Continuing my Year In Review posts, I am following up my 2009 Playlist with my Top Albums of 09. I will admit that this list was a little easier to come up with than my playlist but was still difficult to decide what order certain albums get slotted into to.
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With another year coming to an end it closes what was a good year in music. A number of artists hit it big in 2009 including Kings Of Leon (finally after three successful albums in the UK), Lady Gaga & Taylor Swift. 2009 also saw a bunch of indie artists rise to the foreground of the indie music scene. The UK’s La Roux, The XX & The Big Pink are just a few of the more successful bands that cracked the new artist category in 2009 (and I’m sure there are a bunch more!)
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I just finished watching the season finale of Weeds and couldn’t help but notice this huge iPhone fail! I can’t believe someone on set or even the people who edited this episode together didn’t notice this. Maybe they did and decided to ignore it because it’s probably not worth it, but it is definitely hilarious!

When Blink 182 announced that they were going to reunite and go on a tour I wasn’t overly excited about it, but that all changed when they announced that Weezer was going to be on the bill with them for their second stop in Toronto. That announcement pretty much sealed the deal for me and I was lucky enough to snag up some tickets.

Knowing that Weezer were going to be on before Blink meant a shorter setlist than what Weezer would normally play. Even with less stage time, Weezer did not disappoint. Watching Weezer live is extremely fun because of Rivers Cuomo’s awkwardness nature. The band came out wearing these orange jumpsuits that looked like the ones construction workers wear.

With the crowd cheering in excitement for a solid 3 hours of music (Weezer & Blink’s sets combined) the boys in Weezer jumped into the 2001 hit Hash Pipe followed by Troublemaker and the uber popular Undone – The Sweater Song.

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Pearl Jam rolled into Toronto Friday night playing a jammed packed Molson Amphitheatre for more than two hours! From the opening notes of Of The Girl I knew that this was going to be one of the best shows I’ve ever been to. This was my second time seeing the grunge rockers and it was definitely better than the first time I saw them.

Friday’s show was filled with great 90’s classics like Even Flow, Black, Alive, Corduroy and endless guitar solos from Mike McCready.
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I was on my twitter page earlier and noticed a tweet from NME noting that the Kings Of Leon’s track Charmer got redone. Curious because it is Kings Of Leon I check it out and to my surprise it was a punk/scream-o version. After listening to it a couple of times it’s not that bad, but it comes no where near the original.

Check it out for your self here.

It has been over three years since we’ve heard anything new from New York City rockers The Strokes and to tell you the truth I kind of miss them. The guys are currently working on their fourth full length album and I can’t wait to hear what it’ll sound like. But until then I think I may have stumbled upon a fix for my Strokes withdrawal. Meet The Danks.
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Last week/weekend one of the biggest, if not the biggest, music festivals took place in the UK. That being Glastonbury. Over the years thousands of bands have played a stage at Glasonbury. Some of the big names that have played include Jay-Z, Kings Of Leon, The Verve, The Killers, The Who, Oasis, Pulp, Coldplay and tones more. This year was no exception with names like Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, Blur, The Ting Tings, Black Eyed Peas, Neil Young, Bloc Party, Glasvegas and many more.
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I was on Spin.com earlier and an article titled ‘Adrian Grenier & Honey Brothers Pick 5 Bands to See This Summer‘. I recognized Adrian Grenier’s name because he plays Vince on Entourage and thought that maybe this was a friends band but it turns out that he is the drummer.

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So I haven’t blogged in a while and figured I should start it up again. So my first post will be a short album review.

Last week Alexisonfire released their fourth album entitled ‘Old Crows/Young Cardinals’ which features the single ‘Young Cardinals’. I’m not going to lie, it took me a couple of listens to really like Young Cardinals (the single) but once I started liking it I couldn’t wait for their album.

After listening to their alubm non-stop for the past couple of days, there are a few really good tracks and then there are the typical Alexisonfire tracks. Although what I have noticed is that there is much less screaming on this album than their previous three albums and more singing.

A few standouts of the album are ‘Sons Of Privilege’, ‘The Northern’, ‘Emerald Street’ & ‘Born And Raised’. Let me know what you think of the album.