Rollo & Grady — Asthmatic Kitty Records is offering a free digital sampler with at least one selection from every AKR release in 2009. Some of the artists on the sampler include: Sufjan Stevens, Helado Negro, Hermas Zopoula, DM Stith and Yuuki Matthews, to name a f... more info

Live Daily — Singer/songwriter Annie Clark, who records and performs under the name St. Vincent [ tickets ], has mapped a North American headlining trek that launches later this month. Clark, a former member of The Polyphonic Spree, as well as Sufjan Stevens' ... more info

The Yellow Stereo — I’ve definitely been waiting to hear something new from The Besnard Lakes for quite a while now, so it’s fantastic to finally get a sneak peak from the new album The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night. The last album was truly epic; just listen ... 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

Rollo & Grady — Redd Foxx – Merry Christmas Morphine – Sexy Christmas Baby Mine Neko Case – Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis Deerhoof – The Little Drummer Boy White Stripes – Silent Night (Meg White) Ryan Adams – Hey Parker, It’s Christmas ... more info

The Vinyl Villain — Being a blog that is largely of the retro variety, I'm not all that fussed about publishing a rundown of what I reckon to have been the best songs/albums of the year/decade. Yes, I do admit to making a few suggestions last month of stuff that you mi... more info

Rollo & Grady — Paste – The 25 Best Albums of 2009 25. Thomas Function – In the Valley of Sickness 24. Various Artists – Dark Was the Night 23. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz! 22. Sufjan Stevens – The BQE 21. Wilco – Wilco (The A... more info

Bridging The Atlantic — With attention to flow rather than order of preference, my absolute favourite songs of 2009.1. Happy Up Here - Röyksopp2. 1901 - Phoenix3. Osaka Loop Line - Discovery4. Lovesick Teenagers - Bear in Heaven5. Blood Pt 2 - Buck 65 Remix ft Sufjan Ste... more info

Music For Ants — Sufjan Stevens wrote a pretty interesting essay a couple years back about “Friend Rock”, music made by friends, and the unusual moral conundrums that it can stir up in a music enthusiast. While he concludes that the term is non-evaluative and the... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — There are less than two weeks until Christmas arrives and I'm taking care of some non-blog related issues today. Needless to say, I lacked the time to really dig deeply for some of my favorite covers and similarily lack the time to get any of my hol... more info