking Fool's Gold-associated Foreign Born gave us a colorfully hazy, slow dissolving dance off (and on). This time out, for fellow Person To Person track "Early Warnings," they teamed up with Matthew Lessner, who got... more info